Collected Works Bookstore happily hosts a family-friendly gig with the Round Mountain band!  Blending dusty American grit with a worldly amalgam of global influences, Santa Fe-based "band of brothers" Round Mountain presents a singular take on folk music that is both foreign and familiar. The multi-multi-instrumentalist band has traveled the globe, absorbing bits and pieces of musical cultures, returning to filter them through their own sepia-toned Americana framework.

Char and Robby Rothschild have been writing songs and singing together since they were kids harmonizing in the back of the family car. They live in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they grew up, now with families of their own, yet their musical horizons are as broad as the world. They weave elements of world music into their original songs, providing both the comfort of the familiar and the excitement of the new. 

Char studied music from the age of 8, eventually finding his own voice as he traveled from Egypt to Ireland in 1996, and to Tokyo in 1997, while playing for the Old Moscow Circus.  On stage, Char sings and plays accordion, guitar or dobro, together with the trumpet, Bulgarian gaida, and highland bagpipes.

Robby, a barista at the Collected Works coffee bar, has performed with a number of musical greats, including Thomas Mapfumo, Guinean griot Prince Diabate, and Ottomar Liebert.  He is finishing a Masters Degree in Composition from the University of New Mexico.  On stage, he sings and plays the West African kora harp, the djembe, and the Peruvian cajon.  On occasion, he also picks up the Irish bouzouki.