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Saturday, Sept. 5! – Labor Day Weekend with Thacker in Taos, New Mexico!
Live show: TAOS Mothership – Premium concert venue, brewery and restaurant
Show venue address: 20 ABC Mesa Road, El Prado, NM 87529
Check out group hotel rates here.
For additional hotel info: Mary Frances Massey: maryfrances@thackermountain.org
Performers for the Thacker Taos show:
Musical Guest: CW Ayon
CW Ayon is from Las Cruces, New Mexico and often performs as a one-man band, playing guitar and harp and also drums with foot pedals. The result is, “Hill Country Blues, Chihuahuan Desert, hook-laden groove.” Ayon’s album, Bounce Boogie & Bump, includes the single, Chicken Wing and hit #1 on the Roots Music Report.
Musical Guest: Mariachi El Tigre from Taos High School
Since their founding at Taos High School in 1980, the Mariachi El Tigre – some two-dozen strong (100 counting middle and high school) – have built a reputation as showstoppers. While certainly a music of Mexico, mariachi also has roots in Spain, Cuba and Africa.
Literary Guest: Olivia Romo
Olivia Romo is a bilingual poet, water rights advocate, and storyteller from Taos, New Mexico. Romo’s language is immersed in the regional Manito dialect and culture of Northern New Mexico.
Literary Guest: Sierra Lindsey-Biscello
Sierra Lindsey-Biscello is a Taos native who recently submitted her first novel, Voice of the City, to publishers.
Hosts:
Jim Dees with our house band, Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhckers
Mississippi on the Mesa! See yall in Taos!
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6:30 pm – Following Thacker – same site, main stage
Taos Mothership Labor Day Picnic!
2nd Annual Labor Day Cookout – TAOS Mothership
Tix: $15 Adv/ $20 Door
Performers:
Creekbed Carter Hogan
Acoustic roots (New album: Peasant’s Revolt) weaves stories of growing up religious around songs that pierce the soul and tickle the funny bone. He/they may also bust out a favored, little-known union or old-timey labor song.
Casper Allen
Texas songwriter explores themes of addiction, life on the road, and the ups and downs of a life well-traveled with a style developed busking on street corners and playing in dirty bars across the greater U.S.
Betty Benedeadly
Desert Records recording artist serves up twang-edelic, foot-stompin, banjitar-driven arrangements that explore spaghetti westerns, experimental folk, indie bluegrass, surf & roots rock.
Desert Prose
Formed in Taos, New Mexico, Desert Prose, led by singer Marisa Ireland, crafts pedal steel-drenched indie rock that drifts between desert dreamscape and cosmic country.
CW Ayon (pronounced “I own”) is from Las Cruces, New Mexico but says his musical soul is in the Hill Country of North Mississippi.
Ayon often performs as a one-man band. With a kick/snare and tambourine setup he lays down solid beats while picking out catchy hooks on anything from acoustic to resonator guitars. Sometimes dropping in a bit of harmonica for good measure.
The result is, as he says, “Hill Country Blues, Chihuahuan Desert, hook-laden groove.”
Ayon’s recent releases include the album, Bounce Boogie & Bump, which includes the single, Chicken Wing. The album hit #1 on the Roots Music Report. His previous LP is the excellent, What They Say.
He has won two New Mexico Music Awards for his songs, “Seen My Baby” and “End of My Rope.”
Ayon’s latest single is his cover of the classic, “You Are My Sunshine.”
Ayon cites his influences as Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Robert Belfour, among others.
Olivia Romo is a bilingual poet, water rights advocate, and storyteller from Taos, New Mexico.
Her flagship poem, “Bendición del agua,” was highlighted in the Western Folklife Center’s Moving Rural Verse series in 2017.
Romo’s language is immersed in the regional Manito dialect and culture of Northern New Mexico.
The crucial issue of water rights is prevalent in Romo’s work because, as she told the New York Times in 2019, “The drought has been my entire lifetime.”
From the Times: “[Romo] uses the rhythms and speech patterns of spoken word poetry in a strong mixture of Spanish and English, to speak of familial ties and heritage.
“Chaquegüe,” a poem named for the blue corn mush that is central to New Mexican cuisine, makes food a metaphor for tradition, linking her father’s corn harvest with the traditions of New Mexican Chicano culture, highlighting water fights between rural communities and big western cities.”
Now based in Santa Fe, Olivia serves as the Northern New Mexico Field Representative for U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, for agriculture, acequias and land grants.
Since their founding at Taos High School in 1980, Mariachi El Tigre – some two-dozen strong (100 counting middle and high school) – have built a reputation as showstoppers.
Membership requires students to not only read music but also undergo hours of rigorous rehearsal and auditions.
While certainly a music of Mexico, mariachi also has roots in Spain, Cuba and Africa.
According to the Taos News, Taos Municipal Schools were the first in New Mexico to provide course credit for mariachi with the development of Mariachi el Tigre.
Photo: 2023 Taos High School
Sierra Lindsey-Biscello is a Taos native who recently submitted her first novel, Voice of the City, to publishers.
Sierra’s short stories have been featured in local publications, including the Harwood Museum’s Ekphrasis collection, (1st prize) and Howl, the University of North Mexico’s literary and art magazine.
According to her bio, writing is in her blood… literally:
“She comes from a writing family, (her father is Brooklyn-born novelist, poet and playwright John Biscello) and the love of ink has been in her blood for as long as she can remember. After years of work, Sierra hopes Voice of the City is the first of many novels.”
