This celebratory evening at THE STAKEOUT is a way to get familiar with the director's work... who happens to belong to the Year of the Snake. ​Local documentary filmmaker Erica Nguyen will screen Shadow Weavers, and a sneak peak of another story in the making. Winner of the Best New Mexican Feature Documentary by SFiFF, Shadow Weavers returns to Taos where the editing magic began. 

About the films…

SHADOW WEAVERS:

Along the Peruvian Andes a network of encoded messages is woven into every hat, where wool & straw become forms of communication & resistance. A Spanish/ Quechua- language film that sees the hat as a vehicle for the land to speak.

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Official website: https://www.peruanohatdoc.com/

PHANTOM ROOTS:

A lyrical family road memoir in progress! Made by children of the Vietnamese diaspora, learning to come home to themselves through ancestral magic on a water stage. Support for Phantom Roots will secure the final chapter of production in Vietnam.

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Official website: https://www.phantomrootsvietnam.com/

$10 ENTRY.

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BITES:

Vietnamese spring rolls & bánh khọt (if you know you know, if you don't you'll never look back)

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DRINKS:

A specialty cocktail (TBA) will be offered with proceeds benefitting Phantom Roots.

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AUCTION ITEMS:​​

• Yarrow Mountain rock climbing adventures guided by the director of the film 

• O’Farrell Hat Company beaded hat bands

• Jewelry

• Ceramics

• Artwork

And more!

Come celebrate our last show of the year with us! Noelle & The Deserters (CA/Taos), Joe Bourdet (Taos), and Mary Simich (CA) will all play Sunday, Dec 29, from 6 to 9p!

NOELLE & THE DESERTERS

Noelle & The Deserters bring South-Western honky tonk from the high deserts of New Mexico to the golden hills of California. Fronted by singer-songwriter Noelle Fiore, their music draws inspiration from the likes of Emmylou Harris, Loretta Lynn, Marty Robbins, J.J Cale, Gene Clark, Townes Van Zandt, and the great outlaw country players.

JOE BOURDET

Highway 49 is called the golden chain highway and connects numerous tiny hamlets as it weaves through the river canyons of the California gold country. This is the area where Joe Bourdet spent his youth, and it provided the formative images which inspire his music, and music for Joe has always been a family affair.  It began with growing up around the humor and warmth of great San Francisco jazz trumpeter Jack Minger, and with being taught playground and jump rope songs by Jack’s granddaughter, Fannie.  He was intrigued too as a youngster to see his mother Marilyn play and sing Red River Valley, once and only once as he recalls.  As a teenager, he was permanently loaned a guitar, and encouraged to play by his uncle, Mike Bonnington.  The instrument gave Joe an escape from a typically awkward High School experience and ultimately became a lifelong pursuit.  From his father, Al, he learned a love of all things mechanical and the value of working with one's hands. This do-it-yourself mentality served Joe well, leading him to be equally involved in the technical aspects of music making as well as the artistic. He restores, customizes, and tunes to taste his guitars, instruments, amplifiers, and recording equipment, viewing them all as an extension of the personality he strives to put into the music.  Learning recording technique first from dear friend, collaborator, and fellow guitar maniac Jason Soda, then professionally through a stint as a film sound recordist, Joe learned to produce and record music of his own, and now increasingly so, that of others.  In 2021, Joe released his debut album, titled Meadow Rock.  He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, where his recording studio is called Mountain Sounds Recorders.  Joe performs with his group The El Capitan Band, a loose group of friends who were involved in the making of the Meadow Rock album, who come together to bring those songs, and more, to the stage. 

MARY SIMICH

Mary Simich grew up in California in a very musical family. Her big brothers played in Thee Cormans, who dressed up in monster costumes and played garage rock in the true Budget Rock style. For years, Mary was very content with writing songs in secret, until one day she visited some friends in Berlin and ran into King Khan at a grimy Berlin bar called Wowsville. King Khan noticed that she was traveling with her guitar, and asked her to play a song. "The room got real quiet, and Mary started singing these haunting ballads, and I knew I had to record them!" says King Khan. He invited her to his home studio and the rest was history. They recorded all 12 tracks in just a few days.

The Stakeout is excited to announce this mammoth of a show on Tuesday, Dec 17! Casper Allen, Matt Heckler, and Shawn Hess will all play individual sets from 6 to 9. The bar will be open and we will be serving TACOS for this rare Tuesday night at The Stakeout.

DOORS @ 5p

MUSIC from 6-9p

TIX online for $18

OR $20 at door

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Shhor & Miles Bonny will bring their new music for old souls to The Stakeout on Dec 15!

