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Agroup of Texas singer-songwriters known for hosting an annual music festival in Red River is making its Santa Fe debut with a concert Friday.
A few days before the start of the eighth annual festival, which goes from Jan. 24-26, the The Red River Songwriters will perform in the live recording room at The Kitchen Sink Studio. The studio can hold about 50 people, according to founder and Santa Fe local legend Jono Manson. The concert will also be recorded for the artists. Many of the musicians have impressive credits under their belts, from Susan Gibson — writer of the Dixie Chicks hit “Wide Open Spaces — to Josh Grider, a Las Cruces native whose country album “Good People” was released earlier this year. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. at Kitchen Sink, 528 Jose St., and the show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 and are available at the kitchensinkstudio.com. One hundred percent of the proceeds goes back to the artists.
MAGNOLIA MADNESS: Before his current venture as owner of Violet Crown Cinemas, Bill Banowsky’s claim to fame was as a founder of popular independent and foreign film distributor Magnolia Pictures. A movie series paying homage to those roots, featuring eight Magnolia films released over more than a decade, starts Monday and continues with a screening every Monday until April. Magnolia Mondays at Violet Crown’s Railyard location starts with the 2018 Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary “RBG.” Each film will be shown two weeks in a row. Other films on the schedule include 2017’s Oscar-nominated documentary “I Am Not Your Negro”; 2010’s Italian romance “I Am Love”; 2011’s “Melancholia” starring Kirsten Dunst and Kiefer Sutherland; “Man on Wire,” a 2008 doc about the 1974 high-wire walk between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers; the 2008 Swedish horror movie “Let the Right One In”; the 2012 documentary “Jiro Dreams of Sushi”; and the 2007 South Korean thriller “The Host.” Tickets are $5. For a full schedule and to purchase tickets, go to santafe. violetcrown.com.
JUST THE WAY YOU LIKE IT: The first production of 2019 for Santa Fe’s youth Shakespeare troupe is the playwright’s romantic comedy “As You Like It.” The play, first staged in 1603, follows Rosalind, who is exiled from France by her uncle who took over the throne from her father, Duke Senior. Rosalind and her cousin escape to the Forest of Arden, where her father — also banished by Duke Frederick — now lives among his followers. When there, Rosalind disguises herself as a man. She is also in love with Orlando, who’s also run off to the forest due to his own conflict with his brother, Oliver. The Upstart Crows’ performances will be at El Museo Cultural, 555 Camino de la Familia, starting tonight and continuing throughout this weekend and next weekend. The shows will rotate between three different casts. Friday and Saturday shows are at 7 p.m., and Sundays’ are at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 per person; they can be purchased at the door or at brownpapertickets.com.