The Tucson Friends of Traditional Music web site's link page has connections to the New Mexico FolkMADS (NM Folk Music and Dance Society) web site (for Albuquerque, Santa Fe and northern New Mexico), and the Southern New Mexico Folk Music and Dance Society (Las Cruces). And of course, if you come just a bit further west, there's stuff in Flagstaff, Prescott, Phoenix, and Tucson (Arizona from north to south).

In addition to regular sessions and dances in the region, in Prescott, Arizona, on October 4 and 5 there's a wonderful little festival of the region's folkies: the Sharlot Hall Museum Folk Music Festival. It's free and very friendly. Lots of concert and workshop venues going at once, indoors and out, and lots of jamming all around. There's a dulcimer festival outside Prescott Sept. 27-29, with evening concerts that are open. Click this.

Sounds like a fun trip.

~ Becky in Tucson