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It's Almost Time for the 2012 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Watch Baxter Black on video ~ Working the wrong end of the cow:

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Pick up your tickets for the 28th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, January 30-February 4, 2012, here! Purchase tickets online by clicking on the button to the left.

Read more about the ticketed shows and workshops.
See the Daily Schedule and what else is going on around town.
Take a look at the invited performers.
Learn more about the Gathering.
Click on the image, below, to see the brochure.

You can also purchase tickets by calling 888-880-5885 (toll free) or 775-738-7508 between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm, Pacific Standard Time. If you have troubles with the online purchasing system, please call us or send an email to our ticket offices at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Barre Toelken is on What's in a Song

Barre Toelken (2nd from right), Mrs. Toelkein and friends, photo by Hal Cannon

Listen to the latest installment of What's in a Song tomorrow morning, Saturday, January 7, on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Saturday. This is a story about an extraordinary human, Utah folklorist Barre Toelken, who, with the help of dear friends, has been working to regain the words to songs after suffering a stroke a decade ago. Share this story

Listen.
See all What's in a Song episodes.
Read our blog as Hal Cannon writes about his friendship with Barre Toelken.

What's in a Song is the Western Folklife Center’s occasional series on over 800 National Public Radio stations nationwide that weaves together a tapestry of American music, one song and one story at a time. What's in a Song is made possible with the support of the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation and the R. Harold Burton Foundation.

An Interview with The Gillette Brothers

Guy and Pipp Gillette, by Kevin Martini Fuller

Visit the Western Folklife Center blog to read along and listen to The Gillette Brothers as we talk with Guy and Pipp Gillette about Texas, playing music and running a business with one’s brother, and the many types of music - all rooted in the history of the West - that they play.

During the 28th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, The Gillette Brothers will perform during our Members' Show #1 on Thursday, February 2, and in The Texas Drought session on Saturday, February 4.

Other interviews on our blog: Mike Beck, Andy Wilkinson and Andy Hedges, Skip Gorman, Sourdough Slim and Paul Zarzyski.

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It's Almost Time for the 2012 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Barre Toelken is on What's in a Song

An Interview with The Gillette Brothers