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Artha Meadors brings her songwriting to Thirsty Eye Brewing Company on a Friday evening, the kind of intimate brewery set where you're close enough to hear every word. Thirsty Eye is a compact room that rewards showing up early for a seat, and the house beer is genuinely good, which helps the night along. Admission...
Three bailaoras, a cantaor, and a guitarist perform a full tablao-format flamenco dinner show inside the historic Hotel Albuquerque, one of the few venues in the country presenting this art form in its proper sit-down context. The room is intimate enough that you will feel the footwork in your chest, which is exactly the point....
Micky Cruz brings salsa y más to the Albuquerque Museum's courtyard for the 35th year of Music Under the Stars, the Friday night summer series that has been an Old Town anchor long enough to have its own institutional memory. The museum grounds give you open sky and a crowd that actually dances, not just...
Rufus Wainwright plays the Journal Theatre solo, no band, no buffer, just him and whatever he decides to do with a room that seats around 700 and has acoustics that reward exactly this kind of performance. The NHCC is on the corridor, and the Journal is one of the better-kept secrets in Albuquerque for intimate...
Improv Theatre brings a live, unscripted comedy set to The Box, one of the more intimate black-box rooms on the Central corridor. The Box keeps sightlines close and the audience close to the action, which in improv means you may become part of the show whether you planned to or not. Tickets are through Hold...
MAD DUBZ and VKTM are stacking a night of riddim and deathstep at Effex, the long-running Downtown club that knows how to run a sound system for this kind of...
Nocturne is throwing a fundraiser show at Launchpad, one of the few remaining rooms on the corridor that still runs sound like it means it. The late start puts this solidly in the after-midnight category, so pace yourself accordingly. Check Hold My Ticket for pricing before you show up at the door.
Cockroach Theatre stages Shakespeare's most reliably weird comedy in The Box Annex, the smaller attached space next to The Box's main room. Cockroach has a track record of doing strange,...
th0tdaughter brings her brand of darkwave-adjacent electronic production to Insideout, a late-night corridor stop that has quietly become one of the better rooms in Downtown for this kind of music. The 10 p.m. local start time (listed in UTC) means this is genuinely a midnight crowd, so calibrate your evening accordingly. Tickets are through Hold...
KodaStar Entertainment takes over The Lab for a late-night event running 10 PM to 4 AM, which puts last call well past most of Central Avenue's usual crowd. The Lab's...