Events for October 6, 2026

Launchpad's annual Halloween cover band run is exactly what it sounds like: a stretch of October nights where different acts take the stage as someone else entirely, costumes and all....

The Swiss-Ecuadorian brothers Estevan and Alejandro Gutiérrez play a kind of wordless, sun-bleached guitar music that sits somewhere between spaghetti western scores and Andean folk, and Popejoy's acoustics will do it genuine favors. Y La Bamba, Luz Elena Mendoza's emotionally direct project, is a real opening act and not an afterthought. Popejoy is a seated...

This is a live tablao flamenco show, the kind built around the triangle of dancer, singer, and guitarist performing for a close-in seated audience, not a stage-at-a-distance production. Hotel Albuquerque's tablao room is genuinely intimate, which means the footwork lands in your chest and the cante lands in your face, for better or worse depending...

César Bauvallet leads a seven-week Tuesday night Latin music class at one of the corridor's most respected listening rooms, running 6:30 to 8pm through late November. Outpost is a proper performance space with good acoustics and a teaching-friendly layout, which makes it a better classroom than most spots that host this kind of instruction. A...

Wednesday 13 has been doing horror-punk theatrics since the Murderdolls days, and the Shocktober Blood Tour is built around that aesthetic, costumes, prop blood, and all. The Sunshine Theater is one of the few rooms in Albuquerque big enough to hold a production like this without the stage swallowing the crowd, which matters here. Tickets...