Born and raised in Madrid Spain, however, now calls beautiful Santa Fe New Mexico his home. Bas is a "Cantautor" (singer songwriter), a guitarist, a working musician. Jesus is a brilliant Spanish singer and guitarist who sings in Spanish, English, Italian & Portuguese, performing familiar favorites and originals with great skill and flair. He is a favorite with audiences.
Joaquin Gallegos was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He comes from a family of artists and musicians, starting music studies at age 7 and playing the guitar at 9 years old. Joaquin has made Andalucia his second home having spent several years living, studying and performing there and in the United States as well as in Latin America. He lived among gypsy clans in Sacromonte, Granada, learning the art of accompanying cante and baile. Some of Joaquin’s most important maestros have been Chuscales, Manolo Sanlucar, El Viejin, Emilio Maya and Antón Jimenez. Joaquin won 1st prize at the 2002 EXPO Flamenco Competition at the Festival Flamenco Internacional de Albuquerque.
Born and raised in Madrid Spain, however, now calls beautiful Santa Fe New Mexico his home. Bas is a "Cantautor" (singer songwriter), a guitarist, a working musician. Jesus is a brilliant Spanish singer and guitarist who sings in Spanish, English, Italian & Portuguese, performing familiar favorites and originals with great skill and flair. He is a favorite with audiences.
Chuscales has performed around the globe, including appearances at Lincoln Center, Hollywood Bowl, Ford Theatre, The Joyce, Jacobs Pillow, Telluride Jazz Festival, The Lensic in Santa Fe, Aspen-Santa Fe Ballet, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Festival Flamenco Internacional (20+ years), Santa Fe Jazz & International Music Festival. He was musical director and principal guitarist for the prestigious, Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco, for nearly two decades and has toured with Noche Flamenca, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Jesús Muñoz Flamenco, Yaelisa Caminos Flamenco, Yjastros, Susana Di Palma Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre, and is the recipient of top honors including more recently: Dora More Award (2007,2009,2010) for outstanding sound design/composition and Isadora Duncan Awards for composition (1997 & 2011) for arrangement, and direction. Chuscales has appeared in riveting reviews for his work with major dance companies.
Nacha Mendez grew up in the tiny border town of La Union, in southern New Mexico, where she began singing and playing the guitar at an early age. She learned traditional Ranchera canción from her grandmother and performed in border towns near El Paso with her cousins, the Black Brothers, sons of ex-Mothers of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black.
She went on to study classical voice and electronic music at New Mexico State University before moving to New York City, where she studied flamenco guitar with Manuel Granados of the Music Conservatory of Barcelona, Spain. In the early ’90s, she was a principal singer in Robert Ashley’s opera company, touring Europe and Japan and translated the libretto for Ashley's opera Now Eleanor’s Idea. She performed trouser roles in three of his operas throughout Japan, at the Avignon Music Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Strasbourg, France, Graz, Austria, and Berlin.
Nacha has also collaborated with celebrated composer Steve Peters who produced “Bodega de Amor” and “Volando.” “My Burning Skin to Sleep,” a song on the 2004 CD release Shelter by Steve Peters and distributed by the Cold Blue Label features the voice of Nacha Mendez. Her recordings include “Slowly Rising” (as Dueto Le Momo), and “Blue Silence,” “Bodega de Amor,” and “Volando” (as Nacha Mendez). Since 1990, she has worked on several projects with Steve Peters and has collaborated with composer Raven Chacon, writer Melody Sumner Carnahan, visual artist Harmony Hammond, filmmaker Catherine Gund, and Producer/Director Daresha Kyi.
