Happy Monday from all of us here at Plateau Hame de Colquhoun â home of Ka-Hoon Campground and Event Center, where off-grid living meets creativity, music, and unforgettable desert nights.
We host a rotating lineup of experiences including off-grid camping, outdoor movie nights, bonfires, stargazing, and live performances through our signature Music in the Desert series. Our campground is designed for people who want to unplug, connect, and experience the New Mexico desert in a way that feels authentic and welcoming.
Coming this May, weâre celebrating Star Wars Under the Stars, a themed outdoor movie weekend paired with camping, community fires, and desert skies. Costumes are encouraged, movies are included with campsite bookings, and BYOB keeps the vibe relaxed and fun.
Weâre also home to The Off-Grid Campfire Chat, where conversations happen under the stars, and soon launching Black Hat After Dark, our upcoming after-hours experience.
Whether youâre here for camping, music, movies, or community â Ka-Hoon Campground is where desert magic happens.
Get ready for a galaxy-far-far-away experience in the New Mexico desert. **Star Wars Under the Stars** returns to **Plateau Hame de Colquhoun (Ka-Hoon Campground and Event Center)** for a special **May the 4th Weekend celebration, May 1â3**.
This off-grid camping weekend features **outdoor Star Wars movie nights under the stars**, open desert skies, and a community campfire atmosphere. Movies are **free for all campers** and included with campsite bookingâno separate movie tickets required.
Guests are encouraged to **dress up as their favorite characters**, bring their own beverages (BYOB), and enjoy a relaxed desert weekend. Saturday night features a special **Music in the Desert** sit-and-listen show, adding live desert soundscapes to the experience.
Campsite pricing covers **up to five people per site**, with rates varying by booking platform. Members receive **free admission** to all activities. Whether youâre camping, stargazing, or watching movies beside the fire, this is a weekend designed for connection, creativity, and unforgettable desert nights.
Tonight, the New Mexico desert comes alive at Ka-Hoon Campground and Event Center with Music in the Desert, a live streamed desert music experience hosted by Colquhoun Entertainment.
Starting at 6 PM MST, audiences can watch Advocatus Diaboli perform live from the desertâbringing original music, parody songs, and raw desert atmosphere straight to viewers on YouTube and TikTok.
Music in the Desert is more than a performance â itâs an experience shaped by open skies, campfire energy, and authentic desert living. Whether youâre camping on-site or tuning in from home, tonightâs show delivers something different from the typical stage performance.
đĽ When: Tonight â 6 PM MST đľ Where: Ka-Hoon Campground & Event Center đş Watch Live: YouTube & TikTok via Colquhoun Entertainment
Join us tonight and experience music the desert way.
Tonight, the New Mexico desert comes alive with Music in the Desert, hosted by Colquhoun Entertainment at the iconic Plateau Hame de Colquhoun. Fans can catch Advocatus Diaboli delivering electrifying performances and unforgettable desert vibes.
Streaming LIVE at 6 PM MST, this event is your chance to experience music, energy, and raw desert scenery from anywhere. Advocatus Diaboli, known for edgy performances and dynamic stage presence, will bring you songs that make you laugh, cry, and headbangâall in one show.
đĽ Why You Should Watch:
LIVE desert performance with no stage limits
Parody songs, original music, and interactive energy
Stream easily on YouTube and TikTok via Colquhoun Entertainment
Connect with fans and desert music lovers in real-time
Whether youâre local or watching online, tonightâs show is not just a concertâitâs a desert experience you wonât forget.
The internet has made off-grid life look simple: solar panels, gardens, sunsets, and coffee on the porch.
What you donât see are the parts that actually decide whether you stay⌠or pack up and leave.
Before you buy land in the desert, before you sell your house, before you make the biggest lifestyle shift of your life â you should understand what off-grid living in New Mexico is really like.
We know because weâve been living it for nearly six years at Plateau Hame de Colquhoun and Ka-Hoon Campground and Event Center.
No show. No investors. No retreat marketing.
Just life.
Why So Many People Move Off-Grid â And Why Many Quit
People donât move off-grid because they hate society.
