GiG Performance Space

Tony McManus - Acclaimed Celtic Guitarist!
Saturday, May 9th - 7:30 - GiG
1808 Second Street - $30 - TICKETS! https://gigsantafe.tickit.ca

“Tony’s music is beyond beautiful, it’s perfect” – Tommy Emmanuel

Hailed by John Renbourn as ‘the best Celtic guitarist in the world’ Tony McManus has been listed as one of the 50 transcendent guitarists of all time by Guitar Player Magazine. Tony has both extended and transcended the parameters of contemporary Celtic music. Ranked by peers and predecessors alike alongside the guitar world’s all-time greats, his fiendishly dexterous, dazzlingly original playing draws on traditions from the entire Celtic world, along with still further-ranging flavours such as jazz and European music. Long applauded for his uncanny ability to transpose the delicate, complex ornamentation characteristic of traditional bagpipe or fiddle tunes – even the phrasing of a Gaelic song – onto his own six strings, McManus is increasingly being acknowledged also as a pioneering figure in bridging the realms of Celtic music and other guitar genres.

In a relatively short time Tony’s music has come to define a new role for the guitar in Celtic music, representing Celtic music in the guitar world, and making regular appearances at guitar specific events where just a few years ago jigs and reels would be unheard of. He has performed the Chet Atkins Festival in Nashville; the Ellnora Guitar Festival in the prestigious Krannert Center; has appeared at Guitar Festivals in Soave and Pescantina, Italy; Frankston, Australia; Issoudun, France; Kirkmichael, Scotland; Bath and Kent, England; Bochum and Osnabruck, Germany and has taught at five of Steve Kaufman’s Acoustic Kamps in Tennessee. Tony's ability to reach audiences unfamiliar with traditional music is remarkable - he is quite comfortable at predominantly classical events such as the Dundee and Derry Guitar Festivals (appearing six times between the two) and even The Bogotá International Guitar Festival, following virtuoso Eduardo Fernandez. He is also a signature artist for PRS Guitars in Maryland, and has performed at their venue with Carlos Santana, among others.

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Jenny Scheinman’s All Species Parade feat. Carmen Staaf, Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen, Dave Devine & Julianna Cressman - January 21st -7:30 - GiG - 1808 Second Street - 30. TICKETS! https://gigsantafe.tickit.ca

Jenny Scheinman - violin
Carmen Staaf - piano
Tony Scherr - bass
Kenny Wollesen - drums
Dave Devine - guitar
Julianna Cressman - dance

Jenny Scheinman, acclaimed violinist and composer, and a stalwart of the New York jazz and creative music scenes, presents music from All Species Parade, an epic double-album celebrating the Pacific Northwest wilderness, where Scheinman was raised. The album has topped many year-end charts, and Downbeat Magazine’s Critics voted Scheinman as the #2 Violinist of the year and has honored the album with 4 1/2 stars.

In addition to her extensive work in jazz and improvised music with Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, Brian Blade, Ron Miles and Allison Miller and many more, Jenny Scheinman has toured and recorded with songwriting legends such as Lucinda Williams, Bruce Cockburn, Robbie Fulks, and Joni Mitchell. She is featured on the original cast recording of Anais Mitchell’s hit musical Hadestown, and has written several feature length movie scores, including the forthcoming The Optimist. In March 2015 she premiered a multimedia performance at Duke University entitled Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait, which she continues to present in theaters around the country. In the summer of 2026 she will be releasing her twelfth studio album featuring her beloved All Species Parade band.

Press Quotes About All Species Parade

“A wild and expansive double album” - All Music

“⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2” - DownBeat

“...the music is equal parts personable, eccentric, and dreamlike...one of the best folk jazz recordings of 2024.” - Bandcamp

“...multi-hued music that is singularly Scheinman's own.” - Stereophile

"All Species Parade may well be the versatile Jenny Scheinman’s best across a multi-genre career.” - Glide Magazine

“Scheinman [has] a distinctive vision of American music, suffused with plainspoken beauty and fortified … by country, gospel, and melting-pot folk, along with jazz and the blues.” – The New York Times

“Scheinman [is] a meticulous interpreter of emotion and a composer of cinematic vision and scope.” - DownBeat

