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The following events are just some of the events coming up this month. We generally update this list once a month, and stop updating about a month before so we can focus on the print edition instead. PLEASE REFER TO THE MONTHLY LISTINGS ELSEWHERE ON THE WEBSITE FOR MORE CURRENT INFORMATION
Sesame Street Live ‘123 Imagine! With Elmo and Friends’ — The Sesame Street Live friends’ annual Easter week shows are April 1-4 at the Abraham Chavez Theatre. Presented by VEE Corporation. Showtimes are 7 p.m. Thursday, 2 and 7 p.m. Friday, 10:30, 2 and 5:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 and 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $15.94, $20.11, $25.27 and $33.54. (Ticketmaster). Information: sesamestreetlive.com.
2010 USBC Women’s Championships — El Paso will host the national sports event March 29-July 9, at El Paso Convention Center, hosted by United States Bowling Congress. The tournament will be held for 100 consecutive days in the first arena-style women’s championship in USBC history. Information: 544-9000.
‘Climb for Life’ — The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s fundraising climbing 5K is Saturday, April 2, at Cohen Stadium. The event challenges people to huff and puff their way up and down the stairs at Cohen Stadium in an up and down climb with 14, 28 or 42 flights and even a 56 challenge flight. Check-in is 8:30 a.m. with staggered starts beginning at 9:30 a.m. Cost: $20 registration fee, plus $100 fundraising minimum. Information: (505) 883-1455 or newmexico.cff.org.
Cristo Rey pilgrimages — Pilgrimages and hikes are planned thoughout Easter weekend, Good Friday to Easter Sunday, April 2-4, by various groups of all denominations. Security and concessions are often on-hand throughout the weekend.
UTEP Softball — Home games are at the Helen of Troy Complex. Ticket information: 747-5347 or utepathletics.com.
• April 2-3 — Southern Miss. Games are 3 and 5 p.m. Friday (doubleheader) and noon Saturday.
April 24-24 — UAB. Games are 3 and 5 p.m. Saturday (doubleheader) and noon Sunday.
Tejanos baseball — The Tejanos of El Paso Community College’s home games are at noon at the Valle Verde Campus Baseball Field. All games are doubleheaders. Admission is free. Information: 831-2275.
April 2 — New Mexico Junior College
April 9-10 — Frank Phillips College
April 16-17 — Midland College
April 25 — New Mexico Military
Bill Maher — The ‘politically incorrect’ comic performs at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 3, at The Plaza Theatre. Tickets: $45.50-$75.50, plus service charge. sold through Ticketmaster. For the last 15 years, Maher has set the boundaries of where funny, political talk can go on American television. First on “Politically Incorrect,” and for the last seven years on HBO’s “Real Time,” Maher’s combination of unflinching honesty and big laughs have garnered him twenty-one Emmy nominations.
El Paso Sports and Health Expo — KROD’s annual family show is Sunday, April 4, at Sunland Park Racetrack and Casino. Several sports card and collectibles tables, and sports-related retailers, UTEP athletics and professional sports teams are featured along with celebrity guests and other activities. Admission is free. Information: 351-4592 or krod.com.
March Madness symphony fundraiser — The 13th annual fundraiser benefiting the El Paso Symphony Orchestra’s education and outreach programs is Monday, April 5, at the El Paso Country Club, featuring the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship finals on several wide-screen televisions. Information: 532-3776.
Chicago — The classic rock band returns to El Paso at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, at the Plaza Theatre. Tickets: $48, $58 and $78, plus service fees. (Ticketmaster)
Denver Brass with Lowell Graham — El Paso Pro-Musica presents its season finale performance at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, at NMSU’s Atkinson Music Recital hall and Wednesday, April 7, at UTEP’s Magoffin Auditorium. Ticket information: 833-9400 or eppm.org.
The Denver Brass is an energetic evening of music with musicians who have dedicated themselves to presenting fresh and exhilarating concerts of diverse and dynamic music styles. Colonel Lowell Graham, is a renowned recording artist served as the Commander and Conductor of the U.S. Airforce premiere music organization in Washington, D.C. He is also the senior ranking musician in the Department of Defense.
The Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Tour — Apprentices from the celebrated opera perform April 6-8, at Chamizal National Memorial, 800S. San Marcial. Information: 532-7273.
An Evening with Coach Dungy — The retired NFL Super Bowl-winning coach Tony Dungy will speak at 8 p.m. Friday, April 9, at UTEP’s Don Haskins Center. Proceeds benefit UTEP Athletics student-athlete scholarship fund. Tickets: $20, $30 and $60; available at the Miner Athletic Club in UTEP’s Brumbelow Building. Information: 747-8759.
