Wildlife West Music Festivals

  Wildfire West Music Festival is close to home and is packed with great bands that your family will love.  Children's admission is free, and parking is also free of charge for the weekend.  Bands perform every two hours with activities and contests continuing during the festival.

Wildlife West is just 20 minutes east of Albuquerque in nearby Edgewood, New Mexico, and parking is always free! Free weekend camping (dry camping) is provided. Children under 12 are admitted free. No alcohol or open fires are permitted at the festivals.

10th Annual Wildlife Music Festival July 20-22, 2012

This summer's festival will feature the Quebe Sisters Band and The Byron Berline Band.
Friday kicks off at the Historic Bean Barn with a Country Barn Dance with South by Southwest.
The following contests are scheduled: Fiddle Contest, Banjo Contest, Sunday, July 22 at 4pm.
Saturday & Sunday begins at 11am with

The Quebe Sisters Band

When Grace, Sophia and Hulda Quebe (pronounced Kway-bee) raise their fiddles and play, audiences marvel. When the girls sing their vintage style three-part harmony, audiences are blown away. Add the extraordinary rhythm guitar of Joey McKenzie and the swinging upright bass of Drew Phelps and the Quebe Sisters Band becomes a force of nature. The QSB's unique brand of music has taken the Americana music scene by storm. They perform a refreshing blend of western swing, vintage country, bluegrass, jazz & swing standards, and Texas style fiddling.
The band has been awarded the 2007 Crescendo Award by the Western Music Association and winner of the 2008 Western Swing Album of the Year from the
Academy of Western Artists,

The Byron Berline Band

Members: Byron Berline, John Hickman, Jim Fish, Richard Sharp, Greg Burgess and Steve Short
Byron Berline is a three-time National Fiddle Champion who turned to a musical career after earning a B. A. in Physical Education at the University of Oklahoma. Originally from Oklahoma where he began playing the fiddle at age 5, Byron lived and worked in Los Angeles for 26 years before returning to his home state in 1995.
Byron's professional career reads like Who's Who in the music business as he has performed with or recorded with so many notables. He has led or been a member of the following bands : Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, 1966 - 67; Dillard & Clark, 1969-1970; Dillard Expedition, 1970-71; Country Gazette, 1971-75; Sundance, 1975-85; Berline, Crary & Hickman, 1978-90; L. A. Fiddle Band, 1978-93; California, 1990-96; Byron Berline Band, 1996- Present
Also appearing at the 10th Annual Festival will be:

• Holy Water & Whiskey
• The Squash Blossom Boys
• Muddy River String Band
• Lost Howling Coyotes
• Kitty Jo Creek Band
• Hot Club of Santa Fe
• Zoltan Orkestar
• Breaking Blue
• Gary Reynolds & the Southwest Wind Band
• Coyote Crossing
• Cheap Shots
• Jimmy Abraham
and more

Bands change every hour on two stages.

We kick off the weekend with the Friday Barn Dance, 7pm July 20 featuring South by Southwest. Saturday and Sunday feature a dozen bands on two covered stages. The Quebe Sisters and Byron Berline are staying over to play Sunday, and with the new dance floor in the amphitheater there will lots of boot-scootin’ to some terrific fiddlin’.

Workshops in songwriting, banjo and fiddle, Jam Sessions and camaraderie, plus the non-releasable wild animals in this 122 acre nature park make for a great weekend. There's always free camping and parking and remember - it’s cooler in Edgewood.

For more information on the festival head to the Wildlife West Website.