Taos Real Estate

1) Map of Chile Line Transportation Service, Town of Taos, abbreviated/looped route for this weekend, anticipating crowds for Taos Pueblo Pow Wow and Taos Mtn. Motorcycle Rally, in addition to Taos Fiestas weekend, July 24-26, click here for map (first item).

v:shapes="_x0000_s1026">2)  The Harwood Museum of Art presents a noon lecture, E. I Couse and Joseph Sharp, Fri., July 10, with Ernie Leavitt and Ginnie Couse Leavitt.  Program will provide a behind the scenes discussion of how the exhibition (see below) was conceived and the importance of these artists to the history of American Art.  Admission free to Harwood Alliance Members/UNM community; $8 for general public.  Call Lucy for more info. 575-613-0062.

Through October 18, the Harwood, in cooperation with The Couse Foundation, presents two exhibitions: "Kindred Spirits and the Adobe Connection: E.I. Couse and J.H. Sharp" and "A Painter and his Camera: Model Studies by E.I. Couse." The exhibitions  feature paintings by both artists, along with the original artifacts portrayed in the Couse paintings.  The Couse collection still exists and portions of it can be seen at the Couse studio, which will be open to the public. Tours can be arranged by calling 575-751-0369.

3) Missoula Children’s Theatre, ROBINSON CRUSOE Performance, this Sat., July 11, 3 and 7 p.m.  Join the hula dancing Chameleons and many other original characters at the Taos Community Auditorium when more than 50 local students present ROBINSON CRUSOE.  ROBINSON CRUSOE is part of MCT’s unique international touring project and is presented locally by the TCA and The Town of Taos Youth and Family Center.  Tickets $12 general admission, $10 for TCA members and $5 for children 12 and under. Tickets may be charged by phone, 575-758-2052 or visit FX 18 Gifts and Jewelry on Bent St.  www.tcataos.org.

3) Official Taos Mountain Motorcycle Rally & Music Festival 2009 schedule listed below.  Tickets available at Rally headquarters in Kachina Lodges’ retail area.  Advance tickets for the entire weekend $50; at-festival all-weekend price $65.  Day tickets also available.  Questions?  Email Seth Bullington at Rally Headquarters, info@sethbullington.com.

The Official Taos Mountain Motorcycle Rally & Music Festival 2009 Schedule

Friday July 10th
8:00 PM Grand Funk Railroad
6:00 PM  Eric McFadden Trio
5:00 PM Soul Kitchen
4:00 PM Boulder Acoustic Society
3:00 PM Los Changos Del Mar
2:15 PM Monkey Feeders
1:30 PM Love Stained
1:00 PM Christof Brownel
EmCee: Patty Mac
Saturday July 11th
8:00 PM Puddle Of Mudd
6:00 PM All Hail The Crown
4:30 PM The Roosters
3:30 PM The Rifters
2:30 PM Lonesome Town
1:30 PM Bone Orchard
12:45 PM Rescue Party
12:00 PM Rock Bottom Blues
11:30 AM Being
EmCee: Michael Dean
Sunday July 12th
5:15 PM Fishbone
3:45 PM Felix Y Los Gatos
2:45 PM Jeff Valdez
1:45 PM Dickie Cordova y La Pleve Band
12:45 PM Robert Mirabal
12:00 PM The Julian Lucero Band
11:15 AM The Blue Healerzz
EmCee: Beau-the Big Voice
Events
Saturday, July 11th
9:00 am Enchanted Circle Motorcycle Run begins
2:30 pm Custom Bike Contest
3:30 pm Moreno Valley Poker Run
4:30pm Tattoo Contest
Sunday, July 12th
10:00 pm Clint Ewing, Stunt Bike Guy
11:00 pm Best Booth Award
4:45pm Custom Bike Door Prize Give-A-Way with Mark Valdez & Jeff Valdez

4) The Van of Enchantment, sponsored by the Museum of New Mexico, will be in the Town of Taos Public Library parking lot on Fri., July 17, 1 – 3 p.m., as part of the Summer Children’s Program BeCreative@YourLibrary. As mobile museum, the vehicle tours New Mexico carrying exhibitions and educational materials from the collections of the state museums and monuments. In addition to cabinets and drawers filled with artifacts, the Van brings its contents to life with complementary activities and audio-visual programs.  The exhibition for 2009 will focus on the History of Travel in New Mexico.  On July 22 Zoo to You will be featured in the library from 10 a.m. to 12 noon featuring animals children can handle including snakes, chinchilla, cockatoo’s, and more. Volunteers travel with the animals and children are encouraged to ask questions of the curator.  For more info. call the Children’s Library at 737-2589.

