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Taos Music Fesi

Taos Solar Music Fest is one of the most laid back and fun of all the southwest music festivals. Both great stage acts and great audiences come from all over the US and many other countries to hear the music, hang out with friends and feel the great vibes of Taos. There's also a unique 'solar village' where you can see some the the latest gadgetry for solar generation of electricity and heat.

Come experience great music, interactive alternative energy displays and exquisite views at the 9th Annual Taos Solar Music Festival in Kit Carson Park in downtown Taos, New Mexico. Taos is hailed as the Solar capital of the world by official proclamation. The festival brings a larger community to this smaller one with national acts and new ideas while honoring the ethnic diversity of northern New Mexico.

Taos Fiesta Queens III

The annual Fiestas are so important to the people of Taos, New Mexico that they have four different names -- las Fiestas de Taos, las Fiestas de don Fernando de Taos, las Fiestas de Santiago y Santana and las Fiestas de la Gente.

What are Fiestas? They are a tradition passed from generation to generation, a way of preserving the rich tri-culture that has developed in Taos over the last four centuries.

It is a culture unique to Taos, encompassing both pueblo and plains Indians, Spanish explorers, conquistadores, French fur trappers and American mountain men.

The annual event provides a time for people to put aside their labor for two days in order to enjoy the leisure of the holy days and the music, dancing, food, arts and crafts.

Powwow Dancers

The Annual Taos Pueblo Pow Wow was established to showcase the natural beauty of the tribal homelands of the Taos Pueblo People. The mountains and valley of Taos have long since been an attraction to people from all over the world. Taos Pueblo, historically, was a gathering place for tribes from all directions. Trading included songs and dances, many are still used today by Taos Pueblo.

The Taos Pow Wow is gathering of the Native American Nations. It is a celebration commemorated with traditional dance and drumming competitions. The North-Side Pueblo is said to be one of the most photographed and painted buildings in the Western Hemisphere. It is the largest multistoried Pueblo structure still existing. It is made of adobe walls that are often several feet thick. Its primary purpose was for defense. Up to as late as 1900, access to the rooms on lower floors was by ladders on the outside to the roof, and then down an inside ladder. In case of an attack, outside ladders could easily be pulled up.