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Songs

2015 – Las Cruces – Bri Bagwell

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Post date February 8, 2016

Songs About New Mexico: Las Cruces

written and performed by Bri Bagwell (2015)

Bri Bagwell, 23, grew up on a large animal farm in Las Cruces, N.M., with older twin brothers. Throughout her childhood, she performed alongside her musician brothers as part of the trio Bri Bagwell and the Band of Brothers in a specially-built music studio on the side of their farmhouse. Bri is both excited and anxious to be in Nashville, singing her heart out to become CMT’s Next Superstar. Her musical influences include Miranda Lambert, Patty Griffin and Johnny Cash.

Lyrics

It’s really chilly in the spring, The state fair in the fall. Its cheering on our Aggies all year round’ when they play ball. It’s asking red or green. It’s downtown old Mesilla, Friday night la Posta, with friends and margiritas Its the Organ mountain that touch the painted sky No matter where I go, I know exactly where my heart is. It belongs forever in the city of three crosses You can find your reason, every season, to call it home. And the truth is I couldn’t be more proud to love Las Cruces The A up on that mountain. It’s the desert wind. Its the old high school rivalry and the sun news It’s festivals with wine, The history of the land, Its pecan trees and family along the Rio Grande It’s the sunset, that will make you never say, goodbye No matter where I go, I know exactly where my heart is. It belongs forever with the city of three crosses You find your reason, every season, to call it home. And the truth is, I couldn’t be more proud to love Las Cruces. You wanna see a place like nowhere else? Just come on down we’d love for you to see it for yourself No matter where I go, I know exactly where my heart is. It belongs forever with the city of three crosses You find your reason, every season to call it home. And the truth is, I couldn’t be more proud to love Las Cruces. Come on and see us in Las Cruces. I love Las Cruces.

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2014 – New Mexico – Wake Self

Post author By DCA WEB
Post date February 5, 2016

Songs About New Mexico: New Mexico

written and performed by Wake Self (2014)

From the Album, “Good Things Happen to Those Who Wake”

Packed with flawless production by PH8, Percy Wells and DJ Young Native, Martinez effortlessly ebbs and flows over each beat with the fluidity of a master. With atypical lyrical content ranging from yoga, energy cleansing and eating organic food to population control, wearing matching flannels with his older brother and social media dumbing down America, “Good Things Happen to Those Who Wake” is truly one-of-a-kind. He bravely addresses his happiness and depression as a child, self-mutilation, self-empowerment, and starting over.

Available on iTunes

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Video by Concept Flux

Produced by Kayohes

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2016 Governor’s Arts Award Nominations Sought

Post author By DCA WEB
Post date February 4, 2016

Nominations Sought for Annual Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts

2015 Governor’s Arts Award recipient, Dr. William Clark, musician, music educator.

Santa Fe – The New Mexico Arts Commission and New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, are accepting nominations for the 2016 Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts. The annual Governor’s Arts Awards are New Mexico’s highest and most prestigious artistic honors and are intended to celebrate lifetime achievement. Nominations can be submitted by individual New Mexico residents or representatives of businesses or organizations in New Mexico. Self-nominations are discouraged.Nominations for the awards may include individual living New Mexican artists working in any discipline who have demonstrated outstanding lifetime achievement; individuals who have consistently made significant or distinguished contributions to the arts in New Mexico; and businesses, nonprofits or foundations with sustained involvement in and support for the arts.

Nominations must be received by March 25, 2016. Nominations may be mailed or hand-delivered no later than Friday, March 25, to New Mexico Arts, Suite 270, 407 Galisteo St., Santa Fe, NM, 87501. Nomination forms are available online at www.nmarts.org or contact New Mexico Arts at 505-827-6490, 800-879-4278 (statewide), or email loie.fecteau@state.nm.us. The events for the 2016 Annual Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts are scheduled for fall of 2016 in Santa Fe.

