Grammy Winners, Tex-Mex Legends and a Texas Comic: Flickinger Center Unveils Fall Lineup

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. — The Flickinger Center for Performing Arts is heading into the busiest stretch of its 2026–2027 season, with a street-spanning Latin music festival in September, a Country Music Hall of Famer two weeks later, a nationally touring comedian in November, and a holiday musical from the city’s 68-year-old volunteer theater company to close out the year.

The dates on New York Avenue span conjunto, honky-tonk, stand-up and Broadway — a range that reflects the 590-seat nonprofit’s long-running habit of booking international acts alongside homegrown ones.

Caliente Fest — Saturday, September 12
The season opens outdoors and loud. Caliente Fest turns the block around the Flickinger into a daylong celebration of Latin music, with three bands, food trucks lining New York Avenue, and family activities running alongside the stage.
Doors open at 3:00 p.m.; music begins at 4:00 p.m.

Time   Artist  

4:00 p.m. Veneno 
5:30 p.m. Los Texmaniacs 
7:30 p.m. Los Marineros del Norte|

The middle slot is the real draw. Los Texmaniacs are among the most decorated conjunto acts working today — a San Antonio group founded by bajo sexto player Max Baca that won the Grammy for Best Tejano Album in 2010 for Borders y Bailes on Smithsonian Folkways, and picked up another nomination in 2019. Baca himself has played on eleven Grammy-winning projects across a career that includes long stretches alongside the late Flaco Jiménez and the Texas Tornados, and he was inducted into the Texas Conjunto Music Hall of Fame in 2024 as its youngest-ever member. His nephew Josh Baca handles accordion. Their sound folds Texas rock, blues and R&B into traditional conjunto — music built for a crowd that intends to dance.

Tickets: $26.75 in advance. Children under 12 attend free, but those tickets must be picked up in person at the box office.

Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives — Saturday, September 26, 7:00 p.m.

Two weeks later, the marquee event of the fall moves indoors.

Marty Stuart is a five-time Grammy winner, a Country Music Hall of Fame inductee and an Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement honoree — but the résumé undersells what he does on a stage. He came up as a bluegrass prodigy touring with Lester Flatt as a teenager, then spent years in Johnny Cash’s band, and he has carried that lineage forward rather than filing it away.

Backing him are the Fabulous Superlatives, one of the tightest working bands in American roots music and a group that has been with Stuart for more than two decades. Together they move between traditional country, rockabilly, honky-tonk and gospel-tinged Americana, often within a single set — a live show that trades on musicianship rather than production.

Tickets: Tiered by proximity to the stage at $30, $45 and $60. Unlike Caliente Fest’s general admission, these are reserved by section.

William Lee Martin — Saturday, November 21, 7:00 p.m.

The touring slate closes with comedy. William Lee Martin — known for years by his stage name “Cowboy Bill” — is a fifth-generation Texan who started doing stand-up in 1996 and went from open mics to headlining in about three years.

By the mid-2000s he was opening for Loretta Lynn, George Strait, George Jones and Brad Paisley, and sharing stages with all four Blue Collar Comedy headliners. A self-financed 2015 hour, Let the Laughter Roll, was picked up by CMT and restarted his career; he has since released additional specials and become a Grand Ole Opry regular. He dropped the “Cowboy Bill” name in 2017 in favor of his own.

His act is storytelling comedy — family material, Texas material, the frailties of middle age — rather than anything hard-edged. Off stage, he founded Cowboys Who Care, a nonprofit that gives cowboy hats and financial support to children facing cancer and other serious illnesses.

Community Theater: Annie Arrives in December

The year ends with local voices on the Flickinger stage.

Alamogordo Music Theatre will mount Annie in December, the third and final production of the company’s 2026 season, following Mean Girls: The Musical in the spring and Sister Act over the summer.

The Depression-era story of a Manhattan orphan, a hard-drinking matron and a billionaire with a change of heart is a natural fit for a company that leans on large casts and young performers.

AMT is an all-volunteer nonprofit founded in 1958 — quite possibly the oldest musical theater company in the Southwest — and has staged more than 100 full-scale musicals in a city of roughly 30,000. No one involved is paid. 

The organization also funds scholarships for area students and sponsors the talent portion of the annual Sertoma Miss Alamogordo/Miss Otero pageant.

Community productions at the Flickinger have a habit of selling out faster than the touring dates, and Annie is the kind of title that fills a house. Residents watching for dates should follow AMT directly or check with the box office.

Tickets for Premier Series  performances are available exclusively through the Flickinger Center:

• Online: flickingercenter.com
• Box office: 1110 New York Avenue, Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–3 p.m.
• Phone: (575) 437-2202

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