Events on Central

A horror-themed stand-up hour in the taproom of Painted Lady Bed & Brew, the only brewpub on the corridor where guests are literally sleeping upstairs during the show. One hour...

The Django Festival Allstars bring their hot jazz and gypsy swing tradition to Outpost Performance Space, one of the better-programmed rooms on the Central corridor, as part of the 20th...

Three heavyweights of postwar blues harmonica and guitar share a stage for a CD release night at FUSION | 708, which puts this closer to a recording-session atmosphere than a...

The surviving Wailers are marking the 50th anniversary of Rastaman Vibration with a tour that pulls from that album alongside the catalog standards that made Bob Marley a household name...

New Mexico United takes on Indy Eleven in a USL Championship regular season match at Isotopes Park, one of the better soccer atmospheres in the American lower divisions. The supporter sections here are loud and organized enough to genuinely affect the game, so sitting near the south end puts you in the middle of something...

A seated dinner show built around live flamenco, with dancers, a singer, and a guitarist performing in the tablao format that originated in mid-20th-century Spanish clubs. Hotel Albuquerque's sala is a genuinely intimate room for this kind of thing, close enough that you'll feel the footwork in your chest. Performers are still TBA, so check...

This is a traditional tablao format, which means flamenco as a close-quarters performance art rather than a stage spectacle, with dancers, a singer, and a guitarist working in the kind of tight conversation that only happens when the audience is ten feet away. Hotel Albuquerque's tablao room is one of the few dedicated flamenco spaces...

Yungchen Lhamo is one of the most quietly commanding vocalists alive, a Tibetan singer whose a cappella and minimally accompanied performances have carried weight on stages from Carnegie Hall to small rooms like this one. FUSION | 708 is an intimate space, which works in the audience's favor here, the kind of room where there's...

The Wailers, the band that outlasted Bob Marley's death by four decades and kept touring with original members carrying the weight of that legacy, play the Journal Theatre for their 50 Years of Positive Vibrations run. The Journal is an intimate indoor theater, which means the sound stays tight and the sightlines are good, a...

Improv Theatre takes the stage at The Box for an unscripted hour of live comedy, the kind where nothing is planned and the room decides how good it gets. The Box is a small, focused space that rewards audience participation and punishes phone distraction, so come ready to be present. Ticket link is live through...