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Coming THURSDAY February 19, 2026
Doors 7:00pm, Music 7:30pm - 9:00pm - ALL AGES
ORDINARY ELEPHANT
Historic Old San Ysidro Church
966 Old Church Road, Corrales, NM
Folk duo Ordinary Elephant has spent the better part of the last decade on a never-ending tour that’s earned married couple Crystal & Pete Damore widespread critical acclaim and made fans of luminaries like Tom Paxton and Mary Gauthier. In 2017, the pair took home the International Folk Music Award for Artist of the Year on the strength of their breakout album Before I Go. Two years later, they returned with the similarly lauded Honest, which the Associated Press hailed as “one of the best Americana albums of the year.”
The band’s latest stripped-down, self-titled collection is the purest distillation of their sound yet, showcasing the arresting power of the couple’s gorgeous harmonies and intricate fretwork. The songs are rooted in rich, character-driven storytelling, and the performances are similarly transportive, fueled by delicately intertwined banjo, guitar, and octave mandolin. Though the songs were born out of a period of deep uncertainty, the record itself is a work of profound self-assurance, one delivered by a duo whose personal and professional lives embody the limitless possibility of honest, organic collaboration and reveling in the simple beauty of the moment.
Ordinary Elephant will also play Santa Fe on 2/20 INFO HERE.
Coming FRIDAY February 27, 2026
Doors 7:00pm, Music 7:30pm - 9:00pm - ALL AGES
TONY FURTADO
Sage Valley Pottery
4908 Corrales Road, Corrales, NM
Few musicians of any stripe so personify a musical genre as completely as Tony Furtado embodies Americana roots music. An evocative and soulful singer, Furtado is a wide-ranging songwriter and a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist adept on banjo, slide guitar and uke. He mixes and matches sounds and styles with the flair of a master chef. All of the music of America is in Tony’s music. Furtado landed his first record deal in 1992, followed by a string of critically acclaimed releases and live performances that have cemented his reputation as banjoist extraordinaire. Over the past few years Furtado has also developed a virtuosic talent for the slide guitar, as is evident on his much lauded recent releases. He has performed throughout the world at top venues and appeared at such prestigious music festivals including Telluride Bluegrass, High Sierra, Jazz Aspen, Kerrville, Strawberry, Winnipeg Folk, Sisters, and many others. Joining Tony will be crazy great fiddler Luke Price for an intimate, unplugged house concert style performance.
7PM doors / 7:30 show / no opener.
GA $29 advance / $35 door.
Tony will also play at Santa Fe show on 2/28 - INFO HERE
Coming SATURDAY, March 28 2026
TWO FIELDS OVER
Historic Old San Ysidro Church
966 Old Church Rd, Corrales, NM
Doors 7PM | Performance 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Two Fields Over (Jared Matt Greenberg and Chris Travis) return from Los Angeles and Chicago to their native Corrales, NM, joined by long-time friends Philip Handmaker, Guy Ewing, and Darin Smith, to celebrate the release of their debut album, Grains of Verse (Indie-folk/Americana). Orca Sound describes the work as “layered harmonies and vividly thoughtful lyrics [that] infuse the album with a distinct voice and profound emotional depth, showing a rare sincerity and artistry that many seasoned musicians aspire to. Together, Greenberg and Travis have created an album that lingers, inviting you to get lost in its beautiful, reflective spaces.” Themes include family, love, struggle, mental health, beauty and darkness, with an environmental angst and sensitivity, while acknowledging the very limits of lyrical expression--has drawn comparison to Kings of Convenience, Nick Drake, Great Lake Swimmers, Iron and Wine, and the Avett Brothers.
Coming FRIDAY, April 3, 2026
DAN BERN
Sage Valley Pottery
4908 Corrales Road, Corrales, NM
Doors 7PM | Performance 7:30PM - 9:00PM
If you must put him in a box, make sure it’s a big box! Bern’s songs range from deeply moving to wildly imaginative and hilarious, sometimes within the same song. Often compared favorably to Guthrie, Dylan and Costello, he draws from the great American tradition of songwriting, bouncing between satire and humor, optimism and despair, topical and universal. He has written for many films (“Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,” “Get Him to the Greek,” “Zero Effect”) and TV shows (Amazon Prime’s award-winning kids program “The Stinky & Dirty Show”), and he has made more than thirty albums. A masterful live performer with a loyal, multi-generational following, he has written thousands of songs and played shows across North America and Europe–from coffee shops to Carnegie Hall to opening for The Who.
“If you ever read the name “Dan Bern” give yourself a treat and go see him. He’s been one of my favorite songwriters and musicians for the past 25 years…” —Roger Daltrey
We have NEVER posted two videos for an artist, but we make this exception due to the excellent production and New Mexico focus during the first half of the video. Dan is featured in the second half. ENJOY "Enchanted Artists: Dan Bern"
Coming FRIDAY, April 17, 2026
SAGE & AERA
Sage Valley Pottery
4908 Corrales Road, Corrales, NM
Doors 7PM | Performance 7:30PM - 9:00PM
Combining the songs and musical force of Sage Cook (Elephant Revival) with the uniquely captivating voice and upright bass of Aera Fox, this gorgeously harmonic duo lay their hearts bare with nothing but voice and beautifully crafted acoustic instruments. As a principal songwriter, banjo player and guitarist in the Colorado transcendental folk group Elephant Revival, Sage Cook penned fan favorites “Go On,” “Cosmic Pulse,” “Down to the Sea,” and the like. Embarking on a subsistence farming adventure in 2013, Sage and Aera moved to Kansas in hopes that deepening their connection to the land would also lead to greater self-realization. During this period of self-reflection and isolation, they co-founded indie atmospheric folk-pop band WE DREAM DAWN with local drummer Weston Hill. In 2023, rejuvenated and inspired by their work with the land, Sage & Aera chose to strip away all the superfluous layers and emerge from their self-imposed isolation to create spare, organically inspired folk music for the modern era. In August of 2024, Sage & Aera released their first (live) album.