• Groove Therapy DJ Night at the Lobo Theater

    Historic Lobo Theater
    Nob Hill21+Details

    Seven DJs trading sets across seven hours of old-school funk, disco, and deep house inside one of the best-looking rooms on Central Avenue. The Lobo's floor is genuinely spacious and the sound system holds up at volume, which matters more than you'd think when the night runs this long. No advance tickets, cash or card...

  • Isotopes vs. Space Cowboys at Route 66’s Ballpark

    Isotopes Park
    UNM Areafamily friendlyTickets

    Two of the better team names in Triple-A baseball meet at Isotopes Park for a Friday night game on the Central corridor. The park sits at elevation, which means balls carry and scores run up more than you'd expect if your only reference is sea-level baseball. Tickets move through Ticketmaster, so buy direct if you...

  • TwoLips Homecoming Show at Sister Bar Downtown

    Sister Bar
    Downtownhip hopTickets

    TwoLips comes back to Albuquerque for a homecoming set, joined by Tolliver, Clarq, and Thot Daughter in a late-night lineup that runs until nearly 2 a.m. local time. Sister Bar...

  • Ghosts of Old Town

    Painted Lady Bed & Brew
    Wells Parkhistory & heritageTickets

    Cody Polston, a published paranormal researcher with decades of New Mexico fieldwork, presents a deep dive into Old Town Albuquerque's ghost history as part of the Painted Lady's recurring Brews...

  • Tablao Flamenco Friday Dinner Show

    Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque
    arts & cultureTickets

    Hotel Albuquerque's tablao series brings together a bailaor, cantaora, and guitarrista for a seated dinner show in one of the corridor's most architecturally fitting rooms for this kind of performance. The Old Town adjacency is not incidental: this stretch of Central has hosted Spanish-rooted performance traditions longer than almost anywhere else in the country, and...

  • Tablao Flamenco Friday Show

    Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque
    latinTickets

    Three bailaoras, a cantaor, and a guitarist perform a full tablao-format flamenco show inside Hotel Albuquerque, one of the few venues on the corridor built for this kind of presentation. The room is intimate enough that you will hear the footwork on the floor and feel the call-and-response between dancer and singer the way it...

  • Calle 66 Live at Albuquerque Museum

    Albuquerque Museum
    Old TowndanceTickets

    Calle 66 takes the outdoor stage for the Friday salsa night in the Albuquerque Museum's long-running Music Under the Stars series, now in its 35th year. The museum courtyard is one of the better outdoor listening rooms in the city, with the Old Town adobe walls doing surprisingly good things for the sound. Tickets are...

  • Ben’s Birthday Bash at Moonlight Lounge

    Sunshine Theatre
    Downtownbar sceneTickets

    A ticketed birthday party running from roughly 10:30 p.m. to 3 a.m. local time at Moonlight Lounge on the corridor, which tells you everything you need to know about the energy level being aimed for. Details on the event itself are thin, so this one lives or dies on how well you know Ben. Tickets...

  • Live Improv Comedy

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM AreacomedyTickets

    Improv comedy night at The Box, co-presented with Improv Theatre, meaning the performers likely have actual training and structure behind them rather than a loose open-mic feel. The Box is a small, close-quarters room where there's no real bad seat, but there's also nowhere to hide if you get pulled into a bit. Tickets are...