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Coming SUNDAY, June 28th, 2026

Helene Cronin

AND

Lisa Carver

House Concert

Doors 4:30 PM. Music: 5:00 PM

Bring a dish and/or beverage to share.

"Suggested Donation" $20 for artists, but don't let that keep you away!

Concert is between ABQ and SF on Hwy 14.

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Helene Cronin is a Texas-based American singer-songwriter known as a self-described “story-singer.” Born in Rockville Centre, New York, she moved to Texas and developed a style that blends raw Americana roots with polished country songcraft. Her music is celebrated for its introspective, narrative lyrics, tight storytelling, raw vulnerability, and universal emotional appeal.

  • Kerrville New Folk Winner (2018), which launched her performing career.

  • Acclaimed songwriter whose cuts include Ella Langley’s “Speaking Terms” and songs for Cody Johnson, Bryan Martin, and others.

  • Released several albums and EPs, including the full-length Maybe New Mexico (her latest as of 2025), Old Ghosts & Lost Causes, and earlier works like Beautiful December.

Cronin is praised for turning personal experiences into relatable songs, often described as writing “the songs your favorite songwriter wishes they had written.” She continues to tour and build a dedicated following in the Americana and country scenes.

Lisa Carver is a highly respected Nashville songwriter and singer-songwriter now based in Taos, New Mexico. Known for her smoky, sultry voice and compelling storytelling, she crafts emotionally raw songs about love, heartache, longing, and real-life drama. She is especially celebrated for her ability to captivate audiences with just an acoustic guitar.

  • Hit songwriter with cuts by major artists including Jewel (“I Am My Father’s Daughter”), Tim McGraw, Reba McEntire, Tanya Tucker, Willie Nelson, Sugarland (“Everyday America”), and others.

  • Frequent collaborator and co-writer with Helene Cronin (they often perform song swaps together in Taos).

  • Performs regularly in intimate venues in Taos (such as Salon Sage and Mary’s Place) and occasionally in Nashville.

  • Praised as one of Nashville’s most authentic and revered writers who balances commercial success with deeply personal, non-formulaic songcraft.

Lisa brings a grounded, heartfelt presence to the Americana/country scene and has built a strong local following in Northern New Mexico while maintaining her Nashville roots,

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.