What is Art + Sol?

Traditionally thought of as a summer destination for music, opera, and visual arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico is also home to a world-class performing arts and culture scene throughout the winter months.

Art + Sol is a nine-day festival celebrating all that makes Santa Fe a fabulous winter destination. Enjoy daytime and evening shows across town, experience world-class culinary offerings, take in stunning exhibitions at galleries and museums, and attend performances highlighting the very best of Santa Fe. From rock to jazz, from comedy to classical music, join the Art + Sol Festival for a remarkable winter experience in the City Different.

Tickets may be purchased directly from each Art + Sol Festival participant by clicking the link in the event listings below. Proceeds go directly to each organization. Ticket prices range from free to $115, depending on which performance you select. Visit each organization’s website to discover discounts and free ticket offers for students and families. Contact [email protected] if you’re interested in bringing a group or exploring group discounts.

Schedule:

February 11, 2023

10:30 am - 11:30 am: Chatter

Donnachy Dennehy – Bulb for Piano Trio
L.v. Beethoven – Piano Trio “Ghost” op 70 no 1
David Felberg, violin
Felix Fan, cello
Luke Gullickson, piano

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Location: SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501.

12:00 pm - 4:00 pm: SweetART Serenade on Canyon Road

The SweetART Serenade, a brand-new Canyon Road trunk show and gallery walk, will feature the beautiful galleries, studios, jewelers, and businesses of Canyon Road in celebration of Valentine’s Day.

Nestled into the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Canyon Road is a magical half-mile in the Historic District of Santa Fe. Stroll this picturesque trail to experience fine art, great shopping, and exquisite dining any day of the week or make plans to attend one of our very special annual events.

See a complete list of Canyon Road Galleries and Businesses here.

Location: Canyon Road

February 12, 2023

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Dover String Quartet

Santa Fe Pro Musica presents The Dover String Quartet, which was formed while the members were students at the Curtis Institute of Music. Its name pays tribute to Dover Beach by fellow Curtis alumnus Samuel Barber, a work that uses the sea as a metaphor for timelessness.

MASON BATES Suite for String Quartet
GEORGE WALKER Quartet No. 1
DVO?ÁK Quartet No. 10 in E-Flat Major,
Op. 51, “Slavonic”

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Location: Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501.

February 13, 2023

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm: Welcome Reception hosted by Bishops Lodge

Join the festivities as we toast the inaugural Art + Sol Santa Fe Winter Arts Festival in the beautiful setting and warm hospitality of the historic and iconic Bishop’s Lodge. Enjoy the company of Santa Fe’s arts and cultural leaders as well as entertainment, hors d’oeuvres, and one free drink with your ticket purchase.

Tickets are $20 and may be purchased here.

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Location: Bishop’s Lodge, 1297 Bishop's Lodge Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87506

7:30 pm - 8:30 pm: THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS: A sneak-peek into Santa Fe Playhouse’s 2023 Season

Be one of the first to experience a look inside Santa Fe Playhouse’s 2023 season. Featuring live performances and video cameos from our exhilarating, upcoming productions. This is a unique opportunity to meet and mingle with the artists shaping your theatrical experience in 2023.

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THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS is presented by the Santa Fe Playhouse as part of the inaugural Art + Sol Santa Fe Winter Arts Festival.

Tickets are free of charge, reservations required. Click here to reserve.

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Location: Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E Devargas, Santa Fe, NM 87501.

February 14, 2023

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm: LOVE *****: A Valentine’s Stand-Up Comedy Show

You’re burnt out on dating apps, aren’t you? Are you recently single or perpetually single? What if you just want a break from the commercialization of Valentine’s Day? We have a stand-up comedy show just for you!
Join “a little sweet, and a little surly” (Forbes) Denver-based comedian Christie Buchele (Viceland, NBC) as she shares stories about her dating life. She will be joined by Albuquerque’s Buck D (Stand-Up Live PHX, Comedy Store). Hosted by Isabel Madley (#2 Best Comic, Santa Fe Reporter).

LOVE ***** is co-presented by CloudTop and the Santa Fe Playhouse as part of the inaugural Art + Sol Santa Fe Winter Arts Festival

Tickets, $30, available for purchase here.

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Location: Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E Devargas, Santa Fe, NM 87501

February 15, 2023

7:30pm - 9:00pm: Lensic Presents: International Guitar Night

New Mexico favorite returns to Santa Fe during its 23rd year of touring. The lineup includes Canadian jazz guitarist and vocalist, and recipient of the 2021 Juno (Canadian Grammy) for Jazz Album Of The Year JOCELYN GOULD. She will be joined by Flamenco master JESUS GUERRERO from Spain; contemporary classical guitarist STEPHANIE JONES, and progressive steel-string guitarist OLLI SOIKKELI from Finland.

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Location: Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501.

February 16, 2023

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm: Susan Graham and the Music from Copland House Ensemble

Performance Santa Fe presents Susan Graham, mezzo soprano, and the Music from Copland House Ensemble

A Standing Witness is a monumental new collaboration between Grammy Award-winning composer Richard Danielpour and Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, created especially for the incomparable mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and the celebrated Music from Copland House Ensemble. The soaring music and probing poetry of this epic cycle for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble is a sweeping retrospective tracing enormous social, cultural, technological, and political upheavals in the U.S. since the watershed year of 1968. Rapturously received in premiere performances at the Kennedy Center, the University of Chicago, and elsewhere around the U.S., there is no more timely or provocative work for this pivotal moment in American history.

