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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.
Coming SATURDAY, May 2, 2026
OLD HAT STRINGBAND
Cobb House
unplugged house concert style / doors 7PM / performance 7:30
5903 Padre Roberto Rd., NW • Los Ranchos NM
Drawing from folk, old time, bluegrass, and country, Old Hat’s Whitney Roy (guitar & vocals) and Steve Roy (mandolin, fiddle & vocals) fuse tight vocal harmonies with driving acoustic rhythm. The band’s impressive 2022 debut features 10 originals boasting whitney’s beautiful lilting vocals and pulsing rhythm guitar, which provides the backbone of Old Hat’s sound. Steve is a veteran of New England’s acoustic music scene who has performed and toured with many of the acoustic world’s top acts, and he layers the music with delightful detail. Based in Southern Maine, Old Hat has performed on prestigious stages such as Prescott Park Arts Festival, Ossipee Valley Music Festival, Portsmouth Music Hall, Stone Mountain Arts Center and Wind Gap Bluegrass Festival.
Coming THURSDAY, May 28, 2026
GOLDPINE
Sage Valley Pottery
4908 Corrales Road, Corrales, NM
Doors 7PM | All Ages
Goldpine's last Corrales performance sold out weeks in advance, so please purchase well in advance.
Husband-wife duo Goldpine has been offering their own brand of bold harmony-driven Americana to audiences large and small, from Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion and the Kansas City Chiefs’ Arrowhead Stadium to listening rooms throughout the States. Winner of the 2022 Rocky Mountain Songwriter Contest, their distinctive harmonies are clearly a channel for their sometimes-raucous, sometimes-reminiscent compositions. With an incredible collection of stories about life, love, and purpose, their live performance is a powerful projection of everything Goldpine is about: striking vocals, bold harmony, and introspection into the human experience. After a decade of honing their sound, the duo recently released their third album, Three, showcasing Kassie’s powerhouse of a voice and continuing their ongoing musical conversation about real people and real situations, told through candid and passionate songwriting. Goldpine is an energetic weave of cathartic, moody, dissonant and relevant.
“A sound that’s cast in honesty, emotion and homespun sentiment…” —Goldmine Magazine
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.