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Two Chambered Heart

March 6 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

$15 – $20

Two Chambered Heart

Reading with Music; set in ancient times for the present day

Thursday March 6, 2025
Time: 7:00pm    Doors: 6:30pm     
Ages: 21+ without parent or guardian     Price: $15 advance | $20 day of show (plus service charges)
Tumbleroot is a mostly-standing-room venue. Limited seating available.

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Two Chambered Heart: a Novella by Gail Springer with the Nacha Mendez Band, Polly Ferber, Melanie Monsour, and Sitara Schauer

GAIL SPRINGER has performed as a singer, dancer, actress, and pianist since the age of five, when she appeared on Albuquerque’s Dick Bills TV Show. She received music training at Chicago’s Sherwood Music School and music degrees at University of New Mexico. She is an Estill Voice Master Teacher and taught at the College of Santa Fe where she created one of the first undergraduate BFA Music Theatre programs in the country. While teaching and directing plays and musicals at the Greer Garson Theatre for 36 years, Gail soloed with Desert Chorale’s Desert Voices, Kevin Zoernig, Canticum Novum, Pro Musica, Santa Fe Symphony, ShowTime Santa Fe, and Serenata of Santa Fe, with whom she recorded Ron Strauss’ Five Pieces of the Puzzle & Arabesco and Tangos De Santa Fe & Matapolvos. Her versatile voice can also be heard on the Bruce Odland Big Band LP, Crossover. Currently she performs with her musician husband, Peter Springer, in the contemporary acoustic rock trio, MONSOON, and has published two works of fiction, Two Chambered Heart: A Novella, and Escape from Urfa.

NACHA MENDEZ grew up in the tiny border town of La Union, in southern New  Mexico, where she began singing and playing the guitar at an early age.   She learned traditional Ranchera canción from her grandmother and  performed in border towns near El Paso with her cousins, the Black  Brothers, sons of ex-Mothers of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black. She is an enrolled member of the Chihene Nde Nation of New Mexico. She  went on to study classical voice and electronic music at New Mexico  State University before moving to New York City, where she studied  flamenco guitar with Manuel Granados of the Music Conservatory of  Barcelona, Spain.  In the early ’90s, she was a principal singer in  Robert Ashley’s opera company, touring Europe and Japan and translated  the libretto for Ashley’s opera Now Eleanor’s Idea.  She performed  trouser roles in three of his operas throughout Japan, at the Avignon  Music Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Strasbourg, France, Graz,  Austria, and Berlin.

Nacha has also collaborated with  celebrated composer Steve Peters who produced “Bodega de Amor” and  “Volando.” “My Burning Skin to Sleep,” a song on the 2004 CD release  Shelter by Steve Peters and distributed by the Cold Blue Label features  the voice of Nacha Mendez.  Her recordings include “Slowly Rising” (as  Dueto Le Momo), and “Blue Silence,” “Bodega de Amor,” and “Volando” (as  Nacha Mendez).  Since 1990, she has worked on several projects with  Steve Peters and has collaborated with composer Raven Chacon, writer Melody Sumner Carnahan, visual artist Harmony Hammond, filmmaker Catherine Gund, and Producer/Director Daresha Kyi.

POLLY TAPIA FERBER is a percussionist, music educator, performer, and recording artist who specializes in hand percussion from the Middle East, Turkey, North Africa, the Balkans, and Spanish Andalusia. She maintains an active performing and recording schedule in the U.S. with the Los Angeles-based Middle Eastern rock band Rubi Ate the Fig, Dolunay NYC, the Santa Fe-based Nacha Mendez Band, and collaborations with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale.

MELANIE MONSOUR, a Santa Fe based pianist/composer, was adjunct professor in the Contemporary Music Program at College of SantaFe/SFUAD where she first began collaborating with Polly Tapia Ferber. She has several recordings of original solo piano and has given concerts around the world specializing in the enigmatic music of Gurdjieff/deHartmann.

SITARA SCHAUER is an interdisciplinary multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, teacher and performer. She has orchestrated numerous compositions for theatre, operas, festivals, art installations, schools and film. Sitara’s primary creative expression is her band, Rumelia Collective. This traditional and contemporary ensemble presents the exotic and delightful sounds of the Balkans. Playing together for over a decade, Rumelia’s repertoire is derived from traditional and popular tunes of Albania, Turkey, Greece, Macedonia and Bulgaria.

Details

Date:
March 6
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cost:
$15 – $20
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Venue

Agua Fria
2791 Agua Fria St
Santa Fe, NM 87507 United States
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