• In Rhythm Fest 2026 Latin Dance Festival

    NHCC National Hispanic Cultural Center
    Barelasall agesDetails

    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...

  • Teatro Paraguas: Esperanza at NHCC Barelas

    NHCC National Hispanic Cultural Center
    BarelastheaterDetails

    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...

  • Horror House Trivia

    Painted Lady Bed & Brew
    Wells Parkbar-gamesTickets

    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....

  • Y2K Cover Night at Marble Brewery

    Marble Brewery Downtown
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    Marble's Downtown taproom is hosting a cover night built around the Y2K era, which in practice means anything from Destiny's Child to Blink-182 depending on who shows up to play....

  • Billy & Bella Live at Thirsty Eye

    Thirsty Eye Brewing Company
    live musicDetails

    Billy & Bella take the stage at Thirsty Eye Brewing Company for an evening show on the Central Avenue corridor. Thirsty Eye is a working brewery with a no-frills room...

  • Tablao Flamenco Friday Dinner Show

    Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque
    date nightTickets

    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...

  • Tablao Flamenco Friday Show

    Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque
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    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...

  • Spanish Harlem Orchestra at Old Town

    Albuquerque Museum
    Old Townlive musicTickets

    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...