Events on Central

Australian brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone are touring behind their new album with the kind of large-scale production, lights and choreography included, that fills a room the size of Kiva...

Flamenco performed in the tablao format, meaning an intimate stage, close seating, and the kind of footwork you feel through the floor before you hear it. Balloon Fiesta week fills...

Hot Water Music has been doing this for thirty years, and they still play like something is at stake, which is rarer than it should be at this level. Launchpad...

Febuary takes the stage at Insideout for a late-night set that runs until six in the morning, which tells you something about the energy this room is built for. Insideout...

The Lobos host UTEP in what has historically been one of the more reliably attended home games on the UNM schedule, a rivalry that carries genuine weight on both sides...

Two of the most introverted names in contemporary rap share a bill at El Rey, which is about as well-suited to their specific brand of murky, introspective boom-bap as any room on the corridor. El Rey runs small enough that the sound stays close, which is exactly what this music needs. Tickets through Ticketmaster, 13...

The 1984 film plays in full on a big screen while a live orchestra performs Elmer Bernstein's score underneath it, which turns out to be a genuinely different experience than...

Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque runs a proper tablao format, not a fusion showcase, with dedicated bailaores, a cantaor, and a guitarrista performing traditional flamenco in a purpose-built room at Hotel Albuquerque....

This one leans into local lore: Milton Yarberry was Albuquerque's first city marshal, hanged in 1883, and this magic and storytelling show uses his story as the spine of a...