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July 7thKhumariyaan Welcome Party
July 7thKhumariyaan
July 8thKhumariyaan
July 9thKhumariyaan
July 10thTelmary
July 12thAlly Venable
July 15thFlor de Toloache
July 16thFlor de Toloache
July 17thAndrea Magee's She Rises
July 18thOscar Butler
July 23rdCelloquacious and Eli del Puerto
July 24thInnastate
July 26thCelloquacious & Eli del Puerto
July 27thGreen Tara Puja
July 29thArkansauce
August 1stMark Hummel
August 2ndMark Hummel
August 3rdLuke Bulla
August 7thLuke Bulla
August 9th7Horse
August 9thRaul Midón
August 13thRaul Midón
August 14thThe WesternHers
August 23rdLevi Platero | Chris Dracup :Funk of the West
August 23rdThievery Corporation
September 3rdDevon Allman's Blues Summit
September 9thTab Benoit
September 9thTab Benoit
September 10thCoco Montoya
September 19thCoco Montoya
September 20thAlasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas
September 24thAlasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas
September 25thJ2B2
September 26thJohn Moreland
September 26thLasotras
September 27thSlim Cessna + Maria de Cessna
October 4thShonen Knife
October 11th"Stop Making Sense" Screening
October 12th"Stop Making Sense" Screening
October 13thHayden Pedigo
October 22ndKurbasy
November 8thKurbasy
November 9thThe Bébé La La 15-Year Anniversary Concert & Celebration
November 15thLuca Stricagnoli
November 21stRyanhood
November 29thRyanhood
November 30thGregory Alan Isakov
Patrick Park
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Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 day of show (including all service charges). They are also available by phone through Hold My Ticket at 505-886-1251.
This is a standing room only show. There are no seats at the El Rey.
$1 from each ticket sold for this show will support Project Worthmore. Project Worthmore provides opportunities for refugees through six programs—Community Navigation, English Language, Worthmore Clinic, Family Partnership, Delaney Community Farm, and the Yuh Meh Food Share—which assist refugees in becoming self-sufficient and improving their quality of life.
Many musicians have day jobs to make ends meet. However, few artists maintain the lifestyle kept by Gregory Alan Isakov. The Colorado-based indie-folk artist is a full-time farmer who sells vegetable seeds and grows various market crops on his three-acre farm, while also tending to a thriving musical career.
"I switch gears a lot," he says. "I wake up really early in the growing season, and then in the winters, I'm up all night. I'm constantly moving back and forth."
Isakov had an easier time balancing his two passions while making his fourth full-length studio album, Evening Machines. In between farm duties, the multi-instrumentalist wrote and recorded in a studio housed in a barn on his property. Like the farm, this studio has a communal atmosphere, filled with instruments and gear stored there by musician friends—gear Isakov always leaves on, just in case inspiration strikes.
"Sometimes I couldn't sleep, so I'd walk into the studio and work really hard into the night," he says. "A lot of times I would find myself in the light of all these VU meters and the tape machine glow, so that's where the title came from. I recorded mostly at night, when I wasn't working in the gardens. It doesn't matter if it's summer or winter, morning or afternoon, this music always feels like evening to me."
After wrapping up the tour for his 2014 album Love Like Swords, the weight of touring alone in a van for months, partnered with the financial realities of being a musician, began to take its toll. Patrick Park turned to writing songs for other artists, but, despite having success, he wasn't receiving creative fulfillment from the routine.
"We have an idea of the things that will make us happy, if we could just get them. But then we get them, and they're not what we thought they would be. Or we find that they're not enough and we want something else. Or we quickly lose them. And it's just this thing that goes on, and on, and on."
Instead, Park found solace from the existential dread through meditation and working as a counselor on the suicide hotline. During this time, he began to write music for himself again, and those songs materialized as letters to his soon-to-be-born son and aural reckonings with the brevity of life. Park's latest album, Here/Gone, encapsulates the incessant urge to chase things in life that only bring the most fleeting sense of fulfillment.