Yeehaw! Get your cowboy boots and hats ready for the 1st annual Green Chile Country Jamboree!
The Green Chile Country Jamboree, a day-long country music festival designed to benefit the
American Red Cross and The Forest Stewards Guild, will be held Friday, July 4 at the Santa Fe
Railyard Park.
Presented by Gardenia Jungle Entertainment, the first-ever Green Chile Country Jamboree came
together to serve two non-profit organizations and their wildfire relief and mitigation efforts, including
the American Red Cross disaster relief fund and the Forest Stewards Guild. The Guild is a national
non-profit based in Santa Fe that promotes responsible forestry through a variety of educational
programs and hard work on the ground. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Guild’s youth
training programs to work on burned area recovery efforts.
General Admission ticket prices are $99, while VIP tickets, which include a VIP tent near the stage
serving appetizers and wine by (HERVE), are $199. There will also be two VIP Parking lots. Several food trucks will be available with various food options, including barbecue. Gates open at 2 p.m., and the music begins at 3 p.m. Kids under 12, who are accompanied by an adult, get in for free!
The Artists
Michael Martin Murphey-
Michael Martin Murphey’s musical journey has taken many unpredictable paths over the past 50 years. Topping the Pop, Country, Western and Bluegrass charts, Murphey has never been one to rest on his laurels.
A loyal American son from Texas, Murphey is best known for his chart-topping hits “Wildfire,” Carolina In The Pines,” “What’s Forever For,” “Long Line of Love,” “Geronimo’s Cadillac”, “Cowboy Logic,” and many more across his 35 albums released to date.
Murphey's long-running carnation as a purveyor of the music, lifestyle, and values of the American West is one of many musical mantles he has worn over the years. To track his career path is to span the country itself, from coming of age in the Texas folk music scene, to Los Angeles to Colorado to Nashville and then back to his native Texas.
Murphey’s original songs have been recorded by The Monkees, Kenny Rogers, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, John Denver, Hoyt Axton, Johnny Cash, Tracy Byrd, Lyle Lovett, Jerry Jeff Walker, Dolly Parton, Johnny Rivers, Billy Ray Cyrus, and many others.
Robert Maribal and the Rare Tribal Mob-
Robert Mirabal has been described as a Native American “Renaissance man”. It is a fitting description for this musician, composer, painter, master craftsman, poet, actor, screenwriter, author, horseman, and farmer. But in Mirabal’s case, the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts.
An accomplished, renowned Native American flute player and maker from Taos Pueblo in New Mexico, Robert’s flutes have been displayed at the Smithsonian Institute’s Museum of the American Indian. An award-winning musician, Mirabal performs worldwide, sharing flute songs, tribal rock, dance, and storytelling. Mirabal is a two-time Grammy Award winner, has twice been named the Native American Music Award’s Artist of the Year, and has received the Songwriter of the Year award three times. He is also an Album of the Year recipent from Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards. His breakthrough PBS musical production, Music From a Painted Cave, remains a benchmark of Native American traditional/rock fusion and storytelling.
Max Gomez-
Singer/Songwriter Max Gomez grew up in Taos, New Mexico, where he fell under the influence of country blues early on and developed a songwriting style that was uniquely his. As a budding performer, Max apprenticed in the rarefied musical micro-climate of northern New Mexico, where troubadours like Michael Martin Murphey and Ray Wylie Hubbard helped foster a Western folk sound both cosmic and country.
He received critical acclaim upon the release of his debut album Rule The World (2013, New West Records); and his subsequent EP, Me and Joe (2017, Brigadoon Records), contained a freshly minted classic, “Make It Me.”
Michael Hearne-
Michael Hearne’s destiny has been tangled in wire and wood since he first laid his hands on a guitar at the age of seven. With a natural ear for harmony and an aptitude for picking, it wasn’t long before a young Michael Hearne was a fixture at parties and local events in his childhood hometown of Dallas. By the age of sixteen he had honed his skills on the guitar and, without a doubt in his mind about his destiny, he hit the road as a touring musician.
Michael’s career over the next few decades would take him across the southwest and beyond. Calling the mountains of northern New Mexico home for many years, Michael shared his talents as a singer, songwriter, and picker in bars, listening rooms and dance halls throughout the region. In the 1980’s, he toured as a member of Michael Martin Murphey’s band, recording on Murphey’s 1982 self-titled album for Liberty Records. Hearne has penned songs for Jerry Jeff Walker and Gary P. Nunn (“Lesson to be Learned from Love”) and his New Mexico anthem, “New Mexico Rain,” was recorded by country music legend Johnny Rodriguez as well as by his uncle and aunt, Bill and Bonnie Hearne. Michael has also co-written with Mentor Williams, Andy Byrd, Shake Russell, Keith Sykes, and many others.
Playing In Order
Max Gomez
Michael Hearne
Robert Mirabal and the Rare Tribal Mob
Michael Martin Murphey + Friends
The 10-acre Santa Fe Railyard Park is the perfect venue for the July 4 celebration of America’s
249th birthday, offering gardens, an outdoor performance space, and a children's play area.
