• Happy Together Tour 2026

    Kiva Auditorium
    Downtownall agesTickets

    Eight acts share a single bill here, running through a catalog that stretches from "Wild Thing" to "We Can Fly," and the format is brisk by design: each act gets a tight set rather than a full show. Kiva Auditorium seats around 2,300 and tends to fill from the floor up for nostalgia packages like...

  • Happy Together Tour at Kiva Auditorium Downtown

    Kiva Auditorium
    Downtownlive musicDetails

    Eight acts from the 1960s AM radio canon, including The Troggs, Gary Puckett, The Cowsills, and Ron Dante, cycle through their hits on a single bill built around nostalgia done at scale. Kiva seats 2,300 and the sightlines from the back third of the hall are genuinely good, but if you want to be close...

  • Joseph General & High Vibration at Old Town

    ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden
    Old Townlive musicDetails

    Joseph General brings his roots-forward Albuquerque sound to the Botanic Garden, with High Vibration along for a 90-minute outdoor set on a July evening. The garden stage puts you in the middle of the landscaping rather than facing a wall of speakers, which makes the whole thing feel more like a backyard hang than a...

  • EQNX Jazztet at Outpost

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM Areaall agesTickets

    Outpost's Summer Thursday Jazz Nights series turns 30 this year, and the EQNX Jazztet is one of the acts carrying the tradition on Central. Outpost is a listening room in the truest sense, which means the crowd actually pays attention and the acoustics reward that compact size. Tickets are available through Hold My Ticket in...

  • Ronaldo Baca Live at Sawmill Market

    Sawmill Market
    Sawmilllive musicDetails

    Ronaldo Baca brings his acoustic New Mexico roots sound to the communal, food-hall floor of Sawmill Market for a two-hour Saturday night set. The room was built for eating and socializing, not listening, so expect a warm ambient crowd noise underneath everything rather than concert-style attention. Admission details weren't posted at press time, so check...

  • Route 66 Summerfest

    Central Avenue, Nob Hill
    Nob Hilllive musicFreeDetails

    The city closes Central from Girard to Washington and hands the street back to the people who actually use it. Four stages of live music across one mile of Nob Hill, each one working a different decade of the Mother Road. The Docksiders close the main stage at 8:30 with yacht rock played straight, and...

  • Jazz Festival Stage at Outpost

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM Areaall agesTickets

    Two acts, two very different energies: the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra brings big-band weight, and Milton Villarubia's Los CieneGatos Brass Band tends to push things in a warmer, New Orleans-inflected direction. Outpost is a listening room, not a bar, so the crowd actually pays attention and the sound is mixed accordingly. Tickets are through Hold My...

  • Goth Beach Party at Insideout

    El Rey Theater
    Downtownall agesTickets

    The third installment of Apparition's goth beach party concept lands at Insideout with four DJs and whatever logic says you can wear fishnets and flip-flops in the same outfit. Insideout runs late and loud, so if you're planning to arrive at 10 p.m. expecting a full room, you're early by this crowd's standards. Tickets are...

  • World Cup Final Watch Party

    Historic Lobo Theater
    Nob Hillall agesFreeDetails

    The 2026 World Cup Final goes up on the Lobo's theater big screen, the balcony simulcast, and all 15 screens in the Sports Lounge, including a four-screen video wall, which...

  • Tablao Flamenco Sunday Matinee

    Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque
    all agesTickets

    Three bailaoras, a cantaor, and a guitarist perform a full tablao-format flamenco show in one of the few dedicated flamenco venues left on Central. Hotel Albuquerque's tablao room is intimate enough that you'll feel the footwork through the floor, so sit where you can see feet as well as hands. Tickets move on this one,...