Sebastian Maniscalco Stay Hungry Tour 2019
Ticket Prices: $28.00, $35.00, $43.00, $59.00
Saturday, August 31, 2019 / 8pm
Route 66 Casino presents comedian, actor and best-selling author Sebastian Maniscalco at Albuquerque’s Legends Theater!
Dubbed “the comedian’s comedian” by PEOPLE, and distinguished by the New York Times as having his “own kind of panache,” Maniscalco’s live performances have become critically-acclaimed events “embraced with thundering applause and tear-inducing laughter,” according to a Billboard review describing his Sept. 8, 2018 sold-out Greek Theatre performance as “devastatingly full-force comedy.”
2018 was a milestone year for Maniscalco with a string of record-breaking sold-out comedy appearances, a best-selling memoir Stay Hungry (available in paperback Nov. 13), five sold-out shows at New York’s iconic Radio City Music Hall, appearances in fall films Cruise and Green Book, alongside Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, and Viggo Mortensen, culminating in Maniscalco receiving Billboard’s inaugura
Still, for Maniscalco, the work continues. Says the comedian, “There’s a voice always in the back of my head saying ‘Don’t rest!”
Purchase your tickets at the Route 66 Casino Player’s Club Box Office or online today! You do not want to miss the best comedy night in Albuquerque!
See Sebastian Manicalco host the MTV Video Music Awards on Monday, August 26th.
Rob Thomas Chip Tooth Tour
Friday, September 13, 2019 / 8pm
Ticket Prices: $50, $75, $90, $120
Route 66 Casino Hotel presents Rob Thomas: Chip Tooth Tour!
Life, love, and music eventually arrive full circle. We reach the place where we began not only wiser, but with more wonder for the bearing of the past on the future. Three-time GRAMMY® award winner Rob Thomas progresses by recognizing his roots. In fact, the singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and Matchbox Twenty co-founder picks up a thread from his formative years and weaves a bold and bright new chapter on his fourth solo offering, Chip Tooth Smile (Emblem/Atlantic Records).
Fittingly, the experience earned from over two decades as one of modern music’s preeminent songwriter and front men empowers him to do so.
“I’ve always been a radio kid,” he explains. “I grew up listening to all of this music from the late seventies and early eighties in the car with my mom. I knew every lyric to every song on the air. There’s a sensibility to the way I write that’s been informed by eighties songwriters, especially. I feel like I grow each year. Hopefully, that trend will continue until I am ready to stop.
He most certainly does on Chip Tooth Smile. In fact, the record represents a confluence of firsts for the New York-based artist. After three tour packed summers, he took the summer of 2018 off and commenced writing for what would become his latest album. Three years removed since 2015’s The Great Unknown, he amassed a career high 60 ideas to be whittled down into the next body of work. All along, there would be no choice but to work with longtime friend Butch Walker behind-the-board as producer. It notably marked his first collaboration outside of producers Matt Serletic and Steve Lillywhite, but one he admits to “manifesting.”
Throughout his illustrious career, Thomas has consistently made history. He received a rare Diamond Award from the RIAA for Matchbox Twenty’s 12-times platinum debut Yourself or Someone Like You. His 2005 platinum solo debut, Something to Be, became “the first album by a male artist from a rock or pop group to debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 since the chart debuted.” Its follow-up cradlesong cemented him as “the only male artist with multiple #1 hits at Adult 40,” while he tied P!nk for “most #1s by a solo artist in the chart’s history.” Not to mention, he teamed up with Santana for 1999’s “Smooth,” which not only earned three GRAMMY® Awards, but also held the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 weeks and spent 58 total weeks on the chart. The song emerged as #1 song in Billboard’s Top Hot 100 Rock Songs” chart history and “#2 Hot 100 Song of All-Time”. “Smooth” was also declared the all-time #1 song on Billboard’s “Adult Pop Songs” radio airplay chart, the #1 song of the Rock Era based on chart performance on Billboard’s Hot 100 and recently declared to still hold the spot as the second most successful song of all time by Billboard.
Thomas became the first-ever recipient of the prestigious Songwriters Hall of Fame Hal David Starlight Award created to recognize a composer in the early years of his or her career that has already made a lasting impact. Moreover, he garnered numerous BMI and ASCAP awards and would be crowned “Songwriter of the Year” by both Billboard and BMI. Total record sales for his output exceed 80 million worldwide. Additionally, his commitment to philanthropy remains as staunch as his commitment to music. Among many charitable initiatives, he launched the Sidewalk Angels Foundation which benefits individuals in need throughout major cities.