‘La Cage Aux Folles’ – April 9-May 16 at UTEP Dinner Theatre. The theatre presents the award-winning musical version of the comic collision of gay and straight worlds. A gay nightclub manager and his drag queen partner pretend to be a straight couple when the manager’s son brings home his fiancée and her ultra-conservative parents. Written by by Harvey Fierstein and lyrics and music by Jerry Herman. Showtime is 7 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; dinner matinee performance is 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 25; non-dinner matinees are 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 2, 9 and 16. Tickets $26-$38 dinner shows; $12-22 non-dinner matinee. Information: 747-6060.
UTEP Track Invitational — Top-ranked university track teams and other athletes will compete in the annual all-day track meet, beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 10, at Kidd Field, UTEP. Information: 747-5347, 747-6841 or utepathletics.com.
‘An Affair to Remember’— The Alzheimer’s Association STAR Chapter of El Paso will host its 7th annual gift basket fundraiser 6:30 to 11 p.m. Saturday, April 10, at El Paso Country Club, with silent auction of gift baskets, dinner and dancing. Proceeds will benefit people with Alzheimer’s disease. Tickets: $100; $1,000 table for 10. Information: 544-1799.
Rudolf Budginas — Showtime! El Paso closes its 2009-2010 season with virtuoso pianist at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 10, at the Abraham Chavez Theatre. From his debut at age nine with the Lithuanian National Symphony to international prominence performing solo concerts worldwide, Budginas’s passion has become to expand the accessibility of classical music to wider audiences. He weaves information and humorous asides in to each performance showing direct musical lines between Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody” to Johnny Cash’s “I Walk The Line,” or even how Billy Joel might have drawn on classical structure to create “Piano Man.” Ticket information: 544-2022 or ShowtimeElPaso.com.
‘The Making of Great Music’ — Bruce Nehring Consort’s grand finale concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 10-11, at The Chapel at Loretto, 1400 Hardaway, with The Consort Singers directed by Nehring, and the Chamber Players, directed by guest violinist/violist and conductor Charles Gray. A professor at St. Olaf College in Northfield, N.H., Gray has appeared as violin soloist on NPR’s “Performance Today” and as a solo recitalist at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Age 6 and older welcome. Tickets: $15 ($10 senior/military; $5 students). Information: 534-7664.
Sgt. Ruben Orozco Torch Run — El Paso County Sheriff’s Officers Association’s 8K Run/2 Mile Walk benefiting Special Olympics Texas Area-19 programs is 8 a.m. Sunday, April 11, at Stanton and Cincinnati, Kern Place. Registration/information: 532-1795 or sotx.org.
‘Fun and Games’ – 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 16 at UTEP’s Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall. El Paso Wind Symphony closes its 2009-2010 season with a fun and energetic evening of music.Tickets: $12.50 ($7.50 students). Information: 760-5599.
El Paso Symphony Orchestra – The Symphony, conducted by Maestra Sarah Ioannides, presents its “Journey to the Star” 2009-2010 season finale “Epic Romance” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 16-17, in the Plaza Theatre, featuring guest tenor Diego Silva performing Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo and Juliet Fantasy,” favorite tenor arias from “La Traviata,” “Rigoletto” and “Faust,” Wagner’s “Lohengrin Prelude, Act III,” Mexican love songs “Júrame” by Maria Grever and “Granada” by Agustin Lara and Strauss’s “Rosenkavalier Waltzes.” Ticket information: 532-3776 or epso.org.
El Paso Artists Studio Tour — The 3rd annual tour is 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 17-18 featuring Westside, Upper Valley and Central El Paso (north of I-10) and Friday and Saturday April 24-25 throughout the Eastside, Mission Valley, Northeast and Downtown (south of I-10). Sponsored by Plein Air Painters of El Paso and El Paso Scene. Admission is free Information: 833-0636 or bobada@elp.rr.com
Tejanas softball — The EPCC Tejanas’ March home games begin at 1 p.m. at the Valle Verde Softball Field. All games are doubleheaders. Admission is free. Information: 831-2275. Softball office: 831-2367.
• April 16-17 — Odessa College
• April 23-24 — Western Texas College
Fabens Chili Cook-Off — East El Paso Rotary Club, Cotton Valley Lions Club and Pod of the Pass will host their 2nd annual CASI-sanctioned chili cook-off Saturday, April 17, at the Fabens Airport, one mile northeast of Fabens, Texas off N. Fabens Road. The event features chili, salsa and beans cook-offs, non-profits and information booths, arts, crafts and entertainment. Information: 594-7022.
