Tinsley Ellis - SOLD OUT!

This show is sold out! Still tickets to see Tinsley in Albuquerque on March 15, and more great blues at Unit B with Vanessa Collier and Ghalia Volt!
Feel free to get on the waiting list in the unlikely event we get some tickets returned, and sign up for the AMP e-mail list to make sure you don't miss any future shows!

Tickets cost $44 (General Admission) and $60 (Premium Seating), including service charges. They are also available by phone through Hold My Ticket at 505-886-1251.

Premium Seating is on a raised platform with an unblocked view of the stage or in the first two rows. Only 24 tickets available!

Unit B is an intimate 100-seat performance space with full dinner and bar service provided by Chocolate Maven. 

Doors open at 5:30 PM with dinner, wine and craft cocktail choices available.

You can find the menu here. Music starts at 7 PM.

Dinner reservations are highly recommended and greatly appreciated by Unit B, especially for parties of 3 or more. To make dinner reservations, please go here. There is enough seating for everyone, but making reservations will help Unit B map groups out into tables and make sure everyone is well taken care of. If you have Premium Seating, be sure to let them know. We'll provide them a list too.

Atlanta-based musician Tinsley Ellis—known for decades as one of the greatest electric blues-rock guitarists of his generation – is now also recognized as one of the very best contemporary acoustic blues guitarists, songwriters and performers in the world. With 2024's critically acclaimed, Blues Music Award-nominated Naked Truth, Ellis unplugged with his first-ever acoustic album. On it he mixed his own striking original songs—inspired by Son House, Skip James, Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters—with a few reinvented covers. According to No Depression, "Even though it's just Ellis and his acoustic guitars, there's plenty of hell-raisin' blues going on. With the ghost of Elmore James looking over his shoulder and Wolf leaning in…Ellis proves he's an icon."

Now, with his new album, Labor Of Love, Ellis delivers a raw, edgy, self-produced set of 13 original compositions, all performed with pure, emotional honesty. The songs spin modern tales of floods, conflagrations, voodoo spirits, personal travails and heaven-sent prayers. From the feral opener "Hoodoo Woman" to the John Lee Hooker-groove of "Long Time" to the evocative, Skip James-inspired "To A Hammer" to the Son House-style stomp of "Sunnyland," Ellis inhabits his songs in a way that is simply astonishing. 

Each performance carries the weight, experience and hard-earned wisdom Ellis learned over four decades on the road, making Labor Of Love as profoundly deep and moving as any music he has made in his career. It covers the gamut of emotions, finding good times in the hard times, mixing gentle beauty with foot-pounding ferocity.

Big thanks to Concept Hotels for taking good care of our artists in Santa Fe! If you need affordable lodging in Santa Fe, check out their three hotels: The Sage Hotel, Coyote South, and Inn at Santa Fe. Click the name of each hotel to book your rooms with a special discounted AMP Concerts rate—perfect options when attending one of our Santa Fe shows!