Albuquerque, NM

Blogsville: www.myitthings.com/photoqueen
www.newsvine.com/makinart
www.earthlygardens.com
www.about-tulsaok.com

SXSW is getting underway in Austin! This bring us two great bands on one night as we welcome:
Gran Ronde Melodramatic popular song/Indie/Rock
and LoveLikeFire Indie/Post Punk/Rock
www.myspace.com/granronde www.myspace.com/lovelikefire 7:30 PM $5

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
The INFAMOUS
STRINGDUSTERS

Though it may sound like hyperbole, the simple truth is this: there’s no other band quite like the Infamous Stringdusters. Emerging from a lively community of friends and colleagues that’s taken root in Nashville, they’re six musicians poised at the point where youthful energy is balanced with maturity, inspiration with discipline and creativity with experience — exactly the sweet spot where the greats have made their most lasting marks. Schooled in tradition yet able to stretch out in jam band style improvisation, endowed with razor-sharp vocals, fiery instrumental abilities and a rapidly growing repertoire of well-crafted original songs and tunes, the Infamous Stringdusters are as fresh an addition to the bluegrass — make that, the music — scene as has come along in many a year.
“They’re young, bright, articulate, immensely talented, and they can sing in the old style or in their own style,” says award-winning Blue Highway guitarist, singer and songwriter Tim Stafford, who produced Fork In The Road, the sextet’s February 2007 debut for Sugar Hill.

Untangling the threads of the Infamous Stringdusters’ origin is nearly impossible, thanks to the breadth of professional associations and friendships that brought its members together in various combinations. Still, a few highlights are worth noting, from the joint tenure that Andy Hall, Jeremy Garrett and Jesse Cobb shared in three time IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year Ronnie Bowman’s band, The Committee, to the initial encounter between Hall, Chris Eldridge and Chris Pandolfi in Boston, where Hall had graduated from the Berklee School of Music not long before Pandolfi became the first student there admitted with the banjo as his principal instrument, to the lengthy search that resulted in Colorado jamgrass mainstay Travis Book’s joining the band. Indeed, the six musicians’ resumes cut a swath across the bluegrass mainstream — and beyond……
7:30 PM $8 ADVANCE / $10 AT THE DOOR
www.thestringdusters.com

ALSO ON TUESDAY NIGHT!
REGAN WRIGHT MEMORIAL BLUES JAM
AT EL FAROL - TUES MARCH 11, 8 PM-MIDNIGHT
Friends: It was with shock and deep sadness that we learned of the recent passing of Regan Wright…he was a gifted guitarist and bluesman, a long-time player in the SF music scene…he was also a luthier and a skilled jewelry artist and craftsman…I had the good fortune to play with him in Straight Eight for a couple of years…when he was on, there was no one who could smoke a blues solo like he could…man, he could play that thing!…his struggles with his own personal demons were known to his friends and I believe they finally overtook him…but we will remember him always as the ass-kicking musician he was capable of being at his best…Tiho, Arie and I think it’s only fitting that we give him a send-off at the Canyon Road Blues Jam that he would have liked, so this week we’re dedicating the Jam to his memory…his longtime buddy and partner, Teck Murdock, will no doubt speak on his behalf…the rest of us will just play him on out, second-line style…come on down and show up for Regan, and spread the word…may he be at peace.
Tone Forrest

WEDNESDAY MARCH 12 2008
ROSES ON HER GRAVE

Venom injected rock ‘n’ roll that has become a “must see” of San Diego’s music scene.
The debut album, “From Red to Gray” has been nominated for San Diego Music Awards Best Rock Album for 2007 and hand chosen as FM 94.9’s local recommended band and album for the month of May. Led by rippin’ female lead guitarist, Lindsay Matheson (trained by Fu-Manchu’s Bob Balch) & explosive frontman CJ Gladstone with Nate Millions (former Campaign For Quiet member) on drums and recently added bassist, Murray Foretich (The Dirty Kings), Roses’ gritty, solid, in your face show and sound are starting to turn heads in the music industry. As the featured band in the upcoming October issue of 944, it’s hard to ignore the presence Roses is making for themselves. Roses on Her Grave has played Austin during SXSW, The Knitting Factory, The Viper Room, The Troubador and The Scene in L.A and locally The Casbah, the Beauty Bar, SDSC, The Tower Bar, the Zombie Lounge, Canes and The Alibi.
7:30 PM $5
www.myspace.com/rosesonhergrave.com

