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For a real taste of the Old West head to Prescott for the Annual Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering. They've gathered up the finest group of reciters and singers available. Given them nine venues to perform in for two days and three nights. Opened their doors to the greatest audience in existence, and turned everyone loose to enjoy each other as they experience this event.
More than 50 performers bring their cowboy poetry and music to the stage and venues to share their heritage, and the culture of the American Cowboy. So they keep alive the working cowboy's oral traditions with narrative poetry about their lives on the Arizona range.
Each year the Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering committee chooses artwork to feature on our posters, brochures, program and website. It also becomes the "theme" for the poets and musicians as they attend the Gathering. In 2011, Steve Atkinson, of Prescott, AZ presents this beautiful painting titled "First String.".
All evening performances will be held at the Yavapai College Performance Hall, 1100 E. Sheldon, Prescott, Arizona. All shows are almost sold out in the last years, so it is advisable to purchase tickets in advance.
Free multiple daytime sessions begin at noon on Friday on the grounds of Sharlot Hall Museum. The entire day Saturday, beginning at 9 am, will again see the museum's period buildings and beautiful grounds jammed with activity. The Gathering will host multiple sessions featuring traditional and contemporary cowboy poetry, humorous poetry, old-time singing, songwriting, cowboy yodeling, stories of ranching old-timers and much more.
All daytime sessions are free of charge to the general public. Tickets for the evening shows are ~ $20.00. Advance tickets may be ordered by mail from the Yavapai College Community Events Box Office.
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For additional information about the Gathering, visit the website www.azcowboypoets.org.
More information about Sharlot Hall: www.sharlot.org.
My poems are like broncos
they pitch and fight and fuzz
sometimes I love them even thou
other times I want to cuss
Beautiful golden ponies
running thru the canyons of my mind
Why can't I corral and tame them
and get them to rhyme.
by Carrol Williams, Aug. 2004
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