Music

Cure Cabin Fever at Jemez Springs Fire & Ice Festival

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Festival-goers sample the wares at the 2012 Jemez Springs Fire & Ice Festival. Courtesy/JSFIF

Staff Report

Enjoy old fashioned, rip roaring, winter-time fun for the whole family Saturday, Feb. 23 at the annual Fire & Ice Festival at the Jemez Springs Civic Park in Jemez Springs.

Festivities begin at 11 a.m.

Enjoy watching a professional Chain Saw Carving contest and exhibition with amazing hand-carved sculptures that’ll be auctioned off 3:15  p.m. during the festivities.

The theme of the carvings will be “Otherworldly Beings,” which gives the carvers the opportunity to choose Read More

Hannemann’s Music Corner: Working Without a Net

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Hannemann’s Music Corner
Column by RICHARD HANNEMANN
 
Working Without a Net
 
Being a solo guitarist, whether you are doing straight instrumentals or vocal with instrumental accompaniment, is a tough gig.
 
You have no music stand or music in front of you because the music is supposed to be fully memorized: if it isn’t memorized it isn’t ready for performance.
 
You have no one you are working with. You have no one to cover you if you make a mistake. You are alone on the stage. It is just you and the audience – people you do not know and who are staring at you hanging
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DK and the Affordables Rock Ski Hill Saturday

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DK and the Affordables. Courtesy/DKA

SKI HILL News:

The next Pajarito Mountain Beer and Band event will noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb 16 at the Pajarito Mountain Ski Area.

The beer will be from Marble Brewery and the band will be DK and the Affordables from Jemez Springs.

The Affordables jumping, jiving roots music is sure to get you moving.

Atomic City Transit is providing a new bus service to Pajarito Mountain with the last bus going down Saturday at 5:20 p.m. so people can enjoy the show and get a ride home. Read More

More Than 30 Musicians Perform at UNM-LA Music Marathon

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Gala Nelson, a student of Janna Warren, demonstrated her talent at the UNM-LA Music Marathon, even if she couldn’t reach the pedals. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com

Staff Report:

The The Third Annual UNM-LA Music Marathon provided a full six hours of musical entertainment on Sunday, Feb. 10. The event raised more than $700 for UNM-LA scholarships and attracted approximately 200 music-lovers to the campus. 

Ranging in age from tiny tots to senior citizens, performers presented a wide range of music at the Marathon. Contemporary jazz,  Renaissance viol, Read More

Column: The Versatile Guitar

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The Versatile Guitar
Column by Richard Hannemann
 
I play music on the guitar. I write music for the guitar. I teach the guitar. I’ve been doing this for a while now.
 
So before you go out and buy a guitar, either for yourself or your child, here are a few things you should know.
 
Andres Segovia once said the guitar is like a small orchestra in the hand. Yep. You’ve got six strings, each an octave and half; that means you essentially have six instruments.
 
You have a total range of 3 and a half octaves, and you can stretch this to a little over 4 by using harmonics. The sounding
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Album Release Party for Rumelia at Pyramid Café

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Rumelia band members from left, Nicolle Jensen, Sitara Schauer and Deborah Ungar. Photo by Jennifer Esperanza

Staff Report

Rumelia will celebrate the release of their debut album 6-8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23 at the Pyramid Café in Los Aamos. There is a $10 cover. Children are free. 

Rumelia is a band composed of three women who are putting a new spin on music from Eastern Europe, a region generally known as the Balkans.

The music is unique to the western ear in that it uses odd time signatures (think 7/8, 9/8 and 11/8 for starters), as well as eastern scales (maqam) and tonalities. Rumelia’s repertoire Read More

Juanita Madland Plays ‘Adagios Amor’ on Valentine’s Day

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Pianist Juanita Madland/Courtesy Photo

Staff Report

The Betty Ehart Alamos Senior Center will host a free Valentine’s Day Piano Concert at noon Thursday, Feb. 14 with piano virtuoso Juanita Madland.

The public is invited to Adagios Amor, featuring luscious, mesmerizing pieces that have inspired lovers through the ages.

“The concert is an offering to Los Alamos,” Madland said.

Madland holds a Masters of Music from the University of New Mexico, where she studied with renowned pianist Evelyne Brancart. Her European venues include the Peter Paul Rubens Museum in Antwerp, the Salzburg Mozart Read More

UNM-LA presents Third Annual Music Marathon

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The Craig Martin Experience playing at the Dixie Girl in Los Alamos. CME is one of the featured acts at this year’s UNM-LA Music Marathon. Courtesy photo by Greg Kendall
 
By Bonnie J. Gordon

Enjoy an entire day of local music at the third annual UNM-LA Music Marathon. The Marathon is 2-8 p.m. Sunday, Feb.10 in the UNM-LA Student Center.

The event is free and open to everyone. Donations will benefit UNM-Los Alamos student scholarships.

The day will include everything from Renaissance music for viols to modern jazz with the Craig Martin Experience.

In previous years, more than 300 people Read More

Public Invited to ‘Co-opROCKS!’ Feb. 16

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LACM News: 

The Los Alamos Co-op Market, La Montanita Co-op and Warehouse 21 present Co-opROCKS! 11 a.m. to 9  p.m. Saturday Feb. 16. at Warehouse 21, 1614 Paseo de Peralta in Santa Fe.

Co-opROCKS! is a music and art based annual event that brings cooperative values to light through community involvement, cooperative partnerships and creating opportunities for education while promoting local talent.

Attendance for teens and adults is free. For more information and event schedules, visit the Co-opROCKS! Facebook page https:////on.fb.me.U9c9jy.

This year, Co-opROCKS! presents Read More