Alejandro Brittes Trio

Argentine Chamamé Accordionist and Composer

Saturday, September 21, 2024 – 5:00 p.m.

La Entrada Park, 84 W. La Entrada, Corrales, NM

Alejandro Brittes is an accordionist, composer, researcher and interpreter of music of the Argentine Littoral region and has been hailed as one of the three most important contemporary figures of chamamé , which is a traditional folk music style from Northeast Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. He will appear with Andre Ely (7-string guitar) and Carlos de Cesaro (double bass).

Rooster Blackspur 

Singer/Songwriter

Saturday, October 19, 2024 – 5:00 p.m., Alfredo Garcia Community Barn in Los Ranchos

Born in the Alaskan wilderness and called to the desert landscapes of cactus and tumbleweeds, Rooster Blackspur is an award-winning singer-songwriter who has a big and undeniable voice.
A bolt of lightning live on stage, she is guaranteed to captivate any audience.

Bettman & Halpin

Original Folk/Americana Duo

Saturday, November 16, 2024 – 7:30 p.m.

Bettman & Halpin perform original, toe-tapping, and heartfelt Americana and folk music. Stephanie Bettman is a fiddle player and vocalist. Her partner Luke Halpin is a renowned multi-instrumentalist who sings and plays guitar, mandolin, fiddle, and banjo. The Pasadena Weekly calls the duo “master storytellers in the fireside tradition.”

Aldo López-Gavilán

Cuban Pianist & Composer

*Wednesday, December 18, 2024 – 7:30 p.m.

Aldo returns to Music in Corrales where he performed with the Harlem Quartet in 2018. Praised for his “dazzling technique and rhythmic fire” in the Seattle Times and dubbed a “formidable virtuoso” by The Times (London), Cuban pianist and composer Aldo López-Gavilán excels in both the classical and jazz worlds as a recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber-music collaborator, and performer of his own electrifying jazz compositions.

New York Brass Arts Trio

Brass Trio

*Sunday, January 12, 2025 – 3:00 p.m.

Three world-class virtuoso soloists have come together to revolutionize the brass trio, and are being hailed as the first brass group ever to play with the sensitivity and musicality of a string quartet. Trumpeter Joe Burgstaller, French hornist David Jolley and trombonist Haim Avitsur have forged together classical, light classical and classical/jazz masterworks of all eras and adapted them in unique and innovative instrumentation.

Tommy Mesa

Cuban-American Cellist

*Sunday, February 9, 2025 – 3:00 p.m.

Cuban-American cellist Tommy Mesa has established himself as one of the most charismatic, innovative, and engaging performers of his generation. Mesa has appeared as soloist with major orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, and The Philadelphia Orchestra.

Máire Ní Chathasaigh & Chris Newman

Irish Harpist and Guitarist

Saturday, March 15, 2025 – 7:30 p.m.

Máire and Chris return to Music in Corrales after their performance in april 2018. Máire Ní Chathasaigh
is “the doyenne of Irish harp players” (Scotland on Sunday), “the great innovator of modern Irish harping, a player of outstanding technique and imagination” (The Rough Guide to Irish Music). Chris Newman is a “brilliant English master of the acoustic guitar” (The Daily Telegraph) and one of the very few guitarists who excel in Celtic, European swing jazz, and American bluegrass styles.

Gaëlle Solal

Classical Guitarist

*Saturday, April 12, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 13, 2025, 3:00 p.m.

Gaëlle Solal returns to Music in Corrales for two shows. Born into a music-loving family, Gaëlle discovered the classical guitar at the age of five and began studying at the Marseille Conservatoire the following year. Since graduating from the Paris Conservatoire with honors at age nineteen, she has performed at prestigious venues in more than forty different countries as recitalist, chamber musician, and orchestral soloist.