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2009 Echoes of the Trail Lineup
It'll be here before you know it! Plans are underway for another exciting Echoes of the Trail Cowboy Gathering the second
full weekend in June, starting Friday, June 12th and ending Sunday, June 14th.
Johnny Kendrick and Sons Friday NightThis year Echoes is bringing back our own founder, Johnny Kendrick, and his sons as our Friday night featured performers. Fans will recall Johnny's unique sound, recalling the way it really was on the trail. Local people have watched his sons Jackson and Sam grow into fine, talented young men, and it is a pleasure to hear Sam's fiddle and Jackson's singing.
Plenty of Cowboy Talent!
Other HighlightsJohnny Kendrick also will open Saturday night's show along with Echoes co-founder Arnold Schofield. During the break Saturday night, the silent auction will end and lucky winning bidders will take home western art, jewelry, home decor, and much more.All day Saturday, from 10 a.m. on, twelve talented cowboy poets and singers will entertain on two stages. See the schedule below. Jeanne Rowland will serve her fabulous Mexican food again this year, while hubby Buck sells his hand-made tack nearby. In the halls, fans will find new western goods to peruse. Kids from Bourbon, Crawford, and Linn counties in Kansas and Vernon and Bates counties in Missouri are busy creating poems in hopes of winning cash during our Student Cowboy Poetry contest. The winners will read or recite their prize poetry at 3 p.m. Saturday, and entries will be displayed on this web site. Following the kids' presentation, the microphone will be open to anyone who wants to perform. As usual, you'll smell the aroma of biscuits, pies, hot coffee and more cooking over campfires out by the chuck wagon, and you can slurp up some good cowboy grub at noon on Saturday, and at breakfast after Cowboy Church Sunday morning. Kids and adults alike feel part of the Old West as they sit around the chuck wagons. And there's usually a blacksmith pumping bellows, working on an anvil the way it was done in the 1800s. This fun and nostalgic weekend ends Sunday morning with Cowboy Church with old time hymns and guitar pickin' outdoors if weather permits, followed by a hearty chuck wagon breakfast. Chuck wagon food is provided as long as it lasts, for only a free-will donation.
ADMISSION PRICES '09Admittance to the event is only $15 for the whole weekend.(Friday night Saturday and Sunday 1 p.m.) What a bargain for three days of non-stop, high quality western music and cowboy poetry, a western trade show Saturday, great Mexican and chuck wagon food, and the fellowship and camaraderie unique to cowboys! And senior citizens can purchase all weekend tickets for two for $20. Children 12 and under are admitted free.
MISSION STATEMENTTo promote and encourage the artistic and historical heritage of western culture, especially as it has developed in Kansas.To provide a broad-based venue for the preservation and promotion of the subject heritage. To provide varied, high-quality programming consisting of presenters of western and cowboy history, literature, music, and art that appeals to all age groups and is suitable family entertainment.
PLEASE DONATEEchoes of the Trail is possible only through the generosity of our donors. Our expenses each year include performer fees, advertising, contest prizes and awards, and more. The cowboy poets and musicians who attend are dedicated to our goal of preserving the history and memory of the cowboy in the Old West. Please help us to continue this worthwhile, high quality, cultural event by making a donation, which is tax deductible under the Historic Preservation Association of Bourbon County, Kansas.
You can also mail a check of support to:
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