A morning class on the grass in front of the tipi at Horseshoe, a dozen people on mats with their arms raised and a forested mountain behind

Communities

If you are lucky enough to do something you love, you give back to the place that makes it possible.

Those who were here first

Every Horseshoe opens with a land acknowledgment ceremony. It happens before the music, because the order says something.

Honoring the people who were here first is where this starts. They are still here, and where this goes is decided together, in tandem with partners like Medicine Wheel Wellness in Jackson.

The market is where that widens. More Native artisans selling their own work, and support from the foundation that reaches the people making it.

Medicine Wheel Wellness

A circle of people holding hands on the grass in front of the Horseshoe stage, dancers in regalia among them

The people we build with

A couple with a baby in a carrier and a small boy standing up on the log fence beside them, all watching the band under the lit horseshoe at dusk

A singer in a wide-brimmed hat and red jacket at the microphone under blue stage light, a guitarist behind him

The Million Dollar Cowboy Bar sign lit on Jackson town square at dusk, traffic queued beneath the neon welcome rider and Snow King rising behind

The Horseshoe stage in late afternoon light with the band playing beneath a lit horseshoe, the crowd on the grass in front and a bare ridge rising behind

The Horseshoe stage lit at dusk on the valley floor, the crowd spread across the grass and dark mountains behind

Two cooks tending whole cuts of meat roasting on iron crosses over an open fire

A mountain creek falling in white cascades down a rock face between dense conifers, running out over boulders in the foreground

A musician in a white dress and sunglasses singing at the microphone with an electric guitar

A lone hiker paused on a pine-lined trail high above the valley floor, the flats and far ranges hazy in the morning light below

The inside of a lounge tent, low couches and rugs under strings of light

Two people serving from platters on a flower-dressed table under a tent

A community is the people who create there, the places they gather, and what they choose to carry.