DOORS at 6p

MUSIC at 6:30p

$10 suggested donation

BIO

Married parents Shhor (Siobhan Bonny-O’Rourke) and Miles Bonny met in Melbourne Australia while they were each on their paths as solo performing musicians. Now they combine their soulful story and sounds on their first album together, Letters from the Desert. Miles Bonny is the Lumberjack Soul Singing and Flugelhorn playing underground legend with a track record of working with top tier dance and hip hop producers including Kenny Dope, Osunlade, Waajeed, Ta-Ku, DJ Day, Tall Black Guy, Suff Daddy, Brenk Sinatra, J Rawls, Reggie B, Joc Max, Buscrates, Twit One, Chrissy Murderbot, and more. His music has taken him through Europe and Australia, where he met Shhor. Shhor is the Tasmanian-born songstress who has been produced by Louie Vega, M-Phazes, Mike Steva and is a top tier artist of the Melbourne, Australia music scene which includes Rita Satch, Allysha Joy, Audrey Powne, and Hiatus Kaiyote, mutual friends of Shhor and Miles’. When Miles visited Melbourne to perform with Osunlade, he met Shhor and the rest is history. The songs Miles was known for such as 5 o’Clock Suff clarified Miles’ interest in meeting that special someone and now he had. Together they have performed and led workshops in the USA, Australia and Europe. Shhor has moved to the USA with Miles where they are now parents.

The Stakeout hosts its annual Holiday Makers Mart presented by Siouxzen Kang on Sunday, December 15th!

The market will feature an eclectic range of local artisans to suit all of your holiday gift-giving needs!

After Sunday’s market, stick around for our regular Sunday dinner service starting at 4pm that evening.

For more information contact siouxzen@stakeouttaos.com

The Stakeout hosts its annual Holiday Makers Mart presented by Siouxzen Kang on Saturday, December 14th!

The market will feature an eclectic range of local artisans to suit all of your holiday gift-giving needs!

The Stakeout will offer brunch service from 11am-4pm during the market and The Stakeout bar will open for seasonal drinks. Vendor information to-be-announced soon.

For more information contact siouxzen@stakeouttaos.com

Local legend/artist/musician, Kevin Cannon and band will perform their adept, lively jazz at The Stakeout from 6-9p.

The Stakeout bar & kitchen is open from 4-10p every Sunday.

Doors at 6p

Lonnie the Cloud

6:30 - 7:30

Swarming Branch

7:30-8:30

$10 suggested donation

BIO

Swarming Branch is a band engaged in three seemingly disparate pursuits: elaborating folk music’s four-chord strum with complex extensions and substitutions, winking at the theater of glam rock from dive bar stages around the country without causing the cynics to spray beer out of their nostrils, and inviting the droning, unbridled tendencies of modal jazz to gradually displace rock and roll’s typical pentatonic shapes. You could say they aspire to become the modern Midwestern Steely Dan, even if they’ve only demonstrated a portion of the elder group’s range thus fa

Local legend/artist/musician, Kevin Cannon and band will perform their adept, lively jazz at The Stakeout from 6-9p.

The Stakeout bar & kitchen is open from 4-10p every Sunday.

Come hear some authentic and haunting train songs from songwriter Nick Hans Sunday, Nov 3 from 6-8! Nick will be joined by grandmaster fiddler, Nick Cohon for the second half of the set.

Nick Hans is an original songwriter from the mountains of Tennessee, who has called Taos, NM his home base for many years now. His songs reflect his life: sometimes dark, sometimes beautiful, always moving and reflecting. Drawing from a wellspring of experience hoboing across the country, working seasonal jobs and busking from town to town, he brings to the table an authentic and haunting depiction of a mostly forgotten and deeply American way of life.

 The Stakeout is throwing our annual Halloween dance party on October 27 from 8 PM until late. This year, we draw creative inspiration from the 70s Italian supernatural cult classic, Suspiria. You can expect a Halloween-themed menu alongside a selection of spooky cocktails. Come in your costumes and ready to dance!

Music from DJ Tymer Buck

FREE ENTRY

The Second Wind Endeavor will bring their fun blend of funk/rock/folk/psychedelia to The Stakeout on Sunday, Oct 27 from 5-7p!

FREE SHOW

The Stakeout Halloween Party to follow.

Join us for a beautiful October night with some special songbirds! From Boise to Taos.

