• Launchpad’s 29th Birthday Party

    Launchpad
    Downtownhigh energyTickets

    Twenty-nine years on Central is a legitimate milestone for a room that has outlasted a dozen trends and twice as many competing venues, and Launchpad tends to treat its own...

  • Tablao Flamenco Friday Dinner Show

    Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque
    arts & cultureTickets

    A seated flamenco dinner show in the Old Town-adjacent room at Hotel Albuquerque, with live guitar, cante, and dance performed in close quarters. Tablao format means the performers work within...

  • Tablao Flamenco Friday Show

    Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque
    latinTickets

    Three bailaoras, a cantaor, and a guitarrista perform a full tablao-format flamenco show inside Hotel Albuquerque, right on Central. This is not dinner theater dressed up as flamenco; the company...

  • Son Como Son at Albuquerque Museum

    Albuquerque Museum
    Old TowndanceTickets

    Son Como Son brings their salsa and Latin ensemble sound to the Albuquerque Museum's long-running outdoor concert series, now in its 35th year. The museum courtyard fills up faster than most people expect, so arriving early gets you a decent patch of grass before the dancing crowds claim the open space near the stage. Check...

  • Live Improv Comedy at The Box

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM AreacomedyTickets

    A live improv comedy show at The Box, the UNM Area's most reliably weird little black-box room on Central. The space is small enough that the performers will absolutely make eye contact with you, which is either thrilling or terrifying depending on how you feel about audience participation. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, so...

  • unpolished* Live at Moonlight Lounge

    Moonlight Lounge
    Downtownlive musicTickets

    unpolished* takes the Moonlight Lounge stage for a late-night set that runs until 6 a.m., which should tell you something about the energy they're going for. The lowercase-with-asterisk branding is a choice, and the Hold My Ticket link confirms this is a real ticketed event, not a loose bar night with a cover jar. If...

  • Your Rong! Comedy Debate Show

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM AreacomedyTickets

    A comedy debate show presented by In the Box Annex, running just an hour at a genuinely odd hour of the night, which tells you something about the crowd it's built for. The Box is a small, purposeful room that rewards the format, close enough to the stage that a bad argument lands right in...

  • Y2K Hip-Hop & Reggaeton Night

    Inside Out
    Downtownhip-hopTickets

    Burque Baddies is throwing a Y2K-era dance night at Insideout, with DJs Genderotic and Mischievous trading off sets across hip-hop, R&B, and reggaeton. Insideout runs queer-centered events and has a dance floor that actually gets used, so this one is built for people who came to move. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, so grab...