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10-07-2007, 10:56 PM
Socorro Pulls Out All Stops for Season's Biggest Regional Party <br><br>
<center><img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/richard_lemvo.jpg border=1 align=center> <br><font size=2 face="Arial Narrow">Richard Lemvo will perform at Macey Center on Friday October 12</font></center><br>
<img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/IMG_3246_web.jpg border=1 align=left hspace=5>Socorro, New Mexico: If you’re in need of something fun, something tasty, something entertaining, even something educational, consider visiting Socorro the weekend of Oct. 12 and 13. You’ll find stars (both the celebrity and the heavenly kind), dancing (salsa! Belly dancing! Hip-hop! Jazz!), spirits (Wine! Beer! Ghosts!), fashion (!) and art, performance and performance art!
The fun kicks off Friday night with Tech’s Club Macey social hour-and-salsa-dance-class at the Macey Center at 5:00 followed at 7:30 by the award-winning Afro-Cuban dance band Ricardo Lemvo y Makina Loca sponsored by the New Mexico Tech Performing Arts Series (www.nmtpas.org (http://www.nmtpas.org/)). More music venues follow and if you keep your eyes open, you may find a tour of ghostly haunts around town.
<img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/IMG_3242_web.jpg border=1 align=right hspace=5>Or, if you’re more interested in the stars above, listen to former StarDate Magazine editor Jim Kanipe at 7pm at Tech’s Workman Center, followed by stargazing with the NMT Astronomy Club at the Etscorn Campus Observatory. This is all part of Socorro’s Annual Enchanted Skies Star Party (www.socorro-nm.com/starparty/ (http://www.socorro-nm.com/starparty/)).
Saturday morning dawns bright and early with a celebration of fresh local produce at the Socorro Farmers Market on the plaza beginning at 8:00. At 9:30, at the Garcia Opera House, Nachin Bone, Sarracino Middle School art eacher, will host an art/performance project called Cultural Heritage Trees featuring student and community-created tree ornaments expressing our community’s diverse cultures.
At noon....it’s Soccorro Fest! “This is our fifth year, and it just keeps getting better and better,” Deborah Dean, City of Socorro Tourism Director said. “We’ll have music and dance performances on two stages on the plaza, theater and workshops at the Garcia Opera house and a showcase of artisans and beer and wine vendors–a little something for everyone.” Socorro Fest is sponsored by the City of Socorro with lots of help from volunteers.
“We have an amazing lineup of musicians and performers this year,” said Ronna Kalish, director of the New Mexico Tech Performing Arts Series. “There are all the perennial local favorites playing everything from folk to country to rock, blues, Spanish and bluegrass music. We’ll get to see a couple of new bands from out-of-town, and Remedy, Socorro’s most in demand variety band, will play Saturday night.”
<img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/IMG_3247_web.jpg border=1 align=left hspace=5><img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/IMG_3227_web.jpg border=1 align=right hspace=5>The Courthouse stage will feature The Rudy Boy Experiment playing what has been described as “jazzy funk style of swingin’ dirty blues - with that true rock and roll feel.” Though the band hails from Albuquerque, Rudy Jaramillo has roots and relatives in Magdalena. Pat “Guitar Slim” Chase and his classic blues rock band from El Paso will be performing on the Plaza Stage, with Remedy closing out the evening.
While enjoying the music you can stroll through the plaza admiring tie-dye clothing, pottery, jewelry, tole painting, stained glass, boutique soaps and balms, rosaries and statues, toys and puppets, honey and everything lavender.
When you need a little refreshment, there will be posole and chile stew, frybread and Indian tacos, burritos and frito pies, brisket and brats, turkey legs and philly steak, burgers and roasted corn.
If you then need liquid refreshment, you are in for another treat. Wine vendors this year include the St. Clair Winery of Deming, Tierra Encantada Winery of Bernalillo and the Guadalupe Vineyards of San Fidel. The Wellhead Brewery from Artesia and Socorro’s own Socorro Springs Brewing Company will
have their micro-brews available for tasting and purchase.
<img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/IMG_3252_web.jpg border=1 align=left hspace=5>The Garcia Opera House is the site for learning new things, starting with a teaser for Saturday night’s performance of “Wings” at noon. At 1:30 kids can participate in a fashion show produced and directed by Skye Fort and Chaya Barham. There will be clothes to pick from, or you can bring your own.
<img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/IMG_3230_web.jpg border=1 align=right hspace=5>At 3:00, if you feel daring and in the mood to participate or just want to watch, members of Socorro Community Theater will host theater games for teens and adults. The Desert Roses Repertory Dance Company will teach you how to hip-hop at a dance workshop at 4:30, you can learn to belly dance at 5:45 with the Et Alia Belly Dance Troupe, or join Andrea Begay and Orlando at 7pm for a salsa dance workshop.
Saturday night at 7:30 and again Sunday afternoon at 3 at the Macey Center, theater lovers can see a performance of local author George Terrell’s “Wings,” an original musical directed by Eileen Comstock. Based on Mark Twain’s “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven,” it’s the story of “Stormy,” who finds his way from the ‘wrong’ entry point to heaven to his proper department, finds out that wings aren’t quite what he thought they were, and finally learns what a body has to do to get into the ‘groovy’ part of heaven.
And, as if all of this were not enough, you could venture west to Alamo Indian Days, go north to the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge for their annual open house or head to the Socorro Public Friends of the Library Book and Bake sale from 9 to 3 at Finley gym.
