Lone Piñon is a New Mexican string band, or “orquesta típica”, whose music celebrates the integrity and diversity of their region’s cultural roots. With fiddles, guitars, accordions, vihuela, and bilingual vocals, they play a wide spectrum of the traditional music that is at home in New Mexico.

Todd and the Fox is equal parts rollicking, rolling, playful animal spirit and tooth and claw hammer mountain-minor backwoods predator. Employing electric banjo, lap steel, guitar, bass and drums, T&tF performs family-friendly songs about rattlesnakes, coyotes, a good night’s sleep, the joys of blundering fatherhood, mindfulness, and funky worms.

Jules! is a singer songwriter who has worked in many musical genres – indie rock, pop and country among them. They co-wrote the theme song for Songs for Littles and the feature film Rock Dog and was a Great American Songwriter finalist for “Hey There Anne’’. Their passion for songwriting extends to teaching, taking them all over the world at times to teach the craft. When they’re not making music, they are usually cooking for friends, hiking with their dogs or learning a new visual art form.

Wild Marimbas is a local band of Santa Fe, New Mexico that has been around for 20+ years.  Our music is inspired by the culture and sound of Zimbabwe spanning several generations.  With that, we mix in our own style as well.  Our music is unique to us, yet holds a sense of familiarity.

Jordan Wax is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, and traditional musician based in New Mexico. For the past twenty five years he has studied intergenerational music traditions with elders from a variety of cultural lineages in the Missouri Ozarks, Central Mexico, Ecuador, Northern New Mexico, and Greater Yiddishland, and directed his own collaborative ensembles in the context of Ashkenazi, Ozark, and Indo-Hispanic cultural revitalizations. He performs traditional Yiddish songs and new compositions as a soloist, norteño and Central-Mexican traditions with Mariachi Sonidos del Monte and his own ensemble, Lone Piñon, and creates bilingual children’s programming that helps families and infants establish a positive context around linguistic diversity and regionalism in partnership with the Santa Fe Public Libraries.