Mendez/Cordero received a National Endowment for the Arts Award and a fellowship from Mutable Music in New York. In February 2011, she was honored by the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women Artists. She was voted Best Female vocalist in Santa Fe, New Mexico in both 2009 and 2010. Voted Best Family Friendly Entertainer Santa Fe Human Rights Alliance 2012 Pride Alliance Awards and in 2013 she was awarded the Best Latin Production at the New Mexico Music Awards. She received a New Mexico Platinum Music Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. She performs under her grandmother’s name, Nacha Mendez, touring regionally with her band, playing her original, eclectic pan-Latin-style songs. She also paints and sculpts and exhibits her work in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Chuscales has performed around the globe, including appearances at Lincoln Center, Hollywood Bowl, Ford Theatre, The Joyce, Jacobs Pillow, Telluride Jazz Festival, The Lensic in Santa Fe, Aspen-Santa Fe Ballet, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Festival Flamenco Internacional (20+ years), Santa Fe Jazz & International Music Festival. He was musical director and principal guitarist for the prestigious, Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco, for nearly two decades and has toured with Noche Flamenca, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Jesús Muñoz Flamenco, Yaelisa Caminos Flamenco, Yjastros, Susana Di Palma Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre, and is the recipient of top honors including more recently: Dora More Award (2007,2009,2010) for outstanding sound design/composition and Isadora Duncan Awards for composition (1997 & 2011) for arrangement, and direction. Chuscales has appeared in riveting reviews for his work with major dance companies.
Chuscales has performed around the globe, including appearances at Lincoln Center, Hollywood Bowl, Ford Theatre, The Joyce, Jacobs Pillow, Telluride Jazz Festival, The Lensic in Santa Fe, Aspen-Santa Fe Ballet, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Festival Flamenco Internacional (20+ years), Santa Fe Jazz & International Music Festival. He was musical director and principal guitarist for the prestigious, Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco, for nearly two decades and has toured with Noche Flamenca, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Jesús Muñoz Flamenco, Yaelisa Caminos Flamenco, Yjastros, Susana Di Palma Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre, and is the recipient of top honors including more recently: Dora More Award (2007,2009,2010) for outstanding sound design/composition and Isadora Duncan Awards for composition (1997 & 2011) for arrangement, and direction. Chuscales has appeared in riveting reviews for his work with major dance companies.
Nacha Mendez grew up in the tiny border town of La Union, in southern New Mexico, where she began singing and playing the guitar at an early age. She learned traditional Ranchera canción from her grandmother and performed in border towns near El Paso with her cousins, the Black Brothers, sons of ex-Mothers of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black.
She went on to study classical voice and electronic music at New Mexico State University before moving to New York City, where she studied flamenco guitar with Manuel Granados of the Music Conservatory of Barcelona, Spain. In the early ’90s, she was a principal singer in Robert Ashley’s opera company, touring Europe and Japan and translated the libretto for Ashley's opera Now Eleanor’s Idea. She performed trouser roles in three of his operas throughout Japan, at the Avignon Music Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Strasbourg, France, Graz, Austria, and Berlin.
Nacha has also collaborated with celebrated composer Steve Peters who produced “Bodega de Amor” and “Volando.” “My Burning Skin to Sleep,” a song on the 2004 CD release Shelter by Steve Peters and distributed by the Cold Blue Label features the voice of Nacha Mendez. Her recordings include “Slowly Rising” (as Dueto Le Momo), and “Blue Silence,” “Bodega de Amor,” and “Volando” (as Nacha Mendez). Since 1990, she has worked on several projects with Steve Peters and has collaborated with composer Raven Chacon, writer Melody Sumner Carnahan, visual artist Harmony Hammond, filmmaker Catherine Gund, and Producer/Director Daresha Kyi.
Mendez/Cordero received a National Endowment for the Arts Award and a fellowship from Mutable Music in New York. In February 2011, she was honored by the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women Artists. She was voted Best Female vocalist in Santa Fe, New Mexico in both 2009 and 2010. Voted Best Family Friendly Entertainer Santa Fe Human Rights Alliance 2012 Pride Alliance Awards and in 2013 she was awarded the Best Latin Production at the New Mexico Music Awards. She received a New Mexico Platinum Music Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. She performs under her grandmother’s name, Nacha Mendez, touring regionally with her band, playing her original, eclectic pan-Latin-style songs. She also paints and sculpts and exhibits her work in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Pat Malone performs with professionalism, versatility and pure energy that captivates and inspires his audiences. Pat has a devoted following in Chicago, Austin and Santa Fe from his live performances, and is a favorite in the studio. Throughout his career, Malone has played with many outstanding musicians, including Pete Christlieb (Steely Dan, Doc Severenson), Bobby Doyle (Blood, Sweat & Tears – CBS), Bill Ginn (Famous Blue Raincoat Leonard Cohen, Jennifer Warren), Eric Johnson, Lonnie Mack, Kim Stone (Spyra Gyra), Mitch Watkins, Spencer Starnes, Peter Rowan, John Mills, Junior Brown, Mike Turk, Jimmy Carl Black (Frank Zappa Mothers of Invention) and Kirk Waylum.