They move because they want:
Quiet
Independence
Fewer rules
Lower expenses
Space to breathe
Control over their environment
And those parts are real.
But what most people arenât prepared for is this:
Off-grid living doesnât remove problems.
It changes the type of problems you solve.
In town, problems are abstract: Bills. Schedules. Traffic.
Off-grid, problems are physical: Water. Power. Weather. Equipment.
And the desert is honest about it.
The Reality of Off-Grid Living in the New Mexico Desert
Water
There is no faucet connected to a municipal system.
Water must be: hauled, stored, monitored, and rationed.
You learn quickly how much you actually use.
Long showers stop being normal. They become decisions.
Power
Solar works â but not the way YouTube often shows.
Cloudy days happen. Batteries drain. Inverters fail. Generators sometimes save your refrigerator.
You begin paying attention to the sun the way farmers pay attention to rain.
Weather
The New Mexico desert is beautiful â and demanding.
Windstorms can last days. Dust gets into everything. Summer heat requires planning. Winter nights get colder than people expect.
You donât fight nature anymore.
You adapt to it.
Repairs
Hereâs something few off-grid videos talk about:
You become your own maintenance department.
Plumbing, electrical, structural fixes â you will attempt things you never imagined yourself doing.
Sometimes successfully.
Sometimes at sunset with a flashlight in your mouth wondering how you got here.
The Psychological Adjustment
This is actually the part that determines success more than skills.
Off-grid living changes your nervous system.
In town: constant stimulation noise notifications neighbors
In the desert: silence
At first people love it.
Then something unexpected happens.
Your brain, used to constant input, starts inventing worries. The quiet forces you to sit with your own thoughts. Some people find peace.
Others discover they were using noise to cope.
This is why off-grid living isnât just a housing change.
Itâs an identity change.
Why You Should Not Buy Land First
The biggest mistake we see:
People romanticize off-grid life, purchase land immediately, then discover the lifestyle doesnât fit them.
Land ownership makes leaving emotionally and financially harder.
Thatâs why we created a soft landing experience at Plateau Hame de Colquhoun.
You can experience off-grid living before committing to it.
Stay. Observe. Participate. Learn.
You find out: ⢠if you enjoy the quiet ⢠if you can handle the work ⢠if desert life suits you
Because off-grid is amazing â for the right person.
And miserable for the wrong one.
Learn With Us â The Off-Grid Campfire Chat
Every morning at 11AM MST we host the Off-Grid Campfire Chat online.
We donât teach theory.
We talk about: mistakes repairs costs unexpected problems what nobody warns you about
At Ka-Hoon Campground and Event Center, entertainment doesnât stop when the sun sets â it begins.
Tonight, Colquhoun Entertainment presents Music in the Desert, a free live online show hosted by Advocatus Diaboli and Melodious the Moderator. Streaming live on YouTube and TikTok at 6 PM MST, the event brings music, conversation, and community together in a relaxed campfire atmosphere inspired by the New Mexico desert.
Music in the Desert is more than a concert. Viewers interact in real time, chat with the hosts, request songs, and become part of the experience. Original music, parodies, and spontaneous moments make every episode unique and different from the last.
Ka-Hoon Campground and Event Center is built around community â both on-site and online. Whether you camp with us in person or join from home, you are part of the same gathering around the campfire.
Monday morning looks a little different at Plateau Hame de Colquhoun.
There are no traffic jams, no office buildings, and no commute â just sunrise over the desert and coffee before the solar batteries finish charging.
Life at Ka-Hoon Campground and Event Center means starting the day with quiet, wide skies, and the occasional unexpected visitor wandering through the property. Off-grid living teaches patience, humor, and flexibility⌠especially on Mondays.
Here, we donât rush the week. We ease into it.
While most people are heading back to work, we are preparing for our weekly livestream Music in the Desert, produced by Colquhoun Entertainment and hosted by Advocatus Diaboli with Melodious moderating the community.
The show streams every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, bringing live music, stories, and real desert life to viewers everywhere.
Monday is the calm before the music.
So if your morning feels chaotic, stressful, or overwhelming â just remember somewhere in the New Mexico desert the day starts slower, the sky is bigger, and thereâs always another sunset coming.
