Red Dirt Black Gold Festival
Named for Artesia's twin identities as a farming and oilfield town, this September music and culture festival celebrates southeastern New Mexico's red-dirt country heritage with live music, local food, and community spirit.
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"Since 1971, this Labor Day weekend harvest celebration in the self-styled Chile Capital of the World draws 30,000 visitors for roaster-side buying, a hometown parade, cooking contests, and live music among the pecan orchards of the Hatch Valley."
Hatch Chile Festival
"Set against the dramatic red-rock mesas that inspired Georgia O'Keeffe, the Ghost Ranch Music Festival brings Americana and roots acts to the remote high-desert landscape of Abiquiu for a three-day outdoor gathering unlike any other in the Southwest."
Ghost Ranch Music Festival
"A single Saturday each September, this tiny ghost-town hamlet of 166 souls on US-60 in Catron County stages a community pie bake-off and festival that draws visitors from across the Southwest to celebrate the crop and character that gave Pie Town its name."
Pie Town's Annual Pie Festival
"The Southwestern New Mexico State Fair is the great autumn gathering of Luna County's farming and ranching communities, with livestock competitions, rodeo, carnival rides, and the desert-border traditions of the Deming area on full display."
Southwestern New Mexico State Fair
"The annual Chimayo Fiesta celebrates the living Hispanic and Tewa heritage of this famous weaving village and pilgrimage site in the Rio Grande valley, with traditional music, food, and community festivity on the historic plaza."
Chimayo Fiesta
"Artesia's Eddy County Fair is the annual agricultural showcase of the Pecos Valley oilfield and dairy belt, drawing ranchers, 4-H youth, and families for livestock judging and small-town fair traditions."
Eddy County Fair
"Billed as the world's oldest and largest old-time music and bluegrass competition, the Galax Old Fiddlers' Convention has gathered mountain musicians at Felts Park since 1935, drawing competitors and campers from across the country."
Old Fiddlers' Convention
"Known as the Teepee Capital of the World, the Crow Fair is one of the largest Native American gatherings in North America, held on the Crow Reservation with powwow dancing, a rodeo, parades, and an encampment of thousands of teepees."
Crow Fair
"An all-day street fair and live music festival filling Main Street in the charming small town of Bristol, Addison County, with local acts, vendors, and community celebration in the shadow of the Green Mountains."
Pocock Rocks Music Festival and Street Fair
"In the tiny Czech hamlet of Praha, founded by Moravian and Bohemian immigrants in the 1850s, Mass is celebrated in a historic Czech-style church on August 15 each year, followed by traditional Czech food and Texas Czech bands playing for outdoor dancing."
Praha Assumption Festival
"An intimate two-day celebration of traditional fiddle and folk music set in the tiny Genesee Valley hamlet of Mumford, drawing acoustic musicians and dancers from across upstate New York."
Fiddle and Folk Festival
"The inaugural successor to the legendary Norsk Hostfest, this new two-day Nordic heritage festival at the Minot Municipal Auditorium carries forward decades of Scandinavian community tradition with two stages of entertainment, food, artisan crafts and educational programming."
Fjord Folk Fest