Chuscales has performed around the globe, including appearances at Lincoln Center, Hollywood Bowl, Ford Theatre, The Joyce, Jacobs Pillow, Telluride Jazz Festival, The Lensic in Santa Fe, Aspen-Santa Fe Ballet, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Festival Flamenco Internacional (20+ years), Santa Fe Jazz & International Music Festival. He was musical director and principal guitarist for the prestigious, Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco, for nearly two decades and has toured with Noche Flamenca, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Jesús Muñoz Flamenco, Yaelisa Caminos Flamenco, Yjastros, Susana Di Palma Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre, and is the recipient of top honors including more recently: Dora More Award (2007,2009,2010) for outstanding sound design/composition and Isadora Duncan Awards for composition (1997 & 2011) for arrangement, and direction. Chuscales has appeared in riveting reviews for his work with major dance companies.
Jono Manson is a prolific singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, producer and an engaging performer. During a storied career spanning over five decades he has played everywhere from the local dive to Madison Square Garden and has amassed an impressive discography that includes major label and indie releases on three continents. Jono has produced albums for Grammy winners and local heroes, American Idol finalists and Folksingers, Italian pop stars and Pakistani Sufi folk-rockers.
Born and raised in New York, Manson began his professional career in the 1970s as a teenager in the city’s dirty dive bars, where six-hour gigs were the norm and nights out rarely ended before sunrise. By the early ’80s, Manson was a highly respected figure on the club circuit, and his band, Joey Miserable and The Worms, were a force to be reckoned with. The New York Times called the group “local heroes” and credited them with influencing “countless” other acts, including the likes of Joan Osborne, who hailed them as “master entertainers” who “always had the crowds eating out of their hands.” In the decades to come, Manson would go on to develop a career as a recording artist and producer in Italy, continue to perform his own music far and wide, compose for major motion pictures, and play alongside Bruce Springsteen, Emmylou Harris, and Joan Baez on the occasion of Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday.
He currently makes his home in Santa Fe, NM, where he has put down deep roots in the local community, as a performer, educator, organizer and producer. He is the founder and chief engineer of “The Kitchen Sink” recording studio where he has nurtured creative projects for countless artists, emergent and established alike. Jono has six times been named “Producer of the Year” by the New Mexico Music Awards.
Press Quotes:
"A beloved and iconic member of the local music community.”
- Santa Fe Reporter
"Manson attacks the high art of low-rent songcraft with a paid assassin’s precision.”
- No Depression Magazine
"From poignant poet to playful prankster, Jono Manson is a shining star in his own right."
- Turnstyled, Junkpile
"...instant-grabber hooks and smartly constructed riffs, shiny melodies and warm harmonies, confident, seductive vocal performances and intelligent, relatable story lines."
- Relix Magazine
"'Stars Enough to Guide Me’ marks a new season in Manson’s life, and reveals his mastered diversity in roots, soul, folk, and country"
- American Songwriter
photo credit: William Coupon
Born and raised in Madrid Spain, however, now calls beautiful Santa Fe New Mexico his home. Bas is a "Cantautor" (singer songwriter), a guitarist, a working musician. Jesus is a brilliant Spanish singer and guitarist who sings in Spanish, English, Italian & Portuguese, performing familiar favorites and originals with great skill and flair. He is a favorite with audiences.
Chuscales has performed around the globe, including appearances at Lincoln Center, Hollywood Bowl, Ford Theatre, The Joyce, Jacobs Pillow, Telluride Jazz Festival, The Lensic in Santa Fe, Aspen-Santa Fe Ballet, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Festival Flamenco Internacional (20+ years), Santa Fe Jazz & International Music Festival. He was musical director and principal guitarist for the prestigious, Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco, for nearly two decades and has toured with Noche Flamenca, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Jesús Muñoz Flamenco, Yaelisa Caminos Flamenco, Yjastros, Susana Di Palma Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre, and is the recipient of top honors including more recently: Dora More Award (2007,2009,2010) for outstanding sound design/composition and Isadora Duncan Awards for composition (1997 & 2011) for arrangement, and direction. Chuscales has appeared in riveting reviews for his work with major dance companies.
