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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.

To view the competitor’s stage show guide: CLICK HERE.

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:

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.