Corrales to host free outdoor concert at La Entrada Park

Corrales is getting a free afternoon of award-winning Western folk music at La Entrada Park, where Jim Jones and Mariam Funke will perform in a public concert that comes with no admission charge and a clear community payoff: a reason for neighbors to gather in one of the village’s signature outdoor spaces.

Music in Corrales lists the concert for Saturday, May 30, while the village calendar places it from 3 to 6:30 p.m. at La Entrada Park, 84 West La Entrada. Another listing gives the music itself a tighter window, from 4:30 to 6:15 p.m. The park’s gardens, playground, picnic tables and band shell make it a natural fit for a spring evening built around families, lawn chairs and a low-stakes local outing.

The show carries more than weekend-entertainment value. It is co-sponsored by Corrales MainStreet and the Village of Corrales, and the village parks notice says the park and the village administration parking lot will be in use for the event. That makes the concert part of the way Corrales uses public space, not just a one-night performance. In a village where arts programming is woven into civic life, free events like this can help decide whether residents linger in the park, visit nearby businesses, or simply show up because the barrier to entry is zero.

Jones and Funke are not a casual pickup act. They are two-thirds of The Cowboy Way, a New Mexico-based trio made up of Jim Jones, Doug Figgs and Mariam Funke. The International Western Music Association says its group-or-duo honor recognizes performers who regularly perform together and have shown outstanding recorded and in-person vocal performance. The Cowboy Way was named the association’s Group of the Year for the fourth consecutive time in 2021, underscoring why Corrales is promoting this as a special community attraction.

Jones also brings a long award history of his own. A separate performance listing says he has won three Western Heritage Wrangler Awards, the 2019 International Western Music Association Song of the Year, and Western Writers of America Spur Awards in 2013, 2017 and 2021 for Best Western Song. That level of recognition gives the free concert local weight: Corrales is not just filling a park, it is bringing nationally honored Western music into the center of town.

The event also fits a broader Corrales pattern. The New Mexico Arts & Cultural Districts profile for the village says the district includes 25 local organizations and businesses that support or conduct arts events, and it hosts the Corrales Arts and Studio Tour with 135 artists. Against that backdrop, the La Entrada Park concert looks less like a one-off and more like part of an ongoing effort to keep Corrales’s parks, arts scene and public gathering places active.