Nacha Mendez grew up in the tiny border town of La Union, in southern New Mexico, where she began singing and playing the guitar at an early age. She learned traditional Ranchera canción from her grandmother and performed in border towns near El Paso with her cousins, the Black Brothers, sons of ex-Mothers of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black.
She went on to study classical voice and electronic music at New Mexico State University before moving to New York City, where she studied flamenco guitar with Manuel Granados of the Music Conservatory of Barcelona, Spain. In the early ’90s, she was a principal singer in Robert Ashley’s opera company, touring Europe and Japan and translated the libretto for Ashley's opera Now Eleanor’s Idea. She performed trouser roles in three of his operas throughout Japan, at the Avignon Music Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Strasbourg, France, Graz, Austria, and Berlin.
Nacha has also collaborated with celebrated composer Steve Peters who produced “Bodega de Amor” and “Volando.” “My Burning Skin to Sleep,” a song on the 2004 CD release Shelter by Steve Peters and distributed by the Cold Blue Label features the voice of Nacha Mendez. Her recordings include “Slowly Rising” (as Dueto Le Momo), and “Blue Silence,” “Bodega de Amor,” and “Volando” (as Nacha Mendez). Since 1990, she has worked on several projects with Steve Peters and has collaborated with composer Raven Chacon, writer Melody Sumner Carnahan, visual artist Harmony Hammond, filmmaker Catherine Gund, and Producer/Director Daresha Kyi.
Mendez/Cordero received a National Endowment for the Arts Award and a fellowship from Mutable Music in New York. In February 2011, she was honored by the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women Artists. She was voted Best Female vocalist in Santa Fe, New Mexico in both 2009 and 2010. Voted Best Family Friendly Entertainer Santa Fe Human Rights Alliance 2012 Pride Alliance Awards and in 2013 she was awarded the Best Latin Production at the New Mexico Music Awards. She received a New Mexico Platinum Music Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. She performs under her grandmother’s name, Nacha Mendez, touring regionally with her band, playing her original, eclectic pan-Latin-style songs. She also paints and sculpts and exhibits her work in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Pat Malone performs with professionalism, versatility and pure energy that captivates and inspires his audiences. Pat has a devoted following in Chicago, Austin and Santa Fe from his live performances, and is a favorite in the studio. Throughout his career, Malone has played with many outstanding musicians, including Pete Christlieb (Steely Dan, Doc Severenson), Bobby Doyle (Blood, Sweat & Tears – CBS), Bill Ginn (Famous Blue Raincoat Leonard Cohen, Jennifer Warren), Eric Johnson, Lonnie Mack, Kim Stone (Spyra Gyra), Mitch Watkins, Spencer Starnes, Peter Rowan, John Mills, Junior Brown, Mike Turk, Jimmy Carl Black (Frank Zappa Mothers of Invention) and Kirk Waylum.
Born and raised in Madrid Spain, however, now calls beautiful Santa Fe New Mexico his home. Bas is a "Cantautor" (singer songwriter), a guitarist, a working musician. Jesus is a brilliant Spanish singer and guitarist who sings in Spanish, English, Italian & Portuguese, performing familiar favorites and originals with great skill and flair. He is a favorite with audiences.
Chuscales has performed around the globe, including appearances at Lincoln Center, Hollywood Bowl, Ford Theatre, The Joyce, Jacobs Pillow, Telluride Jazz Festival, The Lensic in Santa Fe, Aspen-Santa Fe Ballet, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Festival Flamenco Internacional (20+ years), Santa Fe Jazz & International Music Festival. He was musical director and principal guitarist for the prestigious, Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco, for nearly two decades and has toured with Noche Flamenca, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Jesús Muñoz Flamenco, Yaelisa Caminos Flamenco, Yjastros, Susana Di Palma Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre, and is the recipient of top honors including more recently: Dora More Award (2007,2009,2010) for outstanding sound design/composition and Isadora Duncan Awards for composition (1997 & 2011) for arrangement, and direction. Chuscales has appeared in riveting reviews for his work with major dance companies.
