Landmark celebration features virtual, in-person events

A global pandemic pushed the big celebration back one year, but the Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial, founded in 1921, will commemorate its 100th show from Aug. 4-14.

This year’s show carries a particularly special aura due to the centennial, which the Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial Board wants to convey through the events and the culture and history on display.

“We want to congratulate the State of New Mexico, City of Gallup, [Indigenous people] from all over the world, our local Native People, and everyone that has been a big part of this beautiful event for the last 100 years,” Ceremonial Board Member...

Rhys Sellers, George Piestewa signed to wrestle for New Mexico Highlands University

Two of Miyamura High School’s wrestling seniors will continue to be teammates at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, N.M., next year.

Rhys Seller and George Piestewa signed their letters of intent to wrestle for the college on July 22.

Piestewa said he was excited to get to continue to have Rhys as a teammate.

“It’s going to be really exciting. We’ve wrestled together since we were seven or eight, and it’s crazy that we’re still going to be partners in the same room,” Piestewa said.

Rhys went 41-0 during last year’s season, and won the state championship for the 120 pounds...

For the final Levitt Amp concert, a “soulful, funky, rock n’roll” band will be coming to Gallup. Or at least that’s how Taylor Scott describes his band, the Taylor Scott Band.

Scott started playing gigs when he was 14, but he actually picked up a guitar for the first time when he was only 9 years old.

After growing up in Wyoming, Scott joined blues legend Otis Taylor on tour, spending four years touring internationally. But Scott said it was his desire to create his own music and tour under his own name that made him come back to the U.S. and start his own band.

Scott said he’s excited to come to Gallup for the first time.

“I’ve never been to Gallup, I’ve only ever...

Delbert Anderson was in the fourth grade when he discovered his passion for music.

In an interview with the Sun, he said it all started in fourth grade because that’s when he was supposed to pick out an instrument to play in band. The day before the students were supposed to pick their instruments, a jazz combo performed at the school. The trombone player began talking about improvisation, and that struck a chord with Anderson.

“He said ‘music doesn’t come from the sheet music; it comes from inside. I always thought that was really cool that you didn’t have to have music, and he was saying you could play whatever you want,” Anderson said. “There was a sort of freedom...