7:30 PM
An Evening with Nicholas Kristof
$15/$25/$50 ($15 tax-deductible)/$125 Package ($75 tax-deductible)

Kristof is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist.

 

7:30 PM
Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys
$29-$69

Indisputably the elder statesman of old-time mountain music, Ralph Stanley live at The Lensic.

 

7:30 PM
BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO with Soulman Sam & Soul Explosion
$45 / $35 / $29

Contemporary zydeco's most popular performer, accordionist Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural.

 

7:30 PM
NM Jazz Festival: Stepology's
$15/25/30/40 Member & Student discounts available

Described as “...an unrivaled and dazzling array of tap talent that invoked an appreciation of tap's history while inspiring an excitement for tap's present and future” -San Francisco Bay Times

 

7:30 PM
NM Jazz Festival: Simone with special guest, Somi
$15/25/30/40 Member & Student discounts available

A singer, songwriter and performer whose ability to transcend genres echoes the tradition of her mother, musical icon and pioneer Nina Simone.

 

7:30 PM
NM Jazz Festival: Bitches Brew Revisited featuring Cindy Blackman, James Blood Ulmer, DJ Logic, Marco Benevento & Graham Haynes
$15/25/30/40 Member & Student discounts available

"...in Bitches Brew Revisited, a septet led by the coronetist Graham Haynes, powered by the drummer Cindy Blackman and colored by the guitarist James Blood Ulmer, jazz became whatever it was Miles Davis intended in 1969: spacious, black-magic stealth funk." — New York Times

 

7:30 PM
NM Jazz Festival: Miguel Zenón Quintet and Los Pleneros de la 21
$15/25/30/40 Member & Student discounts available

There have been few new voices in the jazz world that have caused as much of a stir and possessed as much individuality as saxophonist, Miguel Zenón. Los Pleneros de la 21 is one of the world’s premier ensembles performing and teaching Bomba y Plena of Puerto Rico

 

2:00 PM
NM Jazz Festival: NEA Jazz Master Toshiko Akiyoshi in conversation with A.B. Spellman
FREE !

Appearing at the New Mexico Jazz Festival since its inception in 2006, this year marks the fifth that A.B. Spellman has hosted a Meet the Artist event for the Festival. This year he will speak, in informal discussion, with NEA Jazz Master Toshiko Akiyoshi.

8:00 PM
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet presents Paul Taylor Dance Company
$20/36/62/72

A perennial Santa Fe favorite, Paul Taylor Dance Company has been a major influence in the world of modern dance for over 55 years.

 

7:00 PM
Restrepo: 1 Platoon, 1 Valley, 1 Year
$15/Students $10

A documentary film by Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger.  Tim Hetherington, and “Captain” Daniel Kearney, one of the soldiers, will be here for a conversation after the screening of the film.