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This is a traditional tablao format, which means flamenco as a close-quarters performance art rather than a stage spectacle, with dancers, a singer, and a guitarist working in the kind of tight conversation that only happens when the audience is ten feet away. Hotel Albuquerque's tablao room is one of the few dedicated flamenco spaces...
The Wailers, the band that outlasted Bob Marley's death by four decades and kept touring with original members carrying the weight of that legacy, play the Journal Theatre for their 50 Years of Positive Vibrations run. The Journal is an intimate indoor theater, which means the sound stays tight and the sightlines are good, a...
Improv Theatre takes the stage at The Box for an unscripted hour of live comedy, the kind where nothing is planned and the room decides how good it gets. The Box is a small, focused space that rewards audience participation and punishes phone distraction, so come ready to be present. Ticket link is live through...
The Expendables are a Santa Cruz reggae-rock band with twenty-plus years of catalog and a fanbase that treats their shows like a reunion. Launchpad is a small room, which means the floor gets loud fast and the sightlines are genuinely good from anywhere, but get there before the openers finish if you want a comfortable...
The post-Bob Marley touring lineup of The Wailers brings the full roots-reggae catalog to what is almost certainly an outdoor stage at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, not Launchpad's usual room on Central. The NHCC's courtyard holds a crowd well and the acoustics are better than you'd expect for an open-air setup, so a show...
The New Mexico Music Hall of Fame is putting on a four-hour evening concert at the Route 66 Visitor Center, part of a fall centennial series that suggests something more...
Benny Bassett brings his bass-forward sound to Sawmill Market's communal food hall space on a Saturday night. The open layout means sound bleeds across vendor stalls, so this plays more...
Three blues acts worth taking seriously share the Civic Plaza stage, headlined by Judith Hill, whose vocal range and stage presence have drawn comparisons to Mavis Staples by people who...
Ed Allan plays Marble Brewery's Westside taproom, one of the more reliably good rooms on this stretch of Central for catching a solo performer without fighting the sound. The brewery...