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Coming SATURDAY, June 6, 2026
Noah Guthrie
Sage Valley Pottery
4908 Corrales Road, Corrales, NM
Doors 7PM
GA $20 advance / $25 door / unplugged house concert style.| All Ages
A South Carolinian from a musical family, Noah Guthrie’s unique blend of country, Americana, and rock first gained widespread attention with his viral YouTube covers, which showcased his genre-bending vocal range—from smooth falsetto to bluesy rasp—and garnered millions of views. Three critically-acclaimed albums—2013’s Among the Wildest Things, 2017’s The Valley, and 2022’s Blue Wall—led to 110M digital streams, 400k monthly Spotify listeners, and half a million YouTube subscribers. Guthrie’s talent soon caught the eye of television producers, leading to his appearances on popular shows such as America’s Got Talent and Glee, where he was cast as the character Roderick Meeks after producers discovered his viral YouTube videos. He has opened for Ed Sheeran, Ben Rector, Corey Smith, Sister Hazel, Dwight Yoakam and Willie Nelson. He has performed on the TODAY Show, the Tonight Show, and Hallmark Channel’s Home & Family. For his Corrales performance, Noah will perform unplugged house concert style.
Coming SATURDAY, June 20, 2026
Mandology in a Summer Solstice Concert
A KEN GILMAN HOUSE CONCERT
Doors 6:15PM Music 7:00PM
The details for the concert (Ken's place)
210 Sandia View Rd NW, Albuquerque, 87107
Find yourself on Osuna between 2nd & 4th Street.
Go south on Edgewood (the length of one double wide) to the stop sign at Sandia View Rd (& dead end both ways sign.)
Turn left toward 2nd street and it's the last house. There's even a # on the mailbox now.
There is plenty of parking in the cul-de-sac, especially if you park end in facing Osuna instead of parallel.
(There is even room for 6-7 cars in the driveway. In front of the garage doors is fine, too.)
If you feel like bringing snacks or libations, please do. Donations to support the music will be gleefully accepted. Funds will go toward studio time this fall as Louis is determined that we record an album or whatever is the modern equivalent these days. Pouring, snacking & socializing starts from 6:15.
Ken Gilman
(505)980-1865
CelebratIng 10 1/2 years, yet another Solstice honoring concert. We are quite taken with the music of the Celtic Diaspora but we are easily distracted so other stuff gets in there as well. Including even some originals. It appears quite likely that we will, yet again, have adult supervision from Anne Luna.
Coming SATURDAY, August 15, 2026
CROW and GAZELLE
Sage Valley Pottery
4908 Corrales Road, Corrales, NM
Doors 7PM | All Ages
To my ears, they are the best new folk/Americana duo working in music today.” – Greg Johnson, The Blue Door, OKC
Crow and Gazelle, the musical partnership of Mike McClure and Chrislyn Lawrence, is a hymnodic, moving collaboration borne out of the connection between two people healing, loving, and growing together. Their songs are built around entangled, close harmonies and sparse, reverent acoustic instrumentation. Their 2024 debut, As Above Now So Below, centered on acceptance and growth in the face of pain, and on embracing the sacred nature within.
Mike and Chrislyn’s musical and personal histories reach back decades. Mike was a staple of the Oklahoma Red Dirt Country scene, producing early records for the likes of Turnpike Troubadours, Kaitlin Butts and Jason Boland. Chrislyn at one point was his booking agent, and they drifted in and out of each other’s lives over the years. Then one night in Austin, while waiting for him to arrive, she drew two cards from a tarot deck—one crow, one gazelle. The name fit just right. Both Mike and Chrislyn were raised in small conservative towns, where religion was foundational. But for them, the messages of original sin, and the lack of women’s voices—let alone power—never quite felt right. The ongoing deconstruction of those messages, of spirituality and of truth, inform the record.
The duo’s sophomore album, Truth Be Told was recorded mostly at home, along with parts done in Nashville and an island in Canada. It will be released in May 2026.
Some Crow and Gazelle highlights:
Mike McClure – Oklahoma Hall of Fame Inductee 2022.
CG Debut album received reviews and kindness from American Songwriter, Twangville, Americana Highways, No Depression & more.
Chrislyn was a Woody Guthrie Festival featured poet in 2022; performed her poem with David Amram accompanying.
Garth Brooks cut one of Mike’s songs in 2005; reissuing that song in 2024.
Supported Steve Earle, American Aquarium, The Droptines, Paul Thorn, Melissa Carper, Reckless Kelley.
• • Mike’s last solo album, Looking Up, top-25 on the Americana Charts, 2020.
Coming SATURDAY, September 12, 2026
Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin
Sage Valley Pottery
4908 Corrales Road, Corrales, NM
Doors 7PM
GA $20 advance / $25 door / unplugged house concert style.| All Ages
Since 1992, Chris Brashear and Peter McLaughlin have established themselves as a pre-eminent songwriting and acoustic music duo with a particular interest in the American Southwest. Their performances include sibling-like harmonies, intricate arrangements, and stunning instrumental virtuosity. Though steeped in bluegrass tradition, they perform many original songs inspired by western landscapes, history and wild rivers. Peter is a National Flatpicking Guitar Champion, as well as an acclaimed songwriter, vocalist and music instructor. Based in Tucson, he plays many genres and styles, and specializes in acoustic flatpicking and fingerpicking techniques. Chris is a talented vocalist and songwriter, and a versatile instrumentalist on fiddle, mandolin and guitar. He performed for two years in Italy as violinist with the Maurizio Geri Swingtet and toured for many years with Robin & Linda Williams and Jim Watson, and more recently with the Piedmont Melody Makers. The duo continues to write, record, produce and concertize in a variety of contexts. They serve as musician hosts on guided trips on both the San Juan River in southern Utah and the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. New projects include a short film inspired by Glen Canyon and river journeys as well as a 2026 album of new songs with the working title When the Desert Smells Like Rain.
Coming FRIDAY, November 13, 2026
Damn Tall Buildings
Sage Valley Pottery
4908 Corrales Road, Corrales, NM
Doors 7PM
GA $25 advance / $30 door / unplugged house concert style.| All Ages
If you go to one bluegrass show this year, make it Damn Tall Buildings. “The Carter Family for the millennial generation” is how the Boston Globe describes this bluegrass trio, which dips its musical toes into swing, ragtime, jazz, and country. The influences are old as the hills, but the infectious dance energy is decidedly young. In their early days, Damn Tall Buildings didn’t rehearse – they busked. Now, whether live or on record, the trio—Max Capistran, Sasha Dubyk, and Avery Ballotta—still radiates the energy of a crew of best friends playing bluegrass on the street. Anchoring that energy is their instrumental chops and rock solid songwriting. Whether sharing lead vocals and instrumental solos or blending their voices into high-spirited harmony, Damn Tall Buildings is a tight unit equal parts competence and joy. Their choruses are the kind you sing along to with a glass raised into the air.
In 2013, then students at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, the band took their instruments to nearby street corners and jammed for hours on old bluegrass and blues songs, traditional fiddle tunes, and eventually their own original music. Busking, a continuous test of one’s ability to command an audience’s attention, cemented their closeness and fostered their infectious performance style. Since then, Damn Tall Buildings have recorded four albums, toured widely, and appeared at top roots festivals like Freshgrass, Walnut Valley Festival and Merlefest. We’re jazzed to welcome Damn Tall Buildings for their first-ever performance in Corrales.