Ever wonder what you receive for winning a New Mexico Music Award?

More than 2,800 Native and indigenous dancers filled the floor of the University of New Mexico Pit during the April 27 grand entry of the Gathering of Nations.

Like vultures, coyotes, flesh flies and other scavengers, vinyl collectors are omnipresent.

Most popular, long-running bands have fan bases that age along with their music.

Nanci Bushrow, co-host of Showcase Karaoke, paces in front of the packed lounge in a western button-up shirt, sternly shaking her permed, blonde head like a teacher scolding an uncooperative class.

The owners of Santa Fe Harmony Center—husband and wife Jim and Jennifer Kinney—are “Human Potential Practitioners” certified in, they say, “luminous healing” and “energetic medicine.”

Tony Furtado is a sculptor working in ceramics and chainmail; a ceaselessly touring singer, songwriter, guitarist and slide guitarist; not to mention one of the best five-string banjo players alive.

It’s one of the first sunny spring days on the Plaza, and Pedro Romero is out once more, serenading anyone who has the time to stop and listen.

“The current rise in popularity of English country dance,” David Millstone believes, has been “fueled in recent years by the popularity of Jane Austen movies.”

Five people, a dog, a cat and a half-grown pig live in Albuquerque’s Gold House.