ANDY FRASCO
Andy Frasco & The U.N. have long been high-flying DIY renegades known and loved for their kaleidoscopic musical fusion and onstage audacity.

Their recent show at Tumbleroot was a total blast, you won’t want to miss this! The band is shaking things up with L’Optimist (Fun Machine Records/Soundly), as its title suggests, Frasco’s most hopeful and enthusiastic collection thus far.

A testament to Frasco’s wide-ranging influences and boundless energy, his band’s sixth released studio album sees the magnetic frontman continuing to chart his path of self-exploration and personal discovery through increasingly introspective lyricism and musical adventure.

Songs like “Everything Bagel (Feat. Artikal Sound System)” and the deeply moving “Iowa Moon” touch on matters of the heart and mental health, emotional struggle and the sheer vulnerability of the human experience, all relayed through a wildly eclectic approach navigating funk, jazz, surf rock, blues, swing, gospel, reggae, exotica, and more with horn-blasted positivity and soulful power. “I fight depression every single day,” Frasco says, “and the only way to fight depression is through optimism. I try to write optimistic songs because optimism keeps me going. As humans, I don't think we're all that much different.

Everyone needs a little optimism to keep going.” Having spent the first part of his career making his bones as a fun-loving frontman with a self-proclaimed “gift of gab,” Frasco pushed his songwriting in more personal directions with 2020's Keep On Keepin’ On and 2022’s Wash, Rinse, Repeat.

ST.RANGE
St.Range aka the Strange, has been providing authentic, energy filled, rocknroll and high desert psychedelic music to the southwest for over a decade. St.Range has 4 full length albums and have toured extensively throughout the U.S.A.

Since their inception in 2008, they were awarded best new band in 2009 by the Santa Fe Reporter poll and have had success in the southwestern indie scene. St.Rrange has shared stages with Meat Puppets, The Wallflowers, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Dr.Dog, Deer Tick, SpaceFace, The Features, The Melodians, Ozomatli, Los Lonely Boys, Calexico, James McMurtry, John Kurzweg, Larry Mitchell, The Ton Tons, The Handsome Family, Junior Brown, Hundred Year Flood, Boris Mcutchon & The Saltlicks, Tree Motel and many more talented musicians from around the world.

Special thanks to our presenting sponsor:

BEST DAZE

All are invited to the Santa Fe Plaza to gather and enjoy great, FREE live music together in the 400-year-old historic heart of Santa Fe.
-Feel free to bring chairs to the concert.
-This is an alcohol-free event.
-Bring your water bottle—we will have water stations on site.
-There is a city parking garage on West San Francisco Street across from the Lensic.