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Joseph General brings his High Vibration project to the Botanic Garden for one of the city's more genuinely pleasant summer concert setups, with the Aquarium open as part of the experience. The garden venue means you are outside, on grass, with room to spread a blanket, which changes the whole calculus compared to a bar...
LoPhat takes the Old Town Gazebo on a Sunday evening, which puts live music in one of the oldest public squares in the country. The gazebo setting means sound carries in every direction and the crowd tends to form organically around the perimeter, so there is no bad spot. Admission details are unconfirmed, but Old...
Felix Y Los Gatos brings their Latin roots sound to the Old Town Gazebo, one of the few outdoor stages in Albuquerque where the setting genuinely competes with the music for your attention. The plaza draws a mixed crowd, locals and tourists side by side, which gives evening shows here an energy that's hard to...
Trio Carillo takes the Old Town Gazebo stage for an open-air evening set in one of Albuquerque's most recognizable outdoor spaces. The gazebo's plaza acoustics are naturally lively, so arrive early if you want a spot close enough to hear the detail in the playing rather than just the wash of it. Admission details aren't...
Flambeaux takes the Old Town Gazebo for a Sunday evening set, one of the few live music slots at a venue that draws as many tourists as locals. The gazebo's open-air layout means sound carries unpredictably and the crowd tends to form in rings, so arriving early gets you a spot close enough to actually...
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...
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...
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...