• Fright Night Open Mic at Painted Lady

    Painted Lady Bed & Brew
    Wells Parklate nightTickets

    This is an open mic structured around real ghost stories told live, part of Painted Lady's recurring Brews & Boos series, so expect regulars who've workshopped their material and first-timers who haven't. The bed-and-brew format means the room includes overnight guests mixed in with walk-ins, which gives the whole thing an oddly intimate, slightly unplanned...

  • Bad Bunny Night on Route 66 at Marble Brewery Downtown

    Marble Brewery Downtown
    DowntowndanceDetails

    A DJ night built around Bad Bunny's catalog, from the early SoundCloud era through his stadium-pop years, held at Marble's Downtown taproom on Central. Marble's outdoor patio is one of the better places to dance in this corridor on a July night, assuming the weather cooperates, which in Albuquerque mid-summer it usually does. Admission is...

  • Artha Meadors Live at Thirsty Eye

    Thirsty Eye Brewing Company
    live musicDetails

    Artha Meadors brings her songwriting to Thirsty Eye Brewing Company on a Friday evening, the kind of intimate brewery set where you're close enough to hear every word. Thirsty Eye is a compact room that rewards showing up early for a seat, and the house beer is genuinely good, which helps the night along. Admission...

  • Tablao Flamenco Friday Dinner Show

    Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque
    arts & cultureTickets

    Three bailaoras, a cantaor, and a guitarist perform a full tablao-format flamenco dinner show inside the historic Hotel Albuquerque, one of the few venues in the country presenting this art form in its proper sit-down context. The room is intimate enough that you will feel the footwork in your chest, which is exactly the point....

  • Micky Cruz at Albuquerque Museum

    Albuquerque Museum
    Old TowndanceTickets

    Micky Cruz brings salsa y más to the Albuquerque Museum's courtyard for the 35th year of Music Under the Stars, the Friday night summer series that has been an Old Town anchor long enough to have its own institutional memory. The museum grounds give you open sky and a crowd that actually dances, not just...

  • Rufus Wainwright Live

    NHCC National Hispanic Cultural Center
    Barelasarts & cultureTickets

    Rufus Wainwright plays the Journal Theatre solo, no band, no buffer, just him and whatever he decides to do with a room that seats around 700 and has acoustics that reward exactly this kind of performance. The NHCC is on the corridor, and the Journal is one of the better-kept secrets in Albuquerque for intimate...

  • Live Improv Comedy on Route 66 at The Box

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM AreacomedyTickets

    Improv Theatre brings a live, unscripted comedy set to The Box, one of the more intimate black-box rooms on the Central corridor. The Box keeps sightlines close and the audience...

  • MAD DUBZ & VKTM at Effex Nightclub

    Effex
    Downtownlate-nightDetails

    MAD DUBZ and VKTM are stacking a night of riddim and deathstep at Effex, the long-running Downtown club that knows how to run a sound system for this kind of weight. The listed 9:00 PM start is a placeholder pulled from EDM Train, not confirmed by the venue, so check the ticket link before you...

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM Areaarts & theaterTickets

    Cockroach Theatre stages Shakespeare's most reliably weird comedy in The Box Annex, the smaller attached space next to The Box's main room. Cockroach has a track record of doing strange, committed work on a shoestring, so expect this to feel more fever dream than school production. The Annex is an intimate room, which means good...

  • Late-Night Improv Comedy

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM AreacomedyTickets

    This is a 45-minute long-form improv set running close to midnight local time, presented jointly by The Box and Improv Theatre Albuquerque. The Box is a small black-box room where the audience sits close enough to the performers that you become part of the energy whether you intend to or not. Long-form improv lives or...