Outpost Performance Space

Outpost Performance Space and the newly merged New Mexico Jazz Workshop are excited to announce a full summer of music! Featuring concerts all summer long at the Albuquerque Museum Amphitheater, plus indoor jazz nights!

The 35th Annual Music Under the Stars returns June 12 – August 28 at the Albuquerque Museum Amphitheater!

Fridays: Salsa y Más (guest curator Pancho Quiñones)
Saturdays: Jazz & Blues Under the Stars

Featured artists include Son Como Son, Nosotros, Flor de Toloache, Team Havana, Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra, and many more.

PLUS:
• 30th Annual Summer Thursday Jazz Nights at Outpost Performance Space (June 25 – Aug. 13)
• NM Jazz Festival Stage at Route 66 Summerfest (July 18)

All tickets and season passes are on sale now at outpostspace.org

Schedule | The Outpost Schedule A word about ticket prices, membership and sponsorship… …for the Music Under the Stars Series. This year, you will notice that ticket prices have gone up from last year’s prices by $5. That said, if you become a member of Outpost/New Mexico Jazz Workshop, there is a member discount of...

OUTPOST SPRING BENEFIT RECORD FAIR
Two Days Only!

Saturday, May 9 | 9 AM–2 PM
Sunday, May 10 | 10 AM–2 PM
Blowout Sale Sunday: Everything 75% off

This year’s fair features a huge selection of classical items along with hundreds of books, sheet music, scores, play-along materials, and music learning resources for all levels — from curious beginners to serious students, teachers, performers, and collectors.

Browse materials for jazz, classical, improvisation, percussion, keyboard, voice, vintage sheet music, and more. Whether you're exploring Beethoven, boogie woogie, opera, African drumming, string quartets, or classic songs by Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, and John Lennon, there’s something here for every kind of music lover.

Proceeds support the Outpost renovation project scheduled for 2027.

Free admission
210 Yale Blvd SE
More info at outpostspace.org

Next Week!

Renowned tenor saxophonist and longtime New Mexican resident, Doug Lawrence, returns to Outpost, this time with his quartet featuring John Trentacosta on drums, Bob Fox on piano and Terry Burns on bass performing a swinging assortment of originals, jazz standards and blues, bossas and ballads. The featured tenor saxophone soloist with the twenty-time Grammy winning Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, Lawrence, who was born in Louisiana and raised in New Mexico, spent over 25 years making a name for himself in New York City. He has performed and recorded with iconic artists like Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Nancy Wilson, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Williams, Celia Cruz, Benny Goodman, Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Rodney Dangerfield, Joey DeFrancesco and many others and has appeared at virtually every major concert hall and performance venue around the world. He has performed for six U.S. Presidents, the Queen of England, the King of Thailand, the King and Queen of Sweden and numerous Heads of State and continues to perform and record with many of today’s leading artists, including Billie Eilish, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Carmen Bradford, Dianne Schuur, George Cables, Peter Bernstein, Louis Hayes, Terell Stafford, to name a few. In 2023, Mr Lawrence was inducted into the New Mexico Music Hall of Fame, and on February 4th, 2024, he won a Grammy® as a featured soloist, along with the rest of the Count Basie Orchestra, for Large Ensemble Jazz Album of the year. 2026 finds Mr Lawrence once again on a Grammy® nominated album, this time with vocalist Debra Silver, as well as touring and recording as leader of his own bands, leading the Annual Eddie Durham All-Star Celebration Big Band in Austin TX, continuing his tenure with the venerable Count Basie Orchestra and more.

Doug Lawrence Quartet sponsored by Janet Simon and Mark Weber @ Outpost Performance Space Albuquerque, NM - April 23rd 2026 7:30 pm Renowned tenor saxophonist and longtime New Mexican resident, Doug Lawrence, returns to Outpost, this time with his quartet featuring John Trentacosta on drums, Bob Fox on piano and Terry Burns on bass performing a swinging assortment of originals, jazz…