“There is an emotional element to Jenny Scheinman's playing that makes her music deeply satisfying." - Wall Street Journal

AN EVENING WITH BEPPE GAMBETTA
Friday, February 27th - GiG - 7:30
1808 Second Street 30. - TICKETS! https://gigsantafe.tickit.ca

Beppe Gambetta is a musician and ambassador of art, who, for more than four decades, continues to amaze us with the uniqueness and originality of his projects born on both sides of the Atlantic. He is an acoustic guitarist, songwriter, producer, and educator, and his art is fueled, above all, by the curiosity that springs from encounters, travel, and research. He has brought back forgotten artists, popularized and reinvented folk guitar techniques, produced unforgettable shows and much original music and songs for which he is loved and respected on the international scene.

His latest single “Woody and Pete" released in commemoration of Pete Seeger's birthday, is inspired by a dream: the dream that the energy of the noble souls of the fathers of music who inspired and guided great social changes may somehow manifest and help ease the tribulations and insecurities of today's world. in the song, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger look down upon today's world and give a cry of solidarity to those who are suffering in the face of our challenges.

Jake Shulman-Ment and Jordan Wax
March 21st - GiG - 7:30 - 1808 Second Street
30. TICKETS! https://gigsantafe.tickit.ca

Hitting the road together for the first time, Jordan Wax and Jake Shulman-Ment draw from many combined decades as bearers and innovators of klezmer and Yiddish song. They masterfully traverse oceans and centuries to conjure ancestral melodies and songs, landing in a playfully genre-bending 21st century America. Their live performance, rich with musical virtuosity as well as the oral history and lore that connects their music to centuries of culture, is a testament to the magic that has sustained secular Yiddish creativity in the face of incredible odds and continues to shed a unique light on the contemporary human condition.

Born in New York City, violinist Jake Shulman-Ment is “considered one of the finest klezmer fiddlers on the planet” (Jon Kalish, NPR). He has toured and recorded internationally as a soloist and with Midwood, Daniel Kahn, Frank London, Di Naye Kapelye, Joey Weisenberg, Laurel Premo, Romashka, Duncan Sheik, and many others. He was featured in Csaba Bereczki's full-length documentary film Soul Exodus, and performed on screen in HBO's Succession and Martin Scorcese's The Irishman. A widely sought-out teacher of the klezmer fiddle tradition, Jake has been a faculty member of KlezKamp, KlezKanada, Klezmer Paris, the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival, Yiddish Summer Weimar, Fiddle Tunes, Yiddish New York, and other festivals throughout the globe. He collected, studied, performed, and documented traditional music in Romania as a Fulbright scholar, and has lived and traveled in Hungary and Greece, learning traditional violin styles. In 2018 he received the prestigious NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Folk/Traditional Arts. Jake's debut solo album, A Redele (A Wheel) (Oriente Musik, 2012) was nominated for the German Record Critics' Award. His most recent release, Two Strings (Borscht Beat, 2025), is a ground-breaking collaborative reimagination of klezmer fiddle style with Abigale Reisman.

www.jakeshulmanment.com

Jordan Wax is a songwriter from New Mexico who performs dynamic arrangements of new work in Yiddish. His innovative compositions are rooted his own deep Diaspora communities and in three decades of friendships with elders who have imparted the subtleties of spoken secular Yiddish and the musical sensibilities of the of the professional klezmer–not as heirlooms to be preserved, but as pathways to Yiddish continuity, vitality, and relevance which must be be renewed in each generation through radical creativity and cross-cultural pollination with the rhythms of Yiddish’s diasporic homes. The linguistic and musical dialects of his work align his original songs with stories and embodied memories that span generations. His debut solo album, The Heart Deciphers (Borscht Beat, 2025), blends the sounds of klezmer/lautari ensembles from Moldova with rock aesthetics from the American Southwest. In 2024-5 he was a New Jewish Culture Fellow (Center for New Jewish Culture, NY) and in 2025 received the Freed Fellowship for rising leaders in Yiddish and Jewish culture in conjunction with his work performing and curating programs for KlezKanada’s summer retreat in Montreal. In early 2020 he was invited to study oral histories and field recordings as a Parsons Fellow at the American Folklife Center at the US Library of Congress.