in ALBUQUERQUE: FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 10:30-11:30pm & SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 12-1pm: The Albuquerque Folk Festival is featuring Wagogo this year at the State Fairgrounds. Music, workshops, dempnstrations, instruments and crafts all day Friday and Saturday.For more info, go to abqfolkfest.org. An All-Ages family event! also: FRIDAY JUNE 19, 8:30-9:30pm, at the ABQ FOLK FEST: Wagogo teaches a song workshop! Come join us at "stage #2" for this workshop. THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 7-9pm: We're back in the Albuquerque Biopark Summer Nights series, as seen in your water bill... bring the kids, a dinner picnic, your blanket, lawn chairs, come early and stake out your turf in the grass for this wonderful annual event. Admission (I think) gets you into the Aquarium and the botanical houses as well if you come early. Food and beer/wine available for sale. in SANTA FE: SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 9pm-1am: Wagogo is back at Evangelo's Cocktail Lounge. Our Santa Fe dive! 200 W San Francisco Street at Galisteo. Our latest release (fifth cd) "Love Music" (2007) continues the train of three languages over multiple styles, salutes the four directions, highlights mbira and kalimba and guitars in an acoustic feel. In addition, this record features a couple of very old traditional Mexican folk songs ("Cuatro Palomitas" & "Yo Me Vine de mi Tierra"). You can purchase "Love Music" online (CD package or digital download) at www.cdbaby.com/wagogo3. To purchase the self-titled "Wagogo" cd (CD package or digital download), go to www.cdbaby.com/wagogo2. The link to purchase "Familia y Amor" (2001) CD package or digital download is www.cdbaby.com/wagogo1. You can usually purchase all of our cd's from us at our concerts, and at Albuquerque local businesses. We will also mail you cd's, just email us at wagogotheband@hotmail.com The first two cd's, "Kumuka/Despertarse/Waking Up" (1998) and "Baile Sosegador" (2000) are not available online, so contact us or come by these local stores (which hopefully have all 5 cd's): Natural Sound, 3422 Central SE (255-8295) Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW (344-8139) Peacecraft, 3215 Central Ave NE, (255-5229) Wagogo the bio Wagogo, born, raised and loved in Albuquerque, NM, is an ecclectic group of musicians that make a rhythmic cocktail out of their Chicano influences, Northern Mexico folk songs, warm calypso island grooves, and the captivating spirit music of Zimbabwe. Their lyrics possess an equally enriching quality, being composed mostly by lead singer Armando Ortega, in a blend of Spanish, English, and the Shona language of Zimbabwe. With such a diverse repertoire, Wagogo inspires a multigenerational crowd to dance and sing, and even gets the old folks weeping with its dedication to preserving the traditional roots of music, in addition to exploring new sounds. Broadcast on radio stations from New Mexico to New York, California, and Zimbabwe, they have been reinvited to the Zimbabwe Music Festival for three years, and will be appearing in many other world music festivals to come. With all the intrigue of the Land of Enchantment, they are definitely a band not to be missed. Wagogo is one of the longest-standing, most evolved local New Mexico bands of the past decade or so, having released 5 CD's (in three lanuages) "Waking Up" in 1999, "Baile Sosegador" in 2000, "Familia y Amor" in 2001, self-titled "Wagogo" (2003) and has most currently released "Love Music" (2007) on which their previous flirtations with African rhythms and indigenous melodies have coalesced into a stunning example of what a group of musicians can accomplish when their collective influences are simply allowed to flow freely. Currently consisting of Armando Ortega (vocals, guitar, mbira, banjo, seperewa, percussion); longtime musical partner Teles Sanchez (guitar, vocals) and Alyson Steinman (bass, vocals), plus many friends. Wagogo utilizes a host of guest musicians live and on their recordings which lends the band a unique familial quality that's instantly gratifying. Wagogo plays weddings, private parties, institutions and events, and we have a 45 minute music program for children from pre-school through mid-school. To schedule a party or wedding with us, please e-mail at wagogotheband@hotmail.com for booking (you can go to the contact page to link to us.) We are also available for these events in Colorado, Arizona, and are negotiable to travel, so give us a ring...[Please forward this to anyone who might be interested]