Events on Central

This one leans into local lore: Milton Yarberry was Albuquerque's first city marshal, hanged in 1883, and this magic and storytelling show uses his story as the spine of a...

The New Mexico Music Hall of Fame is putting on a four-hour concert at the Route 66 Visitor Center, part of a centennial series that has been pulling in acts...

This 45-minute documentary centers on the 1979 collapse of a United Nuclear Corporation tailings dam at Church Rock, NM, which released 94 million gallons of radioactive wastewater into the Rio Puerco and through Diné communities that depended on that river for everything. Singer Paul Pino opens the event, and the source listing strongly suggests pairing...

The New Mexico Music Hall of Fame puts on this fall concert installment at the Route 66 Visitor Center, a setting that gives the evening some genuine historical weight. Admission details aren't confirmed yet, so check the city arts calendar before you show up expecting a free night. Four hours of programming is a solid...

Jordan Jonas brings whatever he does best to Painted Lady's Brews & Boos series, a fall run of themed nights at one of the more genuinely odd venues on the corridor, a working bed and breakfast with a taproom attached. The room is small and the crowd tends to already know each other, so this...

Gaia's Kava Root, the kava bar on Central, is partnering with ACE to run a haunted house experience on the Friday night before Halloween weekend 2026. The show runs from late evening into the early morning hours, so this is firmly a late-night crowd situation. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, which means the door...

The New Mexico Music Hall of Fame is putting on this concert series at the Route 66 Visitor Center, a room that carries more history per square foot than most venues twice its size. The Hall of Fame connection means the programming tends to lean toward acts with real roots in New Mexico's musical legacy,...

The Last Poets, the New York collective whose 1960s and 70s recordings laid foundational groundwork for hip-hop, perform at the KiMo with Terminator X on the decks and Albuquerque's own former poet laureate Hakim Bellamy holding it together as host. The KiMo's ornate Pueblo Deco interior has a way of making certain performances feel genuinely...

Jordan Jonas brings his particular brand of outdoor-survival storytelling to Painted Lady's Brews & Boos series, which has been one of the more thoughtfully programmed autumn runs on this stretch...

A fundraiser night at Painted Lady Bed & Brew, with proceeds going to Barrett House, which provides transitional housing and support services for women and children in Albuquerque. Painted Lady...