Chimayó figures prominently in Now Eleanor's Idea, an opera by Robert Ashley. Ashley describes Chimayó in his foreword to the libretto as "the spiritual center of the low-rider world... Now Eleanor conceives of a television documentary program to study the exotic low-rider community... in the car shops" of Chimayo. Act II, Scene 2 is a recorded interview with Chimayó residents Low Low and Joan Medina
