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| Events are always happening here in Las Cruces. You can hardly go a couple weeks without an event happening. Balloon Rally, Enchilada Festival, Mariachi Conference, Pan Am Events, Cage Fights, Concerts and many more exciting events in Las Cruces is what we cover on this page. If you have an event you want to be added here, please contact us and let us know. if its in Las Cruces, we want to add it to our growing list of events. please include the Event's address if you have one, website address, location days, times and a contact number to reach you for more info if we need it. |
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| January 19th & 20th Annual Mesilla Valley Balloon Rally |
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| Over 90 unique and colorful balloons fill the skies over the Mesilla Valley. Brown Farm Field. For actual dates please visit the link below. |
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| February 9th Annual For the Love of Art Month |
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| Old Mesilla Plaza and Community Center in Las Cruces 11am - 4pm. Book fair, including book vendors, Storytelling and children’s parade highlight week’s events. |
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(575) 524-3262, ext. 117. |
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| April 5th Trinity Site Tour |
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| The White Sands Trinity site is the location of the first atomic bomb explosion on earth. The site is open to the public twice a year. White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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| April 18-20th 14th Annual Border Book Festival |
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| This unique Las Cruces festival brings together authors from around the world. Live performances, food, fun and lots of reading. Various locations. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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| April 19-22th 20th Annual Frontier Days |
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| Take a trip back in time with a visit to Fort Selden State Monument as they honor the civilians and soldiers who lived at the fort and protected the residents of the Mesilla Valley after the Civil War. Among the groups honored are the Buffalo Soldiers who, were some of the first soldiers assigned to the Fort. Fort Selden State Monument. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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| April 26-27th La Viña Blues & Jazz Thing |
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| A weekend of good music and good wine hosted by New Mexico’s oldest winery. La Viña Winery, La Union. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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| May 3-4th Cinco de Mayo Fiesta |
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| A traditional Mexican fiesta honoring Mexico’s second revolution. Experience traditional Mexican music, food and dancing on the historic Old Mesilla Plaza. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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| May 15th Blessing of the Field (Formerly the La Fiesta de San Ysidro |
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| A celebration of New Mexico’s 3,000 year-old farming heritage, featuring farming demonstrations, mariachi music, folklorico dancers, and a blessing of the fields, all capped off with an evening dance. Las Cruces New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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| May 24-26th Southern New Mexico Wine Festival |
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| Visitors can sample wine from the many New Mexico wineries as well as enjoy live entertainment and local vendors. Southern New Mexico State Fairgrounds. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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| July 3-4th Annual 4th of July Las Cruces Electric Light Parade, Celebration Fireworks |
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| Commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Las Cruces celebrates with a parade of floats decorated with electric lights. Experience live entertainment throughout the day plus a spectacular fireworks display at night. All events are free and open to the public. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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| August 30 - September 1st New Mexico Wine Harvest Festival |
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| Celebrate New Mexico's wine harvest with grape stomping, wine tasting, live entertainment (including up and coming country music star Tim Murphy on Sunday). Festival features arts and crafts vendors, children's activities, hourly wine seminars and a great relaxed atmosphere. Southern New Mexico State Fairgrounds, 11 miles west on I-10 exit 132. 12 noon - 6 pm each day $13 adults 21 and older, under 21 free but must be accompanied by parent or legal guardian. $3 discount for active duty military on Monday. Email Dawn@HelpingHandsEvents.com for more info. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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| August 30-31st Hatch Chile Festival |
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The Mesilla Valley is the chile capital of the world, and what better way to celebrate than with a chile festival. Sample some of the finest chile while you enjoy food, crafts, an auction, live music and more. Hatch.
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| September & October TBD Mesilla Valley Maze |
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| It's the most fun you can have in a corn field. Bring the kids and those that are "kids at heart" to the rural fun of the Mesilla Valley Maze in Las Cruces. Take a hayride out to the pumpkin patch to look for the perfect Jack-O-Lantern, then discover the many twists and turns amazingly cut into a corn field. Saturdays and Sundays. 3855 West Picacho Avenue. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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| Sept 21 - Nov 2 Mesilla Mariachi Y Mas! in Old Mesilla on the plaza |
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Mariachi performances every Sunday on the Mesilla Plaza from Sept 21st to November the 2nd.
Come browse the historic Mesilla shops and town while you listen to the sweet sounds of the Mariachis playing live in the square.
