Aug 21, 2024 | News
The 18th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival, a collaborative project of the Outpost Performance Space and the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, is going to be a fantastic three weeks of music in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Taos with the opening weekend featuring seven-time Grammy nominated Latin Jazz percussionist John Santos (pictured above) and his Sextet at the Albuquerque Museum Amphitheater on Friday, September 6! Plus much more! Get Your Tickets Today! Some shows are already sold out or close to it! The SFJAZZ Collective 7:30pm show on Thursday, Sept 26 is sold out, but we have added a second show at 9:30pm! Tickets are now available for the 9:30pm show! Other highlights include JOSHUA REDMAN W. GABRIELLE CAVASSA • RANKY TANKY W. MS. LISA FISCHER • DAVE HOLLAND NEW QUARTET • MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO • JAZZMEIA HORN • RUSSELL MALONE • JOSÉ JAMES • KEYON HARROLD • AMINA FIGAROVA • CARMEN BRADFORD • SUE FOLEY W. THE TEXAS HORNS • AARON DIEHL & WARREN WOLF • MARC RIBOT TRIO W. MARY HALVORSON • TARBABY • HARRIET TUBMAN BAND • MICHAEL ANTHONY & PAUL GONZALES • ZENOBIA • FELIX Y LOS GATOS • A.B. SPELLMAN & MORE!
May 3, 2024 | News
We still have many terrific concerts and events coming up in the spring season, but we’re always looking ahead to the next best thing and we are excited to share that the Summer Season Schedule, including the 28th Annual Summer Thursday Jazz NIghts: June 27-August 22 and Route 66 Summerfest (July 20) and the 18th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival (September 5-29) bare bones schedule are all up on the website! More info and tickets on sale soon, so stay tuned!
Mar 12, 2024 | News
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
Outpost’s popular semi-annual Record/CD/Book Fair Returns!
We’re excited to share another great Record/CD/Book Fair with you! Now happening semi-annually due to the amazing inventory and popularity of the event, the Fair this spring is Saturday, April 6! Thanks to the generous donations of our supporters, the Fair features thousands of items spanning ALL MUSICAL GENRES— vinyl records (LPs, 7” singles & 78’s), CDs, cassette tapes, videos, books, sheet music and more— will be available for sale with prices as low as $.25. ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT OUTPOST! Come find your treasures and join us for a fun day of shopping while also helping to support Outpost!
Also: We are STILL ACCEPTING DONATIONS of items in good condition and suitable for resale. To arrange for delivery (or pick up in the case of large collections) email [email protected].
Feb 14, 2024 | Inpost Artspace
Reception: June 7, 5-7pm
Exhibition dates: June 3 – August 16
Herstory at the Outpost features portraits made by Herstory at the Outpost, a group of women printmakers who create prints of women across time and borders who have impacted how they see and understand the world. They define Herstory as history viewed from a female or specifically feminist perspective with a special attention to the experience of women. The collective includes Julianna Kirwin, Michelle Shelly Korte, Lena Weiss, and Stephanie Weiner as well as numerous community guest artists. They do not individually sign their prints but prefer to be known collectively as Herstory. Free.
Feb 14, 2024 | Inpost Artspace
sponsored by Rachel Kelly in Memory of Jim Gale (1958-2023)
Reception: May 18, 2024, 11am-3pm
Exhibit Dates: March 25-May 30.
In August of 2021, the Inpost Artspace hosted a show by Jim Gale entitled “Landscape Retrospective: From Film to Digital and Infrared Imaging | The Photography of Jim Gale.” On April 19, 2023, at age 65, Jim Gale passed away. Before his passing, in an act of deep generosity and love, Jim donated all of his jazz photographs to Outpost. This collection includes hundreds of framed and matted prints as well as many may thousands of negatives and digital files. Jim was a wonderful friend— a kind and gentle soul whom everybody loved along with his masterful work. As he wrote at the time of his 2021 Landscape show, “I really had not gotten back into music photography until I moved to Albuquerque and discovered the Outpost! After my first show at the old Morningside location, I was hooked! Although my taste in music is very eclectic, I was drawn deeper into the beauty, improvisation and creativity of Jazz. Since I could never afford all the shows I wanted to see, I approached Tom about an exchange of my show photographs for free admittance. This arrangement as the volunteer “house photographer” has now lasted over 23 years! At this point, there are few (if any) other clubs or performance spaces that have such a complete and extensive photographic documentation.” How true that last statement is! Now, in a continuing act of generosity, Jim’s wife, Rachel Kelly has offered to donate his landscape photographs for Outpost to exhibit and sell as a benefit to the organization. In describing his landscapes which were taken during his numerous backpacking adventures (another love of his). Jim said, “I developed a passion for documenting my adventures so that I could preserve and capture the details and the beauty I saw through my lens. It still amazes me how much a single image from 40 years ago can bring back vivid memories I thought I had forgotten.” He went on to say about that show in 2021, “my landscape work features a mix of old film (and infrared film in 4×5 sheet size) and newer digital work. Most of the photographs are from New Mexico and the Southwest. The large B&W images were some of the last I developed and printed in my garage darkroom, and while I have embraced digital, I find there is something unique and beautiful about the analog film/print that is hard to reproduce in digital.” So please come to honor Jim and Rachel and to view a beautiful exhibit and purchase the prints to benefit Outpost as Jim would have wanted you to do. Free.
