International Thursdays at Bourbon & Boots

Bourbon & Boots

Bourbon & Boots runs this one late, a rotating international music dance night that keeps going until 6 a.m. on a Friday morning, technically. That's not a typo, and if...

Crypt Keeper’s Comedy Hour

Painted Lady Bed & Brew

A horror-themed stand-up hour in the taproom of Painted Lady Bed & Brew, the only brewpub on the corridor where guests are literally sleeping upstairs during the show. One hour is a tight window for comedy, so expect a fast-moving set with little room for the slow-burn crowd work that needs a bigger stage and...

Django Festival Allstars at Outpost

Outpost Performance Space

The Django Festival Allstars bring their hot jazz and gypsy swing tradition to Outpost Performance Space, one of the better-programmed rooms on the Central corridor, as part of the 20th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival. Outpost keeps sight lines good and sound dialed in, so this style of acoustic string-driven jazz lands the way it...

Mark Hummel Blues CD Release

FUSION | 708

Three heavyweights of postwar blues harmonica and guitar share a stage for a CD release night at FUSION | 708, which puts this closer to a recording-session atmosphere than a standard bar gig. Anson Funderburgh has been one of the most respected Texas blues guitarists since the early eighties, and Junior Watson's phrasing is the...