Events on Central

A tablao-format flamenco show with live guitar, cante, and baile performed over a Friday dinner service at Hotel Albuquerque, one of the few venues on the corridor doing this with any regularity. Specific performers are still TBA, so the cast is a variable, but the room itself is well-suited for this, closer in scale to...

Friday night flamenco at Hotel Albuquerque puts live bailaores, a cantaora, and a guitarrista in one of the few dedicated tablao settings in the Southwest. The room is intimate enough that you will feel the footwork through the floor, which is either thrilling or distracting depending on where you sit, so request a table toward...

Jason Scott & The High Heat take the KiMo stage for Bands of Enchantment, a show whose name suggests something bigger than a single headliner, so expect either a multi-act bill or a set with genuine range. The KiMo's ornate Pueblo Deco interior does something to a live show that flat-walled rooms can't touch, but...

A live improv comedy show at The Box, the small black-box theater on Central that has been quietly doing the work for years while bigger venues get the attention. The...

Four bands, one birthday, and a bill that leans hard into the heavier end of the Albuquerque scene. Launchpad's room is built for exactly this kind of stacked weekend show,...

Bravo The Bagchaser and Peysoh roll the Nothing Given Tour through El Rey, a late-night show with a ticket link already live, which means the room will fill before walk-up...

Bravo The Bagchaser, the Sacramento rapper who built a following through raw street narratives and consistent independent releases, headlines the Nothing Given Tour at one of Central Avenue's better rooms...