New Mexico Black Leadership Council

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  • SOMOS Festival 2025: A Love Letter to Albuquerque

    SOMOS Festival 2025: A Love Letter to Albuquerque

    See the National Hispanic Cultural Center transformed into a place where music, creativity, and culture collide in a kaleidoscope of color, movement, sound and connection. The day will bring large-scale art installations, hands-on activities, performances, and interactive experiences that invite all ages to create, play, and explore. (And eat and shop!) Then as the sun sets, prepare to dance the night away!

    Get your SOMOS tickets (and more details) HERE!

    FESTIVAL
    Doors at 3:30 pm; Live Music & Performance from 4:00pm – 11pm

    $50 advance tickets (March 22 – May 9), $60 Day of Show (May 10), Children 12 years old and younger free with the purchase of an adult ticket, and $130 VIP Pass. 50% discount for students – use your .edu address for purchase, and enter the code SOMOSSTUDENTS at checkout. Make sure to bring your student ID with you to the event, as it will be checked at the entrance!

  • Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations

    Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations

    Nominated for 12 Tony Awards and 2019 winner  for Best Choreography, Ain’t Too Proud recounts the group’s personal and political conflicts during a decade of civil unrest in America. And of course it includes the band’s hits, like “My Girl,” “Just My Imagination,” “Get Ready,” “Papa Was a Rolling Stone,” and more.

    Tickets HERE.

  • Caribbean Celebration

    Caribbean Celebration

    Honor Caribbean-American Heritage Month with a party! Enjoy Caribbean cuisine, vendors, clothing, music, dance, and more!

    Music schedule:

    Plus between set tunes from:

  • Hillary Smith and Chillhouse free outdoor concert

    Hillary Smith and Chillhouse free outdoor concert

    Hobbs NM native Hillary Smith’s rollicking blues-funk has been popular in the Land of Enchantment for almost 40 years. The Winrock Park open space is brand new. Enjoy them together at this FREE concert, part of AMP Concerts’ series every Friday in May and June.

    Feel free to bring chairs, but no glass. Food trucks will be onsite and doors open at 5:30, so show up early, grab a spot, and have a bite before opener Chris Dracup.

    More info at AMP’s website.

  • AfroMundo Festival: Spellbound featuring Riva Nyri Précil

    AfroMundo Festival: Spellbound featuring Riva Nyri Précil

    Don’t miss the closer of AfroMundo’s FREE festival! Riva Nyri Précil will bring her famed fusion of Haïtian music with African roots, American R&B, Soul, and Jazz to Albuquerque. She will be joined by Racine Kreyol and Friends—a New Mexican ensemble that promotes Afro-Haitian Roots music!

    Members of the Friends include Haitian-Americans Duke Germain, Adolphe Pierre-Louis and Jacob Decimus. Also featured are Karl Taylor on Bass, Santana Kujawa on lead guitar, Wayne Johnson on drums, and Todd Lowery on keyboards.

    The event is FREE but reservations for the concert are required.

    Doors open at 6:30. Event starts at 7:00, but ticket holders must arrive by 6:45 to prevent their tickets from being released to the waitlist.

  • Etran de L’Aïr w/ Maya Ongaku

    Etran de L’Aïr w/ Maya Ongaku

    Etran is a band of brothers and cousins, all born and raised in the shadow of the grand mosque. Sons of nomadic families that settled here in the 1970s fleeing the droughts, they all grew up in Agadez. The band was formed in 1995, when current band leader Moussa “Abindi” Ibra was only 9 years old. “We only had one acoustic guitar,” he explains, “and for percussion, we hit a calabash with a sandal.”

    Since then they have become famous in the region, and will light up Tumbleroot with a sound that invokes their desert metropolis.

    Doors open at 6:30. Tickets $20. Get yours HERE!

  • EarthFest at La Montanita

    EarthFest at La Montanita

    Come celebrate sustainability, community, and local food! Honor our planet with a day of fun, learning, local vendors, plants for your garden, live entertainment, and more!

  • AfroMundo Festival: Elio Villafranca – At the Crossroads

    AfroMundo Festival: Elio Villafranca – At the Crossroads

    Grammy-nominated Elio Villafranca is a Cuban-born composer and brilliant jazz pianist. His latest album, Standing at the Crossroads, explores the different religions woven into Cuba’s cultural fabric.

    Tickets are free, but reservations are required.

  • Albuquerque’s 319th Birthday Celebration

    Albuquerque’s 319th Birthday Celebration

    Celebrate Albuquerque’s 319th Birthday with local flair! Live performances on the plaza will feature flamenco mariachis, and the sounds of salsa. Don’t miss the face painting, shopping, and specials at a variety of Old Town stores. Plus local food trucks with tempting treats!

  • Luciane Dom and Elovated Roots at Winrock Park

    Luciane Dom and Elovated Roots at Winrock Park

    Enjoy a FREE outdoor concert from contemporary Brazilian singer-songwriter-produce Luciane Dom! Dom mixes Afrobeat, urban jazz, reggae and ijexá in her unique sound. The reggae of Elovated Roots will get the night started in this installment of AMP Concerts’ new Winrock Park concert series!

    More info HERE. Food trucks, water stations, and Santa Fe Brewing will be onsite; outside food and chairs are welcome but NOT outside alcohol or glass containers.

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