Tuesday September 7th - Open Mic Night ( 7-9 PM Free Admission )
This week - featured opening set by Highway 1 Band
Our very popular open nic night is returning, hosted by Bob Bruen and Brian McLane. Bob and Brian are two talented professional musicians that are volunteering to be your backup band, and will perform a few songs to get things rolling. If you would like to get up on stage, you can sign up in person at the exchange or on our website. We encourage you to bring along your favorite and/or original songs with a lyric/chord sheet to help Bob and Brian perform with you. This event is free and open to the public, so bring along all your friends to cheer you on. We will be recording the event, and we'll deliver a mastered CD to the best participant. The event starts 7:00 PM - we hope to see you there!
Friday September 10th - Songwriters in the Round VI ( 7:30 PM , $10 all ages )
Three artists.. Three Voices... Three stories..
Ron Whitmore Terry Diers Chipper Thompson
Hosted by singer songwriter Lisa J Carman. A entertaining and intimate view inside the art of songwriting. Join us each month for a rotating array of talented, professional, songwriting recording artists, from New Mexico and beyond! Lisajcarman.com
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Eldorado Dental
RON WHITMORE
Ron began playing in Piano bars back in Tucson, Arizona in the early 80’s. Moved to Santa Fe and joined the band High Altitude as their keyboard player playing mostly casinos and bars around Santa Fe. Ron was then invited to play at Bill Worrell’s Music festival and encouraged to record a solo album based on songwriting from divorce to being back in love again. The solo CD “ Sticks and Stones” was finished this June and Ron is continuing to play solo or in duets around town. Ron balances his music with being one of the owners of the local art supply store “Artisan”.
TERRY DIERS
Terry Diers has been singing his whole life. At 2 1/2 he was singing “Cruising Down the River” with his father John Henry, (a singing drummer). At 4 he sang his first solos at Christmas. His grandmother Hester was church organist. From age 8 to 12, he went with the minister who lived next door to sing in three different church’s choirs each Sunday. At 17 he played in a “jug band” on the ‘Ted Mack Amateur Hour” TV show from New York.
Diers has been writing and performing his own songs all across America for over thirty years. His song “Dancin’ Man” was recorded by New Orleans own Johnny Adams, the “Tan Canary” on the Rounder release “After Dark” . The raucous blues song “Whiz Bang” was featured on New Orleans larger-than-life Bluesman Jay Monque’d’s latest release “Chittlin’ Eatin’ Music”. In 1989 he won a New Mexico Micline “Mikey” award with producer Jeff Nelson for his song “Hot Night In New Orleans”. John Poppers soon to be released solo album has a tune “End of the Line” co-written by Diers, Jono Manson and Aaron Beaver.
There is always a bit of Church in Terry Diers’ music, and a Whole Lotta Soul.
CHIPPER THOMPSON
Chipper Thompson was born and raised in Limestone County, Alabama, where he literally learned to play old Appalachian folk ballads and country blues on the front porch of his father's log cabin. Chipper first took up music (in the form of the electric bass guitar) when he entered college, and quickly learned bass, guitar, mandolin, and dulcimer. He travelled to Ireland in the spring of 1990 and worked up the nerve to sing in front of others, and has been performing his own vision of Americana ever since.
Influenced by sources as diverse as blues legend Son House, hillbilly savant Roscoe Holcomb, and Greco-Celtic wizard Ross Daly, Chipper has for over 20 years written folk, country, Celtic, blues, and rock-n-roll songs, and has recorded two CDs of his original songs. He has also recorded two collaborations: one a collection of folk standards with Mason Brown and the other a collection of (mostly) original music for the bouzouki with Roger Landes.
Chipper currently resides in Taos, New Mexico, where he plays with the country-western band Kim and the Caballeros; the instrumental surf band Los Changos Del Mar; the middle-eastern group Radio Free Bassanda; and often sits in with the rock band Bone Orchard.
Sunday September 12th - Rosie Flores ( 7 PM , $20 all ages )
Eldorado House Concerts proudly presents Bloodshot Records recording artist Rosie Flores for a spirited and soulful romp through the back roads of American music.
Rosie Flores whips the best of rock and roll, honky tonk, early rockabilly, blues and jazz with the traditional sounds of her roots in San Antonio, TX. She took flight in Southern California, and has been a major figure in the Los Angeles, Austin, TX and Nashville music scenes – as well as Europe and Japan.
Rosie's reputation as a high-octane rockabilly and country star is well established, and recent accolades have only made her musical bouquet fuller. June 2008 found Rosie onstage at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, accepting the prestigious Peabody Award for her narration of the 10-hour documentary radio show on the history of Rockabilly, "Whole Lotta Shakin'”, produced by Lex Gillespie.
Damn good songwriter, award-winning guitar player, and break yer heartstrings singer, Rosie produced Janis Martin's last recordings in Spring 2007, a 10 song CD that will bring Janis back to the spotlight she commanded from the 50s until her passing in September 2007. This was not Rosie’s first producing effort but it is one she is most proud of.
Recently relocated to Santa Fe from Austin, Texas (an environment nutrient rich for musicians), Daniel has shared the bill with Amy Ray, Bob Schneider, Ruthie Foster, Sara Hickman and the late Stephen Bruton to name a few. His first two CD’s, Out of the Silence and Ghost Stories won him the following praise from Billboard: “heartfelt acoustic rock that conjures immediate images of Counting Crows, Jackson Browne and James Taylor”. His song Someone in Austin came in at #2 on Austin’s MAJIC 95.5 Top 20 Countdown for 2002. Deniel has been showcased at the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin and the International Folk Alliance Conference in Montreal and Memphis.
"And in all this experience I’ve come to yet another realization, or perhaps a reevaluation. Great music doesn’t always lead super stardom…it is, however, a path to the stars. This is why I’ve moved to Santa Fe…where art inhabits a more sacred space… where art is a life force with a deeper reason for being. I feel I belong here, and that this new chapter in my musical life will unfold in ways previously unexplored and unimagined."
- Daniel Link
Saturday September 25th - Greening Eldorado A Town Hall Meeting ( 10 AM, free admission )
A Town Hall Meeting on Eldorado’s Energy, Food, Education and Local Business Future
Facilitated, open discussion on topics related to our community’s energy, food, business and education future. Opportunities to connect with current initiatives, groups and businesses (tables, sign-ups, contact info, informal conversations)
The event is open to all Eldorado residents, educators and businesspeople.
