Programs at the 28th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering are scheduled for Sunday, January 29 through Saturday, February 4, 2012. Please Note: The schedule may be subject to change. Check back often.
Last Update: January 24, 2012.
Performances, films and workshops without a ticket price below are available with the purchase of a Deluxe Pass ($75) or a single Day Pass ($25). Passes and tickets to "ticketed" performances and workshops (those listed below with a ticket price) can be purchased by clicking here.
Sunday 1/29 Monday 1/30 Tuesday 1/31 Wednesday 2/01
Thursday 2/02 Friday 2/03 Saturday 2/04 Sunday 2/05
→SUNDAY, JANUARY 29
Elko Convention Center
9:00 am – 5:00 pm - Silver Room
Workshop: Rawhide Hobble Braiding [$350]
with Doug Groves, Day 1 of 4
→MONDAY, JANUARY 30
Western Folklife Center - G Three Bar Theater
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Film Screening: My Canyonlands: The Adventurous Life of Kent Frost
11:15 am – 12:15 pm
Film Screening: Ranch Album
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm
Film Screening: The Last Wagon
1:15 pm – 1:45 pm
Film Screening: Miles Away
Introduced by filmmakers Daniel Dumitrescu, Titus Simoens and Wouter Bouvijn
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Film Screening: Texas Cowpuncher
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Ronstadt Generations [$20]
Host: Charlie Seemann
Sponsored by: AT&T
Elko Convention Center
9:00 am – 5:00 pm - Silver Room
Workshop: Rawhide Hobble Braiding (Day 2 of 4)
9:00 am – 5:00 pm - Gold Room
Workshop: Hat Making with Roy Jackson, Day 1 of 3 [$425]
→TUESDAY, JANUARY 31
Western Folklife Center - Lobby
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Ranch Tour: A Day at the Ranch [$155, includes lunch]
Tour with John Collett leaves from the lobby
Bus provided by Coach America
Western Folklfe Center - G Three Bar Theater
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Workshop: Fiddles in the Cowcamp, Day 1 of 2 [$150]
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Roots and Branches [$20]
Dick Warwick, Dave Bourne, Skip Gorman and Connie Dover
Host: Doris Daley
Elko Convention Center
9:00 am – 5:00 pm - Turquoise Room
Gathering of Masters: Leather Carving Workshop, Day 1 of 2 [$325]
9:00 am – 4:00 pm - Cedar Room
Git Along Little Bloggies: a Blogging Workshop [$175]
with Teresa Jordan and Friends, Day 1 of 2
9:00 am – 5:00 pm - Silver Room
Workshop: Rawhide Hobble Braiding (Day 3 of 4)
9:00 am – 5:00 pm - Gold Room
Workshop: Hat Making (Day 2 of 3)
Great Basin College - Theatre
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Barry Corbin
Sponsored by the Great Basin College Intellectual and
Cultural Enrichment Committee, Nevada Humanities
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Reading: A Cowboy Named Emmett by Samuel Edwards
Harry Madsen
Presbyterian Church
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Workshop: Savoring the Southwest [$65]
with Trinity Steffensen and Shawn Lowe
→WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1
Western Folklife Center - G Three Bar Theater
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Workshop: Fiddles in the Cowcamp (Day 2 of 2)
Elko Convention Center
9:00 am – 5:00 pm -Turquoise Room
Gathering of Masters: Leather Carving Workshop (Day 2 of 2)
9:00 am – 4:00 pm - Cedar Room
Git Along Little Bloggies: a Blogging Workshop (Day 2 of 2)
9:00 am – 5:00 pm - Silver Room
Workshop: Rawhide Hobble Braiding (Day 4 of 4)
9:00 am – 5:00 pm - Gold Room
Workshop: Hat Making (Day 3 of 3)
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm - Auditorium
Michael Martin Murphey and the Rio Grande Band [$30/$35]
featuring Pat Flynn
Host: Charlie Seemann
Sponsored by: Anonymous Donor
Fenced Gravel Lot Behind Elko Convention Center
8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Campfire Songs
Join us around the campfire to sing songs and stay warm.