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Location: Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501

February 17, 2023

7:00pm - 8:00pm: Drummin’ Man: The Gene Krupa Story

Ten years ago marked a historic milestone for jazz in Northern New Mexico. The Santa Fe Music Collective was born from an idea who’s mission was to bring the highest quality jazz to Santa Fe. That same year, I accepted the challenge by “Stars Never Fade Productions” to play the leading role of Gene Krupa in their production of Drummin’ Man at the Santa Fe Playhouse. The show was a highly acclaimed success ……. “mission accomplished”. In 2023, we are on track to present 20 plus concerts in three separate venues, hosting some of the finest world class musicians in jazz today. We start 2023 with our participation in the first annual “Art + Sol” Winter Festival along with the most prestigious music presenters in our beautiful cultural capital of the southwest. On February 17th, SFMC will be celebrating our tenth anniversary with the revival of “Drummin’ Man” at SITE Santa Fe. We will be hosting a nine piece band of New Mexico’s finest, playing the Quincy Jones arrangements that helped propel the Gene Krupa Band to national fame in the 1940’s. Come help us celebrate Jazz history right here in Santa Fe as we once again reach our milestone.

7:00pm (Doors at 6:30pm)

$30 (SFMC and SITE Members)
$35 (Non-Members)
TICKETS ON-LINE UNTIL 12pm – Friday, February 17th

Tickets Available at the Door

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Location: SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501.

February 18, 2023

10:00 am - 12:00 pm: Education Showcase

Join us as we showcase young dancers and musicians from several of Santa Fe’s youth arts organizations, including the Santa Fe Youth Symphony, the Nacha Mendez Music Scholarship, Moving Arts Española, National Dance Institute New Mexico, and the New Mexico School for the Arts.

Education and Community Engagement:

We believe the arts are essential. They teach students valuable lessons, like: practice makes perfect, small differences can have large effects, collaboration leads to creativity. The arts create multiple pathways to problem solving, and they teach that all problems have more than one solution.

Research shown the benefits of arts education on performance and culture—especially student motivation, attitudes, and attendance. Numerous reports discuss the ways that increased access and involvement in arts education encourage students to stay in school, excel in school, succeed in life, and do well later in life at work.

And yet, despite the impressive benefits of arts access and education, not all people have access to these quality experiences.

Performing arts organizations across New Mexico (many of which are participating in Art + Sol) work every day to enrich the lives of our residents. Many companies offer free tickets for students or free family performances. Others offer 1:1 mentorship free of charge. Across Santa Fe, one can always find free, quality arts programming intended to engage community members.

Each of us has more work to do. The Art + Sol Festival is committed to advancing the values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and access for all Santa Feans. We will work to expand access for Festival offerings. We invite all community members to participate in the Festival and let us know how we can do better.

Moving Arts Española: Moving Arts Española (MAE) provides high quality, affordable performing and visual arts education and free nutritional and academic support for children and youth ages 3-18.  

Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association: Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association’s Mission is to inspire and engage the youth of Northern New Mexico’s multicultural communities through excellent music education, the guidance of music professionals, and performance opportunities from small ensemble to full orchestra in Jazz, Mariachi and Orchestra.

Nacha Mendez Music Scholarship for New Mexican Girls of Color: Music is a powerful catalyst for personal growth. While it is an essential part of life for everyone, I believe music is particularly potent for young women and girls of color. Nacha’s mission is to encourage and promote the art of instrumental and vocal performance in girls, ages 8-15, in the state of New Mexico.

New Mexico School for the Arts: New Mexico School for the Arts (NMSA), based in Santa Fe, is the only four-year, statewide, public high school serving artist-scholars across New Mexico with a rigorous, award-winning pre-professional arts and academics program.

Location: New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501

10:00pm - 11:00pm: DeVotchKa at Meow Wolf

A cross-pollination of numerous influences, including cabaret, spaghetti Westerns, norteño, punk, and the immigrant dance music of Eastern Europe, Colorado-based quartet DeVotchKa, formed in Denver by multi-instrumentalists Nick Urata (vocals, guitar, trumpet),

Tom Hagerman (violin, accordion), Jeanie Schroder (sousaphone, bass) and percussionist Shawn King, emerged as unlikely indie heroes in the mid-2000s infusing modern indie music with a global flavor.

They found widespread success in 2006 with their Grammy-nominated soundtrack to the hit indie film Little Miss Sunshine. Signing with revered indie, Anti-, the band delivered A Mad and Faithful Telling in early 2008, reaching the number nine slot on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. A lengthy world tour followed, including stops at major festivals like Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and Bumbershoot. After doing more soundtrack work, this time for the 2009 comedy I Love You Phillip Morris, the group returned to the studio for 2011’s moody and triumphant 100 Lovers. Embarking on another world tour, they collaborated with the Colorado Symphony on the 2012 concert album Live with the Colorado Symphony. Over the next several years, Urata became increasingly involved in his own film composition career, scoring movies like Crazy Stupid Love, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Paddington, and the Netflix series A Series of Unfortunate Events. Meanwhile, the band regrouped for a lengthy recording session, eventually returning in 2018 with their sixth album, This Night Falls Forever, this time via Concord Records.

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Location: Meow Wolf, 1352 Rufina Cir, Santa Fe, NM 87507.

February 19, 2023

4:00pm - 5:30pm: O Roméo, Roméo!

The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus presents a tribute to Valentine’s Day with one of Hector Berlioz’ finest and most original works, Roméo et Juliette. This outstanding symphonie dramatique celebrates Maestro Guillermo Figueroa’s 70th birthday and seventh incredible season with The Santa Fe Symphony—and you are invited! Under the baton of Maestro Figueroa, O’ Roméo, Roméo includes the full Orchestra and Chorus, plus a hand-selected cast of renowned soloists, with choral direction by Carmen Flórez-Mansi.

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Location: Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501

Date: February 11 - 19, 2023

Location: Various Venues in  Santa Fe, NM 87501.

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