Google the name Todd Haaby and you’ll quickly find online evidence of his two primary pursuits.

One of them is Todd Haaby Custom Dwellings, the Sisters resident’s home design and construction company.

“I’ve got such a cool team of guys who are just rock stars in the building world. I design and oversee everything, and they make it happen,” he said. “I liken it to music, you know? Writing a song is like designing a house, and then when you get a killer band alongside you, all of a sudden, you can do anything.”

Music, you might surmise, is Haaby’s other main pursuit. For more than a decade, he has led the band Sola Via, a fiery unit that plays beautiful, high-energy “nuevo flamenco” — a genre that takes the sizzling Spanish-flavored string work of traditional flamenco music and fuses it with jazz, rock, pop and other styles.

On Wednesday, Dec. 4, Sola Via will play its annual concert at Bend’s Tower Theatre, which sells out every year.

“It’s cool to do that. I’m honored, man,” Haaby said. “I’m just stoked that anyone listens at all.”

Haaby grew up in California, where he started playing guitar as a teenager. First, he fell for Eddie Van Halen’s pyrotechnic playing style; then, in his mid-20s, he saw The Gypsy Kings live and was drawn to their cosmopolitan songs. Ever since, he has been blending those influences into a sound that’s “something like a muggy August night spent dancing and drinking in a Spanish coastal town until you collapse in a sweaty heap,” according to yours truly, 10 years ago in The Bulletin.

“This music hit me really hard because there’s so much passion behind it. It’s just so much fun to play,” Haaby said.

“But being a musician, you’re making yourself vulnerable even just putting music out there, because you’re going to enjoy it, but are they going to feel what you feel?” he continued. “That’s what I hope for is that people feel what I feel when I wrote the song.”

Haaby and Sola Via have dozens of songs in their oeuvre, which expanded earlier this year with the release of the band’s new album “Bella Amore,” a nine-track collection of well-crafted, vigorously melodic tunes recorded in Haaby’s home studio near Sisters.

“It was a long time coming. We had a lot of people asking, ‘Hey, when’s the next album?’” he said.

“I finished up a building project last year and as soon as I was done with that, I knew I wanted to be in the studio 24/7,” he said. “Fortunately, that’s just upstairs.”

Haaby went into the recording process expecting to draw from his deep well of older compositions for “Bella Amore,” he said. Then, all of a sudden, a bunch of new songs started pouring out of him.

As for why that happened, he really can’t explain it.

“That’s the magic of it,” Haaby said. “I don’t know where the melodies come from. I just pray that they will hit people as hard as they hit me.”

The holidays at the Tower

Over the next three weeks, Bend’s Tower Theatre (835 NW Wall St.) will host a number of holiday-themed performances. Here’s an overview of what’s on the venue’s schedule:

Holiday Magic: The Cascade Chorale performs a blend of cherished classics and fresh new works, with special guests the Dove String Quartet and 27th Street Brass Quintet, Dec. 7-8, $26-$38.

Central Oregon Youth Orchestra Winter Concert: Local ensembles will play orchestral favorites and popular selections centered around a holiday theme, Dec. 10, $16-$21.

Christmas with the Celts: The Celts are known for their vocal harmonies and for injecting Irish traditions into many different styles, including disco, country, jazz and rock, Dec. 11, $54-$79.

Central Oregon Mastersingers’ Festival of Carols: A selection of holiday favorites performed by one of the region’s finest choral groups, Dec. 14-15, $44-$54.

Swingin’ Tower Christmas: Host Mollie Tennant heads a cast of local performers presenting a set of lively holiday songs and stories, accompanied by a 16-piece big band, Dec. 20-22, $46-$56.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit towertheatre.org.

If you go

Who: Todd Haaby & Sola Via

When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4

Where: Tower Theatre 835 NW Wall St., Bend

Cost: $63-$69

Contact: towertheatre.org