2nd Annual Ledoux Street Block Party

You are invited Saturday, June 22 from 11am-5pm for the Second Annual Ledoux Street Block Party. Come celebrate our incredible community with live performances, art making, local food vendors, face painting, Story Time, an artist market and creative activities for all ages. Featuring free museum admission all day for everyone.

This year’s exciting musical lineup will include Stone Daddy with Jimmy Stadler, Baracutanga and Ph8 w/ the Bees & Locusts with DJ sets by DJ Sonny. Plus a special performance by Nadine Lollio/MovementLab.

Join the Taos Public Library for Story Time at 11:30am in our galleries.

Come meet the artists at our fabulous Artist Market featuring Laurie Balliett, Janet Boccelli, Suann Davin, Merle Derse, Isabel FDu Puy, Brook Maher, Samantha Platero, Melanie Ritter, and Jonathan Warm Day Coming.

The Museum’s Ledoux street neighbors, including Barra Vino, Salon Marjorie, Omni Hum, Taos Art Supply, Inger Jirby Gallery, Blumenschein Home and Museum, and The Valley, as well as community partners Taos Public Library, Georgia O’Keefe Museum, Taos Pride, Youth Heartline, Taos Ski Valley, The Paseo Project, and Twirl, will join us for this festive celebration hosting activities up and down the block. Aly’s a la Cart will be selling delicious treats along side Loteria Paleteria and latté art by Taos Soul. Whether you are visiting Taos for the day or have lived here for generations, this day offers something for everyone to celebrate the creative spirit of Taos.

Musical Lineup

12pm       Stone Daddy

1:30pm     Baracutanga

3pm          Ph8 w/ the Bees & Locusts

Plus enjoy tunes by DJ Sonny and a site-specific dance performance by Nadine Lollio/MovementLab.

Special thanks to our Second Annual Ledoux Street Block Party sponsors: Richard B. Siegel Foundation, Heritage Trust, Taos Community Foundation, and The Harwood Museum Alliance Inc.  

About Ph8 w/ the Bees & Locusts

A full band with a rapper at the forefront isn’t a common sight, but Ph8 w/ The Bees & Locusts is just that. They describe their sound as organic hip hop crossed with soul, funk, influenced by traditional native rhythms. Their original compositions, and renditions of various classic hit songs, fill the air with energy and take the listener on a personal musical journey to the unexpected. The majority of their set is designed for any and every human to dance to, groove to, and let loose.

This indigenous led group hails from the oldest continuously inhabited community in the United States, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. Cody Mirabal aka “Ph8”, the poet and orchestrator, assembled the band back in 2022. The name, The Bees & Locusts, represents the duality and balance we all experience within ourselves, creation and destruction, light and dark.

The collective consists of frontman Cody Mirabal, bassist Damon Young, drummer Jonah Romero, vocalists Solomon Goot & Naomi Gomez, guitarist Sarah Martinez, keyboardist Gabriel Lincoln, and percussionist Kevin Francisco. All the band members come from different musical backgrounds, genres, and cultures ranging from classical Spanish guitar to social powwow music blending and creating a unique sound and experience not quite heard or seen before.

About Baracutanga

Baracutanga is a seven-piece band, representing four different countries (Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, USA), that blends South American ancestral traditions with a modern sensibility, whose exciting and distinct Latin flavor keeps crowds dancing and always wanting more. Baracutanga creates songs that cross linguistic and cultural barriers, building bridges between the south and the north, overcoming the barriers of discrimination and promoting intercultural experiences that empower Latinos and all people with a positive message of self-affirmation.

We promote non-violence and our music as a vessel to increase and acknowledge cultural pluralism. Baracutanga‘s live shows are joyous, intense and explosive, propelled by the sounds of Andean flutes, charango, accordion, vibes, horns, guitar, bass, drums, vocal harmonies, and an array of percussion, often joined on stage, by Afro-Peruvian and Latin dancers. Baracutanga have received multiple regional awards and recognitions and have performed across the Southwest, Rocky Mountains, and California, with stops in Calgary, NOLA, Austin and México.

About StoneDaddy

StoneDaddy is a rock and roll band from Taos New Mexico. Covers from Led Zepplin to Foo Fighters. Originals too.

Jimmy Stadler lead guitar, vocals. David Garver lead vocals. guitar. Sam Lucero bass, vocals. Norm Cutliff III drums.