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Afie Jurvanen isn’t from the Bahamas. He’s a Finnish-Canadian from Barrie - a working class town in rural Ontario. But his chosen epithet is fitting. Since 2009, he’s been making music under the name Bahamas - writing songs about sunsets, love affairs, and making out with crooked smiles. Through simple arrangements, he charts an escape route from the snow belt to the coral reefs.

As the studio follow-up to 2020’s Sad Hunk — an album beloved by the Juno Awards and Ted Lasso music supervisors alike — Bahamas’ sixth full-length, BOOTCUT, sees Jurvanen emerge from the pandemic fog to fully embrace the joys of IRL interaction and the ability to travel freely once again. Produced by Grammy-Nominated Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Jack Johnson, Peach Pit, Alvvays) and Dan Knobler (Allison Russell, Rodney Crowell), BOOTCUT was recorded in Nashville’s Sound Emporium. It features Jurvanen backed by a veritable Murderer’s Row of Music City pros, including guitar legend (and current Eagle) Vince Gill, pedal-steel maestro Russ Pahl (Kenny Rogers, Don Williams, Kacey Musgraves), bassist Dave Roe (Sturgill Simpson, Dwight Yoakam, Johnny Cash), harmonica player Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson), and bluegrass legend Sam Bush. So yes, you could call this Bahamas’ “country” album, full of songs rooted in familiar Nashville topics like love, death, and automotive vehicles, and topped with extra dollops of teary twang, mandolin-pluckin’, and saloon-door-swinging rhythm. But BOOTCUT isn’t simply a Bahamas interpretation of country music, it’s a country-music interpretation of Bahamas that puts a sepia-toned spin on Jurvanen’s signature moves using a genre-less blend of Americana, Bluegrass, and all that Bahamas has been known to embody: the funky finesse, the bizarro guitar solos that sound like they’re beaming in from Mars, and the ever-so-sly storytelling that filters timeless themes through a distinctly modern lens.

Actors Studio 66 opens its third season with Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph.

This is not your typical love story: Doug (Jeff Jung) and Kayleen (Robyn Casper) meet at the nurse’s office in elementary school. Over the next thirty years these scar crossed lovers meet again and again brought together by injury heartbreak and their own self-destructive tendencies. Directed by Stephanie Grilo.

Performances: Sep 29 – Oct 15 2023 Thu – Sat 7:30pm/Sun 2:00pm
Preview: Sep 28 Thu 7:30pm
PWYW: Oct 5 Thu 7:30pm
Understudy Performance: Oct 12 Thu 7:30pm

Additional information & tickets at www.actorsstudio66.org

Mohammed El-Kurd, poet, activist, and journalist, is from Sheik Jarrar in East Jerusalem. He is the Palestinian correspondent for The Nation and has been a frequent guest on Democracy Now, CNN and MSNBC. Haymarket Books has recently published his first book of poetry, RIFQUA, which has already received international acclaim. Please join us for his insightful view of the current situation in Israel and Palestine.

Actors Studio 66 opens its third season with Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph.

This is not your typical love story: Doug (Jeff Jung) and Kayleen (Robyn Casper) meet at the nurse’s office in elementary school. Over the next thirty years these scar crossed lovers meet again and again brought together by injury heartbreak and their own self-destructive tendencies. Directed by Stephanie Grilo.

Performances: Sep 29 – Oct 15 2023 Thu – Sat 7:30pm/Sun 2:00pm
Preview: Sep 28 Thu 7:30pm
PWYW: Oct 5 Thu 7:30pm
Understudy Performance: Oct 12 Thu 7:30pm

Additional information & tickets at www.actorsstudio66.org

Actors Studio 66 opens its third season with Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph.

This is not your typical love story: Doug (Jeff Jung) and Kayleen (Robyn Casper) meet at the nurse’s office in elementary school. Over the next thirty years these scar crossed lovers meet again and again brought together by injury heartbreak and their own self-destructive tendencies. Directed by Stephanie Grilo.

Performances: Sep 29 – Oct 15 2023 Thu – Sat 7:30pm/Sun 2:00pm
Preview: Sep 28 Thu 7:30pm
PWYW: Oct 5 Thu 7:30pm
Understudy Performance: Oct 12 Thu 7:30pm

Additional information & tickets at www.actorsstudio66.org

Actors Studio 66 opens its third season with Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph.

This is not your typical love story: Doug (Jeff Jung) and Kayleen (Robyn Casper) meet at the nurse’s office in elementary school. Over the next thirty years these scar crossed lovers meet again and again brought together by injury heartbreak and their own self-destructive tendencies. Directed by Stephanie Grilo.

Performances: Sep 29 – Oct 15 2023 Thu – Sat 7:30pm/Sun 2:00pm
Preview: Sep 28 Thu 7:30pm
PWYW: Oct 5 Thu 7:30pm
Understudy Performance: Oct 12 Thu 7:30pm

Additional information & tickets at www.actorsstudio66.org

Doug Montgomery brings his piano stylings to Rio Chama in the President's Room every Sunday.

Actors Studio 66 opens its third season with Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph.

This is not your typical love story: Doug (Jeff Jung) and Kayleen (Robyn Casper) meet at the nurse’s office in elementary school. Over the next thirty years these scar crossed lovers meet again and again brought together by injury heartbreak and their own self-destructive tendencies. Directed by Stephanie Grilo.

Performances: Sep 29 – Oct 15 2023 Thu – Sat 7:30pm/Sun 2:00pm
Preview: Sep 28 Thu 7:30pm
PWYW: Oct 5 Thu 7:30pm
Understudy Performance: Oct 12 Thu 7:30pm

Additional information & tickets at www.actorsstudio66.org

Actors Studio 66 opens its third season with Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph.

This is not your typical love story: Doug (Jeff Jung) and Kayleen (Robyn Casper) meet at the nurse’s office in elementary school. Over the next thirty years these scar crossed lovers meet again and again brought together by injury heartbreak and their own self-destructive tendencies. Directed by Stephanie Grilo.

Performances: Sep 29 – Oct 15 2023 Thu – Sat 7:30pm/Sun 2:00pm
Preview: Sep 28 Thu 7:30pm
PWYW: Oct 5 Thu 7:30pm
Understudy Performance: Oct 12 Thu 7:30pm

Additional information & tickets at www.actorsstudio66.org

The 40th annual Mountain and Valley Wool Festival will be Saturday Oct 7th from 9-5 & Sunday Oct 8th from 9-4 in at the Santa Fe County Fairgrounds, Santa Fe, NM. A Fiber Market featuring vendors, artists, and craftspeople offering a variety of fiber, yarn, equipment, finished items and much more! Spinning contests, silent auction, fiber arts and sheep shearing demonstrations, food vendors, regional musicians. The festival is free and open to the public and sponsored by Mountain and Valley Wool Association. Visit MAVWAWoolFest.org for more info.
Workshops Thursday and Friday before the festival - visit our website for full schedule.