The Wailers Live

NHCC National Hispanic Cultural Center

The surviving Wailers are marking the 50th anniversary of Rastaman Vibration with a tour that pulls from that album alongside the catalog standards that made Bob Marley a household name on every continent. The Albuquerque Journal Theatre is an intimate room for a band of this legacy, which works in your favor, and the tiered...

NM United vs. Indy Eleven

Isotopes Park

New Mexico United takes on Indy Eleven in a USL Championship regular season match at Isotopes Park, one of the better soccer atmospheres in the American lower divisions. The supporter...

Tablao Flamenco Friday Dinner Show

Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque

A seated dinner show built around live flamenco, with dancers, a singer, and a guitarist performing in the tablao format that originated in mid-20th-century Spanish clubs. Hotel Albuquerque's sala is...

Tablao Flamenco Friday Show

Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque

This is a traditional tablao format, which means flamenco as a close-quarters performance art rather than a stage spectacle, with dancers, a singer, and a guitarist working in the kind of tight conversation that only happens when the audience is ten feet away. Hotel Albuquerque's tablao room is one of the few dedicated flamenco spaces...

Yungchen Lhamo Live

FUSION | 708

Yungchen Lhamo is one of the most quietly commanding vocalists alive, a Tibetan singer whose a cappella and minimally accompanied performances have carried weight on stages from Carnegie Hall to...

The Wailers Live at Barelas

NHCC National Hispanic Cultural Center

The Wailers, the band that outlasted Bob Marley's death by four decades and kept touring with original members carrying the weight of that legacy, play the Journal Theatre for their 50 Years of Positive Vibrations run. The Journal is an intimate indoor theater, which means the sound stays tight and the sightlines are good, a...

Live Improv Comedy at The Box

Outpost Performance Space

Improv Theatre takes the stage at The Box for an unscripted hour of live comedy, the kind where nothing is planned and the room decides how good it gets. The...

The Expendables Live at Launchpad

Launchpad

The Expendables are a Santa Cruz reggae-rock band with twenty-plus years of catalog and a fanbase that treats their shows like a reunion. Launchpad is a small room, which means the floor gets loud fast and the sightlines are genuinely good from anywhere, but get there before the openers finish if you want a comfortable...

The Wailers Live

Launchpad

The post-Bob Marley touring lineup of The Wailers brings the full roots-reggae catalog to what is almost certainly an outdoor stage at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, not Launchpad's usual...

The Wailers Live at Barelas

NHCC National Hispanic Cultural Center

The surviving members of Bob Marley's original backing band bring a full reggae set to the NHCC's outdoor performance space in Barelas. This venue runs a tight operation and the...

Your Rong! Comedy Debate Show

Outpost Performance Space

A comedy debate show where being wrong is apparently the whole point, running just one hour on a Friday night at The Box Annex on Central. The Box tends to...