SET TIMES:

Tyler John Kraehling ~ 7 - 8p

Earl Buck ~ 8 - 9p

$10 suggested donation for the artists

TYLER JOHN KRAEHLING (BOISE)

Hailing from the Northeastern states, Tyler John Kraehling has been traveling through the country with eyes open, taking stock of the lives of the people who inhabit it. Drenched in the tradition of American troubadours, he tells stories that speak to the novelties and banalities of what it means to walk this earth. His clothes and guitar are mostly second-hand; his songs are anything but.

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EARL BUCK (taos)

Earl Buck is a singer/songwriter from Taos, New Mexico. His first EP, recorded alone in covid quarantine in his living room, was released in March of 2022, just as he embarked on a 50 show tour opening for internationally renowned folk singer Joe Purdy. In addition to his songwriting, Buck is a twenty year veteran of the film industry, where he writes screenplays and acts under his stage name Arron Shiver.

Come on out Sunday for some old time bluegrass and traditional Celtic string music from Bud Branch, Robert Quijano, and Tom Robison of the Arcane Ramblers!

Doors at 5:30

Music from 6-8p

$10 cover

Join us Sunday, Oct 6, as we welcome Daily Winter Crow, an improvisational doom punk garage jazz whirligig from Taos, New Mexico!

6-8p

$10 cover

Join us for a special night of music with LéPonds, Sunday, September 29!

Doors @ 6:30p

$10 cover

BIO

LéPonds is the solo project of Lisa Houdei, an experimental folk singer-songwriter based in Topanga Canyon, just north of Los Angeles. Her vocal approaches are haunting, angelic, and whimsical– with song styles akin to Vashti Bunyan and Norma Tanega. Her music is original, organic, and effortlessly beautiful. With four albums released, you will find many treasures– some, unexpected.  She has opened for artists such as Jeff Tweedy, Natalie Prass, Black Belt Eagle Scout & has recently supported Haley Heynderickx on tour.

We’re excited to announce that Susy Sun (LA) & Paul Spring (NYC) will play The Stakeout Sunday, September 22!.

DOORS @ 6:30p

SHOW @ 7p

$10 COVER

SET TIMES

Paul Spring ~ 7-7:45p
Susy Sun ~ 8-8:45

SUSY SUN BIO

Susy Sun began writing songs at her Casio keyboard when she was 10 years old. As one of six children and surrounded by the apple orchards of Washington, music was an escape.  She studied classical piano and grew up singing at church. Memories of sneaking into her fathers CD collection are fond - The Carpenters, Jim Croce, Selena, The Beatles. She never missed a school talent show and spent most of her hours isolated in a bedroom, recording to cassette. In 2016, she traded the stages of the Northwest for the studios of Los Angeles and teamed up with Dennis Herring (Modest Mouse, The Counting Crows). They recorded Sun’s debut LP, The Way The Wind Blows, weaving between pop, americana and classical genres. Sun’s sophomore album On Ivar Hill debuted in January, 2023. The songs were tracked to 2” tape with a live band and mini-orchestra.  Palomino Sound provided an abundance of analog gear and vintage instruments, complimenting the purity of Sun’s lyricism and performance.

PAUL SPRING BIO

Paul Spring brings together classical guitar, baroque chorales, 808s, and Irish traditional melodies into a sound all his own. He has released 3 albums in the past 3 years. Between 2023’s Always Almost Home “meshing 90s pop and Bach” (MPR) and the “hidden pop gem” (Irish Times) of 2022ʼs Thunderhead, Spring experimented with minimal electronic production and folk. Aquarium Drunkard called his latest album, 2024’s River Flows Two Ways, “a singular fresh offering as well as a catalogue introduction of sorts.” Paul was raised in Saint Cloud, MN and has been based in New York City since 2018. He has completed two successful River Canoe tours. In 2015 he spent 48 days paddling 1200 miles down the Mississippi in support of his release Towards a Center. In 2024 he canoed 150 miles down the Hudson in support of River Flows Two Ways. Spring is also a passionate classical guitarist. He has released an album of Bach arrangements for 12 string guitar, and since 2022 he has played a weekly gig in Manhattan playing Bach.

Local legend/artist/musician, Kevin Cannon and his band will treat The Stakeout with their adept, lively jazz on the patio from 6-9p.

The Stakeout bar & kitchen is open from 4-10p every Sunday.

Doors at 6:30

$10 cover

SET TIMES:

JOJO JAMES - 8P

LONNIE LEARY - 7P

Local legend/artist/musician, Kevin Cannon and his band will treat The Stakeout with their adept, lively jazz on the patio from 6-9p.

The Stakeout bar & kitchen is open from 4-10p every Sunday.

We have two great local acts playing on the patio Sunday, August 11th!

