Are you ready for Zozo-Indian Market-IFAM-everything else? Summer is here, and with it comes a bevy of outdoor festival goodness. Best part is, most of it is free (check out the Railyard's movie series below).
Getting an early start on the season, businesses along Johnson Street are prepping an open house of sorts, filled with music, eats and unparalleled cultural experiences guaranteed to kick your June into high gear.
"Johnson Street was always kind of a quite street; not far from the Plaza but not really Canyon Road or the Railyard," Heidi Loewen muses. "Now, it's got these fabulous eating establishments like Georgia and TerraCotta, it's got schools like the Santa Fe School of Cooking and the Heidi Loewen Porcelain Gallery and School, and it's got, as always, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum—which is in a sense like a school, because they're so good at educating children of all ages."
Describing the downtown stretch as "its own cohesive, upcoming hot neighborhood rolled into one street," the 7-year tenant advances that the all-day festival will be chockfull of food specials, mini art openings, pet adoptions, jams by the Wild Marimbas and a poetry slam.
The sui generis program, Loewen says, is a current reflection of the burgeoning thoroughfare.
"People can experience music-making, extraordinary cuisine and great art-making up and down the street," she finalizes.
Johnson Street Experience
Noon-5 pm Saturday, June 6
Along Johnson Street
Free
Santa Fe Reporter