Albuquerque, NM

Dedicated to the planet earth, where some suggests that humans are stewards for the planet’s well being. Here is a call for Americans to unite, and once again change the world for good, health, freedom, and harmony.

Yes listen to several versions:

“I once was lost, but now I am found….”

“I was once blind, but now I see….”

Now that I see, I can alter my ways, and help others realize our mutual response ability.

Let us sing together and work together to cherish our planet, our country, and one another. Let us work together for the healing of our mother earth.

THURSDAY JULY 3 $10 / $15
FAN MAN PRESENTS
REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND

“Like Robert Johnson on crack……”
The three-piece from Indianapolis kills with a high-energy sound steeped in classic Blues tradition. With acoustic guitar, dobro, a minimal drum kit and washboard, the trio concocts a rousing, hyper and authentic brand of Blues that sounds like the backwaters of the Mississippi delta. The Rev. Peyton has a voice dripping with the hallowed, life-worn distinctiveness of the masters, while brother Jayme Peyton (drums) and The Rev’s wife, “Washboard” Breezy, stir up a tornadic rhythmic whirl.
www.myspace.com/therevpeytonsbigdamnband

FRIDAY JULY 4 7 PM $20 ADVANCE / $25 DOOR
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
COME AND CELEBRATE WITH US!
FAN MAN PRESENTS
ROCK and ROLL ICON AND ULTIMATE SESSION LEGEND
LEON RUSSELL

Leon Russell is a music legend. In his 50 year career, he has played on, written and produced some of the best records in music. Leon has played on pop, rock, blues, country, bluegrass, gospel, and surf records. As a musician, singer, songwriter, he has collaborated with artists including Willie Nelson, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Bruce Hornsby, BB King, Gram Parsons, Barbara Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Ann-Margret, Marvin Gaye, and on and on…
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
SHARON LITTLE

This Philly-based sultry and smokey voiced singer-songwriter’s
style of soulful acoustic pop, rich vocals, and from-the-heart-songs provide an emotional melodic trip. Sharon has made the leap from waitressing and singing in the subway to opening for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss in record time, drawing rave reviews in the process!
THE ALEX MARYOL BAND

santa fe’s favorite rockin’ blues band
www.leonrussellrecords.com www.alexmaryol.com www.sharonlittle.com
BE SURE TO START YOUR 4TH OF JULY WITH

SEE YOU THERE!

FRIDAY JULY 5 6 PM $7
FEATHERICCI’S BIRTHDAY BASH
D-NUMBERS MISS GINGER

D Numbers’ broad range of influences and long process of group development have led to a complex and unique hybrid of instrumental rock and electronica. Their powerful live shows have earned them a diverse and loyal following, while their début CD, Lightparade, proves that the trio easily bridges the span between the stage and the studio.
Miss Ginger- Bending worlds into the next cyphers dimension.. I mention this because the intention of music takes me there, Or I take it. make a concious world, bringing soul from written word. Wax spun, beat percussion on hit, MC bustin’ through split lips…. Evidence of the reverance Music is our common reference point–taken. I prefer both dream state and to awaken. Manifest Destiny, Master craft with intention. This love is from Miss Ginger so be ready be set beat go.
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
joshua 23 fire by ting
www.dnumbers.com www.myspace.com/djmissginger

SUNDAY JULY 6 3-6 PM By Donation
WHITE BUFFALO PRESENTS
SUNDAY AFTERNOON JAMS ON THE PATIO
HOSTED BY GEORGIE ANGEL
BENEFITTING THE
MUSICIANS EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND
ALL MUSICIANS WELCOME!

SUNDAY JULY 6 7 PM $10
BILL HEARNE’S
ROADHOUSE REVUE

CLASSIC COUNTRY & ELECTRIC HONKY TONK FROM
A SANTA FE LEGEND!
www.billhearne.coM

Pianist Yuja Wang performs at the 2nd Annual Chefs’ Gala
Ensemble Profile: Imani Winds
Audio version of Sweeney Todd wins 3 Audies

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Pianist Yuja Wang kicks off 2008 season with performance at the 2nd Annual Chefs’ Gala

One of the classical music world’s rising stars, pianist Yuja Wang helps to kick of the Festival’s season for the second time in as many years. On July 17, at the Festival’s opening gala at the Scottish Rite Center, Ms. Wang will give a recital featuring Chopin’s Barcarolle for piano in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 60, Liszt’s La Campanella, Mendelssohn- Bartholdy’s Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ginastera’s Ruvido ed ostinato from Sonata No. 1, Op. 22, Balakirev’s The Lark (Zhavoronok) (transcribed); Liszt’s Danse macabre, (transcribed), and Kapustin’s Variations for piano, Op. 41.

