The New Mexico Music Commissioners

The New Mexico Music Commission includes some of the top artists in the music industry like country music star (and New Mexico resident) Randy Travis. All of the members on the Commission have strong ties to New Mexico, and together represent a cross-section of the industry as diverse as our population—country, rap, classical, mariachi, folk, and Native American. The full list of commissioners is below.

• Lee Eliot Berk, Chairman
  Music Educator
• Claude Stephenson, Vice Chairman
  State Folk Arts Coordinator/extensive history with NM music/State Folklorist
• Melissa Sanchez, Secretary
  Co-owner, Emergence Productions, Native American entertainment marketing firm
• George Adelo
  entertainment attorney and musician
• Ben Butler
  Guitar Player and Owner, Bandana Realty
• Ana Gallegos y Reinhardt
  Founder and Director of Warehouse 21
• Tommy Gearhart
  New Mexico's resident jazz crooning vocalist
• Joy Gutierrez
  NM Hispano Entertainers Association
• Barbara Hubbard
  Music Promoter, member Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
• Rick Huff
  
• Derek Mathews
  Founder and Director, Gathering of Nations
• Jose Ponce
  
• Allison Shaw
  Publisher/Owner and President, Hyperactive Music Magazine
• Dan Stoddard
  Vice-President of Tourism Development, Curry County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
• Elizabeth Travis
  Manager for Randy Travis
• Randy Travis
  Actor, Grammy Award-winning country western singer