About this Event
The Mystic Santa Fe Presents ✨🌙 - Brunch featuring, " Nacha Mendez "
High Desert Café & Bar - Brunch Menu available from 8am - 2 pm
NACHA MENDEZ
Nacha Mendez (also known as Marghreta Cordero) grew up in the tiny border town of La Union, in southern New Mexico, where she began singing and playing the guitar at an early age.
She is an enrolled member of the Chihene Nde Apache Nation and is of Mexican heritage. She learned traditional Ranchera canción from her grandmother and performed in border towns near El Paso with her cousins, the Black Brothers, sons of ex-Mothers of Invention/Frank Zappa drummer Jimmy Carl Black.
She went on to study classical voice and electronic music at New Mexico State University before moving to New York City, where she studied flamenco guitar with Manuel Granados of the Music Conservatory of Barcelona, Spain. In the early ’90s, she was a principal singer in Robert Ashley’s opera company, touring Europe and Japan. She performed trouser roles in three of his operas throughout Japan, at the Avignon Music Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Strasbourg, France, Graz, Austria, and Berlin.
Nacha has also collaborated with celebrated composer Steve Peters who produced “Bodega de Amor” and “Volando.” “My Burning Skin to Sleep,” a song on the 2004 CD release Shelter by Steve Peters and distributed by the Cold Blue Label features the voice of Marghreta Cordero aka Nacha Mendez. Her recordings include “Slowly Rising” (as Dueto Le Momo), and “Blue Silence,” “Bodega de Amor,” and “Volando” (as Nacha Mendez). Since 1990, she has worked on several projects with Steve Peters and has collaborated with writer Melody Sumner Carnahan, with Pulitzer Prize winning Native American composer Raven Chacon and visual artist Harmony Hammond. She also worked on the documentary Chavela with filmmaker Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi.
Nacha is a nationally recognized artist who received a National Endowment for the Arts Award and a fellowship from Mutable Music in New York. In February 2011, she was honored by the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women Artists. She was voted Best Female vocalist in Santa Fe, New Mexico in both 2009, 2010 and 2015. She was awarded Best Family Entertainer in 2012 by the Human Rights Alliance. She received the New Mexico Music industry award for best production in the Latin music category 2013. In 2018 she received the New Mexico Platinum Lifetime achievement award.
She is the Executive director of the Nacha Mendez Music Scholarship.
She performs under her grandmother’s name, Nacha Mendez, touring regionally with her band, playing her original, eclectic pan-Latin-style songs.
Website: nachamendez.com
Instagram: @nachamendezoficial
Bandcamp: Nacha Mendez
YouTube Channel: Nachacha Music
*PARKING AT THE MYSTIC
We have two lots for parking at The Mystic (see map below)
Lot 1 - Located at the The Mystic Santa Fe property. Parking here is limited so if it is full, park at Lot 2.
Lot 2 - Located at BIG 5 SPORTING GOODS at 2860 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87505
STREET PARKING - Located along Clark Rd between Jackalope and BIG 5 SPORTING GOODS.
***NOTE: Please do NOT park at the Jackalope parking lot next door. We do not have permission to use that lot and you will be subject to a parking violation, towing or you may lose access to your vehicle when they close the gates in the evening.
HIGH DESERT (Cafe & Bar )
High Desert is The Mystic’s bar and café, offering a great breakfast, afternoon fare and a delectable dessert bar late into the evening. Enjoy delicious light bites, amazing salads, delicious pizzas, paninis, and luxurious charcuterie boards, just to name a few favorites. High Desert also offers a full coffee and cocktail bar, with craft concoctions for every spirit lover.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
High Desert Cafe & Bar, 2810 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, United States