At 21, Ms. Wang has firmly established herself as one of the most significant pianists of her generation. She first came to international recognition in February 2005 when, on one days notice, she replaced Radu Lupu with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman conducting, and performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. The success was immediate with the Canada press reporting “a star is born.” Ms. Wang was immediately reengaged to perform Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 that June and has been invited back every season since. In March 2007, her career received a major advancement when she replaced Martha Argrich playing the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit conducting.

Ms. Wang has performed with such renowned US orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the Boston, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco and Kansas City symphonies, and abroad with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Tonhalle Orchestra (Switzerland), Nagoya Philharmonic (Japan), the China Philharmonic (Beijing) and the Guangzhou Symphony, to name a few.

Highlights of Ms. Wang’s 2007-08 season included her debut in Lisbon, Portugal where she replaced Evgeny Kissin, performing both Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3; closing the 2007 St. Petersburg Winter Arts Festival at the invitation of Mo. Temirkanov, and replacing Yefim Bronfman on one days notice to perform Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Swedish Radio Orchestra.

Born in Beijing, China in 1987, Yuja Wang was drawn to the piano at the age of six when she began studying with Professors Ling Yuan and Zhou Guangren at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music. She moved to the United States at age 15 to attend Philadelphia’s prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied under Gary Graffman. She has also studied with John Perry at the Aspen Music Festival (2002 and 2003 summers), at the Mount Royal College Conservatory Academy Program for Gifted Youth with teachers Hung Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone (2001-2002) and at three Morningside Music summer programs (1999-2001) at Calgary’s Mount Royal College. Before moving to the United States, Ms. Wang was a prizewinner in many regional competitions within China, as well as competitions in Spain and Germany. In 2001 she won first prize in the Junior Group of the Seiler International Piano Competition, and was the third prize-winner and recipient of the Special Jury Award at the First Japan Sendai International Music Competition. In 2002, Ms. Wang won the Aspen Music Festival’s concerto competition, and in 2006 she received the Gilmore Young Artist Award

Yuja Wang can be heard in five performances throughout week one of the 2008 Festival season, including a solo piano recital on July 22 featuring works by Chopin, Scriabin, Albeniz and Beethoven.

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Ensemble Profile: Imani Winds

Since 1997, the Grammy nominated Imani Winds have been enriching the traditional wind quintet repertoire with European, American, African and Latin American traditions. As their Swahili name Imani (”faith”) denotes, the five adventurous musicians (Valerie Coleman, flutist and composer; Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe; Mariam Adam, clarinet; Jeff Scott, horn; Monica Ellis, bassoon) have followed their mission closely, carving out a distinct presence in the classical music world with their dynamic playing, culturally poignant programming, and inspirational outreach programs.

The ensemble celebrates their 10-year anniversary with an ambitious commissioning initiative aptly entitled the Legacy Commissioning Project, to extend over five years and to include 10 composers from different musical disciplines. The project kicks off in 2008 with world premieres by Alvin Singleton and Roberto Sierra commissioned by Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, and Stanford Lively Arts.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival audiences have the opportunity to hear the Imani Winds in performance in four concerts at the beginning of the season: on July 26 in a concert featuring Mongo Santamaria’s Afro Blue (arranged by Valerie Coleman); Paquita D’Riviera’s Kites Over Havana; Astor Piazzolla’s Fuga Y Misterio (arranged by Jeff Scott); Julio Medaglia’s Suite Popular Brasiliera; Valerie Coleman’s Portaits of Josephine Baker and Astor Piazzolla’s Libertango (arranged by Jeff Scott) on July 27 and 28 as one half of the group performing the world premiere of Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s 2008co-commission with Chamber Music Northwest of Roberto Sierra’s Concierto de Camara (the nonet is performed by the Imani Winds and Miami String Quartet), and in a youth concert on the morning of July 28.

Through commissions and performance the quintet regularly collaborates with other artists. Josephine Baker: A Life of Le Jazz Hot, a collaboration with chanteuse René Marie and choreographer Christopher Huggins, has been performed in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, among other cities, to great acclaim. Imani Winds performed the world premiere of Terra Incognita, the first-ever commission for classical artists by jazz composer, performer and legend Wayne Shorter, and have shared the stage with Yo-Yo Ma for a rousing performance of Jeff Scott’s arrangement of Libertango. In 2007 the ensemble collaborated with bassist/trombonist Chris Brubeck of the famed Brubeck family for a performance and recording of music written especially for wind quintet and jazz quartet (to be released by Koch in 2008). The group’s Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center residency culminated in a recital in New York’s Alice Tully Hall with renowned clarinetist/saxophonist/composer Paquito D’Rivera. The ensemble has also worked with luminaries such as bandoneonist Daniel Binelli, saxophonist Steve Coleman, clarinetist David Shifrin, and pianists Gilbert Kalish and Shai Wosner. Future collaborations include Stefon Harris and David Krakauer.