Nacha Mendez grew up in the tiny border town of La Union, in southern New Mexico, where she began singing and playing the guitar at an early age. She learned traditional Ranchera canción from her grandmother and performed in border towns near El Paso with her cousins, the Black Brothers, sons of ex-Mothers of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black.
She went on to study classical voice and electronic music at New Mexico State University before moving to New York City, where she studied flamenco guitar with Manuel Granados of the Music Conservatory of Barcelona, Spain. In the early ’90s, she was a principal singer in Robert Ashley’s opera company, touring Europe and Japan and translated the libretto for Ashley's opera Now Eleanor’s Idea. She performed trouser roles in three of his operas throughout Japan, at the Avignon Music Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Strasbourg, France, Graz, Austria, and Berlin.
Nacha has also collaborated with celebrated composer Steve Peters who produced “Bodega de Amor” and “Volando.” “My Burning Skin to Sleep,” a song on the 2004 CD release Shelter by Steve Peters and distributed by the Cold Blue Label features the voice of Nacha Mendez. Her recordings include “Slowly Rising” (as Dueto Le Momo), and “Blue Silence,” “Bodega de Amor,” and “Volando” (as Nacha Mendez). Since 1990, she has worked on several projects with Steve Peters and has collaborated with composer Raven Chacon, writer Melody Sumner Carnahan, visual artist Harmony Hammond, filmmaker Catherine Gund, and Producer/Director Daresha Kyi.
Mendez/Cordero received a National Endowment for the Arts Award and a fellowship from Mutable Music in New York. In February 2011, she was honored by the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women Artists. She was voted Best Female vocalist in Santa Fe, New Mexico in both 2009 and 2010. Voted Best Family Friendly Entertainer Santa Fe Human Rights Alliance 2012 Pride Alliance Awards and in 2013 she was awarded the Best Latin Production at the New Mexico Music Awards. She received a New Mexico Platinum Music Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. She performs under her grandmother’s name, Nacha Mendez, touring regionally with her band, playing her original, eclectic pan-Latin-style songs. She also paints and sculpts and exhibits her work in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Sol Fire, led by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Amado Abeyta and his brother guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Buddy Abeyta, are known for their unique sound that fuses rock with pop, R&B and Latin influences.
The concept of brothers collaborating in a rock band is far from new and hardly overlooked in the music industry. Oasis, Van Halen, The Everly Brothers and The Beach Boys are a small example of how a fraternal connection can produce success in music. The Abeyta brothers of Sol Fire are no exception.
Beginning their musical careers at an early age, the brothers formed Sol Fire in 2002. Two years later, they entered the studio and released their debut album, “Self Titled.”
Since then, Sol Fire has become a household name in Santa Fe and New Mexico.
In the summer of 2006, Sol Fire released their second studio album, “Third Floor Serenade.” The buzz around their second release took Sol Fire to new heights when they were chosen as only one of three bands to be showcased in the New Mexico Lottery Powerball commercials and ad campaigns. They were also the only band chosen to produce two commercials, one in English and one in Spanish, proving that their music can reach a diverse audience.
Ten days before the 2008 election, Sol Fire sang the national anthem and performed an acoustic set before George Lopez and then Presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke at a rally in Albuquerque, N.M., with 45,000 in attendance.
Their original sound has taken the band to a variety of venues, such as performing the National Anthem at the University of New Mexico Pit and Tingley Coliseum, headlining the Santa Fe Fiesta’s street dance, and headlining the burning of Zozobra multiple times with crowds of 20,000 plus.
Being able to share their music with so many different people has been Sol Fire’s greatest honor. And through the success that they have gained in New Mexico, the brothers of Sol Fire have proven their dedication to their music by self-producing all of their albums. Their latest album, Hotel Marceline, was mastered for vinyl and digital at Abbey Road Studios, and will be released this year. It is with this drive that Sol Fire and their music continue to grow.
Born and raised in Madrid Spain, however, now calls beautiful Santa Fe New Mexico his home. Bas is a "Cantautor" (singer songwriter), a guitarist, a working musician. Jesus is a brilliant Spanish singer and guitarist who sings in Spanish, English, Italian & Portuguese, performing familiar favorites and originals with great skill and flair. He is a favorite with audiences.
