What's Old is New Again

INGREDIENTS

1 lb. snapper fillets, skin off, diced small

6 oz. fresh lemon juice

6 oz. fresh lime juice

Garnishes:

2 oz. cucumber, peeled, seeded and diced small

1 oz. red onion, diced small

2 TBL. fresh cilantro, chopped

1 ea. avocado, diced small

1 ea. jalapeno, minced

1 oz. fresh lime juice

1 oz. fresh orange juice

METHOD:

- Marinate diced snapper in the fresh juices for about 3 hours under refrigeration, until cooked thru and fish appears white in color.

- Rinse off gently with cold water and toss the garnishes of choice with the fish (see above).

- Serve on or with tostadas or corn chips         

Known for the loyal two-steppers who follow her from gig to gig, Faber reports that her loyal band has grown even more loyal by supporting a marriage:  Dave Devlin (lap steel, pedal steel, dobro, mandolin and telecaster) to Laura Leach, who took over from her on upright bass. It’s the first time she can recall a married couple working out for a band, she laughs.

A yodeler and rhythm guitarist, Faber plays Western Swing, rockabilly, and retro country that’s great for dancing and not tired radio fare, she says. The Seattle native won Best Country CD at the New Mexico Music Awards in 2013 and is a favorite at cowgirl venues around town. She especially enjoys La Fiesta Lounge for the staff. “It feels like home to me to see the same folks I’ve been working with for years,” she says. Plus, the renovated stage has put some distance between her and the tables where someone would inevitably yell to be heard, right into her microphone and out through the speakers. “I am very pleased about that!” she says.

Catch Cathy Faber and her band at Fiesta Lounge on June 17 and 18, and the next day at Taos Mesa Brewing in Taos, where she is sure to attract her full fan base of “dancin’ fools.” 

Warm up your walking shoes on the Edible Art Tour (June 10-11) or very local Fantase Fest (June 18) before the season of big art fairs kicks in. Art Santa Fe brings contemporary galleries from around the world for a four-day juried show for art collectors at the Santa Fe Convention Center (July 7-10). 

The biggest event of its kind and bigger every year (not to mention affordable), the International Folk Art Market brings hundreds of artisans from around the world to transform Museum Hill into a colorful bazaar, with an always sold-out opening-night party on Friday (July 8-10).

The Rodeo de Santa Fe (June 22-25) offers more western entertainment, starting with the popular annual parade past the Plaza (June 18).

But rodeo is not the only horse sport in New Mexico! HIPICO Santa Fe hosts equestrian events this summer at the horse park out by the airport, including the A-rated Summer Series of hunter-jumper competition culminating in the Grand Prix (July 27-Aug. 14).

Pancakes on the Plaza is an Independence Day tradition now in its 41st year. And if your vacation is keeping you as overbooked as work, take an hour to sit quietly with others as part of City of Silence at the Railyard Park Rose Garden Ramada every Wednesday at 6 p.m. There’s also the city’s annual golf championship, now at three different courses (July 21-23).

Map geeks take note: The Chavez History Library at the history museum hosts the Map Mania Symposium (June 24-25), including a day of cartographic discussion.

If your passions lean more toward the Founding Fathers, the Palace Press is creating a commemorative version of the Declaration of Independence to take home, with a reading of the text in the museum lobby as part of Free First Friday (July 1). 

Buy artwork from budding young artists whose parents are in the Palace of the Governors’ portal program, in the Palace Courtyard, during the Young Native Artists Summer Show and Sale (July 2-3). El Rancho de las Golondrinas’ summer calendar of events includes a fiber arts fair (June 4), herb and lavender festival (June 18), Santa Fe Wine Festival (July 3), and a celebration of Mexico (July 6). 

And tattoo anthropologist Lars Krutak speaks at the International Folk Art Museum as part of the exhibition Sacred Realm (June 5). ( Photo at right)

Music & Performance

At the Railyard summer music series, you can listen for free to Orgone (June 18) and the Johnny Cash tribute band from San Diego known as Cash’d Out (July 23) until Santa Fe Bandstand season starts up July 5 and opens with Lone Piñon (photo at right), bringing you free concerts to the Plaza almost every night through August, with La Fonda as one of its sponsors. 

​Opera season opens July 1 with great fanfare, including three days of festivities and two weekend operas. That’s where you’ll be getting your classical music fix this summer, unless it’s at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival (July 17-Aug. 22), which opens with a four-course wine dinner and performances at La Posada de Santa Fe (July 19). There’s also Santa Fe Desert Chorale’s 34th annual Summer Festival, with two world premieres by leading American composers and a series of concerts in different locations, including an all-night vigil at churches in Albuquerque and Santa Fe (July 19-Aug. 14). 

Otherwise, the musical scene is all popular and contemporary, including, at the Lensic, Leon Russell (June 4) and five-time Grammy Award winner Robert Cray Band (June 14).

Don’t forget the Lensic’s India-themed fundraising gala on June 18 and Italian film fest, CineFesta Italia, June 2-4. On Father’s Day (June 19), classic blues guitarist John Mayall plays the Bridge at Santa Fe Brewing Company (formerly Sol), after veteran Cuban band Los Van Van (June 15). At Meow Wolf, you can catch Lucky Dragons (June 4), and SXSW award-winners The Bright Light Social Hour (July 29). Over the Rhine comes to Center Stage (July 30). And at GiG Performance Space, Leni Stern African Trio (June 17) is followed by Little Tybee (June 28) from Atlanta.