Events on Central

A fundraiser at Painted Lady Bed & Brew on Central, raising money for Barrett House, Albuquerque's longest-running shelter for women and children experiencing homelessness. Painted Lady is a genuine neighborhood...

Brooklyn rapper Kota the Friend brings his lo-fi, self-produced sound to Sister Bar, one of the tighter indoor rooms on the corridor. His crowds tend to be genuinely invested rather than just out for a Friday, which changes the room feel considerably. Tickets are moving, so waiting on this one has a real cost.

Josh Turner, the South Carolina baritone whose voice sits somewhere between classic country and Southern gospel, plays Kiva Auditorium on his This Country Music Thing Tour. Kiva is a proper seated theater inside the Convention Center, which means good sightlines from almost anywhere in the room but a crowd that tends to stay in their...

The EQNX Jazztet brings small-group jazz to Outpost, one of the few rooms on Central that was purpose-built for listening rather than drinking. Outpost keeps its sight lines clean and its sound dialed, so wherever you sit, you're actually hearing the music.

Three of the more respected names in modern traditional country, Brennen Leigh, Kelly Willis, and Melissa Carper, split a single bill at FUSION 708 on Central. This is a room that punches above its square footage when the booking is right, and this booking is right. Tickets through Hold My Ticket, which means will-call can...

Dale Watson has been keeping real honky-tonk alive since before it was fashionable to care about that, and a Launchpad show puts him in a room where the PA can actually handle a steel guitar at volume. Launchpad's long and narrow floor means almost every spot in the house is closer to the stage than...

Four local acts share a bill at Insideout, a small Downtown room that rewards showing up early because the capacity is real and the later sets tend to draw. The 9 PM local start puts this deep into a Thursday night, so know that going in. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, which means you...

Three local acts share a bill at Moonlight Lounge, and the lineup has enough range to keep the room honest across a three-hour set. The Moonlight runs late and the...

CPTC Musical Camp closes out its summer session with a 45-minute youth production of the Disney stage adaptation, performed at The Box on Central. The Box is an intimate black-box space, so even seats toward the back put you close enough to see every nervous smile and triumphant moment from the kids on stage. Tickets...