Established in 1974 by Governor Bruce King and First Lady Alice King, the Governor’s Arts Awards celebrate the role that artists, craftspeople and arts supporters play in the economic and cultural life of New Mexico. Throughout its existence, a diverse and prestigious list of painters, weavers, sculptors, dancers, musicians, storytellers, poets, actors, playwrights and potters have been honored.

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New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, is the state arts agency. New Mexico Arts administers the state’s One Percent for Public Art program, awards grants to nonprofit organizations for arts and cultural programs in their communities across the state, and provides technical assistance and educational opportunities for organizations, artists, and arts educators throughout New Mexico.

Artists

Campbell, Stacy Dean

Post author By DCA WEB
Post date February 4, 2016

Stacy Dean Campbell ~ Carlsbad

Born July 27, 1967 in Carlsbad, New Mexico, Campbell is a singer-songwriter, author and TV host.

Campbell’s father was a gospel singer, touring with many notable quartets and along with other members of “The Singing Campbell Family” is an inductee in the Texas Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Raised by his mother in Oklahoma and New Mexico, Campbell began his music career singing in clubs around the Oklahoma University campus and soon moved to Nashville after his brother, Spencer, launched a professional career there. In 1991 he signed a contract to become a staff songwriter for Tree Music, and released his first album as a solo artist on Columbia Records in 1992. Three singles from his debut album hit the Billboard Country singles chart.

Campbell released a follow-up album on Columbia in 1995 and in 1999 he moved to the Warner Brothers label and shifted his focus to making an album that featured more of his songwriting. The result was “Ashes of Old Love” which reached the number 3 position on the Americana Music Chart. In 2000, Campbell and Dean Miller co-wrote Trace Adkins’ single “I’m Gonna Love You Anyway”.

In 2001 Campbell left the music business and returned to New Mexico where he began work on a writing project and in 2004, his first novel, Cottonwood, was published. The book is set in West Texas in 1937. Included with the book is a CD which features 12 original tracks inspired by the novel and composed by Campbell.

In recent years, Campbell has expanded his career and moved behind the scenes, working as a director-writer in music videos and short films. He is the creator of the Americana Travel series, Bronco Roads, a syndicated travel series that showcases life in the American West. Campbell serves as host.

Discography

Albums

Title	Album details
Lonesome Wins Again	Release date: July 14, 1992 Label: Columbia Records
Hurt City	Release date: July 25, 1995 Label: Columbia Records
Ashes of Old Love	Release date: April 13, 1999 Label: Warner Bros. Records

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions		Album
Year	Single	US Country	CAN Country	Album
1992	“Rosalee”	54	57	Lonesome Wins Again
	“Baby Don’t You Know”	65	80
	“Poor Man’s Rose”	55	42
1995	“Honey I Do”	61	—	Hurt City
1995	“Eight Feet High”	—	—	Hurt City
1999	“Makin’ Good Time”	—	—	Ashes of Old Love
“—” denotes releases that did not chart

Music videos

Year	Video	Director
1992	“Rosalee”	Piers Plowden
1992	“Poor Man’s Rose”	Roger Pistole
1995	“Eight Feet High”	Kiefer Sutherland
1999	“Makin’ Good Time”	David McClister

for more information: Stacy Dean Campbell on MySpace

source: wikipedia.org

Music Commission Adopts Strategic Plan

Post author By DCA WEB
Post date January 13, 2016

2016-2018 Strategic Plan Announced

The New Mexico Music Commission unanimously adopted their 2016-2018 Strategic Plan at their January 11, 2016 public meeting in Santa Fe. The purpose of the plan is to advance, in a carefully considered and coordinated manner, the opportunities for music to further benefit the state’s citizens, the economy and education goals as well as enabling New Mexico musicians working in all genres to have a healthy and thriving environment in which to create and be recognized for their efforts. This will be accomplished through a pattern of promotion, events, identifying and supplementing existing programs and through working with others in the state’s agencies and the private sector.

