Spring 2020 Season Tickets On Sale! Jazz & Latin Music Classes Begin Feb 10! + New Class: Nothin’ But The Blues w. Claudio Tolousse, Starts Feb 18 + More

The Spring 2020 Season is just ahead and TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE for most shows. Still a few to add, so keep checking the Schedule page! Spring newsletters will be mailed out in early February and we only send it to Outpost members, sponsors, etc, so if you are not yet a member and would like to get a copy in your mailbox, Become an Outpost Member Today! You’ll also get discounts on tickets, member update mailings, member-only events, etc!

Interested in sponsoring an Outpost concert? We’d love your support! Outpost Concert Sponsors receive all kinds of great benefits while helping to support great live music here in NM, including advertising in our newsletters, concert programs and more, tickets to shows, banners, etc.! Give us a call at 505-268-0044 to learn more about how you can reach a new audience for your business while helping to support Outpost, one of the premiere arts presenters in the Southwest!   Check out Sponsorship Brochure here!

Meanwhile our Outpost Education programs begin soon!

– Spring 2020 Jazz & Latin Music Classes For Youth & Adults Begin February 10!

NEW CLASS: Nothin’ But The Blues!, Tuesdays, 7:45-9:15pm, Starting February 18!

And

Music Together Classes for Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers & Their Families, running Tuesdays, January 7-March 10! Drop-ins welcome!

 

We look forward to sharing another exciting season of music
& more with you here at the Space and beyond!

 

 

 

Dexter Gordon Legacy Quartet Concert This Friday – Sold Out!

Wow what a great masterclass that was on Wednesday with the Dexter Gordon Legacy Quartet! Doug Lawrence, Louis Hayes, George Cables and John Webber offered some invaluable musical and life lessons to the Outpost advanced jazz students and it was a real treat for all! Thank you to everyone who participated and came out to this great event, including these four jazz legends! We are very lucky to have them here! Meanwhile, this Friday’s concert with the quartet is SOLD OUT! Please call us at 505-268-0044 if you’d like to be on the waiting list.

Then, next week, we have a little break from concerts and events for Thanksgiving, after which we return with all kinds of great music and much more! Spoken word champion Buddy Wakefield, Leni Stern African Trio, Baracutanga, Bobby Shew Sextet and much more!  Full Schedule Here!

We look forward to sharing all the music and more with you and wish you all a Happy Hearty Thanksgiving!

Summer Season Wraps Tonight with Roust The House Teen Performance Night! + Check out all the cool Outpost Rentals This Month!

Closing our 2019 Outpost summer season tonight, it’s another great Roust the House Teen Performance Night! What a great summer of music and so much more! And even though the Outpost season comes to an end, there are still some other great independently presented shows coming up: Singer-songwriter Madalena celebrates a CD release on Saturday, August 17; AMP Concerts presents the great Eliza Gilkyson on Sunday the 18th; + more! SEE THE FULL SCHEDULE HERE!

And as we finish one season, we are busy getting ready for the next! Fall 2019 is going to be great! It all begins on Friday, September 6 with an Inpost Artspace Reception: FLOW RIDING EDGE WHISPRS: WORK BY timothy jason reed. Then, our Fall Jazz & Latin Music Classes for Youth & Adults begin on September 9. There’s still time to register!  PLUS, NEW THIS SEASON: Music Together Family Classes – a music and movement approach to early childhood music development for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarten children and their parents, teachers, and other primary caregivers. Tuesdays, September 17- November 19, 4:30pm. There will be a Music Together demo class at Outpost on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 4:30–5:15 pm!

