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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 WEDNESDAY, August 26, 2026
MAX GOMEZ & HOWE GELB
Historic Old San Ysidro Church
4908 Corrales Road, Corrales, NM
Doors 7PM
GA $20 advance / $25 door / unplugged house concert style.| All Ages
MAX GOMEZ was born and raised in Taos, New Mexico, where he fell under the influence of country and blues singer-songwriters at an early age. After becoming a fixture in the New Mexico music scene, Gomez left home to pursue a broader horizon. His debut album, Rule the World (New West Records), earned critical acclaim and launched a touring career that has taken him coast to coast across the U.S., into Canada, and throughout Western Europe. Last year, Gomez released Memory Mountain, which debuted at #1 on the Alt-Country Radio Chart, further solidifying his reputation for timeless, resonant songwriting. Praised by Rolling Stone and No Depression as an emerging voice in Americana, Memory Mountain affirms that distinction with depth and charm. Over the years, Gomez has shared the stage with the likes of James McMurtry, Buddy Miller, John Hiatt, Patty Griffin and Jeff Beck.
HOWE GELB long has been saddled with such ticklish titles such as “godfather of alt-country” (only in the UK) and “elder ambassador of desert rock,” but please never utilize the moniker Americana. Just call it American music; the result of a melting pot of the poor and tired and the huddled masses yearning to be free. In three decades plus, he’s managed to mash elements of erosion rock, de-composition, crunchy & western, something close to blues, punk snark, lo-fi hi-fi, pseudo jazz, gospel a-choir-ing, semi-standard piano standards and a side swipe of Andalusian gypsy flamenco. If musical classification were likened to masonry, then one can prepose that Howe Gelb’s stone work is but the mortar in between all categorical bricks. Howe has a catalogue of over 60 albums with his various incarnations, including GIANT SAND. He’s produced albums for John Doe and K.T. Tunstall. He was instrumental helping M. Ward and Grandaddy get their first albums out, and his ’90s rhythm section from California became Calexico after turning them on to his hometown of Tucson. His most recent release at the end of 2025 was in a collaborative band known as THE GECKØS : featuring himself along with M. Ward and the music of Ireland’s Mark McKowski.
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.