Range Cafe brings live music to Bernalillo, New Mexico with an All Ages door policy and room for roughly 70. The Range Café®, with six locations, has been a local favorite since 1992, featuring breakfast, lunch and dinner 7 days a week. Live music is held on Friday and Saturday nights. Artists working in Acoustic, Americana, Bluegrass, Blues, Folk, Folk Rock, and Jazz fit Range Cafe’s stated range. Range Cafe accepts booking inquiries by email. The available PA and production support at Range Cafe are not confirmed; settle those requirements before accepting the date. Artists should confirm Range Cafe’s final schedule and show-specific deal before publishing the date.
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Kaktus Brewing Company is Bernalillo’s only brewery, with music Wednesday-Saturday nights plus Saturday-Sunday afternoons. Wednesday is jazz jam, while Thursday and weekend afternoons are regular-performer territory. Booking is by email, artists play for tips, and performers bring their own PA and microphones. The calendar is broad enough to offer multiple entry points, but it also makes one thing clear: a new act should know whether it is asking for an evening show, a daytime beer-garden-type set, or a place inside an existing regular rotation. Email live video, lineup, genre, desired slot, draw, set length, and a full equipment plan. Confirm indoor or outdoor placement, power, speaker coverage, mixer, monitors, microphones, soundcheck, load-in, tips process, food, drinks, merch, breaks, jazz-jam participation, and promotion. Tips-only gigs need an honest crowd expectation, especially when a daytime performance competes with sunshine, errands, and the powerful human desire to pretend one beer is lunch. Jazz is the clear Wednesday language; folk, Americana, country, blues, acoustic rock, indie, roots, covers, and approachable originals can work other slots. Weekend afternoons may favor family-friendly warmth, while evening shows can carry more momentum. Do not treat the regular-performer slots like empty real estate; build a relationship. Kaktus suits self-contained artists who can fit a brewery’s evolving weekly rhythm. Send the email, bring the PA, understand the tip arrangement, and make the beer feel like the second-best reason people decided to stay.
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- Capacity
- 23
- Capacity notes
- - 50
- Age policy
- All Ages
- Genres
- Acoustic, Americana, Bluegrass, Blues, Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B, Singer-Songwriter, Swing
- Sound & production
- No house sound system
- Address
- 471 S. Hill Road, 87004, United States
- Venue phone
- (505) 818-7285
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