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Three Kings, one stage: Enchantment Blues & Guitars works through the distinct vocabularies of Freddie King, Albert King, and B.B. King in a single outdoor set at the Museum's long-running summer series. The amphitheater lawn fills up fast on Saturday nights in August, so arriving early gets you grass with a sightline rather than a...
Held in the BioPark's Japanese Garden, this annual ceremony draws on Buddhist traditions of honoring the dead through Bon Odori folk dancing, taiko drumming, and lantern rituals, the kind of observance that rewards showing up with some baseline knowledge of what you're witnessing. The Japanese Garden is one of the more quietly beautiful spaces in...
Son Como Son brings their salsa and Latin ensemble sound to the Albuquerque Museum's long-running outdoor concert series, now in its 35th year. The museum courtyard fills up faster than...
Five women share the stage for a blues night that is part of the Albuquerque Museum's 35th annual Music Under the Stars series, with Joanie Cere pulling the program together. The outdoor museum courtyard on a summer Saturday evening is one of the better concert settings on the corridor, though seating fills fast and the...
The Botanic Garden runs a 90-minute after-hours walk through the grounds once the families have cleared out, which is a genuinely different experience from the daytime version. The start time converts to 7:30 p.m. local (Mountain), so you get the tail end of summer sunset light before the garden goes full dark. Tickets are through...
Dee Brown brings a full Ray Charles tribute to the Albuquerque Museum's outdoor amphitheater, backed by Bump City, as part of the 35th year of Music Under the Stars. The...
The Spanish Harlem Orchestra, a Grammy-winning nine-piece salsa dura outfit from New York, brings the kind of hard-bop Latin brass that doesn't get softened for festival crowds. The museum's outdoor amphitheater sits at the edge of Old Town and carries sound well on a late-August night, but the grassy slope fills early and latecomers end...
Just Velvet plays the Old Town Gazebo on a September Saturday evening, which puts you outside in one of Albuquerque's most reliably pleasant spots at exactly the right time of year. The gazebo setting is genuinely intimate, open-air, and surrounded by the plaza, so sound carries in ways that can work for or against a...
The New Mexico Philharmonic brings a full orchestra into the BioPark Botanic Garden for one of the more genuinely pleasant outdoor concert settings in the city. The gardens do interesting things to orchestral sound, and the September air after sundown is about as good as Albuquerque gets. A ticket link exists through the city's site,...
Watermelon Mountain Jug Band brings their old-time, washboard-and-strings sound to the open-air gazebo at the heart of Old Town, one of the more charming outdoor stages on the corridor. The...