In the end, Thomas comes full circle and delivers a record both befitting of his reputation and indicative of his future. “I write a lot of songs about the human condition, how people interact with each other, and how we deal with our environments,” he leaves off. “I want people to take them and attach them to their lives. I hope they possibly speak to what they’re going through, and I’m always thankful they’re still listening,” he smiles.
This will be an all-ages show. Purchase your tickets today!
A.B. Quintanilla III y Los Kumbia Kings
Saturday, September 14, 2019 / 8pm
Ticket Prices: $29, $49, $65, $85
Route 66 Casino Hotel presents AB Quintanilla Kumbia King All Starz!
Imagine a young man’s flight from poverty, from denial to embrace of his heritage, from a dream attained to a dream shattered, a rise and fall and rise again, to achievements unprecedented in his field …
That, in bare outline, is the life of A. B. Quintanilla — or, more accurately, the first stage in the life of this extraordinary musician, producer, songwriter, loyal family member, and survivor.
True, he had a head start in a way; when his sister Selena shone as the brightest young star in Latin music, A. B. was at her side, producing her records, writing her hits, playing bass onstage with her in their family’s band.
But in the dark years that followed her passing in 1995, A. B. had to fight back toward the light on his own. It was, as he says now, an experience “I would not wish on my worst enemy,” yet it was also undeniably a trial from which one either emerges strong or doesn’t emerge at all.
Today, Quintanilla can look back on a history of rare accomplishment even as he builds on a foundation for conquests to come. He’s won Grammys and BMI songwriting awards, founded and led one of the most popular bands in the modern Latin market, built a studio complex that lets him produce hits without straying far from his roots in Texas. Like his sister, A. B. has built a unique sound in his music by drawing from diverse sources of inspiration. And he’s gearing up to explore areas untouched by other musical entrepreneurs.
As the Latin music boom builds, A. B. Quintanilla’s contributions will only grow greater. Yet no matter how many careers he launches, or how much he helps to enrich America’s changing soundscape, he will never turn his back on the past, on the lessons learned through hardship as well as love.
AWARDS/NOMINATIONS (Kumbia Kings and/or AB Quintanilla, III):
Grammy
- 2003 Best Pop Album By A Duo Or Group With Vocal
- 2003 Best Regional Mexican Song ‘Ay! Papacito’, A.B. Quintanilla III & Alicia Villarreal, songwriters (Limite)
- 2001 Latin Grammy Nominee “Best Tejano Album”
- 2000 Latin Grammy Nominee “Best Tejano Performance”
- 2000 Best Tejano Performance A.B. Quintanilla III & Kumbia Kings
- 1993 Best Mexican American Performance Selena Live – Producer: ABQIII (Selena y Los Dinos)
American Music Awards
- 2003 Favorite Artist – Latin Music
Latin Billboard Awards
- 2002 Album Pop del Año, Group Shhh! – AB Quintanilla III y Los Kumbia Kings
- 2000 Album of the Year, New Artist Amor, Familia y Respeto – AB Quintanilla III y Los Kumbia Kings
- 2000 Album of the Year, Group Amor, Familia y Respeto – AB Quintanilla III y Los Kumbia Kings
(Nomination)
- BMI Awards Highlights (Total of 13 song awards)
- 2001 Most Performed Latin Song Fuiste Mala – Kumbia Kings
- 1998 Most Performed Latin Song Esperándote – Songwriter: ABQ III (Cristian)
- 1996 Latin Songwriter of The Year A.B. Quintanilla III
- 1994 Latin Songwriter of The Year A.B. Quintanilla III
- 1994 Most Performed Latin Song Amor Prohibido – Songwriter: ABQIII (Selena y Los Dinos)
- 1993 Latin Songwriter of The Year A.B. Quintanilla III
TTMA (Tejano Music) Awards
- 2003 Showband of The Year AB Quintanilla III y Los Kumbia Kings
- 2003 Male Entertainer of The Year AB Quintanilla III
- 2003 Bass Player of The Year AB Quintanilla III
- 2002 Record Producer of The Year AB Quintanilla III
- 2002 Bass Player of The Year AB Quintanilla III
- 2002 Showband of The Year AB Quintanilla III y Los Kumbia Kings
- 2002 Tejano Crossover Shhh! – AB Quintanilla III y Los Kumbia Kings
- 2001 Songwriter of The Year AB Quintanilla III
