Music historians Mark Gardner and Rex Rideout return to the New Mexico History Museum with an evening of songs celebrating New Mexico’s Centennial at 6 pm on Friday, July 20. This free event will be held in the auditorium.
Come along on a musical ride from the time of Zebulon Pike’s entry into Nuevo Mexico, through the Civil War, the outlaw days of Billy the Kid, and more. With fiddle, banjo, mandolin, and bones, Gardner and Rideout will perform songs that were not only popular at the time, but were inspired by New Mexico people and events.
Gardner is the author and editor of many books on the American West, including Jack Thorp’s Songs of the Cowboys and To Hell on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. Gardner’s musical partner, Rex Rideout, appeared as the Old West fiddle player in the recent movie blockbuster Cowboys & Aliens. The duo's music is heard on the soundtracks of numerous television documentaries and National Park Service films.
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