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Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque runs its Friday night show in the intimate tablao space inside Hotel Albuquerque, one of the few venues on the corridor presenting traditional Spanish flamenco in a format close enough to seat you inside the performance rather than across from it. Specific performers haven't been announced yet, so the lineup is genuinely...
This is night five of Launchpad's annual Halloween week cover band run, which means you're catching the tail end of whatever collective sleep deprivation has accumulated since Monday. Launchpad's long narrow room rewards standing close to the stage, and by night five the crowd that shows up knows exactly what they're doing and tends to...
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 to run sound tight, so arrive close to doors if you want the full set. A ticket link this early usually means the room has...
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: this is an organization that has been doing this long enough to know how to program a room, and South Broadway is a genuinely good...
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 every New Mexico Lobos game getting the big-screen treatment. The listed 5 PM start likely reflects when the evening crowd shifts in, but the screens...
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 the more technically demanding shows to stage on the road. Popejoy's acoustics and sightlines are genuinely good for a room this size, so there is...
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...