These events are sponsored by the Town of Mesilla and Las Cruces International Mariachi Conference & Concerts. |
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| September TBD 1- 3 Hillsboro Apple Festival |
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| Located only an hour north of Las Cruces, Hillsboro is famous for apples. Sample everything from world class apple pie to apple juice, caramel apples and much more. There are also arts and crafts for the whole family. Hillsboro. |
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| September 20-21st White Sands Balloon Invitational |
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| A collection of colorful balloons filling the air over the white gypsum dunes of White Sands National Monument just outside of Las Cruces NM. |
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| September 13-14th Diez y Seis de Septiembre Fiesta |
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| Mexican Independence Day! Join the village of Mesilla as they commemorate Mexico’s independence. Be sure to catch folklorico dances, mariachi music, authentic Mexican cuisine and have a really good time. Old Mesilla Plaza. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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| September 26-28th The Whole Enchilada Fiesta |
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| We have a chile festival and an apple festival, why not an enchilada fiesta! Downtown Las Cruces hosts one big street party complete with food, dancing, a parade and the making of the official world’s largest enchilada! Meerscheidt Recreation Center. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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| October 1-5th Southern New Mexico State Fair & Rodeo |
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The Southern New Mexico State Fair has something for everyone; a midway, an auction, food, music, livestock shows and a cowboy rodeo. Southern New Mexico State Fairgrounds. For the exact date please visit the link below.
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| October 4th Trinity Site Tour |
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| The Trinity site is the location of the first atomic bomb explosion on earth. The site is open to the public twice a year. White Sands Missile Range. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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October 4-5th 7th Annual Mesilla Jazz Happening
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| Mesilla Valley Jazz Happening will be swinging into historic Old Mesilla at the Mercado Plaza and on the Historic Plaza. The Plazas will host free live jazz music at two venues. A special Wine Garden at each venue featuring eight New Mexico Wineries will provide wine tasting. Horse drawn wagons will offer free transportation between the Mercado and the historic plaza. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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October 18-19th La Viña Wine Festival |
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| This festival is the oldest wine festival in New Mexico and features food, entertainment and of course, wine produced by New Mexico’s oldest winery. La Viña Winery, La Union. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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| October TBD X Prize Cup |
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| An event where everyone can come, experience space and be part of the next generation of spaceflight. You can watch the next generation of space vehicles fly, talk to astronauts, see the vehicles up close, fly simulators, learn about the technology, the curriculum available at all levels of education, know about the careers available in the contemporary space industry and begin to dissolve the myth that you will never travel to space in your lifetime. Holloman Air Force Base, Alamagordo, New Mexico. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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October 25-26th and November 2nd Dia de los Muertos |
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| Celebrate the Day of the Dead with lots of music and food. Join the candlelight procession in Las Cruces as the dead are remembered. Homemade altars are on display and a giant pinata is broken open. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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| November 1-2nd 37th Annual Renaissance Arts Fair |
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| Spend a weekend in Las Cruces with Kings and Queens at the 36th Annual Renaissance ArtsFaire. Local, state and regional artisans gather to participate in a juried art show and exhibition. Only the highest quality arts & crafts are for sale accompanied by live theater, dancing, music and food, all presented with a Renaissance theme. Young Park. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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| November 5-9th Las Cruces International Mariachi Conference & Concerts |
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| A week-long Las Cruces educational conference culminating with one spectacular concert featuring internationally known mariachi performers. Parque Festival at Young Park features entertainment and cultural activities. New Mexico State University Pan American Center and Young Park. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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| Saturday, November 15, 2008 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Fall Enchilada Dinner 100 West Cafe |
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| The Dona Ana Community College Hospitality Club (HOST CLUB) is having its Fall Enchilada Dinner at the NMSU campus, 100 West Cafe in Gerald Thomas Hall, (corner of Knox Street and College Drive) This fundraiser is to raise monies for its annual summer excursion experience. Red enchilada plates will be sold for $6.00. Take Out Only. Baked goods and soft drinks will be available. Call Yvonne Madrid at (575) 635-9202 or Lupe Dominguez-Flores at (575)-312-5335 for additional information. The DACC HOST Club thanks the Las Cruces community for its support. |
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| Nov. 22, 2008 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Women's Enrichment Ministry (WEM) Christmas Arts and Crafts Fair announcement |
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| It will be held at the First Baptist Church of Las Cruces. No admission fee. Vendors will offer handmade items to be purchased or items to be homemade (kits: scrapbooking, cooking, etc.). The proceeds will benefit our Incarcerated Women's Ministry.
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| November City of Las Cruces 100th Anniversary Celebration |
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| Celebration to commemorate Las Cruces’ 100th year of incorporation as the City of Las Cruces. Enjoy live music with a variety of entertainers and stroll thru the Downtown Plaza as you are reminded of what Main Street was like 100 years ago. Downtown Mall. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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| December 24th Christmas Carols and Luminarias on the Plaza |
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| The historic village of Old Mesilla is aglow with thousands of luminarias and caroling. For the exact date please visit the link below. |
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