Musicos de Jose – Amigos de la Fundacion Mascareñas 2010 Matices Culturales Series presents the diverse ensemble at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 17, at Centro Cultural Paso del Norte in Juarez. Musicos de Jose’s sounds range from Latin jazz to funk. Information: 533-4020 in El Paso; (011-52-16) 12-3175 or 12-4075 in Juarez.
‘Harlem Nights’ — JazzElPaso Connection will host a concert and 1930s Speakeasy Casino fundraiser at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 17, at Doubletree Hotel, 600 N. El Paso, 17th floor. The event features live music with Ruben Gutierrez Quintet. Tickets: $50. Information: 317-5503 or jazzelpaso.org. Information: 317-5503.
‘Irish Run’ — Cathedral High School’s 5th annual 5K competitive run and 1 mile fun walk begin at 8 a.m., Sunday, April 18. Information: 274-5222, 478-6583 or 724-3642. On-line registation at active.com or runelpaso.com.
Sunland Park Racetrack — The 2009-2010 live horse racing season runs through April 21. Races begin at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Admission and valet parking is free. Turf Club admission: $7. Information: (575) 874-5200.
Better Business Bureau and Torch Awards — Restauranteer “Famous Dave” Anderson is guest speaker at the BBB’s annual meeting and Torch Awards Wednesday, April 21. Information: 577-0195.
Administrative Professionals conference — Positive Directions presents the 9th annual Conference for Administrative Professionals Wednesday and Thursday, April 21-22. Information/registration: 838-1000 or apcsouthwest.com.
‘Of Mice and Men’ — The UTEP Department of Theatre and Dance presents the John Steinbeck tale April 23-May 2, at UTEP’s Wise Family Theatre, 2nd floor of Fox Fine Arts Center. Directed by Joel Murray. Performances are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $12 ($10 non-UTEP students, UTEP faculty, staff and alumni, seniors, military, alumni and groups of 10 or more; $9 UTEP students). All seats general admission. Information: 747-5118 or theatre.utep.edu.
‘The Murder Room’ – El Paso Playhouse, 2501 Montana, present the comic British whodunit by Jack Sharkey April 23-May 15. Directed by Fred Keyser. Showtimes are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $10 ($8 seniors, $7 military/students). Information: 532-1317, elpasoplayhouse.com.
First Thanksgiving Conference and Celebration — San Elizario Genealogy and Historical Society’s 19th annual conference “The Pass (El Paso) to the American Dream” is April 23-25, at Adobe Horseshoe Dinner Theater. The theater is across from the San Elizario Chapel at the San Elizario Veterans Memorial Plaza. Conference sessions and concert Saturday. Keynote speakers are Rabbi Stephen Leon and Vic Poulos. An art reception is Friday, with and art market Saturday and Sunday. Eden Enterprises’ annual “First Thanksgiving” reenactment is 5 p.m. Saturday in the San Elizario Plaza, presenting the arrival of the first Spanish settlers in this area in April 1598. Costumed actors and dancers portray the Native Americans and Spaniards. Admission is free; $20 for luncheon. Information: 851-9997.
Run/Walk For Respect — Arc del Paso will host its 6th annual 1-mile Mini-Walk, and 5K run Saturday, April 24. Information: 588-4927 or 852-8639. On-line registration at active.com.
Pod of the Pass Chili Cook-Off — The annual charity cook-off is Saturday, April 24, at American Legion Post 36, 3730 Shell. Competition begins at noon, and tasting begins at 4 p.m. Entry fee is $18 per participant. Admission is free for visitors. Tasting cups available for nominal fee. Proceeds benefit the legion’s charity fund. Hosted by the El Paso chapter of Chili Appreciation Society International, Inc. Information: 852-3599.
Junior Ranger Day — Chamizal National Memorial, 800 S. San Marcial, presents family and children’s programs 11 Saturday, April 24, as part of National Junior Ranger Day. Information: 532-7273 or nps.gov/cham.
Boy Scout Expo — The Yucca Council’s Boy Scouts Expo 2010 is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 24, at Cohen Stadium. The Boy Scouts will celebrate their 100th anniversary at this year’s event. Information 772-2292 or yuccabsa.org.
Niños, Dia de los Libros’ — The 14th annual children’s day/book day 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 24, at Washington Park, next to the El Paso Zoo. The day features book giveaways, family activities, entertainment and more. Admission is free. Information: 543-5468 or elpasolibrary.org.
FloraFest 2010 — The UTEP Centennial Museum’s annual native plant sale is Saturday and Sunday, April 24-25, at the museum Wiggins Road and University Ave. The annual lecture is Friday, April 23, on native plants in the area’s gardens. Information: 747-8994, 747-5565 or museum.utep.edu.
