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Tag: Music
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Ladies Sing the Blues: Old School Blues Classics
Don’t miss this hit show, now in its 16th year! This year’s show focuses on classic blues standards, sung by Hillary Smith, Wendy Beach and Rachel Ross.
Tickets are $25 for this show under the stars in the Albuquerque Museum amphitheater. Get yours HERE!
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Women’s Voices: A Celebration
Knockout talent Toni Morgan has curated this fantastic jazz and blues show featuring Tracey Whitney, Casey Lafferty, and Abby Maxwell. Buy your tickets HERE ($25) before this great show gets sold out!
The singers will be backed by a fantastic band featuring John Funkhouser on Keys; Artha Meadors on Bass; Dimi DiSanti on Guitar; John Bartlit on Drums; Ryan Montano on Trumpet; and Alex Murzyn on Sax.
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Tijeras BioZone Open Space Community Concert with Keeping Up with the Joneses
FREE! Bring a chair or blanket and a picnic dinner, and enjoy free entertainment, paletas, face painting, bosque traveling exhibit truck, rock climbing wall, hands-on nature activity, and incredible views of your public lands under the light of the setting sun.
The evening’s headliner is Keeping Up with the Joneses, a soul-funk band led by Kookie Jones. The band is described as “Earth Tone” music, where the Earth is the funky rhythm, and the tone is the melody and soulful voices.
Make a free reservation to get event updates and additional details.
This is a great chance to check out the Tijeras BioZone Open Space, a 4-mile, 1,000 foot BioZone along the largely ephemeral Tijeras Creek just east of Albuquerque along old Route 66. The Creek feeds Albuquerque’s aquifer, and is an oasis for variety of plants and animals.
Performance Schedule:
6 PM: Doors Open
6:30-7:00 PM: Conservation Carnivale
7:15-8:15 PM: Keeping Up with the Joneses -
Las Cruces Juneteenth Gospel Showcase
List Every Voice & Sing! Brought to you by the Dona Ana County Branch of the NAACP.
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Alice Randall: My Black Country
My Black Country is a recent release by Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author. In the book, Randall recounts her past and her search for the first family of Black country music. My Black Country celebrates the radical joy in realizing the power of Black influence on American culture through the work of DeFord Bailey, Lil Hardin, Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Herb Jeffries.
Register HERE for this online event hosted by the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Randall will be joined in conversation by Steven Lewis, Curator of Music and the Performing Arts, and Kelly Navies, Oral History Museum Specialist.
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Leftover Soul ft. DJ Garronteed
Albuquerque’s longest running vinyl-only soul night returns! DJ Leftovers is joined by guest DJ Garronteed from Santa Fe, with live video mixing by No Reservations. Garronteed has rocked analog and digital parties in New Mexico for over 20 years.
Come get down to the funky sights and sounds of soul’s golden era! $5 cover.
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Juneteenth Gospel Extravaganza
Don’t miss the 2024 Juneteenth Gospel Extravaganza featuring Jason Singleton! Food trucks, vendors and more will complete the day.
