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Below are announcements we've received for forthcoming events from the event organizers...
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Contact us for a supply of handout postcards about CowboyPoetry.com for your event.
Two CowboyPoetry.com information postcards are available .
One features William Matthews' painting, "Waxed Jacket," chosen as the image for the 2008 Cowboy Poetry Week poster and the other is the image selected as the cover for the 2008 CD, The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Three, (a photo of Perry Preston ("P. P.") Dickinson, circa 1912, Texas cowboy. Perry Preston was the grandfather of Deanna Dickinson McCall, and great grandfather of poets and reciters Rusty McCall and Katie-McCall Owens.
The reverse sides of the postcards have information about the Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry and CowboyPoetry.com. The cards are sent to gathering organizers for events' handout tables, placed at libraries, bookstores, and community centers.Thanks to the following gatherings, organizations, and individuals for helping to spread the word by making CowboyPoetry.com information cards available to date and for providing space for them:
The Heritage of the American West show; the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Saddle Up! in Pigeon Forge, Sierra Vista's Cochise Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering, Wyoming Wintercamp Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Chadron State College Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Red Rock Writers, Montana Cowboy and Ranchwomen Dinner Show, Montana Country Poets and Pickers Annual Gathering, Festival of the West, Alpine Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering, Nara Visa Cowboy Gathering, National Cowboy Poetry Rodeo, Kamloops Cowboy Gathering, Estes Park Cowboy Poetry and Music Round-Up, Wyoming's Grand Encampment Cowboy Gathering, Lee Earl Memorial Scholarship Gathering, Oklahoma Cowboy Poetry and Songs, Kane County Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Dollarwatch Cowboy Show, Gila Valley Poets Spring Gathering, Idaho City Gathering, Booth Western Art Museum, Los Rios Rancho and Muir Beach Volunteer Fire Department, Cowboy Culture Corner, Truckee Western Week and ProRodeo Cowboy Poetry and Music, Conifer Trails and Tales, Triple Creek Ranch, Eldorado Running of the Bull, Oklahoma Centennial Covered Wagon Rendezvous, Annual Reno Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering, Friends of Marty Robbins, Southwestern Idaho Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Visalia Fall Roundup, Annual Grand Union Gathering, Badger Clark Hometown Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering, Old West Days, Pinedale Roundup, Grand Junction Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Grass Valley Elks' Cowboy Poetry, Annual Gila River Heritage Round-Up, Cowboy Poetry Hootenanny, Spirit of the West, Annual Bosque County Chuckwagon Cookoff & John A. Lomax Music Festival, Annual Stony Plain Cowboy Poetry, Music & Art Gathering, and First Annual Utah, Arizona, Nevada (& Neighbors) Cowboy Poetry Gathering & "Old Timers" Get Together, First Annual Golden Spike Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, Annual Missouri Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Boys Town Nevada, Songs, Stories, and Cowboy Poetry—Celebrating the American West, Chama Cowboy Days, South Dakota Spirit of the West, Steppin' Back Guest Ranch, and Cowboy Culture Extravaganza; and Tom Morgan, Jeri Dobrowski, Smoke Wade, Yvonne Hollenbeck, Susan Parker, Ken Cook, Linda Kirkpatrick, DW Groethe, Gwen Petersen, Janice Coggin, Sandi and Jay Snider, Nika Nordbrock, Karen Neurohr, Jo Lynne Kirkwood, Lauralee Northcott, Kathy and Van Criddle, Doris Daley, Tex Tumbleweed, Laurali Noteman, Alfred Janssen, Hal Swift, Diane Tribitt, Ann Blackford, Doc Stovall, Bobbie Hunter, Jim Hawkins, Al Mehl, Don Hilmer, Geff Dawson, Mick Vernon, PJ and Dallas McCord, Carla Bell, Jim Runge, Tom Cole, Linda Record, Cheryl Park, Lowell Moore, Jon Chandler, Jerry "Brooksie" Brooks, Juanita Buckley, Almeda Terry, Ronna Lee Sharpe, Laura and Tony Argento, Sr., Ralph Smith, Steve Conroy, Donnette Engebrecht, Fred Liese, Harlo Birkholz, Mark McMillan, Beth Bender, Kay Duke, Jackson Mackenzie, Francie Ganje, Pat Richardson, Sam Jackson, Stan Tixier, Tom Weatherby, Jennie Cummings, Maryanne Patterson, Mike Moutoux, Cimmaron Sue and Nevada Slim, Ted Flaum, Rick Nagle, Christopher Martinez, Janice Gilbertson, Cass Swanson, Jan Billups, and Thayne Beard.
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September 4-7, 2008
20th Annual National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration Lubbock, TexasThe National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration celebrates its 20th anniversary, September 4-7, 2008, in Lubbock, Texas. From the official media release:
The event's purpose remains to celebrate, preserve and pass along our western heritage and cowboy culture for those who know and love it, and forthose who have never known it before to learn from and enjoy it as well. To
accomplish these goals, this year's schedule includes nationally recognized entertainers Sons of the San Joaquin, Don Edwards and Waddie Mitchell, along with other national, regional and local musical entertainers, poets and storytellers, western writers/authors panels, film and movie seminars, horse handling demonstrations, a horse parade, a full blown Native American Indian Powwow, chuck wagon cook-off teams and exhibits, and exhibits of more than 200 spaces of western artworks and merchandise. Don't miss the tasty fare of the National Championship Chuck Wagon Cook-Off, Saturday, September 6th.
As a feature of this year's 20th Anniversary event, we have planned several new additional events such as The Frank Dean-Will Rogers World Championship Trick Roping Contest (the only event of its kind in the nation), Dress of the West: 100 Years of Western Clothing display as a part of the Lubbock Centennial Celebration including a celebrity boot collection, and the Western Writers of America Authors' Panels and book signings.Visit the National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration web site for complete information.
Posted 6/2
September 6, 2008
Cowboy Campfire at Scofield's Red Mule Ranch Fiddletown, California
Ron and Marie Scofield are your hosts for an evening of old-time cowcamp entertainment under the stars at the Red Mule Ranch in Fiddletown, California. Enjoy a chuck wagon tri-tip dinner and a variety of cowboy music, poetry, and story telling in an 1880's setting. In addition to Ron's traditional brand of old cowboy music standards, special guest performers contribute their unique style of western wit, wisdom, satire, and song. The Old West trio will be there (on all dates except July 9 and Sept 3) to share old and new cowboy ballads, three-part harmony, and yodeling tunes.Reservations are required. See the web site for reservation information.
2008 Dates:
September 6 - Old West Trio & Jim and Karen Ross
September 27 - Old West Trio & Mark TwainPosted 2/5
