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UFO Encounter (late Jun–early
Jul) Roswell. A series of lectures
on UFOs, also featuring concerts
and entertainment.
Frontier Days (late Jun–early Jul)
Prescott. The oldest professional
rodeo in the world, featuring
events such as calf roping and
Performers at the Utah Shakespeare wild horse racing.
Festival in Cedar City Utah Shakespeare Festival
(late Jun–Oct) Cedar City. Plays
Phippen Western Art Show & are produced in two of the
Sale (Memorial Day weekend) town’s theaters.
Prescott. Western art and Taos Summer Chamber Music
sculpture buyers, sellers, and Festival (Jun–Aug) Taos and
admirers come for the juried Angel Fire. This festival involves
fine art show. a series of outdoor concerts. Participants in traditional costume at the
Wyatt Earp Days (Memorial Day Santa Fe Opera (late Jun–Aug) Taos Pueblo Pow Wow
weekend) Tombstone. Mock Santa Fe. A variety of operas are
gunfights, street entertainment, performed in an open-air arena. Bat-Flight Breakfast (late Jul)
and barbecue. Carlsbad Caverns. Participants
July can enjoy an outdoor breakfast
June Fourth of July (Jul 4) Most while watching thousands of
Utah Summer Games (Jun) Southwestern towns. bats return to the caves.
Cedar City. The games include Celebrations include parades, Arizona Cardinals Training
a marathon, cycling, tennis, fireworks, rodeos, music festivals, Camp (late Jul–mid-Aug)
and swimming. and ceremonial Indian dances. Glendale. Most practice sessions
San Antonio Feast Day (Jun 13) Hopi Festival of Arts and of this NFL team are open to
Sandia, San Idelfonso, Ohkay Culture (early Jul) Flagstaff. the public.
Owingeh, and Taos pueblos. Music, dance, and over 70 Spanish Market (last weekend)
This festival welcomes visitors award-winning Hopi carvers, Santa Fe. A lively celebration
and features tribal dancing. painters, jewelers, potters, featuring arts and crafts by
Albuquerque Pride Fest quilters, and weavers. contemporary Hispanic artists.
(mid-Jun) Albuquerque. A Santa Fe International Folk
three-day celebration of music Art Market (mid-Jul) Santa Fe. August
and comedy hosted by the Handmade folk arts and crafts by Old Lincoln Days (first weekend)
LGBTIQ community. skilled artists on display. Lincoln. A festival featuring a
Telluride Bluegrass (mid-Jun) Chamber Music Festival (mid- re-enactment of the death of
Telluride. Often coinciding with Jul–Aug) Santa Fe. One of the Billy the Kid, including the Last
the solstice, this four-day roots- finest chamber music festivals Escape of Billy the Kid pageant.
music festival is one of the in America is held at venues Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial
West’s biggest music events. throughout the city. (mid-Aug) Red Rock State Park
New Mexico Arts and Crafts Taos Pueblo Pow Wow (second and Gallup. Fifty tribes take part
Fair (late Jun) Albuquerque. week) Taos Pueblo. Traditional in dances, pow wows, parades,
Traditional arts and crafts, plus ceremonies and dances at the rodeos, and races. Includes arts
food and entertainment. Taos Pueblo. and crafts.
Indian Market (third weekend)
Santa Fe. Held since 1922,
this offers a chance to buy a
wide selection of high-quality
Native arts and crafts.
Payson Rodeo (third weekend)
Payson. Part of the August
“Do’ins” and authorized by the
Professional Rodeo Cowboys
Association (PRCA); the best of
the best compete for sizeable
prize money.
Great American Duck Race
(fourth weekend) Deming.
Includes live duck racing, a
tortilla toss, a best-dressed duck
contest, concerts, food, and
Street parade during the Frontier Days events in Prescott Deming’s biggest parade.

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