The Santa Fe Plaza Concert Series invites Santa Feans and visitors alike to gather and enjoy great live music together in the 400-year-old historic heart of Santa Fe for FREE!

-Feel free to bring chairs to the concert.

-This is an alcohol-free event.

-Bring your water bottle as we will have water stations on site.

-There is a city parking garage on West San Francisco Street across from the Lensic.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

THE HEAVY HEAVY

The Heavy Heavy creates the kind of unfettered rock-and-roll that warps time and place, immediately pulling the audience into a euphoric fugue state with its sun-soaked atmosphere. Led by lifelong musicians Will Turner and Georgie Fuller, the Brighton, UK-based band began with a shared ambition of “making records that sound like our favorite records ever,” and soon arrived at a reverb-drenched collision of psychedelia and blues, acid rock, and sunshine pop. As revealed on their gloriously hazy debut EP Life and Life Only, The Heavy Heavy breathes an incandescent new energy into sounds from decades ago, transcending eras with a hypnotic ease.

In dreaming up Life and Life Only, The Heavy Heavy tapped into many of the musical touchstones that Turner describes as “deeply entrenched in our psyche”: Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac, the Rolling Stones, British Invasion pop acts like the Hollies, folk-blues duo Delaney & Bonnie, to name just a few. Pushing past the confines of reverential pastiche, the band imbues their output with a strangely charmed quality and heady authenticity undeniably tied to their status as artists on the fringe, both philosophically and geographically.

ALEX MARYOL

Raised on the music of Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, and Elvis Presley, Alex Maryol began songwriting during his teenage years while performing at smoky bars and coffee shops in downtown Santa Fe. He has since opened for acts including Etta James, Bo Diddley, Ani DiFranco, and Michael Franti.