Using the Events Manager WordPress plugin at work, I noticed that the event tag archive pages showed only current and upcoming events with a given tag. I wanted them to show all events, including past events, with the tag. I made a custom loop to accomplish this, within the Genesis framework. Create a file called taxonomy-event-tags.php in your Genesis child theme:

taxonomy-event-tags.php

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<?php
/**
 * This file adds the Taxonomy - Event Tags template to our Child Theme.
 */
/*
Template Name: Taxonomy - Event Tags
*/
remove_action('genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop'); // remove genesis loop
add_action('genesis_loop', 'event_tag_custom_loop'); // add the special loop

Then include your event_tag_custom_loop function at the bottom of this file.

event_tag_custom_loop function

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<?php
global $wp_query;
$term = $wp_query->get_queried_object();
$loop = new WP_Query(array(
  'post_type' => 'event',
  'tax_query' => array(
    'relation' => 'OR',
    array(
      'taxonomy' => 'event-tags',
      'field' => 'tag_ID',
      'terms' => array($term->term_id)
    )
  ),
  // Order by event start date, most recent at the top
  'meta_key' => '_event_start_date',
  'orderby' => 'meta_value',
  'order' => DESC
));
?>
<div class="events-tag-archive-list">
  <?php while ($loop->have_posts()) : $loop->the_post();
    $custom_fields = get_post_custom($post->ID);
    $event_start_date = $custom_fields['_event_start_date'][0];
    ?>
    <div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="event post type-post">
      <h2 class="entry-title">
        <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to <?php the_title(); ?>">
          <?php the_title(); ?>
        </a>
      </h2>
      <div class="post-info">
        <span class="date event-start-date">
          Event begins <a href="/link-to-your-events-page/<?php echo $event_start_date; ?>" title="View events on this day"><?php echo $event_start_date; ?></a>
        </span>
        <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '(', ')'); ?>
      </div>
      <div class="entry-content">
        <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
      </div>
      <div class="post-meta">
        <span class="tags">
          <?php the_terms($post->ID, 'event-tags', 'Tags: ', ', ', ' '); ?>
        </span>
      </div>
    </div>
  <?php endwhile; ?>
</div>

Then you can call genesis() after your function.