The Imani Winds have been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2007 ASCAP Award, 2002 CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, and the CMA/WQXR Award for their debut and self-released CD Umoja. At the 2001 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, Imani Winds was selected as the first-ever Educational Residency Ensemble, in recognition of their tremendous musical abilities and innovative programming.

The Imani Winds have three releases on Koch International Classics, including their 2006 Grammy Award nominated recording, The Classical Underground.

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First audio version of Sweeney Todd music directed by Steven Ovitsky wins 3 Audies

In the February 2008 issue of SFCMF newsletter, we included a piece on Steven Ovitsky and his recent musical venture, music director for Blackstone Audio’s “SWEENEY TODD AND THE STRING OF PEARLS,” which had been nominated by The Audio Publishers Association for three Audies in the categories of Achievement in Production, Audio Drama and Original Work categories.On May 30, 2008 at the 2007 The Audies® gala celebration in Los Angeles, California, the two-CD set won all three categories it was nominated in -for best audio drama, best original script and best production.

Available in book stores and online, “SWEENEY TODD AND THE STRING OF PEARLS” is based on the 1846 penny dreadful, “The String of Pearls, A Romance,” attributed to Thomas Prest.The popular gaudy, serialized Victorian novel about the cut-throat barber of Fleet Street has had numerous stage, literary and screen versions of the tale, including the Sondheim musical and recently released movie starring Johnny Depp.

This enthralling, first audio version two-CD set of the original tale, commissioned from the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Ear by Blackstone Audio, is written, produced and directed by Yuri Rasovsky.

CAST:

Mrs. Lovett / Johanna Rosalind Ayres
Col. Jeffery Thornhil Robertson Dean
Narrator / Oakley Martin Jarvis
Tobias / Arabella Moira Quirk
Moorsfield / Tailor/ Mundel Phil Proctor
Captain /Skinner / Wrankley / Inventor Burt Ross
Sweeney Todd W. Morgan Sheppard
Jonas Simon Templeman

Co-producer John Baker
Singers John Roberts & Tony Barrand
Music Director Steven Ovitsky
Sound Effects Richard Fairbanks, Alan Avenel
Associate Producer Suzanne Schmidtke

Artist’s Corner

Do you have a favorite past performance at the Festival?

“I really enjoyed the performance of Frankenstein by Gruber from last summer, and I got to stretch my horn skills to the limit with Esa Pekka Solonen’s Concert Etude for Horn that I performed two years ago. That by far was the most challenging piece for horn that I have ever played.”

What do you feel it is about the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival that makes it unique?

“The Festival has that Santa Fe relaxation vibe going for it; everyone is friendly, laid back and happy when they get here, and playing in the St. Francis Chapel or the Lensic is always fun. The well educated and appreciative audiences are always good to play for as well.”

William Barnewitz, horn player

Mr. Barnewitz can be heard at the Lensic on August 18 performing Beethoven’s Quintet for Winds and on August 20 performing Dvorak’s Serenade in D Minor, Op. 44. Check the season schedule at http://santafechambermusic.com for complete details on the concert programs.

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But this newsletter will give the artist opportunities, let you know about FILM here in NM, and has other contests. For the complete story: visit: abqarts.com
Welcome to undergroundARTS, a weekly newsletter of happenings and opportunities in the arts in the Albuquerque area.

Visual Arts
Art Exhibits, Studio Tours, and more…

Plein Air Day of Art and Music
Artists and photographers have been invited to capture Old Town and visitors are encouraged to watch or bring your camera and sketchbook and join in. Sally McDevitt will demonstrate her plein air technique near Weems Gallery at 4pm and 7:30pm. Live music will include Andrew Thomas on flute, harpist Susan Vigil, classical guitarist Harry Irizarry, the Alma Flamenco and string quartet Giovanni. There will be a professional artist to lead children’s workshops free of charge, compliments of the City of Albuquerque. This is part of an Old Town/Mountain Road Artscrawl event. Information on all participating galleries can be found on the Artscrawl website. This event organized by the Albuquerque Art Business Association along with Mayor Martin J. Chavez, the Albuquerque’s Cultural Services Department and Classical KHFM.
Special Event Friday, June 20, 5-8:30 pm
Old Town and Mountain Road locations
call 311 or NM Relay (505) 768-3556

New Mexico Arts and Crafts Fair is coming
The NM Arts and Crafts Fair features exclusively New Mexico Artists and craftspeople. This premier juried event presents over 200 artists working in various media. 2008 jurors include Valerie Tibbets of Weyrich Gallery, Cathlena Burr of Village Wool, Anna King of Just Imagine Gallery along with artists David Drummond and Reynaldo Sonny Rivera. Runs through the 28th.
Opening Reception Friday, June 26, 6- 9pm
New Mexico Arts and Crafts Fair
Expo New Mexico State Fairgrounds
(505) 884-9043
nmartsandc raftsfair.org

