Music scene · Portales
An eastern New Mexico farming and college town where country and Tejano acts play local bars, campus events, and summer rodeo dances, with Clovis and Lubbock the regional gig routes.
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An eastern New Mexico farming and college town where country and Tejano acts play local bars, campus events, and summer rodeo dances, with Clovis and Lubbock the regional gig routes.
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Portales, New Mexico, is a small farming and college town on the eastern plains near Clovis. Music centers on school bands, church choirs, and country and Tejano acts at local bars and campus events. Amarillo and Lubbock musicians occasionally pass through for shows.
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