Dispatches From Austin: Trans-Pecos Festival Of Music In Addition To Love

Contributor post past times Tracy Castro of Fair Morning Blue

Howdy, friends! There is an amazing consequence going on inwards Marfa inwards a twosome of weeks: The Trans-Pecos Festival of Music as well as Love. Oh, how I want I could go! But since I can't become this year, I idea I could at to the lowest degree nation you lot close it, as well as nosotros tin daydream together. Or - if you're lucky, mayhap you tin brand concluding infinitesimal arrangements? One of the coolest things close this year's festival is that Austin's own GirlsGuild is bringing local artists out to Marfa to teach workshops in leather

hand-tooling, textile cyanatopes as well as cameraless animation. GirlsGuild is a commendable organisation that connects girls amongst women artists as well as makers inwards apprenticeship to larn skills, honour their voice, as well as construct a collaborative community.

The Trans-Pecos gathering takes house at El Cosmico, a West Texas desert campsite (founded past times hotelier Liz Lambert) that includes nightly rentals of trailers, teepees, as well as safari tents, equally good equally good, old-fashioned tent camping. The Trans-Pecos consequence includes iv fun days of food, music as well as art-making, equally good equally 3 nights of camping ground nether the groovy big starry sky. Doesn't that audio lovely?

Imagine waking upward inwards this teepee, enjoying a fun 24-hour interval amongst friends, assist workshops, making art, eating yummy pancakes from Lou Lambert, as well as listening to actually skillful Texas music (like Ben Kweller, Amy Cook and my favorite hardcore latin funk band, Brownout.)