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Gaia's Kava Root is throwing a throwback dance night, the kind of set where the playlist does most of the heavy lifting. The kava bar format means you can actually be present on the dance floor without the usual bar-crowd noise floor working against you. Admission details aren't posted, so check their Instagram before you...
The One Night Stanleys bring long-form improv to The Box, one of the few dedicated performance spaces on the corridor that actually treats comedy as a craft rather than a...
A.M. Ent takes over Gaia's Kava Root for a night built around nostalgia, with a lineup and era TBD but a promoter with a track record of keeping the floor moving. The kava bar format means you can hydrate between sets without the usual bar tab, which changes the late-night math considerably. Tickets are through...
Navajo jazz pianist Delbert Anderson brings his quartet to Outpost for one of the marquee nights of the 20th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival, a run that has made this room one of the more serious jazz destinations in the Southwest. Outpost is a dedicated listening room, which means the crowd actually listens, and Anderson's...
Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and guitarist Mary Halvorson, two of the most consequential voices in contemporary improvised music, share the Outpost stage for an evening of duo work that will likely sound like nothing else you hear this year. Outpost is a listening room in the truest sense, a small, attentive space where people actually come...
Mingus Dynasty, the rotating ensemble dedicated to keeping Charles Mingus's compositions alive and argumentative, plays Outpost as part of the 20th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival. Outpost is one of the few rooms in the state where the acoustics and the audience both take the music seriously, so this is a real listening room experience,...
Brian Blade is widely regarded as one of the finest jazz drummers alive, and the Fellowship Band is his most personal project, a working group that plays his own compositions with the kind of collective listening you rarely hear outside a recording studio. Outpost is a seated, purpose-built listening room, which means the room itself...
The 1984 film plays in full on a big screen while a live orchestra performs Elmer Bernstein's score underneath it, which turns out to be a genuinely different experience than watching it at home for the fifteenth time. Popejoy is a proper concert hall with good sightlines and real acoustics, so the music actually lands...
New Mexico United takes on Phoenix Rising FC in a USL Championship regular-season match at Isotopes Park, sitting right on the Central Avenue corridor in the UNM Area. United's supporter...
The One Night Stanleys are doing long-form improv at The Box, which means no sketch outlines, no safety net, just a single audience suggestion stretched into something that either falls apart beautifully or holds together better than it has any right to. The Box is a proper black box theater, so you're close enough to...