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Published: 25 May 2018 25 May 2018

bluesfest 2018 rsTown of Silver City Streets Department Employees Demecio Torrez (left) and Perry Childs work to block off Pope Street at College Avenue Friday morning in preparation for the 23nd Annual Silver City Blues Festival, which runs through Sunday.Town services, including streets and sanitation, parks and recreation, and police and fire total more than $50K for this signature musical event, which brings thousands of blues music fans to town each year.

The Blues Festival kicks off the busy festival season, which includes Fiesta Latina, June 22-24; Silver City CLAY Festival, July 16-21; the Hummingbird Festival and Copper Country Cruizers Car Show in August; the Gila River Festival, the Southwest Print Fiesta and the Southwest Festival of the Written Word, all in September; the Mimbres Valley Harvest Festival in October; Day of the Dead celebrations in November; and the annual Tamal Fiesta in December.

For more information about the dozens of cultural, sports and recreational events happening this year, see www.visitsilvercity.org/events.