Designed to be a full day of family fun, activities for the Green Chile Country Jamboree includes a
fantastic fan experience in the Railyard Park grassy area, including Smokey Bear Kiddy Park and activities for the kids, children’s face painting, children’s museum, and many others.
Beer and Wine Garden
Santa Fe Brewing will be providing beer and HERVE will be serving wine in the beer and wine garden! Stop by the garden to pick up some of your favorite local drinks.
Community Organizations
Various community booths are also participating along SITE Santa Fe art walk, including the
American Red Cross, Forest Stewards Guild, Positive Energy Solar, Santa Fe Chamber of
Commerce, Santa Fe Fire Department, Santa Fe Police Department, US Forestry-Smokey
Bear, Santa Fe Association of Realtors, Santa Fe Home Builders Association and more!
Parking
General admission tickets DO NOT come with reserved parking. We reccomend parking at the Railyard Municipal Parking Garage. The garage is located at 503 Camino de la Familia, Santa Fe, NM 87501. The entrance to the garage is behind REI. This garage has 404 spaces, including 14 accessible spaces.
Rates: $1 for the first hour, $2 for the second hour, and each hour after that, up to a $12 maximum.
Hotels
There are a plethroa of hotels in Santa Fe, but our favorite place to stay in town is La Fonda on the Plaza!
Beneficiaries
Forest Stewards Guild-
The Forest Stewards Guild is a non-profit organization that practices and promotes responsible forestry. They help sustain healthy forest ecosystems and all who depend on them through ecologically, economically, and socially responsible forestry. The Guild engages in education, training, policy analysis, research, and advocacy to foster excellence in stewardship.
Locally, the Forest Stewards Guild has three key programs, including its Forest Stewards Youth Corps, which provides training, education, and employment in natural resources management for 16-25-year-olds from forest-dependent communities in New Mexico.
“The Forest Stewards Youth Corps changes lives by providing critical opportunities and life skills to youth in rural communities who are just entering the workforce,” said Eytan Krasilovsky, deputy director of the Forest Stewards Guild. “Oftentimes, we provide learning opportunities related to water, forests, and fire management, but we also change lives through the program's work toward sustainable, resilient, healthy forests, and safer communities.”
The second program involves the Greater Santa Fe Fireshed Coalition, a collaborative group co- founded by the Guild in 2016 that has been working to improve forest, watershed, and community resilience to wildfire. Last year, the Forest Stewards Guild received $1.3 million from a federal grant
to support the Coalition’s work and reduce wildfire risk to communities.
The grant allows the Guild to provide free home wildfire risk assessments in the greater Santa Fe area and offer a Wildfire Mitigation Cost-Share Program that covers 60-90 percent of the costs for thinning and wildfire mitigation around homes.
“We’re working around homes, trying to help people out by making their homes more defensible, resilient to wildfire, and safer,” said Krasilovsky. “The CWDG is a federal funding program, and we need that in New Mexico. This program directly relates to what’s happening in LA and the broader wildfire crisis across the U.S.”
The third program is the 2-3-2 Cohesive Strategy Partnership or Two Watersheds-Three Rivers and Two States Cohesive Strategy Partnership, a comprehensive community engagement effort that enables more than two dozen partners to share critical, on-the-ground resources to address forest and fire management efforts. The partnership has established critical relationships designed to build resilient forests, watersheds, and communities through collaboration.
“We need to keep high severity fire out of the reservoirs and surrounding forests so we can have clean water,” said Krasilovsky. “There’s a series of watershed diversions from the Chama area that brings the water to the Rio Grande and it’s really important that those forests and watersheds don’t burn in high severity. If they do, not only will there be community and recreational impacts, but more importantly, a lot of our water and water infrastructure could be very damaged by wildfire.”
American Red Cross-
The American Red Cross is a non-profit organization that prevents and alleviates human suffering in emergencies by mobilizing volunteers’ power and donors’ generosity. The organization provides comprehensive information on its core services, including humanitarian services, fundraising, and volunteer support.
“The Red Cross helps communities prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters,” said Kathy Segura-Salas, executive director for the Red Cross New Mexico for the past 12 years. Her tenure with the Red Cross began in 2001. She has dedicated herself to providing critical support and resources to individuals affected by disasters over the past 23 years.
As part of its post-disaster efforts, the American Red Cross provides food, shelter, relief supplies, emotional comfort, health services, financial assistance, and other support to help people in their time of greatest need. Nationally, the ARC responds to about 65,000 disasters a year.
In the aftermath of the California wildfires, more than 520 Red Cross responders answered the call to support local community members by providing food, shelter, emotional care, recovery planning, and financial assistance. Relief efforts to date include more than 102,000 relief supplies distributed; over 450 individuals are staying in Red Cross emergency shelters; 14,500+ overnight stays and 128,000+ meals and snacks have been distributed with the support of American Red Cross partners.