Photographs may be purchased at any time during the Exhibit which will run from March 25-May 30.
Feb 14, 2024 | Inpost Artspace
March 22, 2024, 7:30 – 9:30pm
Join us for a discussion of the exhibition, Lightspace, with artist Zuyva Sevilla and members of the Albuquerque Astronomical Society, including astrophotographer Joey Troy, and physicist and astrophotographer Christopher Mauche. This exhibition, which is currently hanging in the Inpost Artspace, explores the overlap between art and science and pairs Sevilla’s digitally simulated images of photons with photographs of the cosmos by Mauche and Troy. The talk will explore how Sevilla’s micro-exploration of photons shares many similarities in process and visuals with Mauche and Troy’s photographs of the vastness of space. Following the talk, enjoy star gazing with a telescope in the Outpost courtyard! Free!
Jan 15, 2024 | News
We’re happy to announce that after many years of offering our members a $5 discount on ticket prices, we are NOW OFFERING OUTPOST MEMBERS A $10 DISCOUNT ON TICKETS! Our members are truly our lifeblood, and in turn we want to offer something a little extra for that support and loyalty! So, if you’re already a member, you’ll get a $10 discount when you purchase your tickets OR Become an Outpost Member Today and start enjoying your benefits for the new season ahead! Either way, we look forward to sharing another terrific season of music, art, classes and more at the Outpost and beyond!
Jan 7, 2024 | News
It’s time to sign up for Winter Session 2024 Jazz & Latin Music Classes!
The Latin Music Classes, taught by César Bauvallet, are now FULL! But, registration is still open for all other classes, including The Jam Session: A Jazz Artist Incubator with instructors Rodney Bowe and Paul Gonzales on Monday evenings; Open Source All Ages Class with Kanoa Kaluhiwa on Wednesday afternoon; and the Outpost Can Do Band Adult Class with Kanoa, also on Wednesday! All classes cover music theory, ear training, solo development, song forms and various rhythm section approaches and aim to build positive attitudes, trust, teamwork cooperation, confidence, compassion and a sense of humor—skills and values that will serve participants well beyond the workshop and throughout their entire educations and lives. In short, if you want to be there, we want you and a good time will be had by all.
Nov 27, 2023 | News
It’s the season of giving, and, that means it’s time again for Outpost’s Annual Year End Fundraising Appeal – Season’s Pleadings, our most important fundraising appeal of the year, when your 100% tax deductible donation makes all the difference! WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT MORE NOW THAN EVER so we can continue to present the best in jazz, international and experimental music, folk, blues and more, plus educational programs, art exhibits, & more year-round! A few words from Outpost Founder/Director, Tom Guralnick below:
November 2023
Dear Outpost Friends,
YEP! It’s that time again! Time for Outpost’s Year-End Fundraising Appeal —Season’s Pleadings — our most important fundraising appeal of the year, when your tax-deductible gift has the greatest impact on Outpost’s programs! Last year at this time, we talked about the great year we had as we were emerging from the pandemic. It’s hard to believe that we are still talking about the pandemic, but we gotta do it because we are still feeling the effects as audiences remain hesitant to return to intimate venues like the Outpost Performance Space. Listening to my colleagues in the field, this is true throughout the industry.
This past year was another fantastic one – first with limited audiences and masks required and then, as things loosened up, with higher capacity and voluntary masking. But, with audience numbers still slightly down, WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT NOW MORE THAN EVER in order to continue to provide world class music, art and educational programs in our intimate, friendly, respectful Outpost Performance Space as well as other venues.
Last year and the beginning of this season have been great at Outpost in so many ways! We had a terrific spring and summer season (Mark Guiliana, Immanuel Wilkins, David Doucet, AfroMundo Festival 2023, Magos Herrera, Geoff Muldaur, and the all-NM-based Artists’ Summer Thursday Jazz Nights Series, to name a few) and once again in September, we were able to present the New Mexico Jazz Festival (17th Annual) featuring a stunning and exciting three weeks of music (24 events in 25 days) in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Taos. And now, we look forward to the Spring 2024 Season! Some of the highlights include Magos Herrera; Bernstein/Goldings/Stewart Organ Trio; Jane Bunnett & Maqueuque; Armen Donelian; Ethan Iverson; Spring Record Fair; AfroMundo Festival 2024 w. Hubby Jenkins; Diane Richardson; John Hollenbeck’s George; Bobby Shew & Greg Ruggiero; Joe Fonda; Andy Milne Trio & more! It’s going to be another exciting one, and, of course IT’S ONLY MADE POSSIBLE WITH YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT!
We know we can continue to thrive and be stronger than ever as we move into another new year! Won’t you be part of our big, wonderful supportive family? MAKE A YEAR-END, TAX DEDUCTIBLE GIFT TODAY HERE! OR send a check to Outpost Productions, Inc., PO Box 4543, Albuquerque, NM, 87196. We thank you in advance for your love, generosity and support these many years, and we look forward to sharing the rest of the 2023-2024 season with you.
– Tom Guralnick, Founder & Executive Director Outpost Productions, Inc.
