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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nosotros is one of the most recognizable Latin bands, in the Southwest United States. They have twice been featured on NPR’s Alt Latino, twice been named winners in the prestigious John Lennon Songwriting Competition, been awarded 13 NM Music Awards and have shared the stage with some of the biggest names in music.
This Latin music powerhouse, seamlessly combines Latin rhythms with elements of Rock, Salsa, Jazz and Cumbia creating an original sound that is unmistakably Nosotros. But M.E. Schenck of Hyperactive Music Magazine may have interpreted their sound best by saying “Nosotros’ music is not to be explained, it is to be felt in the pit of our souls.”
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.
Nosotros is one of the most recognizable Latin bands, in the Southwest United States. They have twice been featured on NPR’s Alt Latino, twice been named winners in the prestigious John Lennon Songwriting Competition, been awarded 13 NM Music Awards and have shared the stage with some of the biggest names in music.
This Latin music powerhouse, seamlessly combines Latin rhythms with elements of Rock, Salsa, Jazz and Cumbia creating an original sound that is unmistakably Nosotros. But M.E. Schenck of Hyperactive Music Magazine may have interpreted their sound best by saying “Nosotros’ music is not to be explained, it is to be felt in the pit of our souls.”
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.
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.
Thursday, December 21st from 7-9 PM
$140 per person excluding tax & gratuity
15% off for all wine club members!
Booking ahead is required & seating is limited. Call the restaurant at: (505) 982-3433 to reserve - credit card is required.
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.
December 17th from 1-3 pm
$90 per person
Price per person includes:
• Beautiful Charcuterie Board (made by you) to take home
on a bamboo round - ready for a party!
• 1 Glass of Wine (Spanish sparkling, white or red).
• 10% off of food retails items from the La Boca Bodega
(to be redeemed by 12/31/23).
Please RSVP by December 15th to hold your spot as space is limited! To book - call the restaurant at
(505) 982-3433 or email manager.laboca@gmail.com
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.
