City of Las Cruces Sets Dates, Lineup for 2023 Music in the Park Series

The City of Las Cruces Parks and Recreation Department’s free summer outdoor concert series is back.

Music in the Park will get underway in late May through the end of August and take place almost every week in Young Park on Sundays and the Plaza de Las Cruces on a handful of select Thursday nights.

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Like last year, the lineup will feature a variety of musicians from Las Cruces, a few from El Paso, and some national acts.

The series will begin as it usually does with the Mayor’s Jazz Fest at the plaza on Sunday, May 28 featuring performances by El Paso saxophonist Frank Zona and Albuquerque’s Son Como Son, and conclude Sunday, August 27 with the world’s first and only heavy metal Mariachi band, Metalachi, at Young Park.

In between are Borderland favorites Fungi Mungle, Mariachi Los Arrieros, Billy Townes, Yarbrough Band, and an AC/DC tribute band from Houston. All concerts begin at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public.

2023 Las Cruces Music in the Park Lineup

MAY

• Sunday, May 28 – Mayor’s Jazz Fest at Plaza de Las Cruces

JUNE

• Sunday, June 4 – Satisfied / Pure Magic at Young Park
• Sunday, June 11 – 575 Band / Hami Crews at Young Park
• Sunday, June 18 – Natajja / Mariachi Flores Mexicanas at Young Park
• Sunday, June 25 – Steppin’ Up / LoPhat at Young Park

JULY

• Sunday, July 9 – Zack Quintana / Funk of the West at Young Park
• Thursday, July 13 – Billy Townes / Border Jazz at the Plaza de Las Cruces
• Sunday, July 16 – Mariachi Los Arrieros at Young Park
• Thursday, July 20 – TNT Houston AC/DC Tribute Show Band at the Plaza de Las Cruces
• Sunday, July 23 – Fungi Mungle / Mango Cakes at Young Park
• Thursday, July 27 – Hard Road / Benji Rivas at the Plaza de Las Cruces
• Sunday, July 30 – Dream Merchants / Daniel Sanchez at Young Park

AUGUST

• Sunday, Aug. 6 – Siempre / Cautivo Norteño at Young Park
• Sunday, Aug. 13 – Joshua Lucero / Papayas Con Chile at Young Park
• Sunday, Aug. 20 – Yarbrough Band / Nathaniel Krantz at Young Park
• Sunday, Aug. 27 – Metalachi at Young Park