The Strategic Planning Committee has met on numerous occasions during 2015 to identify and categorize needs and opportunities to address them. The invited Public Comment, as well as feedback from an online public survey, has provided valuable insights and direction. Music Commissioners who participated in the plan’s development were NMMC Chairman David Schwartz, Committee Chair Joe Brown, Music Commission Administrator Thomas Goodrich, and Commissioners Dan Stoddard, Rick Huff, and Renato Estacio.

The methodology of implementation will involve subcommittees being formed and chaired by sitting Commissioners which will seek to bring on additional expertise to serve and advise in each of the steps and goals being pursued. An emphasis will be placed on tracking progress and success. A regular pattern of reportage by the subcommittees to the Commission will help to insure continued forward momentum.

Specific achievable goals included in the Strategic Plan are as follows:

Music Awareness & Advocacy (media partnerships, outreach, legislative support)
Music Industry Clearinghouse (statewide listing of events, venues, businesses)
Events & Activities (ART2ART, Cultural Collaborative, NMMC Signature Event)
Music Education (needs, coordination of sources, funding)
Collaboration & Partnerships (new projects, support of existing ones)
Development (project funding, scholarships)

Click here for a printable version of the Strategic Plan’s Goals and Objectives. Click here for a copy of the full Strategic Plan. Visit the Music Commission’s Web site for further details about the Strategic Plan and ways to become involved.

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Did you know?

Art and Cultural Industries, which include the state’s vibrant music industry, pump $5.6 billion into New Mexico’s economy. The state’s Arts and Cultural Industries support 76,758 jobs, 1 in 10 jobs statewide, with an impact of $2.2 billion in salaries.

~ University of New Mexico Bureau of Business & Economic Research Report ‘Building on the Past, Facing the Future: Renewing the Creative Economy of NM’ commissioned by the NM Department of Cultural Affairs.

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New Mexico Music Commission to Meet in Santa Fe

Post author By DCA WEB
Post date January 7, 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 7, 2016

Contact: David Schwartz, Chair, New Mexico Music Commission
Phone: 415-730-7305
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New Mexico Music Commission to Meet in Santa Fe
January 12, 2016

Santa Fe – The New Mexico Music Commission will hold a meeting on Tuesday, January 12, from 10 am to noon, in the Meem Auditorium at the Laboratory of Anthropology on Museum Hill off Old Santa Fe Trail, 710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM 87504. The meeting is open to the public.

Copies of the agenda will be available at least 72 hours prior to the meeting at the Commission’s website, www.newmexicomusic.org. Copies of the agenda also may be obtained by contacting New Mexico Arts at 505-827-6490; or statewide: 800-879-4278; or fax: 505-827-6043.

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The New Mexico Music Commission is an advisory body administratively attached to New Mexico Arts, the State Arts agency and a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs. The commission is made up of fifteen Governor-appointed volunteers who are specialists and leaders in the state’s diverse music industry. Their mission is to stimulate opportunities for musicians, music organizations, and other groups for activities or projects, to provide musical services and support to the state, to maintain and encourage musical excellence, and to promote awareness of and access to the music industry for all of the people of New Mexico.

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New Mexico Music Commission Meeting

Meem Auditorium, Laboratory of Anthropology
Museum Hill off Old Santa Fe Trail
710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM 87504
January 12, 2016, 10:00am—12:00pm

Agenda

•Welcome – David Schwartz
• Commission Introductions
• Public Introductions and Comments
• Approval of 11/10/15 meeting notes: ACTION
• Approval of the Agenda: ACTION

New Business

• Other new business

Old Business

• Strategic Plan discussion – Joe Brown/David Schwartz
• Approval of Strategic Plan Goals and Objectives: ACTION
• Choose subcommittees for Strategic Plan execution
• Other old business
• 2016 Commission Meeting dates: our next meeting is March 8, 2016 in Albuquerque
Albuquerque – tba: March 8, July 12, November 8
Santa Fe – Meem Auditorium at Museum Hill: May 10, September 13