• Ivon Ulibarri & Café Mocha

    Albuquerque Museum
    Old Townall agesTickets

    Ivon Ulibarri and Café Mocha bring salsa y más to the museum's long-running outdoor summer series, now in its 35th year, which means the crowd already knows how to use the courtyard space. The sculpture garden fills up fast on warm Fridays, so arriving early gets you a decent sight line and room to actually...

  • Women’s Voices: Sing Sista Sing

    Albuquerque Museum
    Old Townall agesTickets

    Toni Morgan brings together a lineup of women vocalists for this jazz and blues evening in the museum's outdoor amphitheater, part of a summer series that has been anchoring Saturday nights in Old Town for 35 years. The grounds hold several hundred people comfortably and the acoustics are better than you'd expect from an open-air...

  • Adults-Only Night Walk at ABQ Botanic Garden

    ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden
    Old Towndate nightTickets

    The BioPark opens its botanic garden after hours for an adults-only evening walk, roughly 90 minutes of grounds access without the daytime family crowd. Mid-July means the sun is still up at 7:30 PM and the garden is at peak summer bloom, so the light and the color are both working in your favor. Tickets...

  • Garden Music at ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden Old Town

    ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden
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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...

  • Joseph General & High Vibration at Old Town

    ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden
    Old Townlive musicDetails

    Joseph General brings his roots-forward Albuquerque sound to the Botanic Garden, with High Vibration along for a 90-minute outdoor set on a July evening. The garden stage puts you in the middle of the landscaping rather than facing a wall of speakers, which makes the whole thing feel more like a backyard hang than a...

  • La Ansiedad Norteña Live at Old Town

    Old Town Gazebo
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    La Ansiedad Norteña brings norteño accordion and bajo sexto to the Old Town Gazebo, a 19th-century plaza stage that still draws multigenerational crowds on summer evenings. The gazebo's open layout means sound carries unpredictably, so the sweet spot is closer to the middle of the plaza rather than the edges near the portal shops. Admission...

  • Micky Cruz at Albuquerque Museum

    Albuquerque Museum
    Old TowndanceTickets

    Micky Cruz brings salsa y más to the Albuquerque Museum's courtyard for the 35th year of Music Under the Stars, the Friday night summer series that has been an Old Town anchor long enough to have its own institutional memory. The museum grounds give you open sky and a crowd that actually dances, not just...

  • Mariachi Tenampa Live at Old Town Gazebo

    Old Town Gazebo
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    Mariachi Tenampa plays a two-hour outdoor set at the Old Town Gazebo, one of the more naturally suited stages on the corridor for this kind of music. The acoustics in that open plaza can work against you on a windy July evening, so arriving early to claim a spot near the center of the gazebo...

  • LoPhat Live at Old Town Gazebo

    Old Town Gazebo
    Old TownoutdoorDetails

    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...