Wes Studi, Nosotros, Innastate and more to tout New Mexico music at concert review
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Whether or not the people who live outside of New Mexico understand our fair state's cultural contributions to the broader American artistic landscape matters very little when those who've called Santa Fe and the area home know something about our regional music to be true: We've got a whole mess-load of badass musicians around here. And one show later this week aims to highlight as many of them as possible (not, like, punk and metal, but that's a story for another day) while setting the stage for a forthcoming documentary film highlighting New Mexico music.
For this Wednesday's Big New-Mex Review: A Musical Journey Through the Land of Enchantment, at Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, composer/promoter/musician Lance Bendiksen has gathered a veritable who's-who of New Mexico acts including Euforia, Innastate, Danny T and the Stealing Thunder Band, Onist, Cali Shaw, Nosotros and others for a tour through various homegrown styles. The idea, he tells SFR, is to celebrate local music, but also to produce a film that might better illustrate the bands who call New Mexico home.