Today, El Cosmico announced that $5 of any music or camping ticket purchased for the 6th Annual Trans-Pecos Festival of Music and Love between now and September 20th will go to the Central Texas Wildfire Relief Fund, helping families and individuals in the Central Texas area who were affected by the devastating wildfires.

The philanthropic bent fits perfectly within the Festival's mantra of "music and love," organized and run by Liz Lambert's Bunkhouse, a collective renowned for designing and managing the most eclectic boutique hotels in Texas (see: Hotel St. Cecilia, Hotel Havana, Hotel San Jose, El Cosmico).

So how do designers and a hotelier know how to do a music festival so well? Lambert ingeniously hosts the Trans-Pecos Festival on El Cosmico hotel grounds—home to a slew of renovated airstreams, yurts with bamboo floors, teepees with king sized beds and plots where you can pitch your own tent. Rather apropos of a festival that encourages attendees to "dance in a wide open field, sleep under the stars and eat drink and be merry."

Musically, this year's Trans-Pecos bill features—but is not limited to—Tift Merritt, Patty Griffin (with a special guest everyone is buzzing about), Ben Kweller, The Black Angels, Amy Cook, Kat Edmonson and the recently added Mother Falcon.

And seeing as how Marfa is recognized as one of the hippest art communities, not only in Texas, but in the U.S., there will plenty of offerings in the way of cultural consumption. You're always welcome to venture off Festival grounds and visit the famous Marfa galleries or poke around the vendor marketplace, featuring art, clothing and other survival necessities from Squashblossom Vintage, Alabama Chanin, Satch, Bootleg, Chia Hats, Gail Chovan for Blackmail, Alyce Santoro/Sonic Fabric, Catherine Abston and others.

And should you get an athletic itch in your legs, there's also a baseball field.

And a sewing workshop.

And a trunk show.

There's seriously nothing you cannot do. Purchase your ticket now, send $5 to help the wildfire victims, and as Trans-Pecos likes to say, pick whichever Festival elements you like and "choose your own adventure."

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The 6th Annual Trans-Pecos Festival of Music and Love will take place in Marfa from Sept. 22nd through Sept. 25th.