Free Concert at the Aztec Pioneer Village

Step back in time and enjoy "Music at the Museum" featuring Lone Piñon on Friday, May 9th. The acclaimed New Mexican band Lone Piñon returns to the Event Shed in the Pioneer Village with Jordan Wax, Karina Wilson, Santiago Romero and Tanya Nunez.

Lone Piñon is a New Mexican string band, or “orquesta típica”, whose music celebrates the integrity and diversity of their region's cultural roots. With fiddles, upright bass, guitars, accordions, vihuela, and bilingual vocals, they play a wide spectrum of the traditional music that is at home in New Mexico.

The band explains that the Norte has long been a crossroads of cultures, and centuries of intersecting histories, trade routes, migrations, and cultural movements have endowed the region with an expansive and rich musical heritage that weaves together Spanish, Mexican, Indigenous, European immigrant, Anglo-American, and Afro-American musical influences. The oldest strands of this tradition have survived in continuity, renewed by each new generation’s contribution to core style and repertoire that has been passed from musician to musician, in some cases over many centuries.

”Lone Piñon aren’t some rinky-dink trio from the American Southwest. They can hold their own against any headliner, anywhere in the world. They’re simply that good, and they make the music of the border into something living, breathing and absolutely enticing.” -fROOTS Magazine, UK

This event is free to the public thanks to the generous support of the Connie Gotsch Arts Foundation, New Mexico Music Commission, Northwest New Mexico Arts Council, and the museum's 2025 sponsors, donors and museum members.

The concert begins at 7pm. Guests should park by the Aztec Splash Pad and enter through the west gate behind the Pioneer Village. Seating for 150 provided or bring your own chair. Concessions available. No pets are allowed during events in the Pioneer Village for the safety and enjoyment of guests and performers. Service animals only.