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Sihasin & Lindy Vision
May 4thAnn Napolitano - Sold Out!
May 6thThe Kipsies
May 9thJason Joshua
May 9thJake Shimabukuro
May 10thThe Kipsies
May 11thJake Shimabukuro
May 11thMariee Siou
May 12thKiran Ahluwalia
May 12thKiran Ahluwalia
May 13thMike Zito
May 14thEtana
May 15thEtana & Kabaka Pyramid
May 16thNew Mexico Heritage Celebration
May 18thThe Sadies
May 30thEliza Gilkyson
May 31stEliza Gilkyson
June 1stChristopher Paul Stelling
June 6thChristopher Paul Stelling
June 7thJesse Dayton
June 8thLara Manzanares
June 13thRev. Peyton's Big Damn Band
June 19thFelix Gato Peralta
June 20thJim Messina
June 25thTradiSón
July 14thFelix Y Los Gatos
July 17thCarolyn Wonderland
July 23rdLara Manzanares
July 24thCarolyn Wonderland
July 24thWailing Souls
August 15thJD Simo
August 20thAndrea Magee's She Rises
August 31stBlack Uhuru
September 12thAlejandro Brittes
September 20thThird World
October 3rdCeú
October 8thIndigenous Heritage Celebration featuring Innastate
October 19thTopHouse
November 21stAlejandro Brittes
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Tickets cost $30 and $50 (plus service charges). They are also available by phone through Hold My Ticket at 505-886-1251.
Alejandro is particularly excited to be performing in San Miguel Chapel! Much of his music and research explores how the unique chamamé music of Argentina grew from a melding of indigenous Guaraní culture and Baroque music introduced by Jesuit missionaries, so the setting is perfect. If chamamé sounds familiar, we have brought it to New Mexico once before, when another leading practitioner and sometime collaborator Chango Spasiuk came to ¡Globalquerque! in 2007.
Hailed by the Boston Globe as a "premier exponent of Chamamé," composer and researcher Alejandro Brittes explores his chamamé heritage, an ancestral rhythm connecting us with the Earth and the Universe through music and dance, which was born of the encounter between the ritual musicality of the indigenous Guaraní and Baroque music. Having toured extensively in South America and Europe, Brittes recently completed a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Iber Exchange-supported 2023 U.S. East Coast Tour: Library of Congress, Georgetown University, Hamilton College, The Trust PAC (PA), Levitt Pavilion (CT), and other venues.
Alejandro's concerts establish a connection with the earth, with the origins of the music of his home region and with the universe, in primordial verticality. His trademark is to employ his accordion as if it were a bandoneón, in conversation between the left and right hands, achieving that the instrument be utilized in its highest performance. The basses of the left hand are masterfully explored, because according to Alejandro, the low basses connect us with the earth, and the right hand button keyboard, beyond providing melody to the music, elevates us to the Universe.