Voices of Taos
Join us for a new podcast from award winning weekly newspaper, The Taos News. Every week on Saturday we'll release a new episode featuring a voice from our Taos community. We'll cover the arts, current events, and sports on different episodes hosted by our talented reporting staff.
Episodes
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This week on Voices of Taos, Editor Geoffrey Plant speaks with U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján, who visited the Taos News recording studio late in the afternoon Aug. 4 immediately after he attended a roundtable discussion at Holy Cross Medical Center.
In this episode, Luján runs down a long list of funding cuts, policy changes and unprecedented presidential power moves in ...
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This week on Voices of Taos, sports editor Blynn Beltran interviews Yavanne Jaramillo, the director and coach of the Special Olympics in Taos.
A business owner by day, Jaramillo has led efforts in fundraising and sporting events for the athletes in her spare time.
This year, the Taos Special Olympics hosted their first car show in Taos and had a great turnout at the Law Enf...
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This week on Voices of Taos, Tempo editor Lynne Robinson talks with novelist and playwright John Biscello.
John talks about his work with the Taos Youth Ensemble and teaching kids about theater.
He also talks about his two upcoming novels, "The Last Furies" and "No One Dreams in Color."
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This week on Voices of Taos, magazine editor Ellen Miller-Goins talks with singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey.
This year marks 50 years since the release of Murphey’s hit song “Wildfire” and 35 years since the release of his album “Cowboy Songs."
Ellen and Michael talk about his his legendary music career, the 2023 film ‘Wildfire: The Legend o...
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This week on Voices of Taos, editor Geoffrey Plant speaks with Sam Coffman, who —along with his wife, Suchil — founded the Herbal Medics Academy based in Taos Canyon.
Coffman is a former U.S. Army Special Forces Medic, Master of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, a licensed herbalist, and the training director for Taos Search and Rescue.
Sam and Geoffrey talk ab...
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This week on Voices of Taos, Tempo editor Lynne Robinson speaks with musician Michael Hearne about the Big Barn Dance.
Hearne talks about the history of the Big Barn Dance, which is in its 23rd year. This year's festival will be held from Sept. 4-6 at Kit Carson Park.
Lynne and Michael also discuss a special preview show being held in Santa Fe July 25, plus the lineup for the Ba...
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This week on Voices of Taos, editor Geoffrey Plant talks with Anthony Mortillaro, Executive Director of the North Central Regional Transit District.
Anthony discusses his history with the NCRTD and the district's new facility here in Taos.
Plant and Mortillaro also talk about what it's like to be a Blue Bus driver, the My Blue app and future plans for increased services.
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This week on Voices of Taos, editor Geoffrey Plant talks with Luis Reyes, CEO of Kit Carson Electric Cooperative.
Plant and Reyes discuss KCEC’s wildfire mitigation program and the challenges of undergrounding power lines.
They also talk about the green hydrogen proposal in Questa, grid resiliency and how green hydrogen can help the greater community.
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This week on Voices of Taos, reporter Emery Veilleux talks with Lou Schachter, investigative writer of True Crime Road Trip.
Schachter was instrumental in locating two paintings that were stolen from the Harwood Museum in 1985 and recently returned to the museum.
Lou also talks about what led him to start writing about historical true crime and what made him start exploring the ...
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New episodes of Voices of Taos will now be released on Tuesdays starting June 17.
Please enjoy this presentation of our most popular episode from Season 1.
Join our Tempo arts magazine editor Lynne Robinson as she interviews Robert Mirabal about his most recent projects. Robert talks about his "agri-cultural" roots from Taos Pueblo, composing music for a new Hulu TV series, and ...
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This week on Voices of Taos, sports editor Blynn Beltran talks with local comedian Chad Riden.
A Tennessee native, Riden moved to Taos, New Mexico, to pursue an off-the-grid lifestyle and continue his comedy career. Riden founded and hosts Taos Comedy, a non-profit that produces, promotes, and advises local comedians. He hosts comedy shows at The Burger Stand every Wednesday and...
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This week on Voices of Taos, Editor Geoffrey Plant speaks with David Elliot and Miles Bonny.
David Elliot is a local emergency manager who works with several different organizations in Northern New Mexico and internationally, including volunteer groups active in disasters, the Town of Taos, Holy Cross Medical Center and UNM-Taos.
Miles Bonny is the director of Taos Alive, an out...
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This week on "Voices of Taos," join Editor Geoffrey Plant as he talks with Martin Jagers, president of the Carson House and Museum board of directors.
Jagers discusses frontiersman Kit Carson's legacy in the broader narrative of Western colonization, as well as details about the life he led in Taos with his wife, Josefa.
Rather than a collection of artifacts, "History is a story...
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This week on "Voices of Taos," join Editor Geoffrey Plant as he talks with Genevieve Oswald, Taos town councilor and chair of the Kit Carson Park Renaming Committee.
Oswald discusses the origins of the initiative to rename Taos' central green space, its progress so far, and its goals to float potential names by the end of the year.
Plant and Oswald both discuss the mixed reactio...
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On this episode of Voices of Taos, reporter Olivia Lewis speaks with Amy Long, board president of Stray Hearts Animal Shelter.
Amy talks about the challenges that the shelter is facing, how they are working with the Town of Taos and what is being done to help Stray Hearts to continue to provide services to the community.
She also talks about improvements that are needed at the s...
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This week on Voices of Taos, sports editor Blynn Beltran talks with Hafid Valencia, former head coach for the THS varsity boys soccer team.
Valencia is a Taos native who played soccer for the Taos Youth Soccer League and played all five years of soccer at Taos High. The former Tigers soccer coach talks about his last four seasons and why he left the position.
He also discusses h...
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On this episode of Voices of Taos, Sports Editor Blynn Beltran talks to School of Baseball's Abe Balsamo and Hargis James.
School of Baseball is a non-profit organization that teaches local kids and teens the basics of America's favorite pastime. They also discuss their upbringing in Taos, how the organization caters to hundreds of kids a week, and their involvement with th...
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This week on Voices of Taos, Tempo editor Lynne Robinson talks with Jonathan Slator, former film commissioner and location scout.
Slator discusses his background as a location scout in the U.S. and overseas, as well as the history of filmmaking in Taos and the surrounding areas.
He also talks about the possibility of reviving a film office in Taos and how it could help boost and...
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This week on Voices of Taos, join reporter Olivia Lewis as she talks with Adam Medina, sous chef at Ranchos Plaza Grill and instructor for the Taos High School Culinary Arts team.
The Taos High School Culinary and Management Teams both placed first at this year's New Mexico ProStart Invitational, and will be traveling to the National ProStart Invitational in Baltimore, Maryland,...
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This week on Voices of Taos, join Editor John Miller as he talks with Rick Romancito, former Tempo editor, fine artist and former actor.
Romancito tells stories of his career as a young actor starring alongside John Wayne and Katherine Hepburn in "Rooster Cogburn," as well as both the glamour and difficulties of making it as an actor.
Miller discusses the recent growt...
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