Events

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The Swell Season is back. After reconvening for a limited number of sold-out shows in March 2022, followed by a more extensive US tour in August 2023, the duo returns with new music. A studio session that started out as an effort to create a couple new singles to bring with them on tour, ended up yielding a full length album, fittingly titled ´Forward´.

New Mexico Jazz Festival

Billy Childs Quartet

Lensic Performing Arts Center

One of the foremost American composers of his era, pianist Billy Childs has successfully married the musical products of his heritage with the Western neoclassical traditions of the twentieth century in a powerful symbiosis of style, range, and dynamism.

New Mexico Jazz Festival

John Scofield's Combo 73

Lensic Performing Arts Center

Aside from being one of the principal innovators of modern jazz guitar, John Scofield is a creative artist of an even rarer sort: a stylistic chameleon who has forged a consistent, rock-solid aesthetic identity.

New Mexico Jazz Festival

Dianne Reeves Quintet

Lensic Performing Arts Center

NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves who is the pre-eminent jazz vocalist in the world today, was described by The New York Times as “the most admired jazz diva since the heyday of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.”

Lensic Performing Arts Center

Imani Winds & Harlem Quartet have built parallel legacies around their virtuoso musicality as well as expanding the canon of great works through their commitments to commissioning, composing, and arranging for their ensembles.

Lensic Performing Arts Center

Renée Fleming and Kevin Spencer explore how the arts impact the brain, drawing from Fleming’s 2024 anthology Music and Mind and leading initiatives in music, health, and neuroscience.

Lensic Performing Arts Center

Renée Fleming’s Voice of Nature: the Anthropocene blends Romantic and contemporary song with film, reflecting on humanity’s evolving relationship with nature through music and visual storytelling.

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I'm With Her

Lensic Performing Arts Center

With the 2014 formation of I’m With Her, singer/songwriters Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, and Sara Watkins introduced an essential new force into the world of folk music.

The Lensic

The Waterboys

Lensic Performing Arts Center

The Waterboys have been led by Scottish singer and guitarist Mike Scott since the 1980s and have evolved through many line-ups, winning a fearsome concert reputation along the way.

Lensic Performing Arts Center

Dominique Fils-Aimé is a rising name in jazz that you’ll want to watch—since her 2018 debut full-length, she has steadily collected awards and acclaim for her music.

Santa Fe Pro Musica

Season Opening Orchestra

Lensic Performing Arts Center

Santa Fe Pro musica Orchestra
Anthony McGill, clarinet
Gabriel Kahane, singer and conductor
Colin Jacobsen, violin and leader

DVOŘÁK Serenade for Strings, Op. 22
KAHANE Clarinet Concerto
“If love will not swing wide the gates”
KAHANE Songs

Lensic Performing Arts Center

The Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band's goals are to celebrate and continue the tradition of song as a vessel for stories and lessons of the Indigenous people of the Americas. The project celebrates the diversity and vitality of Indigenous peoples in jazz: past, present, and future.