- 2001 Showband of The Year AB Quintanilla III y Los Kumbia Kings
- 2001 Record Producer of The Year AB Quintanilla III
- 2001 Bass Player of The Year AB Quintanilla III
- 2001 “Selena” Lifetime Achievement AB Quintanilla III
- 2000 Record Producer of The Year AB Quintanilla III
- 2000 Bass Player of The Year AB Quintanilla III
- 2000 Showband of The Year AB Quintanilla III y Los Kumbia Kings
- 2000 Tejano Crossover Azucar – AB Quintanilla III y Los Kumbia Kings
- 2000 Album of The Year Amor, Familia y Respeto – AB Quintanilla III y Los KK
- 2000 Most Promising Band AB Quintanilla III y Los Kumbia Kings
- 1999 Bass Player of The Year AB Quintanilla III
- 1999 Song of The Year Te Quiero Te Amo – Songwriter: ABQIII (David Lee Garza)
- 1997 Record Producer of The Year AB Quintanilla III
- 1997 Tejano Crossover of The Year No Quiero Saber – Songwriter: ABQIII
- 1997 Album of The Year Como Te Extraño – Producer: ABQIII (Pete Astudillo)
- 1996 Album of The Year Dreaming of You – Producer: ABQIII (Selena y Los Dinos)
- 1995 Song of The Year Bidi Bidi Bom Bom – Songwriter: ABQIII (Selena y Los Dinos)
- 1995 Single of The Year Amor Prohibido – Songwriter: ABQIII (Selena y Los Dinos)
- 1995 Album of The Year Amor Prohibido – Producer: ABQIII (Selena y Los Dinos)
- 1994 Album of The Year Selena Live – Producer: ABQIII (Selena y Los Dinos)
- 1993 Album of The Year Entra A Mi Mundo – Producer: ABQIII (Selena y Los Dinos)
This will be an all-ages show. Purchase your tickets online or by visiting the Route 66 Casino Player’s Club Box Office.
38 Special
Ticket Prices: $28.00, $35.00, $43.00, $59.00
Saturday, September 21, 2019 / 8 pm
Route 66 Casino presents the classic southern rock band 38 Special. This multi-platinum band will perform for one night only in Albuquerque’s Legends Theater!
After more than four decades together, 38 Special continues to bring a signature blast of Southern Rock to over 100 cities a year! Their many Gold and Platinum album awards stand in testament to the endurance of a legendary powerhouse.
With sales in excess of 20 million, most associate the band with their timeless arena-rock pop smashes, “Hold On Loosely,” “Rockin’ Into the Night,” “Caught Up in You,” “Fantasy Girl,” “If I’d Been the One,” “Back Where You Belong,” “Chain Lightnin’,” “Second Chance,” and more– hits that remain a staple on radio stations, immediately recognizable from the opening chord, and paving the way to their present-day touring regimen.
Guitarist, vocalist, and founding member, Don Barnes, says it’s all about maintaining that intensity in their live shows. “We never wanted to be one of those bands that had maybe gotten a little soft or complacent over the years. We’re a team, and it’s always been kind of an unspoken rule that we don’t slack up, we stack up. We go out there every night to win.
Purchase your 38 Special concert tickets today and experience the explosive power of the band’s performance. This will be an all-ages show.
Stone Temple Pilots
Saturday, October 5, 2019 / 8pm
Ticket Prices: $28, $35, $49, $59
Route 66 Casino Hotel presents Stone Temple Pilots!
Stone Temple Pilots are no strangers to change. Unpredictably has shaped the award-winning group since it emerged as one of the bestselling bands of the 1990s. More than 25 years later, the band was reborn once again on its seventh studio album and first with new vocalist Jeff Gutt, a veteran of the Detroit music scene.
This will be an all-ages show.
NPC New Mexico State Open at Albuquerque’s Legends Theater.
Route 66 Casino Hotel and Center Podium Production present the National Physique Committee New Mexico State Open
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Pre-Judging : 10am – 2pm
Finals : 5pm – 10pm
Pre-Judging Ticket Prices: $25 – $30
Finals Ticket Prices: $29 – $40
The Carr Cellular Fitness NPC New Mexico State Open is a premier fitness event that features an NPC National Qualifier bodybuilding contest, fitness vendors, and guest performances! The fitness extravaganza is brought to you exclusively by Center Podium Production. Celebrity fitness guests include Guest Poser and TOP Olympia IFBB Pro Steve Kuclo, Amanda Latona to MC, Judged by IFBB Pros Bojana Vasiljevic and Austin Karr, head judged by Olympia Head Judge, Sandy Williamson!
