BROUGHT TO YOU BY

The New Mexico Jazz Festival is a collaborative project of
The Outpost Performance Space
The Lensic Performing Arts Center
and The Santa Fe Jazz Foundation
all 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations.

OUTPOST PERFORMANCE SPACE
Established in 1988, The Outpost Performance Space is Albuquerque’s non-profit, member-supported, community-based Performing Arts Center. While presenting numerous concerts in larger venues, including those of the New Mexico Jazz Festival each July, Outpost’s home is at The Space— an intimate venue located at 210 Yale Blvd SE just down the street from the University of New Mexico. Outpost presents more than 100 concerts each year— jazz, experimental, folk & roots, spoken word, teen performance nights and much more— plus classes  for youth and adults. Outpost also host visual arts exhibits in the Inpost Artspace. The Outpost Performance Space is unique— intimate and elegant— and we invite you to come see us. For more information go to www.outpostspace.org

The Lensic Performing Arts Center
The Lensic Performing Arts Center is Santa Fe’s premier year-round performing arts center: a state-of-the art venue for theater, music, dance, film, lectures, community events and family programming set in a historic theater in the heart of the City Different. The Lensic offers over 250 performances a year, technical apprenticeships in the performing arts, and free performances to over 20,000 local school children a year. The "Lensic Presents Series" reaches out beyond the traditional performing arts to bring new and original works to Santa Fe. "Under Construction" an original, ongoing series showcases theater pieces under development. "Big Screen Classics" honors The Lensic’s origins as a movie house by screening treasured movies from the earliest silent films to the latest in high definition satellite broadcasting. "World Music Series" brings international musicians and artists from the Balkans and Bhutan to Egypt, Ireland, Ethiopia and Japan to The Lensic stage. For more information go to www.lensic.org

The Santa Fe Jazz Foundation
The Santa Fe Jazz Foundation was founded in 1990. Its mission is to help musicians in need and to financially support college jazz programs as well as other jazz organizations throughout the country. Traditionally, the Foundation has helped musicians who are experiencing health problems and are without insurance or who are unable to work. Over the years, many musicians have been helped by the generous support of individuals through the Santa Fe Jazz Foundation. In additon to its philanthropic work, the Santa Fe Jazz Foundation has presented hundreds of concerts in both Santa Fe and Albuquerque in venues ranging from the Santa Fe Opera to the St Francis Auditorium and The Hive.

NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL PRESENTING PARTNERS

New Mexico Jazz Workshop
The New Mexico Jazz Workshop (NMJW) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the American improvisational art form known as Jazz.  The NMJW’s mission is to promote Jazz Education and Performance through its varied programs which comprise the following:  the Summer Music Festival; the Winter Guest Artist Series,  the New Mexico Jazz Workshop Institute of Music which provides free professional musical instruction, instruments, and resources for students in the public educational system; The Roots of Jazz and Jazz Outreach Programs; Jazz Camp and the Summer Jazz Intensive ; and the New Mexico Jazz Workshop Honor Jazz Ensemble for Middle School and High School students. The New Mexico Jazz Workshop facility is located at 5500 Lomas Boulevard NE in Albuquerque. More detailed information about the NMJW can be found at www.nmjazz.org

Santa Fe Bandstand/Outside In
Santa Fe Bandstand is a free summer festival on the Santa Fe Plaza Stage produced by Outside In, in collaboration with the City of Santa Fe and featuring the best music of this region including Latin, Blues, Rock, R&B, Native, World beat, Country, Jazz, Swing, Reggae, Folk, Zydeco, Electronic, Hip Hop, Spoken Word, Classical, Dance etc. Santa Fe Bandstand 2008 will feature up to 80 performances from July 7th to August 21st. Monday through Thursday evenings 6 to 8:30 pm and every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon from noon to 12:30pm. Outside In is a nonprofit, community-based group established in the spring of 1995, to bring free, live performances, presentations and workshops to people confined to shelters, residential treatment facilities, nursing homes, correctional facilities, and any other institutions or human services programs where people would otherwise not have access to the arts. The Youth with Promise program presents free weekly guitar, dance, & visual arts workshops to juvenile offenders in detention and on probation, to at-risk youth in shelters and residential treatment programs and other underserved youth in the community. For more information about Santa Fe Bandstand and Outside/In go to
www.outsideinproductions.org/santafebandstand

NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL VENUES

SANTA FE VENUES

The Lensic Performing Arts Center
211 West San Francisco St.

Santa Fe Plaza
West San Franciso St. and Lincoln Avenue

ALBUQUERQUE VENUES

The Outpost Performance Space
210 Yale Blvd. SE: 2 blocks south of Central

Harry E. Kinney Civic Plaza
4th & Marquette: Downtown Albuquerque

Old Town Plaza
Between Romero & San Felipe Streets
1 block north & east of Rio Grande and Central NW

Albuquerque Museum Amphitheater
Mountain Rd. & 19th St.