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Tonight on the corridor
Benny Bassett brings his bass-forward sound to Sawmill Market's communal food hall space on a Saturday night. The open layout means sound bleeds across vendor stalls, so this plays more like background-turned-foreground depending on where you plant yourself. Grab a spot near the stage side early if you're actually there to listen.
Eryn Bent plays the Downtown Marble patio, one of the better acoustic setups on this stretch of Central for a solo performer. The 9 PM start means the worst of the late-summer heat has usually broken by then, which makes the outdoor room genuinely comfortable rather than an endurance test. A ticket link exists but...
Three blues acts worth taking seriously share the Civic Plaza stage, headlined by Judith Hill, whose vocal range and stage presence have drawn comparisons to Mavis Staples by people who don't make that comparison lightly. Levi Platero is a Navajo guitarist with a tone that tends to quiet a crowd within the first two minutes,...
Ed Allan plays Marble Brewery's Westside taproom, one of the more reliably good rooms on this stretch of Central for catching a solo performer without fighting the sound. The brewery format means a relaxed, standing crowd that tends to actually listen, which is rarer than it should be. Admission isn't confirmed in the listing, so...
Levi Dean & The Mesa Rats bring their dusty, Central Avenue-adjacent sound to one of the corridor's better small-room stages. Thirsty Eye keeps the volume at a level where you can still talk to the person next to you, which either sounds like a selling point or a dealbreaker depending on who you are. Admission...
Three serious players share a bill for Blues Night, the capstone evening of the 20th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival: Judith Hill (a vocalist who has worked with Prince and Michael Jackson), local hero Levi Platero, and Michael Matison. Civic Plaza is an open hardscape downtown, so the sound carries well but there is no...
Los Tigres del Norte, the Sinaloa-born norteño institution that has been recording since 1968, bring their corridos and narcocorridos canon to the Kiva Auditorium. The Kiva seats around 2,300 and has a proper sightline from nearly every seat in the house, so there is no real bad spot in this room. Tickets through Ticketmaster means...
A seated flamenco dinner show in the Hotel Albuquerque ballroom, where the combination of live cante, guitar, and footwork gets performed close enough to feel the floor vibrate under the dancers. The room has genuine atmosphere for this kind of thing, which is not a given in Albuquerque, and the proximity to the stage makes...
A seated tablao-style flamenco show in one of the older hotel ballrooms on the corridor, with live guitar, cante, and baile performed close enough to the audience that you will feel the footwork in your chest. The specific performers haven't been announced yet, which is worth knowing before you buy, though the format itself is...
NWA-sanctioned pro wrestling comes to one of the best mid-size rooms on the corridor, with Duke City Championship Wrestling running their Kings Landing card at the El Rey. The theater's tiered floor and solid sightlines make it a better venue for this than most places that host indie wrestling in town. Tickets are through Hold...