Event check-ins, make-up, meetings, tanning, and competition all take place in one location. Route 66 Casino Hotel is located less than 20 minutes west of downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico on historic Route 66.
Saturday Event Schedule:
All events will take place inside the Route 66 Casino Hotel’s Legends Theater.
| 9:00 AM | Doors open to public for Pre-Judging for all NPC Divisions |
| 10:00 AM | Pre-Judging |
| 5:00 PM | Doors open for finals |
| 6:00 PM | Finals for all NPC Divisions. ***OPEN Overall winners, please stay until the end for group photos. |
To view the competitor’s stage show guide: CLICK HERE.
Route 66 Casino Hotel presents Battery – The World Famous Tribute To Metallica!
Saturday, October 26, 2019 / 8pm
Ticket Price: $15 General Admission
IF U are a fan of Metallica, U MUST SEE “BATTERY”.
“BATTERY”, the Metallica Tribute band that opened for Metallica on all dates of the Garage INC Tour.
“BATTERY”, the Metallica tribute band that was voted #1 in the World by MTV.
“BATTERY”, the Metallica tribute band that Metallica has written about, shared the stage with & endorsed.
Editorial from Lars Ulrich, Metallica Club Magazine SO WHAT! : Volume 2,
Issue 4:
* Jason Newstead on Battery: “They take it to our level! That’s pretty cool!”
* Jaymz Hetfield comments on “BATTERY”: “It was fun to see us live finally!”
* Kirk Hammett on “BATTERY”: “The lead guitar player plays the solos better than I do!”
“BATTERY” tours 52 weeks a year throughout the UNITED STATES, CANADA, PUERTO RICO & THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, MEXICO, CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA lashing out the action in near-perfect Metallica style with all the energy, headbanging & musical precision
that make Metallica the best metal band of all time!! Throw in lots of hair, some special Metallica lighting effects, strobes, fog, 5 foot stage-crosses & U get one hell of a night!!!!
“BATTERY” plays songs from every Metallica album from KILL ‘EM ALL…to…. DEATH MAGNETIC…and everything in between.
This will be an all ages show.
Purchase your tickets to Albuquerque’s best rock concert this October today!
Route 66 Casino Hotel presents Creedence Clearwater Revisited!
Friday, November 8, 2019 / 8pm
Ticket Prices: $45, $63, $73, $94
Creedence Clearwater Revival founding members and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Stu Cook and Doug “Cosmo” Clifford have been on quite a ride. Following their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cosmo and Stu launched their Creedence Clearwater Revisited project in 1995 to once again perform live in concert the hit songs — touchstones of a generation.
Since then, the legendary rhythm section has been thrilled by the outpouring of affection for their new band. World tours and a platinum selling album Recollection followed. The astounding response to the band has been driven in part by new generations of fans that, as Cosmo says, “weren’t even born when the music came out.”
In 2013, Classic Rock Revisited critic Jeb Wright wrote about a Creedence Clearwater Revisited concert he attended. “The true test of any concert is how the music makes you feel. On this night, this writer walked away with a wonderful feeling, having just witnessed timeless, historical music, performed to perfection. Creedence Clearwater Revisited not only looks to the past, performing iconic songs, they bring them to the modern day, reminding us all of the true importance of this music.”
This will be an all-ages show. Purchase your tickets today online or by visiting the Route 66 Casino Box Office!
Rolling Stone article: Creedence Clearwater Revisited Talk Farewell Tour and Ignoring Their Critics
April 18, 2019 By David Browne
New Mexico awards show and dance.
Route 66 Casino Hotel presents Los 15 Grandes de Nuevo Mexico Awards Show and Dance!
Saturday, November 23, 2019 / 7:30 pm
Ticket Prices: $45 – $65
Route 66 Casino Hotel is pleased to host the 2019 Los 15 Grandes de Nuevo Mexico awards show and dance party inside Route 66 Casino’s Legends Theater on Saturday, November 23, 2019.
Los 15 Grandes De Nuevo Mexico Music Awards is the premier outlet for honoring achievements in the New Mexico Latin Music Recording arts. This award recognizes excellence and creates a greater public awareness of the cultural diversity of New Mexico Music’s recording artists and creators by honoring artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the New Mexico Music recording industry.