And of course, the concert line-up! Highlights include Mike LeDonne Groover Quartet; Gerald Clayton Quartet; Geoff Muldaur; Jenny Scheinman & Allison Miller’s Parlour Game; Chick Corea’s Trilogy with Christian McBride & Brian Blade at Lensic; Dmitri Matheny; Laurie Antonioli’s Tribute to Joni Mitchell; Miguel Zenon; Shahid Parvez Khan; Steel House w. Ed Simon, Scott Colley and Brian Blade; Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole; Dexter Gordon Tribute Band w.Doug Lawrence, Louis Hayes, George Cables, John Webber; and much more! Then, in the Spring 2020, we’ve got Melissa Aldana; Rahim AlHaj; Michael Morreale; Myra Melford’s Snowy Egret; Lorca Hart-Nicolas Bearde; Jazzmeia Horn; Tim Berne; and more! Stay tuned as tickets will go on sale for some of the fall shows soon!

Thank you for coming out and supporting live music, art, spoken word and more! We look forward, as always, to sharing it all with you!

Jazz Fest At The Lensic Santa Fe: Fri 7/26: Kenny Barron-Dave Holland w. Nasheet Waits; Sat 7/27: Stanley Clarke Band; Joey Alexander Closes The Festival, Sun 7/28 at AAPAC!

The NM Jazz Festival spends a couple nights up at the Lensic in Santa Fe for two great concerts: NEA Jazz Masters Kenny Barron-Dave Holland Trio with Nasheet Waits on Friday, July 26; and the Stanley Clarke Band, Saturday, July 27. Then, wrapping up this year’s fesitval is the phenomenal young jazz pianist, Joey Alexander with his Trio at the African American Performing Arts Center, Sunday, July 28. These shows are close to sold out, so Get your tickets here!

Then, the 24th Annual Summer Thursday Jazz Nights series resumes with the Bobcats + pianist Markus Gottschlich’s Trio on August 1, followed by the Alpha Cats + Christine Fawson Group on August 8, and Claudio Tolousse + Hillary Smith & Michael Anthony on the 15th!  It’s a great series featuring some of New Mexico’s best jazz artists, so come on out and support all the great local talent that resides right here in your own backyard! And each show is only $15 ($10 for Outpost Members & Students)!  ALSO, there the 16th Annual Southwest Shootout Regional Poetry Slam Championships on August 10 and Roust the House Teen Performance Night to wrap up the great 2019 Summer Season!  PLUS, don’t forget some great independently presented shows at the Space. Check out the full schedule of events here!

We look forward to seeing you and sharing all the great music & more with you!

This Weekend at the NM Jazz Festival: Aaron Diehl Quartet w. Warren Wolf (Tonight!); + Inpost Artspace Reception; Film Screening: The Modern Jazz Quartet; & Edmar Castaneda!

Wow, did Cha Wa funk it up at the Outpost or what?! What fun! And great musicians! Now we’re swinging into a big NM Jazz Fest weekend starting with the 6th Annual John Lewis Celebration featuring the Aaron Diehl Quartet with Warren Wolf at South Broadway Cultural Center (7/19). Then, Saturday (7/20), it’s Route 66 Summerfest  in Nob Hill, Abuquerque with a NM Jazz Fest Stage (Central & Carlisle) and a NM Jazz Fest Youth Stage! All starting at 5pm! Come on out and enjoy an evening of great music, art markets, car shows, KidZone and more! And on Sunday, July 21 at Outpost it’s an Inpost Artspace Reception from 2-4pm featuring work by Edgar Sorrells Adewale, followed  by a Film Screening of George Schuller’s The Modern Jazz Quartet: From Residency to Legacy at 4pm. AND on Sunday evening Colombian harp virtuoso Edmar Castaneda will wow audiences once again, this time at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, 7pm

NEXT WEEK at the Jazz Fest, it’s Edmar Castaneda at Santa Fe Bandstand with Chuy Martinez’ Trio Los Trinos opening (7/23); Dafnis Prieto’s Proverb Trio at Outpost (7/25); NEA Jazz Masters Kenny Barron-Dave Holland Trio (7/26); A.B. Spellman’s Meet the NEA Jazz Masters (7/26); Stanley Clarke (7/27); and Joey Alexander (7/28)! WOW! Check it all out and get your tickets here!

We look forward to seeing you and sharing all the great music & more with you!

The Outpost