If you think off-grid desert living is peaceful⌠youâve never had free-range cattle ring your doorbell.
Yes. Ring. The. Doorbell.
Out here at Plateau Hame de Colquhoun, home of Music in the Desert, we share the land with sunsets, coyotes, stargazers⌠and apparently very bold cattle with boundary issues.
Last night the free-range cattle came back. They didnât just pass through.
They:
⢠rubbed against the posts ⢠bent a few poles ⢠snapped some solar lights ⢠and politely rang the doorbell before leaving
This is what real off-grid life in New Mexico looks like.
While most venues worry about parking tickets, weâre out here replacing solar lights because a 1,200-pound cow wanted to scratch its shoulder.
But thatâs desert life. Wild. Unfiltered. Slightly destructive.
And honestly? We wouldnât trade it.
Because when the sun sets and Music in the Desert goes live, thereâs nothing like live music under the New Mexico sky â even if the cattle were here first.
If youâre looking for authentic off-grid camping, live desert music, stargazing, and occasional livestock shenanigans⌠welcome home.
Something unexpected â and honestly a little magical â happened after Music in the Desert this week here at Plateau hame de Colquhoun.
Every show night, once our live stream ends from Ka-Hoon Campground & Event Center, we do what our community has come to call âThe Jump.â
The Jump is simple in idea, but powerful in effect.
After our broadcast, we travel together as a group into another creatorâs live stream â usually a karaoke host â not to take over, but to support. We encourage our viewers to follow along, meet new people, support performers, and help smaller creators grow. It has become one of the most community-building traditions of Colquhoun
Colquhoun Entertainment.
This time, we landed inside Iluvpots Karaoke.
And thatâs when something special happened.
A Song We Didnât Plan
While visiting the live, Advocatus Diaboli decided to perform an original song titled:
âSanctuary of Intricacies.â
The performance wasnât scheduled, rehearsed for a show, or promoted beforehand. It was spontaneous â the way some of the best art happens. With Melodious moderating and our community gathered in support, the live karaoke room suddenly became a small concert venue.
The song carries a reflective tone and fits perfectly with what Music in the Desert has always been about: connection, creativity, and shared moments between strangers who become friends.
Moments like this are exactly why we do The Jump.
We donât just stream a show â we build bridges between communities.
What âThe Jumpâ Really Is
The Jump is not a raid for attention. It is a gesture of appreciation.
We invite our audience to join us in supporting another host, cheering on performers, and helping create a welcoming atmosphere. Sometimes Advocatus Diaboli sings covers, sometimes parodies, and occasionally â like this night â an original piece appears.
âSanctuary of Intricaciesâ became one of those rare moments where the audience, the host, and the performers all experienced something unplanned together.
That is the spirit behind Music in the Desert.
Join Us Live
We stream Music in the Desert multiple nights every week from the New Mexico desert at Ka-Hoon Campground & Event Center, part of Plateau hame de Colquhoun.
đľ Live performances by Advocatus Diaboli đ Moderated by Melodious đľ Presented by Colquhoun Entertainment
Join us every:
Tuesday
Thursday
Saturday
After each show⌠we Jump.
And youâre invited to come along.
You never know where the night will lead â or where the next song will be heard.
Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is just a crazy person with a torch⌠but hey, at least it ainât boring!
Here at Plateau Hame de Colquhoun, life off-grid teaches us that inspiration doesnât always arrive politely on schedule. Some days, the universe sends it with a wink, a spark, or a little chaos â like our Thursday quote reminds us.
Our desert home encourages reflection, laughter, and embracing the unexpected. Whether youâre navigating a literal desert or the deserts of your own life, itâs important to notice the moments that make you smile⌠even if theyâre a little snarky.
A Thursday Reminder
Life isnât always predictable.
The light at the end of the tunnel might be unconventional.
Laugh at the chaos, and keep moving forward.
This Thursday, Feb 19, 2026, take a moment to appreciate the quirky sparks of inspiration in your life. Whether itâs a wild idea, a sudden insight, or just the desert sunset reminding you that everything is impermanent, find joy in the unexpected.
Ka-Hoon Campground and Event Center 