Thursday March 13 2008
R n’ BEBOP

Cool tunes and classic bebop from Dave Moir and Scott Cadenasso!
7:30 PM $3

Friday March 14 2008
JIM ALMAND
and the RUE BARBS

Multi-talented Memphis blues musician and singer.
7:30 PM $3
www.jimalmand.com

Saturday March 15 2008
NATHAN MOORE and FRIENDS

THE ANYTHING’S POSSIBLE TOUR
Nathan Moore has logged a lot of miles as “a sad man playing in a jam band, looking for the happy melody, in a minor key”, and he’s created a thousand brutally honest, astonishingly witty and poetically hopeful songs along the way. When he’s not ranting about social injustice, reveling with Mardis Gras abandon or launching a peaceful revolution, Moore is writing about maintaining childlike wonder or finding lasting love. He says he’s giving himself advice in his songs, shining the revealing light of music on issues that trouble and delight him the most. And Nathan’s questions and pain and glee are our own. We love it that he goes places we dare not, and lives to tell the story.
Moore’s songwriting bug started like so many musicians, when he was infected by the rich musical traditions of the 50s and 60s he discovered in his dad’s extensive collection of 45s. And while the tale goes on predictably with Nathan penning songs at nine, getting his first guitar at twelve, playing a small repertoire of classics and originals at a local pub in his hometown in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley at sixteen, then forming bands through out high school and college, none of that explains his uncanny ability to become what music critic Dennis Cook calls “the tunesmith’s Stephen Hawking sussing out a theory of everything”. The source of Moore’s talent is an ineffable creative spring that even he can’t explain. It just, thankfully, flows freely.
Nathan was already a songwriting savant with the knack for conjuring up musical brilliance from simplicity when he dropped out of college and set out to seek his musical fortunes in Austin, Texas. There he teamed up with gifted musicians Aimee Curl and David Tiller and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico to develop what eventually became the popular and innovative anti-folk quartet ThaMuseMeant. Along with his insightful songwriting and charismatic stage presence, Nathan contributed humor and edgy themes to the band’s tight ensemble cast. ThaMuseMeant toured full time during the 90’s, rubbing elbows with festival circuit headliners such as Blues Traveler, Dave Matthews Band, Sheryl Crow, Greg Brown, Leftover Salmon, and Rickie Lee Jones.
When ThaMuseMeant went on sabbatical in 2000, Moore toured with indie rock darlings, The Slip, writing songs and performing with them between his shifts as their merchandise man. The foursome fashioned the critically acclaimed group Surprise Me Mr. Davis several years later, subsequently recording two albums and playing to wildly appreciative crowds on two tours. Nathan continues to perform occasionally with both ThaMuseMeant and Surprise Me Mr. Davis, always thrilled with how these ground-breaking musicians stretch his perceptions of how his music can be performed.
While Nathan’s dazzling ability to capture the struggles of everyman with melodies of haunting complexity places him firmly in the company of the literary greats, it is the mischief he weaves throughout his music that sets him apart. Honesty delivered with a flicker of hope is Moore’s ace-in-the-hole as he takes listeners on a sweeping journey of landscapes that are uniquely his own. His latest album “In His Own Worlds” was released in June 2007 by the Santa Fe-based Frogville Records, which Moore co-founded five years ago. The collection showcases Nathan’s finely-honed poetic sensibilities and marks the next phase of a career rich in meaning and depth that promises to always astound, entertain, and cut straight to the heart.
7:30 PM $10 http://www.nathanmoore.org Sunday March 16 2008
SYD MASTERS and the SWING RIDERS

Vintage Cowboy Western Swing
6:30 PM $5
www.sydmasters.com

(sort of misc, and fun)

ADVANCE TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW
AT THE SANTA FE BREWING COMPANY PUB & GRILL , THE LENSIC BOX OFFICE

505-988-1234, OR ONLINE AT www.ticketssantafe.org

THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS 3/11/08

BIG SAM’S FUNKY NATION 3/18/08

SALVADORE SANTANA WITH DE SOL 3/20/08

MIKE DOUGHTY’S BAND 4/22/08

UPCOMING AT THE SFBC PUB & GRILL