Events on Central

Three dancers, a singer, and guitarist Chuscales share a small stage inside Hotel Albuquerque for a seated flamenco show that runs about two and a half hours. Chuscales is a...

Three bailaoras, a cantaor, and a guitarrista perform a full tablao-format flamenco show at Hotel Albuquerque, one of the few venues in the city that stages this art form with...

A benefit concert rooted in tribal energy advocacy, with Tia Wood, The Bearhead Sisters, Destroy Kasmin, and DJ Young Native bringing range to a lineup that moves between acoustic weight and harder-edged material. Kiva Auditorium sits inside the Convention Center on Central and holds a few thousand people, so this is not an intimate club...

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,...

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...

Three bailaores, a cantaor, and a guitarist perform live flamenco in the tablao format, which means close quarters and no amplification between you and the footwork. Hotel Albuquerque's dedicated flamenco space is one of the few rooms in the Southwest built for this kind of performance, so the sightlines and acoustics are actually thought through....

The Box is one of the few rooms on Central where improv comedy actually has a home, and this co-presentation with Improv Theatre suggests a more structured, rehearsed ensemble rather...

The 20th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival steps outside its usual performance format for a film day at the Guild, pairing the 1981 avant-garde document Imagine the Sound with the...

Hotel Albuquerque's tablao series brings together dancers, a singer, and a guitarist for an evening of live flamenco in a room that was built for exactly this kind of performance....

The New Mexico Philharmonic brings a full orchestra into the BioPark Botanic Garden for one of the more genuinely pleasant outdoor concert settings in the city. The gardens do interesting things to orchestral sound, and the September air after sundown is about as good as Albuquerque gets. A ticket link exists through the city's site,...