The Outpost Blog
Director’s Note
In March of 1988 when we started doing concerts around town at the KiMo, the Living Batch Bookstore, El Rey and other venues. The Outpost Performance Space, on Morningside, opened in the fall of 1989. Since then there have been more than 2000 performances in venues of all sizes, thousands of classes for youth and adults, hundreds of visual art exhibits, 8 years of New Mexico Jazz Festival offerings, a move to and subsequent purchase (12 years later) of the present Outpost Performance Space on Yale. Read More »
Spring 2013
THE SPRING 2013 SEASON IS HERE! We kicked it off on February 17 with a special pre-season, member-only concert by the Ron Miles Trio featuring Bill Frisell and Brian Blade— a great success. It was a terrific concert, a second show had to be added, and we got 50 new Outpost members! A great way to start. On February 28 & March 1 Rudresh Mahanthappa's Gamak officially opens the season... Read More »
Education Spotlight
SUMMER 2013 JAZZ & LATIN MUSIC CLASSES FOR YOUTH & ADULTS
All classes are taught by the Outpost team comprising saxophonist, Kanoa Kaluhiwa; drummer, Sharon Eldridge; trumpeter, Paul Gonzales; and our most recent addition to the teaching staff, César Bauvallet. We aim to build positive attitudes, trust, teamwork, cooperation, confidence, compassion, and a sense of humor, everything you could ever want from music. Both Youth and Adults will perform a recital for family and friends at the end of their second session. It is expected that students will have their own instruments to bring to class. Outpost will provide a piano, a drumset, and guitar & bass amplifiers. Read More »
