Events on Central

Benny Bassett brings his bass-forward sound to Sawmill Market's communal food hall space on a Saturday night. The open layout means sound bleeds across vendor stalls, so this plays more...

Three blues acts worth taking seriously share the Civic Plaza stage, headlined by Judith Hill, whose vocal range and stage presence have drawn comparisons to Mavis Staples by people who...

Ed Allan plays Marble Brewery's Westside taproom, one of the more reliably good rooms on this stretch of Central for catching a solo performer without fighting the sound. The brewery...

Levi Dean & The Mesa Rats bring their dusty, Central Avenue-adjacent sound to one of the corridor's better small-room stages. Thirsty Eye keeps the volume at a level where you...

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...

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...

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...

A seated tablao-style flamenco show in one of the older hotel ballrooms on the corridor, with live guitar, cante, and baile performed close enough to the audience that you will...

NWA-sanctioned pro wrestling comes to one of the best mid-size rooms on the corridor, with Duke City Championship Wrestling running their Kings Landing card at the El Rey. The theater's...