Music

2021 Los Alamos Summer Virtual Concert Series Celebrates ChamberFest With Ozomatli Via YouTube Tonight!

The 2021 Los Alamos Summer Concert Series presents the third concert of the virtual series featuring the world-famous Latin Hip Hop band, Ozomatli performing tonight June 4. Courtesy/Sancre Productions

Concert will begin at 7 p.m. Click here at that time:

Summer Concert News:

The 2021 Los Alamos Summer Concert Series presented by Toyota of Santa Fe, presents the third concert of the virtual series featuring the world-famous Latin Hip Hop band, Ozomatli, sponsored by the Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce in celebration of ChamberFest.

Latin Grammy Award Winning Ozomatli continues to thrill Read More

Los Alamos Concert Association Exhibit Celebrates 75 Years Of History Steeped In World Class Performances!

LACA Artistic Director Ann McLaughlin shows off the newest exhibit in the Step Up Gallery at Mesa Public Library. The exhibit commemorates the concert association’s 75th anniversary. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Patrons can read the history of LACA and listen to performances. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

In 1946 the Los Alamos Concert Association (LACA) held its first concert season. The Manhattan Project was in full swing and the town was a secret but none of that prevented LACA from presenting world Read More

Scenes From Tuesdays At The Pond With Eryn Bent Tonight

Eryn Bent performing this evening at the first Tuesdays at the Pond summer entertainment series at Ashley Pond Park. The event sold out as it must abide by COVID-Safe Practices as outlined by the state currently including limiting the size of mass gatherings. For those unable to get free tickets to tonight’s performance should check out Eventbrite or visit www.CreativeLosAlamos.com. Courtesy/Chamber

Scene this evening from Tuesdays at the Pond, providing free, live, in-person music each week at the Ashley Pond Park Pavilion. Courtesy/Chamber

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Tuesdays At The Pond: Eryn Bent Concert Sold Out Tonight!

Eryn Bent

Los Alamos Creative District News:

The Eryn Bent concert, which kicks off the free Tuesdays at the Pond summer entertainment series tonight, is now sold out according to organizers.

The Los Alamos Creative District is asking those without a ticket to instead sign up for one of the other free weekly performances through early August.

If those without tickets show up at Ashley Pond it may cause the rest of the series to be cancelled or postponed. The event must abide by COVID-Safe Practices as outlined by the state, which currently includes limiting the size of mass gatherings. 

For those Read More

Los Alamos Creative District Announces Tuesdays At The Pond Summer Performance Line-Up

Los Alamos Creative District has announced the 2021 schedule for the Tuesdays at the Pond Summer entertainment series. Courtesy/Los Alamos Creative District 

Los Alamos Creative District News:

The Los Alamos Creative District has announced the 2021 schedule for the Tuesdays at the Pond summer entertainment series, sponsored by First National 1870 – Los Alamos.

This year all performances will be live and in-person at Ashley Pond Park stage from 6-8 p.m. each Tuesday from June 1 – Aug 3, but the venue will be limited to 150 attendees per the current New Mexico Public Health Order. Advance Read More

2021 Los Alamos Summer Virtual Concert Series Second Episode Features Nashville Singer-Songwriter Will Hoge

Nashville singer-songwriter Will Hoge

SUMMER CONCERT News:

This Friday, May 28, the 2021 Los Alamos Summer Concert Series presented by Toyota of Santa Fe, presents the second concert of the virtual series. 

Friday’s virtual concert will be the second of six virtual concerts this summer and features Will Hoge, who has carried the torch for American rock & roll and carved out his own blue-collar sound.

His music has been compared to Tom Petty, Buck Owens and the Rolling Stones. To learn more about Will Hoge, visit www.WillHoge.com. This Friday’s concert is sponsored by Coca-Cola Bottling Read More

Santa Fe Symphony Presents: Tate Meets Mozart

Courtesy/The Santa Fe Symphony

MUSIC News:

Santa Fe Symphony presents Tate Meets Mozart 4 p.m. Sunday, May 30.

Experience Santa Fe Symphony musicians performing Mozart’s masterful Flute Quartet No. 1, Chickasaw composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate’s Raccoon Talk for Solo Violin, Cherokee and Quapaw composer Louis Ballard’s Ritmo Indio, Francisco Braga’s A Sonorous Dialogue to the Moon, the world premiere of Alfredo Rolando Ortiz’s Habanera Gris, arranged by Tyler Emerson for Harp and Vocals and more.

Beautifully filmed on the 15-acre residential campus of the School Read More

Serenata Santa Fe Presents: ‘Enchanted Garden’ June 11

Serenata Santa Fe presents ‘Enchanted Garden’  June 11 at its outdoor venue in La Tierra. Courtesy/SSF

SSF News:

Serenata Santa Fe (SSF) presents ‘Enchanted Garden’ – Summer 2021 5 p.m. Friday, June 11 at its outdoor venue in La Tierra.

The event offers a full array of sound that includes works by Fanny Mendelssohn, Astor Piazzolla, Jesse Montgomery, Samuel Coleridge Taylor and Beethoven.

Featured artists are David Felberg and Ruxandra Marquardt, violins; Alice Norris, viola; and James Holland, cello.

Masks recommended, vaccinations preferred, limited audience, distanced seating. Read More

Posts From The Road: The Day The Music Died

Surf Ballroom: The exterior of the Surf Ballroom looks very much like it did Feb. 2, 1959 when J.P. Richardson ‘Big Bopper’, Ritchie Valens, and Buddy Holly played their last performances. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Memorial: A memorial to the three stars and the pilot stands outside the entrance to the Surf Ballroom ‘in memory of Rock ’N Roll Legends’. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Crash Site: After driving almost 5 miles on a rural highway and another mile down a dirt road, visitors see the crash site. The black framed glasses are similar to those worn by Buddy Holly at the Read More