is an annual music festival held each September at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Along with evening concerts, the festival also features a free Global Fiesta community day on with workshops, films, presentations, inter-activities and performances, as well as the Global Village of Craft, Culture & Cuisine, open throughout all parts of the festival, and featuring international food, art and artisan crafts available for sale.
[1] The performances also reach tens of thousands of listeners in the U.S. and Canada through live broadcasts on Native Voice 1 and Southwest Stages.
[2] The festival, first presented in 2005,[3] has featured musicians from six continents.
festival offers some of the most adventurous world music programming set against one of the Southwest's most beautiful cities... the festival is becoming a destination in its own right,"[7] while the U.K. publication Songlines hailed it as "world-class.