Inception opens at new SCA Contemporary Art
Inception, by definition, marks an event of beginning. It is an act, process, instance that defines the course of an existence. This exhibition explores the robust variety of the beginning mark. Presenting a combination of emerging and established artists, local and international, SCA kicks off its second gallery opening featuring Suzanne Sbarge, Theresa Pfarr, Elen Feinberg, Francesca Searer, Margi Weir, Dan Socha, James Jacob, Seth Feriano, Matt Kazimierski, Sam Wohl, Shawn Pham Warrick, Kristina Pardue and Virginia Broersma.
Reception Friday, June 27, 5-8pm
SCA Contemporary Art
624 Haines NW (505) 228-3749
scacontempo rary.com

Performing Arts
Theater, Dance, Lectures, Poetry and more …

Poetry on the Bus
Put your poem on the bus with the ABQ Ride Poetry Contest. Prizes include a laptop computer, iPod Nano, $50 and $20 gift cards. See web site for details.
Application deadline July 7, 2008
ABQ Ride
(505) 724-3146
cabq.gov/abqride

Last Chance for Yellow Cab
Driving a taxi at night gives a perspective on Albuquerque that few experience. The play closes June 22 - don’t miss it.
Performances Fri-Sat June 20-21, 8pm & Sun. June 22, 2pm
Adobe Theater
9813 4th St. NW
(505) 898-9222
adobetheater.co m

The Seven: Something Left Unsaid
As part of its continuing commitment to developing new theatrical works, Fusion Theatre Company will once again produce the world premieres of seven short plays as part of its 3rd Annual Playwrighting Festival. Fusion received 416 submissions from 41 states and six countries. A juried screening process selected the seven plays to be staged. This year’s winning script is The education of Macoloco by Jen Silverman of Simsbury CT. This year also marks Fusion’s first international winner with the script Somewhere Between the Sky and the Sea, written by Alex Broun of St. Kilda Australia. Seven plays will be staged on each date.
Performances Th-Sat June 19-21 8pm, Sunday June 22 at 2pm
(the June 19th and 21st shows are sold out)
The Cell Theatre
700 1st St. NW
(505) 766-9412
fusionabq.org

Wild Dancing West 2008 extended
Due to limited space and high demand, Readymade Dance Theater Company will present three encore performances of Pure this weekend at Cake.
Performances Fri-Sun, June 20-11, 8pm
Cake
4011 Silver SE
(505) 980-5273
vsartsnm.org

Music
musical performances, workshops and festivals

10th Annual Albuquerque Folk Festival
Enjoy a full day of non-stop performances, jam sessions, storytelling and dance, instrument and singing workshops, plus two evening dances. This year’s featured performer is Bryan Bowers, Autoharp Hall of Fame member and storyteller.
Special Event Saturday, June 21, 10am- 11pm
Albuquerque Folk Festival
Expo New Mexico State Fairgrounds
(505) 255-6037
abqfolkfest.org

Zoo Music Concert Series this weekend
Enjoy Adrienne Young Friday night - a Nashville-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose music blends elements of Bluegrass, country, old- time music and American folk music with a pop sensibility. General lawn seating - bring blankets and lawn chairs. Food is available or you may bring your own. Beer and wine are available for purchase, you may NOT bring your own.
Performances Fri. June 20, 7-9
NM BioPark Zoo
903 Tenth Street SW
cabq.gov/biopark

Salsa Under the Stars this weekend
Todd Tijerina Band,

(Old news, but find out where they are playing…)

and Paul Brodsky (solo vocals, blues harp and guitar) are on the program for Saturday night at The Albuquerque Museum Amphitheater. All concerts occur rain or shine. Families welcome and children under 12 are Free.
Performance Sat. June 14, 8pm
NM Jazz Workshop
Albuquerque Museum Amphitheater
2000 Mountain Road NW
(505) 255-9798
nmjazz.org

¡Globalquerque! Tickets now on sale
¡Globalquerque!, New Mexico’s 4th Annual Celebration of World Music & Culture has announced that EARLY BIRD Tickets for this year’s festival, which takes place on September 19 & 20, are now on sale at all Ticketmaster outlets (www. ticketmaster. com, 866- 448-7849 or 505-883-7800) including all Smith’s stores in New Mexico, select F.Y.E and Macy’s stores nationwide and at the National Hispanic Cultural Center Box Office. Early Bird prices are in effect until June 20, 2008. As in past years, ¡Globalquerque! 2008 will present a wide range of performers from around from 5 continents on 3 stages over 2 nights, including artists from New Mexico’s varied musical traditions