Events on Central

Atlanta rapper Rittz, known for his rapid-fire delivery and a decade-long run on Strange Music, plays the Sunshine Theater for the Before The Drop Tour. The Sunshine is one of the better mid-size rooms on the corridor for hip-hop, with a floor that actually moves and sound that holds up when the bass gets loud....

Joanne Shaw Taylor, the British guitarist who started playing professionally at 16 after Eurythmics' Dave Stewart heard her at a festival, brings her full-throated blues-rock to the KiMo on a...

Joanne Shaw Taylor is a British blues-rock guitarist who was discovered by Dave Stewart at age sixteen and has spent the decades since earning a reputation as one of the most authoritative voices in contemporary blues. The KiMo is a seated, ornate 1927 Pueblo Deco theater, which means this one will feel more like a...

The night before Halloween, Triple Moon Bewitched sets up tarot readings inside Painted Lady Bed & Brew as part of the venue's Brews & Boos series, pairing craft beer with something a little harder to explain. Painted Lady is a small, genuinely weird space in the best way, so the atmosphere does a lot of...

Cradle of Filth's Majestic In Death II tour hits the Sunshine Theatre the night before Halloween, which means the crowd showing up for this one will be in full costume and already committed. The Sunshine holds around 800 and has a wide open floor, so you'll want to get there early if you care about...

Suffolk's long-running symphonic black metal institution comes to Central Avenue the night before Halloween, which is either obvious or perfect depending on your tolerance for thematic coincidence. The Sunshine's floor gets loud and close for heavy shows, so if you want breathing room, arrive early and find your spot before the room fills. Tickets are...

The 1986 film plays on screen while a live orchestra performs the full score underneath it, Bowie songs and all, on Halloween night at one of the most theatrical rooms in New Mexico. The KiMo's 1927 Pueblo Deco interior is already a lot to take in, and a crowd dressed for Halloween watching David Bowie...

TourABQ's Halloween pedaler crawl puts a pack of costumed riders on a guided multi-stop bar route through the city on the night itself. The party bike format means you're moving between bars as a group, so this works best if you commit to the whole ride rather than planning to peel off early. Tickets are...

A seated tablao flamenco performance inside Hotel Albuquerque, one of the few venues in the Southwest running this format with any regularity. The specific cast is still TBD at listing time, so the experience depends on who they book, but the room itself is well-suited to the form: intimate enough that the footwork lands in...

Trevor Jones's score for the 1986 Bowie-and-Muppets fantasy gets performed live by an orchestra while the film plays on screen, which is the kind of thing the KiMo was almost architecturally destined to host. Halloween night in that 1927 Pueblo Deco room, with a crowd that will absolutely show up in costume, is going to...

The 1986 Bowie-and-Muppets fantasy film screens at the KiMo with a live orchestra playing the score, which means you hear Trevor Jones and David Bowie's songs the way a theater this ornate was built to deliver them. Halloween night adds a cosplay energy that the KiMo's Pueblo Deco interior handles better than most rooms would....

The Lobo Sports Vault takes over a room inside the Historic Lobo Theater for a full afternoon of NCAA football, with a buffet running 11 AM to 2 PM and the college slate on screens through the evening. The venue puts every New Mexico Lobos game on the big screen when the room is available...

The Deal, Albuquerque's Grateful Dead tribute act, wraps their three-show 2026 Lobo run on Halloween night with a set pulling from the full Dead catalog, long jams included. This is the third and final Lobo date of the year, which tends to mean the band arrives with something to prove, and a 550-person room full...

Every NFL game of the day goes up on the screens during a Sunday brunch window at The Lobo Sports Vault, the dedicated sports room tucked inside the Historic Lobo Theater on Central. Each game day you show up earns a drawing entry for the VIP balcony at Super Bowl LXI, which is a genuinely...

The Broadway touring production of & Juliet arrives at Popejoy, the jukebox musical built entirely on Max Martin hits that asks what Shakespeare's Juliet does when she writes her own ending. Popejoy is a proper concert hall with good sightlines from nearly every seat, so this is one of those shows where splurging on cheap...

The Broadway touring production of & Juliet asks what happens if Juliet simply doesn't die, and answers mostly in Max Martin pop hits spanning four decades of radio history. Popejoy is a proper sit-down house with good sightlines from nearly every seat, so if you've been putting this show off for a livelier venue, you...

The Broadway touring production of & Juliet, the jukebox musical built around pop hits from Max Martin's catalog, comes to Popejoy for one or a handful of nights in early November 2026. Popejoy is a proper theater with good sightlines from almost every seat, but parking around UNM on a Friday or Saturday fills fast,...

