LECTURE FOR NOVEMBER 1st, 2025
2:00 PM - Kit Carson Coop Board Room
118 Kit Carson Road • Taos

Folklore Presentation:

THE MUSIC OF
NORTHERN NEW MEXICO

by Vito Trujillo Jr.

Victor (Vito) Trujillo Jr. is a native of Taos, New Mexico, born in Los Alamos in March of 1975 to Linda and Victor (Vito) Trujillo. His interest in music began when he was just 8 years old. His father was instrumental in teaching him how to play the guitar. Vito started playing professionally in a band when he was 11 years old. He joined his father to become a member in the "Vito Y Alan" band (1986-2000). Vito was also a member of Taos High Schools Mariachi group (1990-1993). In 2006 Vito was asked by John Vargas to join the "Time Machine Band" (2006 - Current). The trio has been performing throughout Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico. Vito has performed with several other groups/bands throughout New Mexico during the last decade. In 2004 Vito founded Adobe Records, a record label created by his father in 1973. Vito Trujillo Jr. grew up playing guitar for his father's band and continued within and carrying on the Northern New Mexico Music tradition, Vito Trujillo Jr. is an independent artist, producer, and songwriter his music influences include but are not limited to other genres such as Traditional Northern New Mexico, Mariachi, Tejano, Blues, Jazz and Rock. More artistic influences include mostly guitar players like Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, Billy Gibbons, Joe Bonamassa, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Les Paul, BB King, and other Modern Country musicians.

TCHS Lectures are Free to Members
and available to the general public for a requested $5.00 Donation

Admission is "1st Come, 1st Served" to the Maximum Capacity of "80".
(Capacity is mandated by the Town of Taos Fire Department)

The Taos County Historical Society is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1952 and dedicated to the recording and preserving of the irreplaceable in Taos County.
Membership is open to anyone upon payment of dues.
For additional information on the programs, activities and history of Taos visit the Society's website at www.taoscountyhistoricalsociety.org

Mil Gracias, A THOUSAND THANKS, does not begin to cover the many, many individuals to whom we owe a debt of gratitude. This debt is not only the living but also to those men and women who long ago began to preserve the journals and documents we now depend upon for knowledge of the past: the chroniclers who accompanied the explorers and settlers and who, dusty, tired and hungry, sat in the light of a candle to record in their journals the events of the day and the Franciscan clerics who made detailed reports of their canonical visits to the mission churches of Nuevo México.

Corina A. Santistevan
Acknowledgements in "Taos: A Topical History"