Gate City Music Festival ~Raton, NM

• Emerging Songwriter’s Competition (Enter Now!)
• “Red & Green Chile Exhibit” & Chile Roasting hosted by the Raton Museum
• Cowboy Music and Poetry by the El Raton
• Street Fair hosted by Raton MainStreet

For More Information Call:  
Raton MainStreet 575-445-2052
Raton City Hall 575-445-9551
Solano’s Boots and Western Wear 575-445-2632
contact@gatecitymusicfestival.com

Schedule of Events:

Saturday, September 5^th:

10:00am to 5:00pm – Vendor’s booths, businesses side walk sales, Old Pass Gallery Display – “Western Art of the Great South West”, Red / Green Chili Pepper Display @ Raton Museum, Pepsi Nascar Simulator, Farmers Market.

10:00pm – 12:00pm  – Local Singer/Songwriters perform – competition  (outdoors-sound by Josh Martinez)

11:00am – 2:00pm –  Roadrunner Tours: Horse-drawn Carriage Rides

12:00pm – 5:00pm Beer / Wine Garden

12:00pm – 5:00pm Outside Musicians: 12:00pm-1:30pm – Matt Campbell, 1:45pm-3:15pm – Nicole Unser,                

3:30pm-5:00pm Ben Marshall Band (Josh Martinez will do sound for all entertainers except Ben Marshal)

2:00 – 4:00pm – El Raton Theater – Cowboy Poetry / Music 

2:00 – 5:00pm  – Deana Carter in store signing at Solano’s Boot & Western Wear

7:00 – 10:00pm – Concerts in Shuler  – Winner  “Young Songwriter / Musician”

                             Tom Faulkner,

                             Crystal & Will Yates

                             Deana Carter Performance

Sunday – September 6^th:

8:00am -4:00pm – Chile Roasting – Raton Museum

10:00am – 5:00 pm – Vendor’s booths, businesses side-walk sale, Old Pass Gallery Display – “Western Art of the Great South West”, Red / Green Chili Pepper Display @ Raton Museum, Pepsi Nascar Simulator

10:00am – 1:30pm –  Main Event Produtions by: DJ Josh Martinez

10:00am-1:30pm – DJ Noby Gomez, 1:30pm – 3:15om-Rick Trice, 3:30pm-5:00pm Tiffini Dawn           

12:00pm – 5:00pm – Beer / Wine Garden

2:00pm – 4:00pm – El Raton – Cowboy Poetry/Musician

7:00pm – 9:30pm – Concert Shuler Theater – Antonio Reyna & Mariachi Flores Mexicanas,