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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....

Chamber Music Albuquerque's full 2026-27 concert season, bought in one subscription, spanning six performances at Simms Auditorium on Central Avenue from October through June. Simms is a genuinely good room...

The 1986 film plays on screen while a live orchestra performs the full score underneath it, Bowie songs and all, on Halloween night at one of the most theatrical rooms in New Mexico. The KiMo's 1927 Pueblo Deco interior is already a lot to take in, and a crowd dressed for Halloween watching David Bowie...

TourABQ's Halloween pedaler crawl puts a pack of costumed riders on a guided multi-stop bar route through the city on the night itself. The party bike format means you're moving between bars as a group, so this works best if you commit to the whole ride rather than planning to peel off early. Tickets are...

A seated tablao flamenco performance inside Hotel Albuquerque, one of the few venues in the Southwest running this format with any regularity. The specific cast is still TBD at listing time, so the experience depends on who they book, but the room itself is well-suited to the form: intimate enough that the footwork lands in...

The 1986 Bowie-and-Muppets fantasy film screens at the KiMo with a live orchestra playing the score, which means you hear Trevor Jones and David Bowie's songs the way a theater this ornate was built to deliver them. Halloween night adds a cosplay energy that the KiMo's Pueblo Deco interior handles better than most rooms would....

Six local acts, six full-set tributes, one Halloween night: the lineup runs from Neutral Milk Hotel to Kataklysm, which tells you this is less a genre show than a chaos experiment that somehow works every year. Launchpad's long narrow room gets genuinely packed for this one, so arriving early matters more than it usually would....

The Lobo Sports Vault takes over a room inside the Historic Lobo Theater for a full afternoon of NCAA football, with a buffet running 11 AM to 2 PM and the college slate on screens through the evening. The venue puts every New Mexico Lobos game on the big screen when the room is available...

The Deal, Albuquerque's Grateful Dead tribute act, wraps their three-show 2026 Lobo run on Halloween night with a set pulling from the full Dead catalog, long jams included. This is the third and final Lobo date of the year, which tends to mean the band arrives with something to prove, and a 550-person room full...