Lensic Presents
Lensic Presents
Jazz at Lincoln Center: Songs We Love
New Mexico Jazz Festival Event. A journey through the first 50 years of jazz song, including the music of icons like Ma Rainey, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Judy Garland. Featuring three guest vocalists and an alI-star jazz ensemble.
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International Guitar Night
Featuring an entirely new quartet of guitarists, each performing in their own styles and traditions. Performers this year include Australian classical guitarist Stephanie Jones, Spanish flamenco star Jesús Guerrero, Canadian jazz guitarist Jocelyn Gould, and progressive steel-string guitarist Olli Soikkeli from Finland.
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Kodo: Tsuzumi
Celebrating its 40 Anniversary, Japanese taiko-drumming troupe Kodo returns to the Lensic for a dramatic performance filled with pulsing rhythms, athletic virtuosity, and stirring passion.
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Doktor Kaboom - The Wheel of Science
Doktor Kaboom is having trouble picking his favorite science demonstrations, so he’s bringing them all! Unfortunately, there’s no way to do them all. Enter The Wheel of Science! Give the wheel a spin and wherever the wheel stops, that’s what’s next!
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Alfredo Rodríguez & Pedrito Martínez
Havana natives, Alfredo Rodríguez and Pedrito Martínez have independently become known as musical forces in America, becoming gold-standard representations of Cuban music in entirely different soundscapes. Now they've joined forces to form the Cuban jazz supergroup, the Alfredo Rodríguez and Pedrito Martínez Duo.
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Take Me to the River: NOLA LIVE!
Following the award-winning worldwide success of the Take Me to the River tours celebrating Memphis, Take Me to the River—NOLA LIVE! gathers some of the most influential figures of modern New Orleans funk R&B, soul, and jazz together on the same stage for a night of unforgettable music with individual and collaborative performances from George Porter Jr. & Runnin' Pardners, Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen, and Big Chief Bo Dolis Jr.
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Lúnasa
Lensic favorite Lúnasa returns to Santa Fe for a special St. Patrick’s Day celebration! “The hottest Irish acoustic group on the planet” (Irish Voice), Lúnasa’s stomping, fleet live sets run through the many musical styles of the Emerald Isle, showcasing some of the craftiest fiddle, pipe, and guitar work you'll ever see.
Lensic Presents and Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Paul Taylor molded the dance company that bears his name into one of the preeminent performing ensembles in the world, leading it until his death in 2018. The New York-based troupe performs works from Taylor's massive choreographic legacy plus a new piece from PTDC Resident Choreographer, Lauren Lovette.
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The Manhattan Transfer
The Manhattan Transfer remains a cornerstone for great pop and jazz hits, a legacy that the group has cemented in its illustrious 50-year career and is one of the world’s most innovative vocal groups with their blend of pop, jazz, R&B, rock ‘n’ roll, swing and a cappella music.
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Piano Battle
The brainchild of internationally accomplished pianists Andreas Kern and Paul Cibis, the PIANO BATTLE sees the duo go head-to-head on stage, charming and enchanting the audience with a variety of classical pieces. The two artists, with distinctly different performance styles, take turns to perform pieces by composers such as Chopin, Liszt and Debussy.
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George Hinchliffe's Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
A humbly compelling and beloved instrument gains expressive, virtuoso freedom with the George Hinchliffe’s Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. At their hands, the ever-present relevance of popular music meets the lofty sounds of “highbrow” fare in a delicious acoustic mash-up like nothing else you’ve heard.
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Chris Botti
For over two decades, Grammy Award-winning master trumpeter and composer Chris Botti has amassed a spectacular variety of honors, including multiple Gold and Platinum albums, to become the nation’s largest selling instrumental artist.
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Demetri Martin: The Joke Machine
Demetri Martin is a standup comedian, writer, and director. Demetri created and starred in his own television series for Comedy Central called Important Things with Demetri Martin.
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On & On: Jose James Sings Badu
Jazz vocalist Jose James is a jazz singer for the hip-hop generation, a title solidified with his new project On & On: José James Sings Badu. James brings his interpretation of Erykah Badu's iconic music to the Lensic.