• Jazz Festival Stage at Outpost

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM Areaall agesTickets

    Two acts, two very different energies: the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra brings big-band weight, and Milton Villarubia's Los CieneGatos Brass Band tends to push things in a warmer, New Orleans-inflected direction. Outpost is a listening room, not a bar, so the crowd actually pays attention and the sound is mixed accordingly. Tickets are through Hold My...

  • Pat Malone Quartet Live Jazz

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM AreajazzDetails

    The Pat Malone Quartet brings a full-group jazz set to Outpost, one of the few rooms on the corridor that was purpose-built for listening rather than drinking. Outpost keeps the...

  • Pat Malone Quartet

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM AreajazzTickets

    Outpost's Summer Thursday Jazz Nights turns 30 this year, and the Pat Malone Quartet gets a slot in what has quietly become one of the longest-running jazz series in the Southwest. Outpost is a listening room in the real sense, meaning the crowd comes to hear, not to use the music as background noise for...

  • Taimane Live at the Barelas BioPark Zoo

    ABQ BioPark Zoo
    BarelasacousticDetails

    Taimane is a Hawaiian ukulele player who has genuinely expanded what people think the instrument can do, pulling from flamenco, classical, and rock in ways that hold up under scrutiny. The BioPark Zoo is an unusual setting for a ticketed concert, which means the logistics are different from a standard venue night, so check the...

  • Orrin Evans Trio at Albuquerque Museum

    Albuquerque Museum
    Old Townarts crowdTickets

    Orrin Evans is a Philadelphia pianist with serious credentials, a long run with the Keystone Collective, and enough recorded output to make clear he treats the piano trio format as an ongoing argument rather than a formula. The Ventana Room is an open-air courtyard on the museum grounds, which means the sound bounces differently than...

  • Flamenco Dinner Show

    Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque
    date nightTickets

    Guitarist Chuscales anchors this Friday dinner show at Hotel Albuquerque, joined by dancers Elena Osuna, Carlos Menchaca, and Isabella Nuanez, with cantaora Gretchen Williams providing the vocal spine. Chuscales has...

  • Tablao Flamenco at Hotel

    Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque
    world musicTickets

    A tablao-format flamenco show inside Hotel Albuquerque, one of the few venues in the state that stages this art form with a full trio of dancer, singer, and guitarist in...

  • Tablao Flamenco Saturday Show

    Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque
    world musicTickets

    Three bailaores, a cantaora, and guitarist Chuscales performing a full tablao-format flamenco show in a room that was purpose-built for this kind of intimacy. Chuscales is the real draw here,...