La Viña Blues & Jazz Festival — The annual spring celebration of music, arts and crafts, food and award-winning New Mexico wines is noon to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 24-25, at La Viña Winery, 4201 S. NM Highway 28 in La Union, N.M. one mile north of Vinton Road on Highway 28. Information: (575) 882-7632.
Special Olympics Spring Games — The Area 19 2010 Spring Games run April 24-May 8, with golf , aquatics, basketball and more. Opening ceremonies are Saturday, May 7, at Irvin High School, 9465 Roanoke. Admission is free. Information: 533-8229 or sotx.org.
EPSYO Season Finale Concert — El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestras’ season finale is Sunday, April 25, at the Plaza Theatre. Ticket information: 525-8978 or epsyos.org.
YWCA Women’s Benefit — Activist and philanthropist Malaak Compton-Rock is is speaker for the 17th annual benefit at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 29, at the Abraham Chavez Theatre. Seating is limited, reservations encouraged. Ticket information/reservations: 577-9922, ext. 331 or ywcaelpaso.org.
Norah Jones — The superstar singer/songwriter performs April 29 at the Plaza Theatre (Ticketmaster). At age 23, the daughter of Ravi Shanki emerged on the music scene with a 2002 debut album that earned five Grammys. She has sold over 40 million albums worldwide.
Jones, who also plays piano, keyboard and guitar, is known as a jazz vocalist influenced by soul, folk and country.
Relay for Life — The American Cancer Society will host its first 2010 event 7 p.m. Friday to 7 a.m. Saturday, April 30-May 1, at Fort Bliss’s Stout Field. Participants, including cancer survivors, friends, caregivers and families, from throughout El Paso will walk or run the track all night long, in teams of 8-12 people, to raise funds for cancer research. Information: Oscar Corral, 549-0198 or ocorral@epelectric.com; Christina Aragon, 544-4427 or christina.aragon@cancer.org. Web: cancer.org.
The Luminaria Ceremony is sunset, where names of loved ones are remembered through lit luminarias each bearing the name of a cancer victim. Luminarias may be purchased with a donation.
Southern New Mexico
‘Gee ‘n Ess & ‘I’ — Dr. George Jarden will host his original one-man musical show at 7:15 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 1-4 and May 6-9, at the Rio Grande Theatre, 211 N. Downtown Mall in Las Cruces. A special grand opening show and champagne gala is Thursday, April 1. Tickets: $15 ($13 seniors April 4 and May 9 show) $13 ($10 seniors all other shows). Students admitted free. Gala tickets: $50. Information: (575) 525-6720 or 4artsproductions.org.
Denver Brass with Lowell Graham — El Paso Pro-Musica presents its season finale performance at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, at NMSU’s Atkinson Music Recital hall and Wednesday, April 7, at UTEP’s Magoffin Auditorium. Ticket information: 833-9400 or eppm.org.
‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ — The Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice masterpiece returns to Las Cruces at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 12, at NMSU’s Pan American Center. Tickets: $52 floor; $26, $36 and $42 in the bowl, plus service charge. Discounts offered for groups or ten or more and children age 2 through 12. (Ticketmaster).
Bassekou Kouyate – ASNMSU Cultural Series presents the international musician 8 p.m. Thursday, April 15 at the Rio Grande Theatre in the Las Cruces Downtown Mall. One of Mali’s best-known ngoni players, Tickets: $15 ($10 students). Ticket information: (575) 646-1420.
Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort and Casino — Mescalero, N.M. Age 21 and older admitted. (Ticketmaster) Information: 1-877-277-5677 or innofthemountaingods.com. Creedence Clearwater Revisited performs at 8 p.m. Friday, April 16. Tickets: $25-$75.
Ana Moura – ASNMSU Cultural Series closes its season at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 21 at the Rio Grande Theatre in the Las Cruces Downtown Mall. The 25-year-old Portuguese vocalist’s soulful and riveting interpretation of her land’s captivating fado style has made her a star in Europe. Tickets: $15 ($10 students). Ticket information: (575) 646-1420.
Full Moon Bicycle Ride — The family bicycle ride is 9 p.m. Saturday, April 30, along White Sands National Monument’s Dunes Drive. Ride 16 miles through the monument under a full moon after cars have left. Helmet and light required. Reservations required and can only be made via the website at nps.gov/whsa up to one month in advance of event. Cost: $5 ($2.50 for children and Golden Age passport holders). Advance reservations required. Cost: $5 ($2.50 for children and Golden Age passport holders).Information: (575) 679-2599, ext. 111.
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