Events on Central

Toni Morgan brings together a lineup of women vocalists for this jazz and blues evening in the museum's outdoor amphitheater, part of a summer series that has been anchoring Saturday...

The BioPark opens its botanic garden after hours for an adults-only evening walk, roughly 90 minutes of grounds access without the daytime family crowd. Mid-July means the sun is still up at 7:30 PM and the garden is at peak summer bloom, so the light and the color are both working in your favor. Tickets...

Joseph General brings his High Vibration project to the Botanic Garden for one of the city's more genuinely pleasant summer concert setups, with the Aquarium open as part of the experience. The garden venue means you are outside, on grass, with room to spread a blanket, which changes the whole calculus compared to a bar...

Joseph General brings his roots-forward Albuquerque sound to the Botanic Garden, with High Vibration along for a 90-minute outdoor set on a July evening. The garden stage puts you in the middle of the landscaping rather than facing a wall of speakers, which makes the whole thing feel more like a backyard hang than a...

La Ansiedad Norteña brings norteño accordion and bajo sexto to the Old Town Gazebo, a 19th-century plaza stage that still draws multigenerational crowds on summer evenings. The gazebo's open layout means sound carries unpredictably, so the sweet spot is closer to the middle of the plaza rather than the edges near the portal shops. Admission...

Micky Cruz brings salsa y más to the Albuquerque Museum's courtyard for the 35th year of Music Under the Stars, the Friday night summer series that has been an Old Town anchor long enough to have its own institutional memory. The museum grounds give you open sky and a crowd that actually dances, not just...

Mariachi Tenampa plays a two-hour outdoor set at the Old Town Gazebo, one of the more naturally suited stages on the corridor for this kind of music. The acoustics in that open plaza can work against you on a windy July evening, so arriving early to claim a spot near the center of the gazebo...

LoPhat takes the Old Town Gazebo on a Sunday evening, which puts live music in one of the oldest public squares in the country. The gazebo setting means sound carries in every direction and the crowd tends to form organically around the perimeter, so there is no bad spot. Admission details are unconfirmed, but Old...

Felix Y Los Gatos brings their Latin roots sound to the Old Town Gazebo, one of the few outdoor stages in Albuquerque where the setting genuinely competes with the music for your attention. The plaza draws a mixed crowd, locals and tourists side by side, which gives evening shows here an energy that's hard to...

Flor de Toloache is a New York-based all-women mariachi group that has spent the better part of a decade expanding what the genre can hold, pulling in jazz, cumbia, and...