If you value songwriters the way I do, you'll be doubly happy to know that three of Americana's are coming our way.
Texans Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen are teaming up for a five-city tour of the Lone Star State and the Land of Enchantment, including a May 28 show at the Abraham Chavez Theatre.
There's no information on Ticketmaster yet, nor have I heard anything from theater officials about it, but it is listed on Keen's website.
Tickets, according to his site, will be $30 and $67.50. No on-sale date was listed.
Keen's been here a couple of times in the last three years, but this will be Lovett's first show here since 2009.
Thanks to reader Robert Arriaga for tipping me on the show, which he found on the Pollstar site.
Meanwhile, Robert Ardovino tells me that he's booked rising Americana singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle for an April 30 show at Ardovino's Desert Crossing in Sunland Park.
He was known as Steve Earle's son when his career started in earnest in the late 2000s, but the younger artist (his middle name is a tribute to another sublime writer, Townes Van Zandt) has come into his own with an original mix of folk, country, blues and rock.
He's released five albums, including last year's "Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me." Earle's "Harlem River Blues" won the Americana Music Award for song of the year in 2011.
Ticket prices are being finalized. They should go on sale April 3 at the restaurant.
In other concert news:
• Talk about rootsy. Whilst perusing said Pollstar site, I found the first two Music Under the Stars shows listed.
Brooklyn's eight-member Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, a horn-driven funk and soul band, will perform there June 30.
Mississippi roots rockers Rosco Bandana, a septet with two singers, will play the free series on Aug. 4.
Both are younger, hipper than some of the stuff you associate with MUTS, the Sunday night concert series on the grounds of the Chamizal National Memorial. It's curated by the city's Museums and Cultural Affairs Department.
The series opens June 9. No dates officially have been announced. They usually like to do that in one fell swoop.
• MCAD, by the way, has moved out of its digs in the old City Hall building and will open up in new ones on Monday, April 1 (no foolin').
Their new space is in the Union Plaza parking ramp, a storefront that faces Leon Street, between San Antonio and Overland (about a block from the Times' new offices).
Technically, their address is 400 W. San Antonio, Suite A.
New office hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday.
• That Smokey Robinson show at the Inn of the Mountain Gods show I told you about in January is on sale.
The Motown legend, whose old Miracles buddy Bobby Rogers died March 4, will perform at the casino and resort near Ruidoso at 8 p.m. May 23.
Tickets are $35, $40, $60, $70 and $85, plus service charges, on sale at the box office, Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com and 800.745.3000.
• Jazz vocalist Jackie Ryan, who has a 3.5-octave range, will follow a masterclass for UTEP music students with a concert at 7:30 p.m. April 30 at the school's Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall.
The daughter of an Irish father and an opera-singing Mexican mother, Ryan is noted for her stylistic and vocal range. The LA Times called her "extraordinary." She must be. She's worked with piano man Cyrus Chestnut, which says a lot.
She's touring new album "Listen Here."
Tickets for the Fox concert are $3.50, plus service charges, at the UTEP Ticket Center and Ticketmaster.
• Pollstar, by the way, also lists a June 20 Lowbrow Palace show by English electronic duo Simian Mobile Disco.
I don't have any confirmation or ticket info for that.
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