Annual New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival

The New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival returns for our 6th Annual Event!

Coming back for our 6th year, the New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival is excited to return to the beautiful grounds of the Gutierrez Hubbell House for another year of food, music, arts and crafts and a lot more celebrating everything prickly
pear.

In addition to our full day of cooking demos, arts and crafts workshops, music, and vendor market selling all kinds of prickly pear and local goods on Saturday September 28th, we're also adding an evening event to our festival line up. On Friday September 27th, our Prickly Nights programming will host music and performances alongside a selection of food and
drinks with a prickly pear focus. Tickets can be found here.

On Friday, festivalgoers can watch a series of musical performances from jazz trio Basilaris, named for a species of prickly pear cactus, Lara Manzanares, and performance bythe National Institute of Flamenco Company, all while taking in the evening air and food and drinks from a selection of vendors.

We're very excited to be back for our 6th New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival.  The festival will be on Friday September 27th from 4-8pm and Saturday Sept 28th from 10am-4pm

Schedule of Events:

Prickly Nights

4:00pm - 4:30pm: Welcome

We kick off an evening of music, performance, food and drink celebrating this unique local food welcoming folks into the Gutierrez Hubbell House courtyard where you can grab a prickly pear cocktail or mocktail and take in the South Valley evening air

4:30pm - 5:30pm: Music by Basilaris

As you grab a bite or sip a prickly pear drink, enjoy the sounds of Basilaris, a jazz trio named for a species of prickly pear

5:30pm - 6:30pm: Music by Lara Manzanares
7:30pm - 8:00pm: Performance by National Institute of Flamenco Company

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