Jun 12, 2025 | News
The temps are heating up and we are ready for a Hot Hot Hot Summer of great music and more here at the Outpost and beyond! It’s also that time again – Outpost’s Summer Fundraising Appeal! We Have To Do It! Many of you will be receiving a letter from Outpost Director, Tom Guralnick, in the mail soon, but we want to share it with everyone because you are all part of the Outpost family and your support makes it all happen! See below letter from Tom . . .
Dear Friends,
Happy Summer 2025 to all of you — our amazing Outpost community! Because of your generosity, we’re still swinging, still strong, and still bringing you the best in live jazz, folk, world, and experimental music, along with vibrant Inpost Artspace exhibits, classes, and youth programming all year long. Thank you!
Now, I’ll get right to it: we’re asking for your support once again — this time for our Summer Fundraising Appeal. You’ve already shown up in big ways these past several months. From the Year-End Appeal to most recently, when you helped us replace the $25,000 NEA grant rescinded by the White House — we are incredibly grateful! A committed group came together to help us get back to the starting line. Now, we need your help to move forward. Your gift today helps us:
– Pay artists and teachers fair wages
– Keep our Jazz & Latin Music classes for Youth and Adults affordable
– Bring you the 19th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival this September
We know many of you have already stretched your giving this year — and we’re so thankful. If you’re able to take one more step, please make a tax-deductible gift here today! OR send a check made out to Outpost Productions, Inc. to PO Box 4543, Albuquerque NM 87196.
We’re especially excited about this summer’s 29th Annual Summer Thursday Jazz Nights, beginning June 26 which was curated by bassist Asher Barreras and sponsored, once again, by Southwest Gastroenterology Associates. And, mark your calendars for these other summer/fall events:
– July 19: NM Jazz Festival Stage at Route 66 Summerfest
– August 15: Spanish Harlem Orchestra at the Albuquerque Museum (a co-sponsorship with the New Mexico Jazz Workshop)
– September 4–28: 19th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival
Your support makes it all possible. Let’s keep Outpost healthy, happy, and humming with life. Thank you for being part of this journey with us.
Tom Guralnick,
Founder & Executive Director
Outpost Productions, Inc.
May 28, 2025 | News
Wow! What an amazing Outpost community we have! As you probably know by now, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) rescinded a promised $25,000 grant (as they did with most arts groups in the country) for the 19th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival this September. That funding has been critical in helping us to produce the festival and something we have received and relied upon from the NEA since we started presenting the Festival in 2006. In light of this, Outpost Director, Tom Guralnick, sent out an appeal last week to ask the Outpost community to help recoup those funds, and a generous donor offered to replace that grant with a gift of $12,500 if the community could match it with the other $12,500. Well, within 4 days, in response to that appeal, you responded with donations, concert sponsorships, and memberships to the tune of $8,000, at which point another donor called and said they would finish out the match with a gift of $4,500! So, in just one week, we (YOU!) did it! We knew you could and it is truly fantastic. Our deepest thanks to all!
While that effort replaced the expected grant and brought us back to our norm, we must keep on raising money, as we do every year, to continue to do what we do – bring you the best in jazz, folk, international and experimental music, art exhibits at the Inpost Artspace, Jazz & Latin Music Classes for Youth & Adults, the month-long New Mexico Jazz Festival, and more, year-round! And, thus starts our Summer Fundraising Appeal, which we do every June. We will be sending out a letter by mail and by email very soon! Whatever you can contribute is greatly appreciated! Or, if you have already reached your level of giving we totally understand and appreciate you!
Here’s how you can help support Outpost:
– MAKE A TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION TODAY for our Summer 2025 Fundraising Appeal!
– BECOME AN OUTPOST MEMBER! Join the 800 people who have already done so and receive discounts to all those concerts you attend!
– SPONSOR A CONCERT! (Jazz Festival or Regular Season) OR become a 2025 New Mexico Jazz Festival Title Sponsor!
– ATTEND CONCERTS & INVITE YOUR FRIENDS TO JOIN YOU! Spread the word!
Coming right up is Outpost’s 29th Annual Summer Thursday Jazz NIghts (June 26–August 21); plus, the 19th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival (September 4-28); Outpost’s Jazz & Latin Music Classes for Youth & Adults (July 7-August 27th) – Registration now open (though please note the Latin Jazz class on Tuesday is now full)! and more!
