Live Music

Did you know that one of Main Street's most storied rooms started out with a different name over its door? The Motherlode Saloon, at 406 East Main Street in Red River, was built in the mid-1930s as a saloon, dance hall and gambling establishment, back when this old mining town was learning how to entertain visitors instead of miners. The building has been a place to gather, dance and hear a song ever since, and its stage has a story that reaches well beyond this one-mile-long downtown.

Some Red River history is not behind glass in a museum. On summer evenings at the top of Bobcat Pass, it is served hot, with cowboy coffee, while a singer picks up a guitar. The Cowboy Evening hosted by the Lewis family and crew at Bobcat Pass Wilderness Adventures, at 9,820 feet above town, has kept the old chuck wagon tradition alive for decades. By the summer of 2024 it had reached its 33rd season, starting that year on Tuesday, June 18 and running through Labor Day weekend.