SCHEDULE
3:00 doors open
4:00-5:15 Mary Gauthier on outdoor stage.
5:30-6:00 Melanie Zipin on indoor stage.
6:00-7:45 Nanci Griffith on outdoor stage.
8:00-8:30 Kim Treiber on indoor stage.
8:30-10:00 Hundred Year Flood on outdoor stage.

Special thanks to the NM Women's Foundation, Women's Health Services
and Indie 101.5 for supporting this event.

NANCI GRIFFITH

With a powerful gift for communicating unspoken intimacy and heartache through her tender voice and lilting, delicate phrasing, Nanci Griffith has emerged as one of the most popular and enduring singers of her generation. Three decades ago she emerged as a writer of depth and subtlety, crafting sparse uncluttered vignettes that revealed a wealth of emotion in even the most humble of characters and settings. And she has never-despite the many directions she's explored-abandoned the emotive core of her art. Her latest disc on Rounder Records, Ruby's Torch, is an intriguing experiment that brings together originals and a selection of material from some of her favorite writers.
We're jazzed that Nanci and her band are headlining the 1st annual Santa Fe Women's Celebration.

MARY GAUTHIER

We first cottoned onto Mary when we heard her classic Drag Queens in Limousines, back in 2001. Based on the intensity and pure craftsmanship of the songs, we immediately booked the unknown singer-songwriter for the Thirsty Ear Festival. She stole the show. Since then the Louisiana native has been signed to a big label, toured with the best songwriters (Willie Nelson and Guy Clark among them), and recorded Mercy Now-widely recognized as one of the best singer-songwriter records of the decade. Here's what the London Times has to say about her lovely, merciless narratives: "Her songs are a strange mix of half-spoken, half-sung talking blues: clever, often laugh-out-loud tales of addicts, victims and losers, of cheap motels and failed love affairs." We're proud to welcome Mary back.

HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD

One of Santa Fe's favorite bands, this Austin-based quartet plays southern-fried alt-country ranging from beautiful folk-rock ballads to gritty country punk to frenzied twang. Vocalist Felecia Ford — THE BIG VOICE — cut her teeth on the theatrical stage, as well as Austin's underground roots scene. Bill Palmer's songwriting and guitar playing is steeped in Brit-pop. The band's latest disc, Blue Angel, was released on Frogville Records in 2006.

MELANIE ZIPIN

Originally from Philly, singer-songwriter Melanie Zipin grew up to the confluence of Motown and folk. While traveling, she fell in love with the Southwest and made her home in a small town in New Mexico. Melanie found herself working at a unique bar where musicians from all over would play. She sat in with many, and performed impromptu songs here and there as well. In 1996, she formed a duo with bassist-guitarist Jeff LeBlanc, whom she later married. Their Music is acoustic, lyrically driven, and melodic—crossing the line between pop and folk. The duo has released two CDs—On A Wing and Shades of Blue.

KIM TREIBER

Kim Treiber, a Thirsty Ear Festival veteran, was force fed Loretta, Cash, Waylon, Willie and the like as a kid. So she rebelled, first playing bass in an '80s rock band and later becoming a folkie, but mostly writing "tortured love songs and political/social stuff" in the Taos band Burning Joan. In 2003 she recorded a bastardized version of "Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain" and her roots caught up to her. It felt good, so she recorded the twangy disc Blue Hearted Girl, in Alamosa and Nashville. She lives in Taos, works with homeless youth, ride horses a lot, and sings "big 'ol twangy country" every chance she gets.