Events

Coming Up

April 9–10, 2010: Leslie Keltner is once again hosting Cowboy Songs up in Cody. There will be a show Friday evening as well as a matinee and evening show on Saturday. This being the centennial of John Lomax's first book, "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads", I'll be playing songs from that book. Cody, Wyoming.

April 16, 2010: Cowboy Poetry week runs from April 18 - 24 this year. I will recite Cowboy Poetry at the Arthur Lakes Library at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado.

April 17, 2010: I will join up with John Nelson again for a Cowboy Poetry program at the Savage Library at Western State Colledge in Gunnison, Colorado.

April 25, 2010: I will recite some Cowboy Poetry at the Conifer Public Library, Conifer, Colorado.

May 8, 2010: I will join my friends, Southwind and Amber Waves to play songs from history at the Mountain High Chapel. Conifer, Colorado.

June 4–5,: Mark and Rex will each speak of the developements leading to the creation, preservation and making of Bent's Old Fort into a National Historic Site and play the music of the fur trade in the celebration of Bent's Old Fort's 50th anniversary as part of the National Parks. True West Magazine has written up a dandy article about this event. You can find it on their website. LaJunta, Colorado.

June 11, 2010: 7:00 to 9:00 pm, Mark and I will join our saddle pals, Liz Masterson, Susan Dailey and Zeb Dennis for some Cowboy Poetry and song at Barbed Wire Books, 504 Main Street, Longmont, Colorado.

June 19, 2010: 8:00 pm, I will be performing the early songs of the cowboys in my home town at the Pemberville Opera House. The opera house was built in 1891 and has been recently renovated. Here is their website Pemberville, Ohio.

June 29, 2010: 7:00, I have partnered up with the McCook Art Guild to play the early songs of the cowboys. What is worthy of note is that the Great Western Cattle Trail passed through McCook in the 1880s and many of these songs were sung in the region, some even composed here. Here is the McCook Art Guild website , McCook, Nebraska.

Now Part of History

July 20–22, 2007: Rex, Tom and Don joined the Alpine Orchestra in concert in Leadville, Salida and Buena Vista for a grand celebration of Zebulon Pike's expedition.

September 19–30, 2008: Mark and Rex completed a nine-city tour of New Mexico to celebrate the centennial of the first book of cowboy songs ever printed, Songs of the Cowboys by Jack Thorp. This tour was generously sponsored by the New Mexico Humanities Council. True West Magazine awarded us "Best Musical Tour of the West" in their 2009 Best of the West issue.

June 19–21, 2009: Mark and Rex performed for the 175th Anniversary of the founding of Fort William. Mighty good times in the primitive camp! Fort Laramie, Wyoming.

January 14–17, 2010: Mark and Rex performed at the 21st Annual Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering, held at the Arvada Center in Arvada, Colorado.

February 23–27, 2010: Mark and Rex played at various locations in New Mexico to promote Mark's new book: "To Hell on a Fast Horse, Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West", Las Vegas, Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

March 20, 2010: Rex joined several of his saddle pals to play cowboy songs at Barbedwire Books. Riders in the Sky paid us a surprise visit and joined us for a grande finale! Longmont, Colorado.

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