AMP Concerts offers innovative and inspiring arts programming throughout New Mexico. A portion of all AMP ticket sales goes to fund free community concerts, workshops, school programs & artist residencies.
Don't Miss Any Concerts! Subscribe to our mailing list
Like Us

AMP Radio

Sponsors
City of Albuquerque NM Arts New Mexico Music Commission Creative West NEA Tourism Grant Recipient iHeart Media Santa Fe Brewing Company KUNM Marriott Albuquerque

Upcoming

Khumariyaan

July 10th

Telmary

July 12th

Ally Venable

July 15th

Flor de Toloache

July 16th

Flor de Toloache

July 17th

Oscar Butler

July 23rd

Innastate

July 26th

Green Tara Puja

July 29th

Arkansauce

August 1st

Mark Hummel

August 2nd

Mark Hummel

August 3rd

Luke Bulla

August 7th

7Horse

August 9th

Luke Bulla

August 9th

Raul Midón

August 13th

Raul Midón

August 14th

Lara Ruggles

August 20th

Lara Ruggles

August 21st

The WesternHers

August 23rd

Thievery Corporation

September 3rd

Tab Benoit

September 9th

Tab Benoit

September 10th

Coco Montoya

September 19th

Coco Montoya

September 20th

J2B2

September 26th

John Moreland

September 26th

Lasotras

September 27th

Shonen Knife

October 11th

Hayden Pedigo

October 22nd

Kurbasy

November 8th

Kurbasy

November 9th

Luca Stricagnoli

November 21st

Ryanhood

November 29th

Ryanhood

November 30th

Lara Ruggles

at Juan Tabo Library
3407 Juan Tabo Blvd NE
Albuquerque NM 87111
505-291-6260
View Website   |   Other Events at Juan Tabo Library

Time: 5:30pm     Day: Wednesday     Doors: 5:00pm     Ages: All Ages    

Thanks to the New Mexico Music Commission and the Friends of the Public Library for funding these library shows!

Register for the event and we'll send you updates if there are any schedule changes, as well as info on future free programs and other events around Santa Fe and Albuquerque.

We are happy to welcome Lara back in celebration of her first album in 9 years! She was here a few years ago in her electronic persona Sharkk Heartt.

Lara Ruggles' new record Anchor Me, her first release under her own name in 9 years, is a return to form, a rediscovery of Ruggles' vulnerability both in lyricism and production. Ruggles grew up 40 miles outside of Tucson on 7 acres surrounded by cattle ranches, her songwriting emerging from the isolation she felt. Eventually she moved to Denver, from where she spent the better part of a decade touring and performing, firmly rooting herself in the Colorado folk scene. In 2016 she returned home to Tucson where she started her project Sharkk Heartt, which allowed her to explore songwriting through infectious electro-pop anthems that marked a distinct departure from her previous sound. It was only recently that Ruggles found herself collecting songs (and writing a few new ones) that didn't seem to have a place to go, songs that felt too intimate and personal for Sharkk Heartt.

The songs on Anchor Me are compassionate and warm, even while circling deep pain and loss. The arrangements are left open, alternating between piano ballads and understated folk-rock that allow Ruggles's powerful voice to soar through the mix. Whether she is delivering a gut-punch of a realization or a contemplative rumination, the songs feel close, tangible, and real. "This album represents a return to myself in a way," Ruggles says. In "Love Me Instead," she looks boldly at the discrepancy between the love we ask for and the love we receive. In "Luckier," she tries to make sense of falling in love while the world is in turmoil. In "Hard Road" she cracks open her relationship with the music industry itself in a heartbreaking meditation on the artist's path in the modern world, a relationship that had been a catalyst for leaving behind her own name in the first place. It is the healing of this wound that has allowed Ruggles the opportunity to be bravely, boldly, herself.

"I don't expect the industry to be different than it is," she says. "I'm ready to put something a little more intimate and personal out there, and I don't have everything in my world riding on whether or not this album breaks even or allows me to make a decent living. It's freeing."


AMP Concerts