Thanks to everyone who joined us for a night of dirty gay movies, yoga,and song.
Extra gratitude to Rae Anna Hample and Eileen Myles for helping us kick off Marfa Myths in such fine style. Read more about Dirty Gay Movie Night here. All photos by Alex Marks.

Marfa Myths 2016: What an insanely beautiful weekend. Thank you to everyone for making Marfa Myths so epic! Big love to Mexican Summer, and all of our amazing partners and local heroes that worked so hard to create an amazing experience. Here are some snapshots from the weekend, courtesy of Alex Marks and Luis Nieto Dickens, and check out this year’s Polaroid series here. More photos and full shout-out after the jump. Until next year!
William Basinski performing at the Arena at The Chinati Foundation, March 12, 2016. Photo by Alex Marks.
Hailu Mergia performing at El Cosmico, March 11, 2016, Marfa Myths. Photo by Alex Marks.
Mary Lattimore performing at Wrong Marfa, March 11, 2016, Marfa Myths. Photo by Alex Marks.
Fred and Toody at Lost Horse, March 10, 2016, Marfa Myths. Photo by Alex Marks.
Dan Colen and Susan Sutton at the opening of After Effect, March 11, 2016. Photo by Alex Marks.
Heron Oblivion, performing at the opening of After Effect, March 11, 2016. Photo by Alex Marks.

As part of Ballroom Marfa’s music program, photographer Alex Marks takes Polaroids of all of our visiting musicians. The tradition is six years strong (you can see a spotty history here), and it continued beautifully with this year’s Marfa Myths. Many thanks to Alex Marks for his wonderful work (read more about him on his website), and see last year’s Marfa Myths Polaroids here.
Hailu Mergia, Marfa Myths 2016. Photo by Alex Marks.
William Basinski, Marfa Myths 2016. Polaroid by Alex Marks.
No Age, Marfa Myths 2016. Polaroid by Alex Marks.

After seven years of trying, we were finally lucky enough to host the legendary Steve Earle and the Dukes in Marfa last Sunday, June 14, 2015. It was worth the wait. He played for two hours; the house was packed; it thunderstormed; and the most epic double rainbow of all time formed outside the theater, right before Steve played. Couldn’t ask for a better sign.

A huge thank you to Steve, the Dukes, Eleanor and Chris Masterson, his crew, all the wonderful people from far and wide who came to the show (we even had some folks from Japan!), and all the folks who took a risk on standing room tickets to join us (we think it worked out?). We also want to thank Matt & Mikelle Kruger, Ballroom Marfa members, and our ever-wonderful, ever-supportive friends at Big Bend Brewing Company, SAVED Wines, and the Crowley Theater.

Particular shoutout to our sound and light team — Rob Crowley, Gory Smelley, and Chris Hillen — and all the others who made it happen: Lesley Brown, Tim Crowley, JD DiFabbio, Hilary duPont, Cuca Flores, Liz Janoff, Mallory Jones, Vance Knowles, Marfa Public Radio, Alex Marks, Jose Martinez, Jeff Matheis, Tom Michael, Suzy Simon, and Jonathan Wyckoff. It’s a pleasure and gift to work with all of you.

In case you missed the show, check out the photos below, listen to the interview with Steve Earle over at Marfa Public Radio, and purchase the poster, designed by Mishka Westell, here.

We just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who came out to Marfa Myths last weekend, and everyone who made it possible. The festival was beyond our wildest dreams, and we can’t believe it actually happened. We’ll be doing a proper wrap-up soon, and adding all the photos, from Alex Marks and Luis Nieto Dickens (our former intern [!] who traveled down to shoot for Oak NYC), but first we want to share these amazing Polaroids, taken by Alex Marks, part of our ongoing Polaroid portrait series. They kind of capture it all.

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Images from the March 1, 2014 Ballroom Marfa’s Sound Speed Marker opening weekend concert by Grupo de la Paz and the Tish Hinojosa Band at Marfa’s USO Building. All photos by Alex Marks.

Images from the March 28, 2014 Sound Speed Marker opening reception at Ballroom Marfa. All photos by Alex Marks.

Images of the first installment of The Marfa Triptych at the Crowley Theater in Marfa, Texas from November 16. Such a pleasure to see all of these excellent musicians playing together — especially in such a small venue. All photos by Alex Marks. Video coming soon!

Musicians: Graham Reynolds (piano), Redd Volkaert (electric guitar), Ruby Jane (fiddle), Ricky Davis (pedal steel guitar), Adam Sultan (acoustic guitar), Alexis Buffum (violin), Elizabeth Warren (violin), Leah Nelson (viola), Hector Moreno (cello), John Mills (saxophone and clarinet), Shane Pitsch (trumpet), Wayne Myers (trombone), Utah Hamrick (bass) and Jeremy Bruch (drums).

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Video from last week’s Highland Annex show, courtesy of Alex Marks.

$3.33 at the Highland Annex, August 8, 2013 from Ballroom Marfa on Vimeo.

The latest in our music-portrait-Polaroid series — this time featuring Beach House and Holy Shit. So good. Special thanks to the bands for being such sports, and as always, our hero, Alex Marks.