Los 15 Grandes De Nuevo Mexico Music Awards will feature performances by the hottest and most prestigious names in the genre, including:
- Lorenzo Antonio
- Sparx
- Al Hurricane Jr
- Ernestine Romero
- Mickey Cruz
- Mariachi Cardenal
- Johnny Sanchez y Puro Norte
- AJ Martinez
- Robbie Jude
- Sangre Joven
- Christina Perea & Andrea Michelle con Divino
- Los Garrapatas
- Impression
Los 15 Grandes De Nuevo Mexico Music Awards brings New Mexico Music’s top talent together for one big evening of music.
Grab your dancing show and tell your family and friends to meet you at the most prestigious award in the New Mexico Latin Music industry!
Purchase tickets to New Mexico Music’s Biggest Night below or visit the Route 66 Casino Player’s Club Box Office!
Find out more about a few of this year’s winners here:
“Busco Un Amor”
Big Head Todd and the Monsters perform live in Albuquerque this December.
Route 66 Casino Hotel presents Big Head Todd and the Monsters!
Saturday, December 14, 2019 / 8pm
Ticket Prices: $28 – $59
Route 66 Casino Hotel is pleased to announce that rock band Big Head Todd and the Monsters, best known for hits like “Broken Hearted Savior,” “Bittersweet,” and “Circle” from their platinum-selling 1993 album “Sister Sweetly,” will bring their Winter Tour to Legends Theater in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Saturday, December 14th at 8 p.m.
Big Head Todd and the Monsters are not that big on anniversaries, so there won’t be any big hoopla over the fact that the band is officially crossing the three-decade mark this year. Thirty years would seem like something to commemorate, especially with the same core lineup, an achievement few other name-brand bands can boast of. Yet right now they’re less about celebrating stability than volatility, in the form of their eleventh studio album, New World Arisin’, which makes good on its forward-facing title with what might be the brashest rock and roll of their career. The old world can’t rest on any laurels, and neither will they.
“We’re in a real exciting part of our career right now,” says co-founder Todd Park Mohr. “We’re a viable band with a great audience and we’re able to work at a very high level. It’s a career that’s getting more and more interesting, rather than less, which is remarkable,” he says, chuckling at the unlikelihood of anyone being this cheerfully all-in, this far in. “I mean, 30 years into it, I really feel like: Wow, this is getting fun. I’m learning more about music and about my instrument, and it’s just really engaging in every way. We also dovetail well with the times, I think; I feel like we have something to say.”
That desire to communicate and connect is very much reflected in a new album that explores a variety of subgenres, from the funky 
(“Trip”) to the unexpectedly punky (“Detonator”), with stops along the way for raging country-rock (“Damaged One”), expansive storytelling in the Van Morrison/early Springsteen mode (“Wipeout Turn”), a Jimi Hendrix cover (“Room Full of Mirrors”), and, in the title track, “New World Arisin’,” a Charley Patton-inspired tune that ended up having what Mohr describes as “a heavy metal/gospel feel.” He doesn’t feel these musical zigzags will give fans musical whiplash. “The fact is, most people, like myself, listen to multiple genres of music, so I don’t think people have a problem with variety. I love it.”
Their honors extend beyond their home state of Colorado and even home country… into space. In 2005, they released the single “Blue Sky,” a tribute to the space program, written at the behest of crew members taking to the heavens aboard the space shuttle Discovery; it was performed years later as a live wake-up call to the astronauts on the shuttle.
What’s clear is that Big Head Todd is one multi-headed rock monster, easily traversing the most accessible hooks and the heaviest grooves. It’s not surprising that they would appeal to any audience or sub-audience that values durability over flavors of the moment. But Mohr has to laugh when he thinks about how little the possibility of long-term perseverance was on the members’ minds 30 years ago.
“When you form, I think your goal is to make it through the party on Saturday night,” he points out. “In art, longevity isn’t the goal. It’s a happy accident if it happens, and I think ours was one of those convenient accidents that led to a happy marriage. But we happen to get along really well and love being with each other and playing music for a living.” Simple as it may sound, that’s a profound recipe for endurance in both the old world and the new.
photo credit: Jason Siegel
Concert tickets for Big Head Todd and The Monsters are now on sale! Show tickets can be purchased online at rt66casino.com, holdmyticket.com or at the Route 66 Player’s Club Box Office.
This will be an all-ages show.
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