Get the Most Out Of Festival Flamenco Alburquerque With These Packages
Florencia Oz y Isidora O'Ryan - Antípodas, June 13 at X-Theatre
If you’re looking at this, then you must love flamenco. If you agree then this is one of the most important blogs you’ll read this year. It might save you up to $440.
We certainly love flamenco, and we have the numbers to prove it! For the past 35 years we have cultivated the most significant flamenco festival outside of Spain, and this year — our 36th year — we upped the ante by adding on an extra day of performances, workshops and general festivity. Festival Flamenco Alburquerque (yes, with the extra “r”, just like the city’s original spelling) has grown into the largest, oldest and most prestigious flamenco event outside of Spain.
All year we work our tails off to ensure you can see and experience the best the flamenco world has to offer at the best value we can conjure.
After all, as a non-profit, we just want to share the beauty of flamenco, teach every generation about it and make sure it sticks around for a long, long time. When you come to the festival, you’re helping us meet our mission.
While we’re happy to have you with us in any shape or form and tickets to individual performances can be purchased directly from our venue box offices listed below, our packages and passes are designed especially for those who want to dive deeper into this experience.
If you’re anything like me, you might be overwhelmed by the different options we’ve created and what they offer. So, I’m going to do my best to break them down so you can feel as excited about choosing them as we are about offering them.
PACKAGE DISCOUNTS FOR SHOWS
Depending on the venue and seat, tickets to individual main stage performances at Rodey Theatre and National Hispanic Cultural Center can range from $45-$95. There are 10 main stage shows. Premium seats are $95 at NHCC and $90 at UNM’s Rodey theatre — you know, the seats where you can practically feel the vibration of the stage, where you get swept away in the music and dance and can experience the duende like no one else exists in the room. Those tickets.
Quick math: 90 x 10 = 900, the cost if you purchased each ticket individually from the box office. But if you don’t want to miss a beat and save some $ for, I don’t know, a workshop maybe, our ticket packages start at $557 for NM residents and $636 for out-of-staters. That’s a tidy little discount — 20-30% to be exact.
If you want to party even harder, we have packages that also include the four shows being held at UNM’s X-Theatre for an additional $140 for NM residents and $160 for visitors. At $50 a ticket for X-Theatre shows, that’s an extra $40-$60 savings that you can spend on some FFABQ posters and T-shirts.
Note: Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company is one of those performing at X-Theatre, as well as at Festival Flamenca Saturday at NHCC. You do NOT want to miss their concert “Xicano Power” that hey performed at Festival de Jerez in Spain.
PACKAGE DISCOUNTS FOR WORKSHOPS AND SHOWS
Ok, so you love to watch flamenco shows by the best of the best but you’re more interested in learning from them. Our All Access Pass, at $1250, is for you. It offers unlimited workshops access. There are 35 workshops at $300 for a 7-day class. Classes are an hour long, so it’s possible to take 4-5 classes a day. Quick math: 300x5 = 1,500. That’s a $250 savings with the pass.
We’ve saved the best for last. Our VIP Experience Pass is for the person who wants it all. This option is $2500 but it includes unlimited workshop access, premium seats at all main stage performances, plus premium seats at all X-theatre performances AND Tablao venue performances.
Quick math: Cost for 10 premium main stage seats, four X-theatre seats and four premium Tablao seats = $1440 + $1500 for 5 week long classes = $2940. That’s a $440 savings with the VIP pass to make FFABQ36 the most epic experience possible!
Note: Even with passes you must pre-register for workshops.
So what the heck are you waiting for?
