Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
One of the world's leading performing arts festivals, featuring over 80 events during its annual summer season.
Santa Fe Jazz Festival The three-week-long festival featuring some 20 concerts by world-renowned jazz and world music artists and multiple youth concerts by the same artists.
Santa Fe Opera
Features operas ranging from Mozart masterpieces to Offenbach's comedies to highly anticipated world premieres.
Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra
An amateur community orchestra which provides performance opportunities for local musicians.
Santa Fe Bandstand
The free concerts feature a wide variety of music, including blues, Latin, country, rock, reggae, R&B, jazz, bluegrass, folk and world-beat music.
Santa Fe Desert Chorale
With six centuries of music from which to choose, the chorale performs its magic in several venues around town.
Santa Fe Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble
Specializing in music written for chamber orchestra and smaller ensembles.
Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus presents a popular subscription series of concerts and special events, such as a fall concert and a Christmas concert at the Lensic.
Dance and Theater...
New Mexico Ballet Established in 1972, this ballet company performs both modern and classical dance.
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
The only professional ballet company in New Mexico, performs year-round and has gained international attention.
Institute for Spanish Arts
The school helps sponsor various productions through the summer, including events at the Maris Benitez Cabaret at The Lodge at Santa Fe.
Santa Fe Playhouse The playhouse is said to be the oldest, continuously running theatre west of the Mississippi River. It offers never produced playwrights the chance to see their work onstage and first-time actors the opportunity to perform with seasoned players. Each season offers comedies, dramas and musicals.
Moving People Dance Theatre A contemporary dance company with a style grounded in classical technical techniques but with a fresh vision and innovations.
Wise Fool New Mexico Wise Fool seeks to ignite imagination, build community, and promote social justice through performances in the arts of circus, puppetry, and theatre. Expect, among other things, fire dancing, aerobatics and stilt walking.
Sports and Recreation...
Bandelier National Monument
Located near Los Alamos, New Mexico, this National Park is famous for its ancestral Pueblo dwellings, and includes over 23,000 acres of designated wilderness.
Carlsbad Caverns
A park built to preserve a fossil reef of 100 known caves including the world's largest underground chamber, Carlsbad Cavern.
Living Desert Zoo and Gardens
A living museum, located in Carlsbad, with over 40 native animal species and succulents from around the world, includes indoor and outdoor exhibits.
White Sands National Monument
On the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert near Alamogordo is the world's largest gypsum (white sand) dunes.
Indian Market Sponsored by the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, showcases over 1,200 artists from about 100 tribes, and attracts an estimated 100,000 visitors to Santa Fe from all over the world.
Spanish Market
Sponsored by the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, this Market supports the artistic growth of Hispanic artists native to New Mexico and southern Colorado working in traditional art forms, and holds events and workshops throughout the year.
Zozobra
Each year since 1926, to kick off the annual Fiestas de Santa Fe on the weekend following Labor Day, Will Shuster's Zozobra (a 50-foot marionette), is burned in a grand festival attended by tens of thousands of people.
Loretto Chapel
A Santa Fe landmark, this Gothic chapel features a "miraculous" staircase built by a mystery carpenter who appeared in answer to the nuns' prayers for a much-needed staircase to the choir loft.
