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The Big Read

Marfa, Texas

The MARFA BIG READ, the reading program initiated by the National Endowment for the Arts, kicks off on January 10 at Ballroom Marfa with performances by Leah McWilliams and San Antonio folk singer, Azul.

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Two Evenings with ROBERT EARL KEEN

Marfa, Texas

Ballroom Marfa kicks off the 2008 music season with a special solo acoustic concert by Texas singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen.

Running After Disaster—Mel Chin

Marfa, Texas

Conceptual artist Mel Chin brings these two seemingly separate incidents together in his first animated film, "9-11/9-11, Chile/USA," a fiction that weaves the lives of a Santiago couple embroiled in the attack on Santiago 1973, with two young lovers in New York City, 2001.

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KEREN ANN with DEAN & BRITTA

Marfa, Texas

Ballroom Marfa welcomes worldly chanteuse Keren Ann and gauzy pop duo Dean & Britta (formerly of Luna) to the Goode Crowley theater on February 22 for the second installment of its 2008 music program.

THE DODOS with SILJE NES

Marfa, Texas

Too raucous to be neatly included with the current psychedelic-folk scene—and too resolutely underground to be commercial—San Francisco's the Dodos are anchored by furiously propulsive energy and indie-folk songwriting talent.

Psychic Ills

Marfa, Texas

To inaugurate the opening of the visual arts exhibition Hello Meth Lab in the Sun, Brooklyn psychedelic/space-rock band, Psychic Ills, will perform at Ballroom’s Marfa’s Liberty Hall on Saturday 5th April, at 9pm.

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film.text.performance.film—Part II: “text”

Marfa, Texas

In December 2007 Ballroom Marfa launched film.text.performance.film, a two-part program pairing seemingly disparate areas of contemporary cinematic practice of filmic performance and visual text.

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BEETHOVEN: THE LAST PIANO SONATAS

Marfa, Texas

Noted for her "power and introspection" (The New York Times) and "heart, intellect and fabulous technical resources" (Fanfare), pianist Sarah Rothenberg has one of the most distinguished and creative careers of her generation.

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THE HAVELS

Marfa, Texas

Irena Havlová and Vojtěch Havel, the duo who are The Havels, have been collaborating for more than 15 years, making music that has been described as “a duet between violoncello and piano taking place in a cathedral of sound.”

Balmorhea and Bexar Bexar

Marfa, Texas

BALLROOM MARFA is proud to bring Balmorhea and Bexar Bexar to the Goode Crowley Theater on August 7th for an evening of idyllic instrumentals.

Kurt Wagner of Lambchop

Marfa, Texas

To celebrate the opening of The Marfa Sessions, Kurt Wagner of Lambchop will perform on Saturday, 27 September 2008, at the Capri in Marfa, Texas. DJ Damon Locks follows.

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The Marfa Sessions

Marfa, Texas

Independent curators Regine Basha, Rebecca Gates, and Lucy Raven will bring together fifteen artists with specific interests in sound work and its potential as a transgressive medium across place and geography.

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JAPANTHER and KILLER DREAMER

Marfa, Texas

Ballroom Marfa is thrilled to bring Brooklyn based noise-rock pop-punk duo, Japanther, back to Marfa for a special Halloween show, “The Dancing Mummies Curse."

ART IN THE AUDITORIUM

Marfa, Texas

This Saturday, 1 November, will mark the first installment of Ballroom Marfa’s month-long film and video series, Art in the Auditorium.

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Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band

Marfa, Texas

Ballroom Marfa wraps up our 2008 music season with a performance by Rolling Stone's 2008 songwriter of the year, Conor Oberst, performing with The Mystic Valley band. Opening set by the Felice Brothers and RIG 1.

Yacht

Marfa, Texas

Yacht kicks off our 2009 music season on January 31, 2009. White Rainbow opens!

Billy Joe Shaver

Marfa, Texas

Ballroom Marfa warmly welcomes to town the original outlaw-country musician hailing from Waco, Texas -- Billy Joe Shaver.

Paul Villinski – Emergency Response Studio

Marfa, Texas

Ballroom Marfa is proud to be hosting Paul Villinski's Emergency Response Studio, a solar-powered, mobile artist's studio repurposed from a salvaged FEMA-style trailer.

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