Santa Fe Bandstand

Graphic design by Jeanne Arnold;
Web design and hosting by
maggiedot.com

SANTA FE BANDSTAND 2008

John Sloan, Music in the Plaza, 1920, oil on canvas, 26 x 32 in., Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art.
Gift of Mrs. Cyrus McCormick, 1952

Outside In Productions and the City of Santa Fe are pleased to announce the unprecedented musical event of the season: 

Santa Fe Bandstand 2008
(Click here to view schedule) 

Beginning Thursday, July 5th there will be free live music on the Community Stage at the  Santa Fe Plaza.

 It happens every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings from 6 - 8:30 p.m. and every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon from noon - 1:30 p.m.

This eight week long music festival will run through August 23rd with 79 free performances featuring some of the finest, Blues, Latin, Country, Rock, Reggae, R&B, Jazz, Bluegrass, Folk, Americana, Alternative, Hip-Hop, Native and World Beat Music that New Mexico has to offer. 

We are also pleased to announce the inclusion of national touring acts---Elephant Revival from Boulder Colorado (7/5), Robert Mirabal from Taos Pueblo (7/10),  Kaissa, from Cameroon, Africa (7/12) Elana James (7/19) Radio La Chusma from El Paso, Texas (7/18) Curley Taylor from SW Louisiana (7/26), Chris Laterzo from Los Angeles (8/2 noon) Jed & Kelley from Memphis (8/14 noon)Terri Hendrix & Lloyd Maines from San Marcos, Texas, Tamara Podemski  from Canada, John Trudell  (8/16) and Shannon McNally from New Orleans  (8/21) 

Bring your lawn chairs and picnic baskets!  Tell your friends and family! Come early. The first band starts promptly at 6 pm.  

This is our Plaza! 

We will also be highlighting a different non-profit community based organization each evening. 

Major Funding of  Santa Fe Bandstand is by: The City of Santa Fe Arts Commission and the Convention and Visitors Bureau, The Frost Foundation and The McCune Charitable Foundation   

Other funding by: First National Bank, Jackalope, IAIA Museum, El Farol,  Fusion and The Santa Fe Community Foundation.

Our Sponsors include: Comcast, The Cowgirl Hall of Fame, The Santa Fe New Mexican, KBAC 98.1 and Hutton Broadcasting,  Santa Fe Community TV Channel 16 and AM 810 Que Suave.

Sound: Keith Martin of Signal Path Audio 

Special thanks to the City of Santa Fe Parks and Police Departments for their assistance with set-up and security on the Plaza and Miguel Castillo of Santa Fe Audio Visual for the lighting of the Community Stage and to Sam Adams and David Goldberg for the photographs in our program guide, Jeanne Arnold for the graphic design and Maggie Duval of maggiedot.com for website design

Santa Fe Bandstand is produced by Outside In and a steering committee that has strived to include a wide range of performers who represent the diversity and wealth of talent of the music scene of this region.

Santa Fe Bandstand Production:
Chris Abeyta
Margaret Burke
Kenny Delgado
David Lescht

Outside In is a nonprofit, community-based group established in the spring of 1995, to bring free, live performances, presentations and workshops to people confined to shelters, residential treatment facilities, nursing homes, correctional facilities, and any other institutions or human services programs where people would otherwise not have access to the arts. The Youth with Promise program presents free weekly guitar, dance, & visual arts workshops to juvenile offenders in detention and on probation, to at-risk youth in shelters and residential treatment programs and other underserved youth in the community 

For more information: 505-986-6054 email: info@outsideinproductions.org,
website: http://outsideinproductions.org