Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass & other delights at the Kiva Auditorium June 19, 2026

Performing all of your favorite hit songs just the way you remember in a once in a lifetime concert tour!

Albuquerque, NM (November 18th, 2026) – Danny Zelisko Presents is bringing Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass to The Kiva Auditorium on Friday, June 19^th, 2026.  Tickets go on sale this Thursday, November 20^th @10am at Ticketmaster.com.

This show will be an evening with Herb Alpert and his brand-new Tijuana Brass.  Herb along with his 6 great musicians, will be playing all of your favorite TJB hit songs just as you remember hearing them while growing up. “The Lonely Bull”, “Spanish Flea”, “Taste of Honey”, “Mexican Shuffle”, “Tijuana Taxi”, “This Guy’s In Love With You”, “What Now My Love”, “Zorba The Greek”, “Ladyfingers”, “Rise” and many other delights.

The show runs 90 minutes and is informal as Herb loves to answer questions from the audience about his career, A&M Records and the many iconic artists like Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66, The Carpenters and Burt Bacharach that he has worked with over the past 63 years.  The show features a giant video screen that displays hundreds of classic photos, videos, art and various memorabilia from Herb’s music career.  A really exciting show and truly a Once in a Lifetime Concert Event!

A legendary trumpet player, Herb Alpert’s extraordinary musicianship has earned him five #1 hits, nine Grammy Awards, fifteen gold albums, fourteen Platinum albums and he has sold over 72 million records worldwide.  Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass propelled his sound into the pop music limelight, at one point outselling The Beatles two to one.  In 1966, they achieved the remarkable feat of simultaneously having four albums in the Billboard Top 10 and five in the Top 20.

Herb Alpert also has the distinction of being the only artist who has had a #1 instrumental (“Rise”) and a #1 vocal record (“This Guy’s In Love With You”).  In 2016 the Herb Alpert Presents record label released 40 deluxe re-masters of the entire TJB catalogue plus all of Herb’s solo albums from the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s.  In all, Alpert has recorded 50 albums and produced records for many other artists.

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ABOUT DANNY ZELISKO PRESENTS

Danny Zelisko began promoting shows in Arizona, in 1974, as a 19 year old transplant from Chicago. He soon founded the legendary concert promotion firm, Evening Star Productions, making the southwest a viable stop on most tours, producing thousands of shows over the years in Arizona, Las Vegas and New Mexico and eventually, all over the USA. Danny proudly partnered Grateful Dead shows with Bill Graham Presents in Phoenix and Las Vegas in the 80s and 90s, which helped transform this area of the country into a concert hotbed that benefited from this vision, to this day. After a brief dalliance with the corporate world of concert producing, Zelisko went solo again in 2011, producing thousands of shows since with many of his favorite acts that he grew up with, in the business, focusing locally on the Celebrity Theatre and Talking Stick Resort. In 2020, Danny put out a book to unanimous acclaim called ALL EXCE$$, covering his life and career over the years, available on Amazon. As a huge music fan, his current plans include booking even more shows all over the country, making sure that people all over feel the LIVE ON STAGE excitement of the great bands he has been exposed to since The Beatles put out their first record in 1963. THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A GREAT LIVE CONCERT is the mantra!

About Albuquerque Convention Center

Albuquerque Convention Center is part of the Legends Global portfolio, the largest and most diverse network of premier convention and trade show venues for millions of exhibitors and attendees across an extensive worldwide footprint that spans five continents. Located between the Rio Grande River and the Sandia Mountains in the heart of downtown Albuquerque, the 600,000-square-foot multipurpose complex offers flexible indoor and outdoor meeting and exhibit space that can accommodate events of up to 20,000 people. Its elegant yet intimate Kiva Auditorium boasts a proscenium stage and half-round seating for up to 2,300 people, perfect for concerts, comedy shows, lectures and more. Civic Plaza, the largest public outdoor space in the center of downtown, with a purpose to enhance the city’s sense of community, has a capacity of 20,000 people with a sizable performance stage and a large-scale movie projection system. The Jennifer Riordan Spark Kindness Regional Sports Complex features five fully lit, 100% turf championship-level baseball fields with on-site batting cages, and grandstand seating perfect for collegiate and regional tournaments and events. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram.