Trans-Pecos Festival of Music Love

Start: Thursday, September 28, 2023 12:00PM
End: Sunday, October 1, 2023 12:00PM

The seventeenth Trans-Pecos Festival of Music + Love, El Cosmico’s authentic music experience held in Marfa, Texas, will take place September 28 - October 1 with headliners Spoon, Neal Francis, and The Heavy Heavy. Meshell Ndegeocello, Ben Kweller, The Suffers, Mexican Institute of Sound, Jess Williamson, Kara Jackson, Heartless Bastards, Robert Ellis, Ross Cashiola, Hello Aqui and the El Cosmico Family Band featuring David Garza, Tift Merritt and Tina Schlieske round out the lineup. This year's festival will be the last at the original El Cosmico location. The next Trans-Pecos Festival will take place at the reimagined and expanded El Cosmico, featuring 3D printed structures developed in collaboration with ICON, the leader of advanced construction technologies pioneering large-scale 3D printing and BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, world renowned architecture firm. The festival goes beyond music, offering festival-goers the chance to camp in one of the most magical venues in the West Texas desert, while cultivating artistic engagement with a variety of unique activities, day parties, workshops, a vendor marketplace, pop-up desert spa (El Cosmetico) and barber shop (El Cosmicuts), food trucks, tattoos, and more.