Events on Central

A live concert production built around the songs of the 1960s, staged at Popejoy Hall on the UNM campus. Popejoy is a proper listening room with real acoustics and actual...

A seated flamenco show in the tablao format, meaning performers work close to the audience in a room built for this kind of intensity rather than a concert stage. Hotel Albuquerque's venue on Central gives it a weightier setting than most flamenco pop-ups in town, and the tablao structure tends to produce the kind of...

Irene Diaz, the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter whose voice sits somewhere between late-night folk and slow-burn soul, comes to South Broadway Cultural Center under the Lensic 360 banner. That presenter connection...

A live improv comedy show at The Box, one of the more committed small performance spaces on the Central corridor, running about an hour at 8PM. The Box seats intimately and the room puts you close enough to the performers that the awkward pauses land differently than they do in a big house. Tickets are...

The One Night Stanleys bring long-form improv to The Box, one of the few dedicated performance spaces on the corridor that actually treats comedy as a craft rather than a...

This two-act, 90-minute production at the NHCC's Albuquerque Journal Theatre moves through centuries of Mexican cultural history, from Aztec ceremony to varsovianas, spoken poetry, and live Mariachi Xochitl. The Albuquerque Journal Theatre is a proper sit-down house with good sightlines and real production values, so this is a more polished evening than a typical community...

A seated, one-hour flamenco performance inside Hotel Albuquerque's Tablao, with dancers, a singer, and a guitarist performing together in a format rooted in the traditional Spanish club setting. The room is small and configured close to the stage, so even seats that feel middling on the chart put you near enough to hear the footwork...

Navajo jazz pianist Delbert Anderson brings his quartet to Outpost for one of the marquee nights of the 20th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival, a run that has made this room one of the more serious jazz destinations in the Southwest. Outpost is a dedicated listening room, which means the crowd actually listens, and Anderson's...

Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and guitarist Mary Halvorson, two of the most consequential voices in contemporary improvised music, share the Outpost stage for an evening of duo work that will likely sound like nothing else you hear this year. Outpost is a listening room in the truest sense, a small, attentive space where people actually come...