Eight Weeks of Music on the Plaza

A week from today is the kickoff for Santa Fe Bandstand 2007. Free music on the Plaza at noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and 6-8:30 PM Mondays-Tuesdays-Wednesdays &Thursdays, from July 5th through August 23rd. The full schedule for the noon and evening performances is available from the Santa Fe Bandstand website.

The press release is full of good information:
"Outside In Productions and the City of Santa Fe are pleased to announce the unparalleled musical event of the season: Santa Fe Bandstand 2007.

"Beginning Thursday, July 5th there will be free live music on the Community Stage at the Santa Fe Plaza every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings from 6 to 8:30 p.m. and every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m.

"This eight-week long music festival will run through August 23 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. This year’s music on the Plaza 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 is provided First National Bank, Jackalope, IAIA Museum, El Farol, Fusion and The Santa Fe Community Foundation.

"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.

"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.

"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 is provided by Keith Martin of Signal Path Audio.

"Outside In would like to give 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."