Events on Central

Pawn Drive takes the stage at Thirsty Eye Brewing Company, a Route 66 corridor taproom that keeps its live music calendar busy on weekend nights. The room is compact and...

New Mexico United takes on Indy Eleven in a USL Championship regular season match at Isotopes Park, one of the better soccer atmospheres in the American lower divisions. The supporter...

A seated dinner show built around live flamenco, with dancers, a singer, and a guitarist performing in the tablao format that originated in mid-20th-century Spanish clubs. Hotel Albuquerque's sala is...

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...

Yungchen Lhamo is one of the most quietly commanding vocalists alive, a Tibetan singer whose a cappella and minimally accompanied performances have carried weight on stages from Carnegie Hall to small rooms like this one. FUSION | 708 is an intimate space, which works in the audience's favor here, the kind of room where there's...

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...