Events on Central

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the California swing band that never really went away after the late-90s revival, plays the KiMo Theatre in a pairing that actually makes sense: the band's...

Black Veil Brides, the Los Angeles band that built a career out of glam-metal theatrics and arena-sized anthems, plays El Rey with Caskets in support. El Rey is a tight...

A three-day Latin dance festival spread across the NHCC campus, Fusion, and the Albuquerque Museum, anchored by Grammy-winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra on Friday night and 30 workshops covering everything from...

Carlos Morton's Esperanza adapts the story of the 1951 Empire Zinc strike in Bayard, NM, where Mexican American miners' wives took over the picket line after the Taft-Hartley Act pushed the men off it, and sets that history to music with Teatro Paraguas doing the lifting. Salt of the Earth, the film this draws from,...

Black Veil Brides bring their Vindicatour US 2026 run to El Rey with a full four-band bill that includes Caskets, Archers, and Holy Wars. El Rey's floor gets genuinely packed for national touring acts at this level, so arriving close to doors rather than at headliner time is the difference between a good spot and...

Horror trivia at one of the more characterful spots on Central, a brewpub that actually has rooms upstairs, which gives the whole Brews and Boos series a faint gothic logic. The format rewards people who know their slasher franchises cold, but the crowd skews more enthusiastic than cutthroat, so first-timers tend to hold their own....

This is a seated dinner-format flamenco show in a room that was built for exactly this kind of performance, with a stage close enough that you feel the foot percussion in your chest. Performers are TBA at time of listing, which is typical for tablao-style productions that pull from a rotating roster of working artists...

Three dancers, a singer, and a guitarist perform traditional tablao flamenco in one of the few dedicated flamenco formats on the corridor. Hotel Albuquerque's performance space keeps the room small enough that you feel the footwork through the floor, which is the whole point. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, so buy ahead rather than...

The Spanish Harlem Orchestra, a Grammy-winning nine-piece salsa dura outfit from New York, brings the kind of hard-bop Latin brass that doesn't get softened for festival crowds. The museum's outdoor amphitheater sits at the edge of Old Town and carries sound well on a late-August night, but the grassy slope fills early and latecomers end...

Ron Crowder brings his new album, Moving at the Speed of Life, to FUSION 708 for a proper release show on Central. FUSION 708 is a small room, which means...