Events on Central

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...

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...

The Expendables are a Santa Cruz reggae-rock band with twenty-plus years of catalog and a fanbase that treats their shows like a reunion. Launchpad is a small room, which means the floor gets loud fast and the sightlines are genuinely good from anywhere, but get there before the openers finish if you want a comfortable...

The post-Bob Marley touring lineup of The Wailers brings the full roots-reggae catalog to what is almost certainly an outdoor stage at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, not Launchpad's usual...

A comedy debate show where being wrong is apparently the whole point, running just one hour on a Friday night at The Box Annex on Central. The Box tends to...

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...