Saturday, April 24
Sponsored by Zoukfest
Saturday, April 24
North Valley Library
7704 2nd Street NW
11 AM
FREE! Reservations required. Click here to make a reservation.
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Taylor Ranch Library
5700 Bogart NW
3 PM
FREE! Reservations required. Click here to make a reservation.
Steve Smith (mandolin, vocals, guitar) and Chris Sanders (guitar, vocals) have been performing together for five years as a duo and in the Las Cruces based group Steve Smith and Hard Road. Their award winning song writing has landed them both best gospel and best instrumental at the New Mexico Music Awards.
Steve Smith has been performing for nearly thirty years on mandolin, mandola, guitar and vocals in about as many types of musical situations as one can imagine. He has appeared as a solo artist, bandleader, an in-demand sideman and session player and producer in traditional bluegrass (his first love), old-time, Celtic, new acoustic jazz and chamber music. His deep Virginia roots and thirty years of traveling the country gives him a hard driving unique instrumental sound coupled with a powerful tenor and delicate overtones.
Chris Sanders, a Minnesota transplant who now calls Las Cruces, NM home, is an award-winning songwriter and singer who currently tours with mandolinist and songwriting partner Steve Smith. Their modern/retro string band "Hard Road" has appeared at concerts and festivals throughout the country. She also performs in a jazz duo with guitarist Bob Hull. In the fall of 2008 she became a voice teacher in the Commercial Music program at the University of Texas at El Paso where she directs the UTEP Jazz Singers. In her long career she has toured internationally as a choral singer, performed in recital as singer and pianist and co-founded Actors' Training Project, a dramatic arts program in the San Francisco Bay Area.
This is the latest in a monthly series of free events we'll be doing in collaboration with the Friends for the Public Library.
Steve will be one of the featured instructors at the Zoukfest World Music Camp, along with Andy Irvine, Martin Hayes, Luke Plumb, Moira Smiley and more. Zoukfest will be in Albuquerque from June 6 to 12.
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