The Rifters represent modern Western music with sincerity and honor, with lyrics, tunes and harmonies meant to celebrate a particular place and to encase it in the listener’s memory.With their soaring three-part harmonies the band use a myriad of acoustic and electric instruments that traverse a range of musical styles that never fail to engage … Read more
location: Hillsboro
The Hillsboro Community Center is hosting a Contra Dance featuring the Big Ditch Crickets from Silver City. Contra has origins in English and Scottish country dance. A contra dance event is a social gathering that anyone can attend — bring yourself, bring a partner or bring a group of friends. Dancers form lines and follow … Read more
Join the town of Hillsboro and the family of Bill Bussman for a gathering to celebrate Bill’s life and to dedicate the Bill Bussmann Sound Stage at the Hillsboro Community Center. Sponsored by the Hillsboro Pickers, featuring lots of music by friends of Bill. The event includes a community pot luck, a silent auction and … Read more
“Legacies of the Gila,” “Stewardship of the Gila,” and “Tales of the Gila Trout.” These are films on the Gila Wilderness written and produced by the students of the Gila Film School, New Mexico State University. The public is invited to stick around after the screening for a community potluck and a chance to mingle … Read more
In celebration of the Centennial Celebration for the Gila Wilderness, the documentary film “Green Fire – Aldo Leopold and the Land Ethic for Our Time” is being shown at the HIllsboro Community Center. Afterwards there will be a question-and-answer session with historian Dr. Stephen R. Fox and Aldo Leopold Chautauquan Steve Morgan.
Head to Hillsboro to learn local history at “The Cowboy Sheriff of Sierra County, NM, 1865-1920,” a presentation by Karl Laumbach. Laumbauch will talk about the fascinating life of Francisco M. Bojorquez, who was born and raised in the State of Sonora, Mexico, where he learned the trade of vaquero. After moving to Sierra County, … Read more
Taos Roadtrip and Friends has been playing Americana and 2-stepping music for the last 20 years. They incorporate western swing, country, bluegrass, folk, blues, and gospel roots into an inspiring high energy show. Bring your dancing boots and hit the HCC dance floor. Suggested donation: $15 or $12 for HCC members.
Award-winning singer-songwriter Wil Maring and virtuoso guitarist/fiddler Robert Bowlin combine their talents, smoothly blending elements from old-time and bluegrass, jazz and blues, Celtic and country, to create an original acoustic music all their own. Wil’s clear, airy vocal style and heartfelt delivery, with her proficiency on upright bass and guitar, provide a perfect complement to … Read more
Artists, artisans and crafters from Hillsboro, Kingston, Berrenda, Animas Creek, T or C, Las Cruces and neighboring areas will be set up at the Hillsboro Community Center. Food will be available from the HCC kitchen. Elsewhere in the community visit the Hillsboro General Store Cafe, the Hillsboro Trading Post, Ike Wilton’s Custom Leather, Jessica Wertz … Read more
Artists, artisans and crafters from Hillsboro, Kingston, Berrenda, Animas Creek, T or C, Las Cruces and neighboring areas will be set up at the Hillsboro Community Center. Food will be available from the HCC kitchen. Elsewhere in the community visit the Hillsboro General Store Cafe, the Hillsboro Trading Post, Ike Wilton’s Custom Leather, Jessica Wertz … Read more