HEADLINER LINE-UP

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6/7 Destroy Kasmin

Destroy Kasmin is an Artist from the Navajo Nation, in a town called Ganado. Kasmin has been shifting the local music scene, with his catchy melodies and heartfelt lyrics. He recently dropped an album called “GANADO FOREVER” and this will be the first concert to hear the performance of brand new songs off the album.

If you haven’t tapped in with him, do so immediately.

6/14 Levi Platero

Levi Platero is steeped in musical lessons as far back as teaching himself guitar at nine years old from a launchpad of the Three Kings and Stevie Ray Vaughn, Platero’s leads and songwriting reflect a lifetime absorbing music. On “Work Hours,” Platero’s guitar work and songwriting style bring a breath of fresh air to a time-worn topic and make it new. I haven’t really had a lot of jobs in my life, other than being a musician. So in that way I’ve been lucky. But about two years ago was one of those times when I had to do it. I had a job at a hardware store for about six months, and I hated it. I just remember thinking, ‘I don’t have enough hours to earn what I need, but these hours I have still feel way too long.’ I’m a Navajo bluesman who grew up in a Gospel circuit, I have this huge cultural background I’m very proud of but, at the end of the day, I’m also a blues guy and I’m trying to fit in. Trying to bring all those diverse influences and different styles of music I love into a blues context. – Levi Platero Platero is from the Navajo Nation in the Southwest region of the United States.

6/21 Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience

Two time Grammy winner Terrance Simien, 8th generation Louisian Creole, has been shattering the myths and often misinformation, about what his traditional Zydeco roots music is – and is not for over 40 year. It most certainly is Black American roots music and it is music born of the African American/Black and mixed race French speaking Creoles of South Louisiana. This is the truth and these are the facts.
Simien leads a highly skilled Zydeco Experience band with long time band member, close friend and creative collaborator: Danny Williams (30+ years, two-GRAMMY award winning), keyboards, vocals; Stan Chambers (15+ years, GRAMMY award winning), bass, vocals; Ian Molinaro – Thompson, drums; Michael Christie on trumpet and Noah Boshra, saxophone. Ian MT is a Berklee College of Music graduate and Mike a Shenandoah University graduate ( SU is in the top 10% of music programs in the country). Another Berklee College grad, Ethan Santos, trombone, also lends his skills to us on tour at times.  Noah Boshran, joining us in 2024, is a Tulane graduate.

6/28 The Family Crest

The Family Crest is the brainchild of composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Liam McCormick, orchestral indie band The Family Crest was started as a recording project with co-founder John Seeterlin (bass) as a final release before bowing out of the industry. Instead of leaving music, they were inspired by their peers to set out to reinvent how a band could be created, starting The Family Crest with an audacious and bold vision of cultivating a musical community. “We always liked making music with people – getting a bunch of people together and singing. So we put ads everywhere,” says McCormick. “We posted on Craigslist, distributed flyers, and emailed old friends from school.” The outcome was greater than the original duo imagined, with over 80 people credited on the first recording the band produced and over 500 musicians credited throughout their catalog.

7/4 The Ryan Biter Trio

Ryan Biter is the aimless, eccentric, tactless kid you went to school with growing up that you always kind of wondered what happened to after high school. With equal measures of irreverence, sharp insight, and vulnerability, Biter invites audiences to be open to our profound humanness. Weird, wonderful, and flawed.

The grit, soul,  and raw emotion of his voice has  drawn  comparisons to  Amos Lee  and Chris Stapleton.  His songs have the ear worm hooks and everyman  sensibility of Ed Sheeran, 2000s Country music , and Paul Simon. His expansive  finger style guitar work is reminiscent of Michael Hedges, Tommy Emmanuel, and John Butler.  

Think of him like a guitar-slinging  Mr. Rodgers for messed-up adults.

7/12 Sage Cornelius

Sage Cornelius (Oneida, Navajo, Potawatomi) is a multi-instrumentalist musician from Topeka, Kansas. He learned honky-tonk/Irish fiddle and classical violin when he was young. He effortlessly puts a unique and mean spin on the violin with ease.

7/19 Under Exile

Under Exile, the five piece metal band formed by a group of teenagers in 2015, has members from the Dine’/Navajo Tribe on the Navajo Nation and Shiprock, New Mexico. The band has opened for Fear Factory, In Flames, All That Remains, Bad Omens, Slaughter to Prevail, Suicide Silence, Whitechapel, Carnifex, Winds of Plague, Attila, In Flames, Super Joint Ritual, Gideon, Oceano, Alien Weaponry and Soulfly, among others. Under Exile has performed at festivals in Florida, California, Colorado and Arizona, including the Four Corners Metal Festival, Navajo Nation Metal Fest, Treasure Fest, and The Seminole Tribe Music Festival.

7/26 Red Light Cameras

This performance will start at 6 pm as part of the Route 66 Freedom, Ride, Flight, Cruise event!

Red Light Cameras are a show-stopping rock band out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Led by powerhouse vocalist Amanda Machon, this band packs a punch and always has the dance floor moving as fans belt out the lyrics, singing along with one of the best front people you will ever see. The songs are catchy, the hooks infectious, and the beats will have you bouncing. It’s all the pop you need with some serious garage rock edge to blow you away! 

8/2 Bandits on the Run

This performance will be held in the historic El Morro Theater

BANDITS ON THE RUN are a musical trio comprised of Adrian Blake Enscoe, Sydney. Shepherd, and Regina Strayhorn, known for their distinct combination of cello, guitar, accordion, and found-percussion with sophisticated three-part harmonies and rotating lead vocals. The Brooklyn-based outfit sprang from a chance encounter while busking in NYC’s bustling subways and burst onto the national stage in 2019 when their song, “Love in the Underground,” was featured on the NPR Tiny Desk Contest’s Top Shelf, with the esteemed tastemakers at the station proclaiming, “the band orchestrates a symphony of sound and story through its impressive musicianship and marvelous harmonies.” After recording their 2021 EP, Now Is The Time, with producer Ryan Hadlock (Brandi Carlile, The Lumineers), the Bandits took to the screen, devising a short musical film, Band At The End Of The World, commissioned by Prospect Musicals. Since then, they have continued to explore the nexus of indie-folk music and theatrical storytelling, composing music for the Netflix animated series, Storybots, scoring the movie, The Same Storm, adapting several songs from texts by William Shakespeare for a production of As You Like It, and receiving an NEA grant for a new musical with Prospect Musicals, all the while touring the globe with appearances at the Cambridge Folk Festival, Floydfest, Summerfest Milwaukee, Americanafest, F1 Singapore Grand Prix, Mile of Music, and the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival. Bandits on the Run are currently working on the stage musical adaptation of the novel What’s Eating Gilbert Grape in association with MCC Theater, alongside actor-musician Christopher Sears and Academy Award Nominee Peter Hedges, who wrote the original book and screenplay.

8/9 DEF-i

Hailing from Albuquerque, NM, Def-i represents the Diné Nation as one of the Southwest’s most active and prominent touring artists. His performance styles range widely, from Hip-Hop and Spoken Word to contemporary Native American acoustic. Emerging from the Underground indie rap circuit, his eclectic repertoire of talent has allowed him to single-handedly perform regularly throughout the country as an artist and an educator. His dedication to cultural preservation and lyrical mastery has earned him the respect of hip hop veterans, industry professionals, academics, and upcoming generations. Def-i also recently won the New Mexico Entertainment Award for Top Musical Artist for Hip-Hop/Rap