$10 cover 

Doors at 6:30p

Ben Spitzley - 7p

Chris Brochu w/ Full Band- 8p

We’re excited to announce that A.O. Gerber will play The Stakeout during Sunday Service on July 28!

Show starts at 7p

NO COVER

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BIO

A.O. Gerber is an LA-based artist delivering an ethereal blend of empowering guitar-laden indie rock, dreamy alternative pop and classic songwriting. Appealing to fans of Angel Olsen, The Weather Station and Helena Deland, Gerber released her debut album Another Place To Need in 2020 to critical acclaim from the likes of NPR, NYLON, Gorilla vs. Bear and The Line Of Best Fit, who labelled the record, “A decadent and essential collection of songs.” Anticipated follow-up - Meet Me at the Gloaming - is out 14th October via Hand In Hive & Father/Daughter.

You are invited to an extravagant, free-flowing dinner party celebrating the bounty of summer and greatness of Leo season! There will be a lavish spread of oysters, lamb, & more. Plus, dancing & costumes (don’t forget yours!). Get 20% off for buying your tickets online, ahead of time. Entry to the party is $50 at the door on Saturday, July 27.

7-11p

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Come enjoy regular Sunday Service and shop amazing vintage clothes, local art & more! We will also have a cash only yard sale, so hit the ATM before coming up.

VENDORS:

Cory Feder

Day Dream Boy

Dusty Dog Vintage

Sol Sobre Vintage

High Mountain Vintage

Two Quills

Oldies Flower Co.

Boletus Duende

Ale Bremer Jewelry

Gabi Hawes

Liva Vino

Desert of Deya

The Arc, anewera

Moon Spirit Ritual

We have a full brood of Nebraskan songwriters makin’ their way The Stakeout! Sean Pratt, Mike Schlesinger, and Tom Bartolomei are on tour together and will play from 4-7p on Sunday, July 21.

SEAN PRATT

Sean Pratt is an American folk guitar player/singer-songwriter from Nebraska by way of the Dakotas.  Deeply rooted in the songs of Townes Van Zandt, Hank Williams, Gene Clark, Alex Chilton and Leonard Cohen, Pratt paints his perspective of life on the Great Plains.  For this string of shows, Pratt will be joined by multi-instrumentalist Megan Siebe (Cursive, Simon Joyner) on fiddle.

TOM BARTOLOMEI

Tom Bartolomei is a Heartland folk singer and songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska. His songs center around fingerstyle playing and are heavily inspired by songsmiths such as Blaze Foley, Guy Clark, and Jackson C. Frank. Hitting on tropes of heartbreak, loss, the open road, and moving on; these songs are for the lost and longing.

MIKE SCHLESINGER

Mike Schlesinger is a singer-songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska, with roots in Colorado and New Mexico. He teaches high school history at his day job and his life has been a series of mishaps, which recently resulted in him pouring hot coffee into his lap while wearing basketball shorts. 

Join us up at The Stakeout—on a rare Saturday—for our Summer Crab Boil on the Patio! Enjoy the sunshine, mingle, and grab a plate of deliciously seasoned Gulf blue crab with sausage, potatoes, and corn from 4-8p.

$45 a plate

**The crab boil is likely to sell out, so come early**

Prior to the boil, The Stakeout will open at noon for our Summer Vintage Market & Cash Yard Sale.

It’s a full day of summer fun at The Stakeout!

Come hang at The Stakeout on a Saturday and shop amazing vintage clothing, local art and more! We’ll be serving tacos during the market and the Stakeout bar will be open. We will also have a cash only yard sale so hit the ATM before coming up. And stick around for our Summer Crab Boil on the Patio from 4-8p.

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VENDORS:

Cory Feder

Day Dream Boy

Dusty Dog Vintage

Sol Sobre Vintage

High Mountain Vintage

Two Quills

Oldies Flower Co.

Boletus Duende

Ale Bremer Jewelry

Gabi Hawes

Liva Vino

Desert of Deya

The Arc, anewera

Moon Spirit Ritual

FREE ENTRYY

VINTAGE CLOTHING

LOCAL ART

TACOS + DRINK

EASY PARKING

Local legend/artist/musician, Kevin Cannon, is helping us kick off our reopening and new summer hours! Kevin and his band will play their adept, lively jazz on the patio from 6-9p.

For those who don’t know, Kevin moved to Taos in the 70s and worked here as an artist for many many years in the medium of leather sculpture. He is also an amazing jazz guitarist. It’s an honor to have his beautiful, jazz mind up at The Stakeout!

The Stakeout bar & kitchen is open from 4-10p every Sunday.

~ KEVIN'S WORK ~