CAIN, the sibling trio known for radio-friendly Christian pop with actual worship intent behind it, plays Kiva Auditorium with opener bodie, a rising name in the faith-based singer-songwriter space. Kiva seats around 2,000 and tends to fill evenly, so there's no bad spot in the house, but the floor can feel formal for a worship-style...

Todd Rundgren, still touring at 78, brings five decades of pop craft and studio wizardry to one of the most architecturally loaded rooms on Central Avenue. The KiMo's Pueblo Deco interior means wherever you stand, you're looking at something, so arriving early to find your spot pays off. Tickets are through Ticketmaster, so buy direct...

The touring production of & Juliet asks what happens if Juliet simply doesn't die, then answers with a catalog of pop hits from Max Martin. Popejoy seats just over 1,900 and the sightlines are genuinely good from most of the house, so don't stress the ticket tier too hard. This one skews toward a date-night...

The Lobo Sports Vault, the dedicated sports room inside the Historic Lobo Theater on Central, runs college football on every screen all Saturday with the buffet open from 11 AM to 2 PM. Any New Mexico Lobos game gets priority on the main screen, so if UNM is playing, this is a better room than...

The UNM Robb Musical Trust's annual memorial concert honors John Donald Robb Jr. with an evening of violin-focused works at South Broadway Cultural Center, a neighborhood arts space that punches well above its square footage. Robb spent decades collecting New Mexican folk music before becoming dean of UNM's music school, so this concert carries real...

The Broadway touring production of & Juliet, the jukebox musical built around Max Martin pop hits and a rewritten ending for Shakespeare's most famous casualty, brings its full production to Popejoy Hall. Popejoy is a proper sit-down theater with good sightlines from most of the house, so if you have the option, the mezzanine center...

The Four C Notes are a working tribute act built around the Four Seasons catalog, falsettos and all, performing at one of the most acoustically and visually distinctive theaters on the Route 66 corridor. The KiMo's Pueblo Deco interior does something genuinely strange and good to close-harmony vocal groups, bouncing the sound in ways a...

The Broadway touring production of & Juliet, the jukebox musical built around the songwriting catalog of Max Martin, comes to Popejoy for one night. Popejoy is a proper 1,985-seat concert hall with good sightlines from nearly everywhere, so seating anxiety is mostly a non-issue here. Grab tickets sooner rather than later; national touring shows at...

Rival Sons have spent the better part of fifteen years proving that the kind of raw, riff-forward rock most people assumed died with the seventies is still a live thing, and a night with them tends to convert skeptics. The Sunshine's room is big enough to let the sound breathe but small enough that the...

Every NFL game of the day plays simultaneously at the Lobo Sports Vault, the dedicated sports room tucked inside the Historic Lobo Theater on Central, with brunch service running 11 AM to 2 PM. Each game day you attend this season earns you a drawing entry for the Super Bowl LXI VIP balcony experience (you...

The Broadway touring production of & Juliet reimagines Shakespeare's ending through a catalog of Max Martin pop hits, framed as a feminist what-if about a girl who decides not to die for love. Popejoy is a proper road-house theater with good sightlines from most seats, though the upper balcony can feel remote for a show...

The Broadway touring production of & Juliet, the jukebox musical built around the catalog of pop songwriter Max Martin, makes a stop at Popejoy on a Sunday evening. Popejoy runs a tight ship with assigned seating and reliable sightlines, but parking around UNM on event nights fills faster than people expect, so give yourself an...

Two of norteño and banda's most enduring touring acts share a bill at Kiva Auditorium, a seated hall that holds around 2,400 and tends to fill with multigenerational crowds who treat this kind of show like the event it actually is. The Kiva sits inside the Convention Center on Central, which means parking is manageable...

Stone Age Climbing Gym brings the 20th edition of Reel Rock to the KiMo, which means a full night of the year's best climbing films projected in one of the most architecturally wild movie houses in the Southwest. The KiMo's Pueblo Deco interior does something to a crowd, and the Stone Age connection usually draws...

Sirena World Dance Studio's annual belly dance showcase runs late into the night, with the four-hour window suggesting this is a full evening of performances rather than a quick set. South Broadway Cultural Center is a city-run space with a proper stage and good sightlines, which makes it a better room for this kind of...

New Mexico Young Actors take on Rodgers and Hammerstein at the KiMo, one of the more fitting pairings of material and venue you'll find on Central. The KiMo's 1927 Pueblo Deco interior does a lot of the heavy lifting atmospherically, so even a mid-tier production tends to land better here than it would in a...

New Mexico Young Actors take the KiMo's ornate 1927 stage for a 90-minute Youth Edition of The Sound of Music, the scaled production format designed specifically for younger casts. The KiMo's Pueblo Deco interior does something genuinely useful for a show like this: the room adds grandeur that a school auditorium never could, which tends...