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June 26thEsther Rose
June 27thEliza Gilkyson
June 27thDracup & Malé
June 28thEliza Gilkyson
June 28thEsther Rose
June 28thRachel Kushner
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 23rdMelodious Ceremonia CD Release Concert
July 24thInnastate
July 26thMelodious Ceremonia CD Release Concert
July 27thArkansauce
August 1stMark Hummel
August 2ndMark Hummel
August 3rdLuke Bulla
August 7thLuke Bulla
August 9th7Horse
August 9thRaul Midón
August 13thRaul Midón
August 14thLevi 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 26thSlim 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 21stDavid Wax Museum & Lone Piñon
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Tickets cost $20 in advance, $25 day of show (plus a $2 service charge). They are also available by phone through Hold My Ticket at 505-886-1251.
When we were pitched the option of doing a show with David Wax Museum, we knew that it had to be a double bill with Lone Piñon. Why? Because David Wax Museum is fronted by Lone Piñon leader Jordan Wax's cousin! Both Wax cousins immersed themselves in regional Hispanic music (from Mexico and New Mexico), giving them their own twist and taking them in two very different directions. You won't want to miss this rare concert opportunity!
Lone Piñon will kick things off with a full set of music, followed by David Wax Museum.
Tumbleroot is a mostly-standing-room venue. Limited seating available.
In the presence of the strange digital drone of hospital machines, David Wax's thoughts turned to 13 songs and the changes they give voice to.
After suddenly and inexplicably collapsing, Wax—half of David Wax Museum alongside wife and bandmate Suz Slezak—was headed for a heart catherization in his hometown of Columbia, Missouri, his doctors suspecting a heart attack. At a moment with more questions than answers, he hurriedly signed his name to a waiver—and was struck by a revelation.
"Lying there on that stretcher the thing that kept running through my mind was: at least we made You Must Change Your Life," Wax recalls. "Whatever else happened, I felt at peace because this record exists."
The album is an openhearted manifesto—a collection that embodies, then transcends bedrock elements of the band's 15-year recording career.
For Wax, music has guided every step he holds sacred; he's followed its palpable power, abiding by its requisite unpredictability. After graduating at the top of his class at Harvard, he wandered off an academic path to southern Mexico, finding what he calls "a clear before/after moment in my life." There, he studied folk music "at the feet of the masters" and internalized structures and rhythms that continue to drive the band today. He and Slezak fell in love on their first national tour, setting in motion a future full of vivid waking dreams. Together (now with their two children in tow) they've logged 1,500 shows in every corner of the globe. From the back of a pick-up truck in Nome, Alaska at a solstice parade, to a surreal moment in a tent filled with a thousand Czechs hollering along to their iconic song "Harder Before It Gets Easier," these dreams continue to unfold for Wax and Slezak.
Lone Piñon is a New Mexican string band, or "orquesta típica," whose music celebrates the integrity and diversity of their region's cultural roots. With fiddles, upright bass, guitars, accordions, vihuela, and bilingual vocals, they play a wide spectrum of the traditional music that is at home in New Mexico.
The Norte has long been a crossroads of cultures, and centuries of intersecting histories, trade routes, migrations, and cultural movements have endowed the region with an expansive and rich musical heritage that weaves together Spanish, Mexican, Indigenous, European immigrant, Anglo-American, and Afro-American musical influences. The oldest strands of this tradition have survived in continuity, renewed by each new generation's contribution to core style and repertoire that has been passed from musician to musician, in some cases over many centuries. Though rapid cultural change since the '50s has led to these sounds becoming scarce in their home territory, they never fully disappeared—thanks to the elders and past generations that lovingly and tenaciously carried them forward, renewing the voice of their musical ancestors at each step into changing circumstances.