Co-Op Summer Showcase adds Escape On A Horse in downtown Los Alamos

A July 19 announcement adds Escape on a Horse to Co-Op Park’s summer lineup, with the free concert set for Friday, July 24 at 5:45 p.m. on Central Avenue in downtown Los Alamos. The show is part of a broader push to make the park a regular gathering place and give the central business district a steady reason for people to walk, linger and stay downtown.

The performance area is at 1010 Central Avenue, next to the Los Alamos Schools Credit Union, placing the music in the middle of the town’s commercial core rather than at the edge of it. The Los Alamos Daily Post’s schedule for the inaugural Co-op Summer Showcase lists the July 24 slot from 5:45 to 6:30 p.m., with Escape on a Horse identified as a rock band. That same schedule shows the series unfolding across multiple dates, with July 3 marked no show, July 10 listed as OPEN, and July 17 featuring Set In Stone, also described as a rock band.

That recurring calendar matters because it turns Co-Op Park programming into more than a single night out. The Co-Op Summer Showcase is being used as a downtown draw, the kind of modest but regular event that can bring people onto Central Avenue, support nearby businesses and make the area feel active on summer evenings. Los Alamos County’s business-event directory includes the Co-op Summer Showcase, placing it inside the county’s public events calendar rather than treating it as a standalone concert.

The venue itself is described as a community space in Los Alamos, and that identity fits the way the showcase is being used. The concert series is framed as a set of opening acts at the outdoor venue, feeding into the main summer concert lineup while keeping a local, low-friction schedule that residents can fit into a Friday evening. Escape on a Horse also maintains a website with bio, upcoming shows, video, photos, listen, merch and contact pages, underscoring that the band has a wider performance footprint than a single downtown date.

For downtown Los Alamos, the value of the showcase is straightforward: it puts live music on Central Avenue, keeps a summer crowd moving through the center of town and gives the business district another reason to matter after work on a Friday.