New Mexico Black Leadership Council

Tag: Music

  • 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.

  • Talib Kweli

    Talib Kweli

    Don’t miss this chance to see famed, lyrically gifted MC Talib Kweli on the intimate stage at Sister Bar. Brooklyn-based Kweli has been releasing his socially aware jams for almost 20 years – and brings them to Albuquerque this March!

  • Sign Me Up! – Spirituals and Gospel Songs

    Sign Me Up! – Spirituals and Gospel Songs

    Coro Lux auditioned choir collaborates with the El Faro Youth Chorus and UNM Gospel Choir to present this exciting afternoon of gospel songs and spirituals.

    This afternoon of African American Spirituals and Gospel Music will be sponsored in part by Ken Carson, owner of Nexus Brewing and Restaurant and Nexus Blue Smokehouse.

  • Kool & the Gang

    Kool & the Gang

    Have a blast and usher in Black History Month with iconic R&B, soul, and funk band Kool & the Gang!

  • Kids’ History of Hip Hop with Oriana Lee

    Kids’ History of Hip Hop with Oriana Lee

    Celebrate Black History Month with local artist, educator, MC, poet, and performer Oriana Lee! Oriana lives and breathes Hip Hop, and will break down the history of this global phenomenon in this presentation aimed at kids and youth.

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