However you choose to Support Outpost, please do it TODAY! And we thank you in advance for your love and support!
Jan 9, 2025 | News
It’s another great CD/Record/Book Sale to Benefit Outpost! Saturday, May 17, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Outpost! This event will feature a very large selection of classical recordings (LP and CD) and sheet music, plus A LIMITED quantity of non-classical LPs, a nice collection of CDs spanning all musical genres and a small assortment of 78 rpm and 7″ vinyl, cassette tapes, videos and music books! ALL items for sale will be priced at $1 or less! Don’t Miss Out! Come find your treasures at bargain prices! All proceeds benefit Outpost.
Dec 16, 2024 | News
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM ALL OF US AT OUTPOST! And with the holiday season comes Outpost’s Annual Year End Fundraising Appeal – Season’s Pleadings, our most important fundraising appeal of the year, when your 100% tax deductible donation has the greatest impact on Outpost’s programs! Outpost Founder/Director details below why your support is so important to us! So, if you can, make a donation TODAY (or anytime through December 31) and let’s Keep Outpost Strong & Swingin’ into the New Year! However and whenever you can give to help support Outpost this season is greatly appreciated and we thank you in advance for your love and support! We truly can’t do what we do without you!
Dear Friend of Outpost,
As we enter the holiday season after a tumultuous year of politics, one thing we can all agree on and celebrate is the joy we give and receive through our involvement in the arts. Whether we are performers, students, or audience members, I believe we can we all agree that the arts inspire and lift us together to a better place. In this season of celebration, family, and generosity, we are asking you once again this year (as you do every year) to answer Outpost’s Year-End Fundraising Appeal—we call it SEASON’S PLEADINGS— so that we may continue to share our cultural cornucopia with you. Season’s Pleadings is our most important fundraising appeal of the year, when your tax-deductible gift has the greatest impact on Outpost’s programs! Where ticket sales in our small space can only provide 35% of our income, it should be clear that, in order to continue to provide world class music, art and educational programs in our intimate, friendly, respectful Outpost Performance Space and beyond, WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT.
Last spring and the fall season so far, have been great at Outpost in so many ways! We had a terrific spring and summer season (including Hubby Jenkins, Magos Herrera, Raul Midón, the Goldings, Bernstein, Stewart Organ Trio, Ethan Iverson, and the all-NM-based Artists’ Summer Thursday Jazz Nights Series). In September, we presented the 18th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival featuring a stunning and exciting three and a half weeks of music (25 events in 25 days) in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Taos with memorable performances by Dave Holland, Joshua Redman, Ranky Tanky and Ms. Lisa Fischer, Meshell Ndegeocello, Jazzmeia Horn, Marc Ribot, John Santos and so many more! Flip this letter over and you will see what we offered this past year plus a few Teaser Highlights for our Spring 2025 Season, which opens in late February. It’s going to be another exciting one, and again, 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 by MAKING A YEAR-END, TAX DEDUCTIBLE GIFT TODAY? An additional way to support our programs is Become an Outpost member! We have 850 members now! OR, maybe you’d like to SPONSOR AN OUTPOST CONCERT! Last Spring we received a record number of 16 sponsorships. Concert sponsorship runs from $1000 up, and this year we are offering a Jazz Festival Title Sponsorship for $20,000. If you are interested, contact us at mail@outpopstspace.org
We thank you in advance for your love, generosity and support these many years, and we look forward to sharing the rest of the 2024-2025 season with you.
Sincerely,
Tom Guralnick
Founder & Executive Director
Outpost Productions, Inc.
Oct 29, 2024 | News
Mark your calendars and come find your treasures! It’s Outpost’s Semi Annual CD/Record/ Book Fair and, this fall, it’s a special Inventory Clearance Sale! Thousands of items, including vinyl records, CD/DVDs, cassette tapes, music books and more), spanning ALL musical genres at greatly reduced prices, some starting at just 10 cents! It’s going to be a great one! FREE admission. ALL proceeds benefit Outpost. We are also accepting donations of all types of music related items (must be in good condition!) for future sale events. To arrange for delivery (or pick up if necessary), please email: volunteer@outpostspace.org.
