Events on Central

The Wildwoods take the Spirit Stage on a Saturday night in October, with tickets already live on Hold My Ticket. Spirit Stage sits right on the Central corridor and tends...

A full afternoon-into-evening film program presented by the Chinese American Citizens Alliance Albuquerque Lodge, now in its tenth year at South Broadway Cultural Center on the corridor. That tenure matters:...

The Lobo Sports Vault takes over one of the most storied rooms on Central for a full Saturday of college football, with a buffet running through the early afternoon and...

Disney's Broadway adaptation of Beauty and the Beast comes through on a full touring production, with the live orchestra, elaborate set pieces, and costume design that make this one of...

Three acts spanning ABQ's own musical geography share a stage to mark six decades of the city's most eclectic public radio station. The Museum Amphitheater sits open to the sky, so October nights here can drop fast once the sun goes, and this one runs until 10:30 p.m. Layers are the move.

Two catalogs, one night: a live tribute act works through the full sweep of both Prince and Michael Jackson, with a Halloween costume contest and themed decor folded into what is essentially a late-night dance event. The Lobo is a genuine theater with a real stage and multiple bars, so the room has more breathing...

A full Broadway touring production of Beauty and the Beast comes to Popejoy Hall, one of the better mid-sized theater rooms in the Southwest for this kind of show. Popejoy's acoustics are genuinely good and the sightlines hold up even from the upper sections, so there's less of a bad seat problem than you'd expect...

Twiztid, the Detroit horror-rap duo who have been working the Psychopathic Records circuit since the late 90s, headline El Rey with Albuquerque's Buffalo Farm opening. El Rey is a long room with a solid sound system and a stage that rewards acts who actually perform rather than just stand there, and Twiztid leans hard into...

Nekrogoblikon's whole thing is costumed goblin characters, legitimately technical melodic death metal, and a crowd that laughs and headbangs in equal measure. Aborted is no warm-up act, they've been one of the more consistent names in brutal death metal for over two decades, so showing up late means missing something real. Sunshine's general admission floor...

A seated tablao-format flamenco show at Hotel Albuquerque, with live guitar, cante, and baile performed in close quarters where you can hear the footwork on the wood. The Old Town-edge location puts this squarely on the corridor, and the room is small enough that there is no bad seat, which matters more for flamenco than...