Frightful fest: Tractor Brewing Company holds Zombie Carniball & Bazaar

Tractor Brewing Company is changing things up for its annual Halloween event.

The brewery has teamed up with Blackout Theatre Company for its “Zombie Carniball & Bazaar” at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19, at Tractor’s Wells Park location, 1800 Fourth St. NW.

The age 21 and older event will feature classic pinball machines from Geekon.

“We teamed up with Geekon and they’re going to be filling our taproom with pinball machines that will be free play,” said Jeremy Kinter, events and marketing manager for Tractor Brewing. “So, if you buy a ticket, you can play as much pinball as you want.”

Attendees will experience plenty of spooky fun with a zombie costume contest, Dave Grimm performing magic, a tarot card reader giving insight on eventgoers’ lives as well as haunting vendors from Spectral Youth.

Dance the night away with ’80s throwbacks by DJ Riff Rat. Move off the dance floor and feed your hunger with Asian-inspired bites from Umami Moto food truck.

Check out live music, outside on the big stage, with performances by Youngsville, Cee Mo & The Lovers and Red Light Cameras.

“It’s gonna be a lot of fun,” Kinter said. “We changed over the theme. It used to be called the ‘Stranger Things Arcade Carnival.’ So we decided to move away from that to brand a more generalized carnival and still keep it spooky, of course. But as you know, (the Netflix show) ‘Stranger Things’ was going into its last season ... So attaching this event to that, is risky business, and we’re just ready to move on from it and do something else, but still keep the same soul of it intact.”

Tractor has some more entertaining events to participate in later this month.

On Saturday, Oct. 26, the Wells Park location will host “Magic, Comedy & Music Night,” from 8 to 11 p.m. The free event will feature magician Dave Grimm, comedian and magician Bryan Andrew Lamb and music by SYN.

Also, on Oct. 26, Tractor will be part of the New Mexico Brewers Guild’s “Zombie Crawl” that takes place from 4 to 6 p.m. The event begins at Painted Lady Bed & Brew in Old Town and makes its way Downtown to Marble Brewery, JUNO Brewery and Gravity Bound Brewing Company, and then heads to Wells Park with stops at Rio Grande Brewing Company and Tractor Brewing. Tickets are $25, at eventbrite.com, and include discounts on beers at participating breweries, a commemorative glass and entry into the costume contest.

On Wednesday, Oct. 30, Tractor’s Wells Park location will host the “Ghoulastic Adult Book Fair” from 6 to 9 p.m.

“We teamed up with Books on the Bosque and they bring spooky books,” Kinter said. “And then we have local horror authors sell their books as well. We’re gonna have a face painter and a tarot card reader and a food truck as well. So that’s going to be another fun free event.”