You may find this hard to believe, but the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada, is already celebrating the 25th anniversary of its Cowboy Poetry Gathering Jan. 24-31, 2009.There's a huge line-up for this year's gathering: The Three Amigos (Michael Martin Murphey, Don Edwards and Waddie Mitchell), Riders in the Sky, Cowboy Celtic, Baxter Black, Wally McRae, Paul Zarzyski (shown in photo), Ian Tyson, Wyoming's Echo Klaproth and Georgie Sicking, Wyoming native Teresa Jordan, ex-Wyomingite Linda Hasselstrom, and a host of others. Keynote address will be delivered by former Supreme Court Justice and cowgirl Sandra Day O'Connor.
Tickets go on sale to Western Folklife Center members on Tuesday, Sept. 2, at 9 a.m. Pacific Time. Tickets go on sale for non-members on Oct. 2.
FMI: http://www.westernfolklife.org/.