5) The Harwood Museum of Art presents acclaimed art and culture writer Dave Hickey Sat., August 1, 6-7:30 p.m. Hickey will moderate a panel with Dennis Hopper and the artists of the Hopper at the Harwood exhibition – Larry Bell, Ron Cooper, Ronald Davis, Ken Price and Robert Dean Stockwell.. This discussion will explore the West Coast art movement that began in the early 60s at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, the participation of these artists in this vein of expression, and discuss the unique circumstances that brought these artists to Taos, New Mexico. Tickets are $35 for Harwood Alliance Members, $45 for non-members. This program is anticipated to sell out so purchase your tickets today by calling Carolyn 575 758-9826 x 102, chinske@unm.edu.

Hopper at the Harwood, opened May 9 and runs through September 20, featuring two exhibitions: one focusing on Dennis Hopper's work, "Selected Photographs and Paintings" and the other, "Forty Years of Friendship: LA to Taos," a curatorial expression with the work of the five artists listed above.  Hickey has also written the forward for the exhibition catalogue for the exhibition. The stunning, 34-page full-color catalogue is a beautiful companion to the show, presenting select pieces and commentary by Hickey and Hopper.  From Hickey's essay...

"Even so, places might be found, where the work itself might continue to be created under chastened circumstances, and in my experience Taos is one of the most beautiful and chastening places in the world," Hickey write in the catalog's essay on Taos.  "It has an encouraging history of harboring fugitives, killing priests and assassinating governors. In the twentieth century, it has probably produced more serious art and literature than any other non-metropolitan area in the United States, and, throughout this century, Taos' virtues have remained more amenable to producers of art than to it's consumers. It has resisted gentrification because, for all its beauty, Taos is not a cozy place. There is not much that architecture or landscaping can do to mitigate the daunting hegemony of the sky, the sweep of the flat, the looming scale of the distant mountains, and the perpetual inference of Lawrence's ghosts.  Day in day out, year round, Taos is hardly ! even a human place. It is the Top of the World, more the Wild West than the Southwest---more Tibet, in fact, than Palm Springs. So if you want a beautiful place to work that bears with it the perpetual reminder that all you do will be broken, buried, blasted and blown away---a place that makes you brave and serious, Taos is the place for you."  For more info. on this program please call Lucy, 575-758-9826 x 105, lperera@aol.com.

6) Taos Express Riders first three weekends of operation = 112

This pilot program effort by the Town of Taos is just hitting its stride with targeted promotions in the Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and other ridership target areas/outlets.  BIKE RACKS are now on the buses.  All are ADA compliant.  Stay tuned for other changes/additions as the www.TaosExpress.com adapts to users’ needs.  Make sure to check the web site for changes, in addition to calling ahead for a reservation, 575-751-4459.

7) Taos Mountain Music Festival in Taos Ski Valley, August 15

Contact: Alyson Hyder, Email: info@taosmountainmusicfestival.com

Toll Free: 1-800-517-9816, Phone: (575) 776-1413  www.taosmountainmusicfestival.com

Music spanning Urban Latino, Reggae, Blues, Rock n Roll, Hip Hop, Jazz and Bluegrass will fill the high mountain air of Taos Ski Valley, Sat., August 15 at the 1st Annual Taos Mountain Music Festival. The main stage, surrounded by the towering Sangre de Cristo Mountains and National Forest, will host Ozomatli, The Wailers, Joan Osborne, and many others.  In addition to the music, the festival spirit will also be found in the "Strawberry Fair" -- a festival marketplace where you can feast on local cuisine, shop local vendors and enjoy a wide variety of attractions and entertainment for the kids including circus acts and climbing walls.  Sponsored by the Village of Taos Ski Valley and its Chamber.  Tickets: Now on sale via web site.