It’s definitely a weekend to celebrate and Socorro is just the place to do it!
<center><img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/richard_lemvo.jpg border=1 align=center> <br><font size=2 face="Arial Narrow">Richard Lemvo will perform at Macey Center on Friday October 12</font></center><br>
<img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/IMG_3246_web.jpg border=1 align=left hspace=5>Socorro, New Mexico: If you’re in need of something fun, something tasty, something entertaining, even something educational, consider visiting Socorro the weekend of Oct. 12 and 13. You’ll find stars (both the celebrity and the heavenly kind), dancing (salsa! Belly dancing! Hip-hop! Jazz!), spirits (Wine! Beer! Ghosts!), fashion (!) and art, performance and performance art!
The fun kicks off Friday night with Tech’s Club Macey social hour-and-salsa-dance-class at the Macey Center at 5:00 followed at 7:30 by the award-winning Afro-Cuban dance band Ricardo Lemvo y Makina Loca sponsored by the New Mexico Tech Performing Arts Series (www.nmtpas.org (http://www.nmtpas.org/)). More music venues follow and if you keep your eyes open, you may find a tour of ghostly haunts around town.
<img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/IMG_3242_web.jpg border=1 align=right hspace=5>Or, if you’re more interested in the stars above, listen to former StarDate Magazine editor Jim Kanipe at 7pm at Tech’s Workman Center, followed by stargazing with the NMT Astronomy Club at the Etscorn Campus Observatory. This is all part of Socorro’s Annual Enchanted Skies Star Party (www.socorro-nm.com/starparty/ (http://www.socorro-nm.com/starparty/)).
Saturday morning dawns bright and early with a celebration of fresh local produce at the Socorro Farmers Market on the plaza beginning at 8:00. At 9:30, at the Garcia Opera House, Nachin Bone, Sarracino Middle School art eacher, will host an art/performance project called Cultural Heritage Trees featuring student and community-created tree ornaments expressing our community’s diverse cultures.
At noon....it’s Soccorro Fest! “This is our fifth year, and it just keeps getting better and better,” Deborah Dean, City of Socorro Tourism Director said. “We’ll have music and dance performances on two stages on the plaza, theater and workshops at the Garcia Opera house and a showcase of artisans and beer and wine vendors–a little something for everyone.” Socorro Fest is sponsored by the City of Socorro with lots of help from volunteers.
“We have an amazing lineup of musicians and performers this year,” said Ronna Kalish, director of the New Mexico Tech Performing Arts Series. “There are all the perennial local favorites playing everything from folk to country to rock, blues, Spanish and bluegrass music. We’ll get to see a couple of new bands from out-of-town, and Remedy, Socorro’s most in demand variety band, will play Saturday night.”
<img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/IMG_3247_web.jpg border=1 align=left hspace=5><img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/IMG_3227_web.jpg border=1 align=right hspace=5>The Courthouse stage will feature The Rudy Boy Experiment playing what has been described as “jazzy funk style of swingin’ dirty blues - with that true rock and roll feel.” Though the band hails from Albuquerque, Rudy Jaramillo has roots and relatives in Magdalena. Pat “Guitar Slim” Chase and his classic blues rock band from El Paso will be performing on the Plaza Stage, with Remedy closing out the evening.
While enjoying the music you can stroll through the plaza admiring tie-dye clothing, pottery, jewelry, tole painting, stained glass, boutique soaps and balms, rosaries and statues, toys and puppets, honey and everything lavender.
When you need a little refreshment, there will be posole and chile stew, frybread and Indian tacos, burritos and frito pies, brisket and brats, turkey legs and philly steak, burgers and roasted corn.
If you then need liquid refreshment, you are in for another treat. Wine vendors this year include the St. Clair Winery of Deming, Tierra Encantada Winery of Bernalillo and the Guadalupe Vineyards of San Fidel. The Wellhead Brewery from Artesia and Socorro’s own Socorro Springs Brewing Company will
have their micro-brews available for tasting and purchase.
<img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/IMG_3252_web.jpg border=1 align=left hspace=5>The Garcia Opera House is the site for learning new things, starting with a teaser for Saturday night’s performance of “Wings” at noon. At 1:30 kids can participate in a fashion show produced and directed by Skye Fort and Chaya Barham. There will be clothes to pick from, or you can bring your own.
<img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/IMG_3230_web.jpg border=1 align=right hspace=5>At 3:00, if you feel daring and in the mood to participate or just want to watch, members of Socorro Community Theater will host theater games for teens and adults. The Desert Roses Repertory Dance Company will teach you how to hip-hop at a dance workshop at 4:30, you can learn to belly dance at 5:45 with the Et Alia Belly Dance Troupe, or join Andrea Begay and Orlando at 7pm for a salsa dance workshop.
Saturday night at 7:30 and again Sunday afternoon at 3 at the Macey Center, theater lovers can see a performance of local author George Terrell’s “Wings,” an original musical directed by Eileen Comstock. Based on Mark Twain’s “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven,” it’s the story of “Stormy,” who finds his way from the ‘wrong’ entry point to heaven to his proper department, finds out that wings aren’t quite what he thought they were, and finally learns what a body has to do to get into the ‘groovy’ part of heaven.
And, as if all of this were not enough, you could venture west to Alamo Indian Days, go north to the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge for their annual open house or head to the Socorro Public Friends of the Library Book and Bake sale from 9 to 3 at Finley gym.
It’s definitely a weekend to celebrate and Socorro is just the place to do it!