Presbyterian Church
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Workshop: The Whole Ravioli with Luc Gerber [$65]
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Workshop: Traditions from the Ronstadt Family Table [$65]
→THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2
Western Folklife Center - G Three Bar Theater
11:30 am – 12:45 pm
Deep West Video Screening
Amir Beardsley "The Beast From the Middle East," Cherry Cloudt
"Longrider Gene Glasscock," Julie Freitas "El Vaquero de Fort Davis, "
Frank Kanig "A Tales of Two Barnes," Kristin Windbigler "Blocksburg
Post Office," Darcy Gillett & Students of Panoche Elementary School,
Paicines CA "831.628.3438"
Host: Taki Telonidis
1:15 pm – 2:45 pm
Saddles and Salsa
Rolf Flake, R.W. Hampton, Rod Taylor
Host: Jim Griffith
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Never a Dull Moment
Glenn Ohrlin, Pat Richardson, Sourdough Slim
Host: Andrea Graham
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Horses, Boats and Trucks [$35]
Tim Hus, Ramblin' Jack Elliott,
Andy Wilkinson & Andy Hedges
Host: Joel Nelson
Sponsored by: Littlefield Farm
8:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Ian Tyson [$35]
Host: Hal Cannon
Western Folklife Center - Wiegand Gallery
12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Leatherwork Demonstration
Don Butler and Bob Park
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Gallery Tour
Jay Dusard and Ross Knox
Western Folklife Center - Pioneer Saloon
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Saloon Piano
Dave Bourne
Western Folklife Center - Lobby
8:15 pm – 8:45 pm
Autograph Signing - Tim Hus, Andy Wilkinson, Andy Hedges
10:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Autograph Signing- Ian Tyson
10:00 pm - Late Night Jam in the Pioneer Saloon
Elko Convention Center - Auditorium
9:45 am – 10:00 am
Welcome
Stewart Wilson, Chairman, Western Folklife Center Board of Trustees
and Charlie Seemann, Executive Director, Western Folklife Center
10:00 am – 10:45 am
Keynote Address
Actor Barry Corbin
Sponsored by Nevada Humanities
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Western Folklife Center Members’ Show #1
$40 / Free to Members
Jay Snider, Randy Rieman and The Gillette Brothers
Host: Pat Sullivan, Western Folklife Center Board of Trustees
Sponsored by: Anna and Susannah Ball
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Wordsmiths [$30/$35]
Martha Scanlan, Paul Zarzyski, Mike Beck & the Bohemian Saints
Host: Darcy Minter
Sponsored by: Wells Fargo Bank
8:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Big Sky Cadences [$30/$35]
DW Groethe, Stephanie Davis, Wylie & The Wild West
Host: David Stanley
Sponsored by: Barrick Gold of North America
Elko Convention Center - Turquoise Room
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Rib Ticklers
Yvonne Hollenbeck, R.P. Smith, Jay Snider
Host: Carol Heuchan
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm
Western Tails
DW Groethe, Amy Hale Auker, Paul Zarzyski
Host: Jerry Brooks
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Chewin’ it Finer
John Dofflemyer, Ross Knox, Joel Nelson
Host: David Stanley
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Wild Times
Carol Heuchan, Rodney Nelson, Dick Warwick
Host: Doris Daley
5:15 pm – 6:30 pm
Young Buckaroo Open Mic and Talent Show
Open to all youth up to age 18
Hosts: Deb Howard and Valerie Aguirre-Alt
Sign ups for Young Buckaroo Open Mic and Talent Show
begin at 4:30 pm in the Elko Convention Center Lobby
at the Guest Services Desk.
Elko Convention Center - Gold Room
11:15 am – 12:30 pm
Favorite Poems
Waddie Mitchell, Randy Rieman, Gail Steiger, Clarence Carnal
Host: Ken Cook
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Change in the West
Doris Daley, Wally McRae, Vess Quinlan
Host: Teresa Jordan
2:15 pm – 3:15 pm
Through a Cowboy’s Eyes
Ken Cook, Jess Howard, Georgie Sicking
Host: Waddie Mitchell
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
A Good Feeling Horse
Jerry Brooks, Dick Gibford, Henry Real Bird
Host: Carol Edison
Elko Convention Center - Cedar Room
Sign up for Anything Goes Open Mic Poetry Sessions
at 9:00 am in the Elko Convention Center Lobby
at the Guest Services Desk
11:15 am – 12:15 pm
Anything Goes #1
Open Mic Participants
Host: Nan McEntire
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Anything Goes #2
Open Mic Participants
Host: Dick Warwick
1:45 pm – 2:45 pm
Anything Goes #3
Open Mic Participants
Host: Yvonne Hollenbeck
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Both Feet on the Ground:
Cowboy Poetry and Music Fit in Today’s World
Amy Hale Auker, Andy Hedges, Brenn Hill, Vess Quinlan
Moderator: Taki Telonidis
Elko Convention Center - Outside the Ruby Room
11:00 am – 11:45 am
Autograph Signing - Barry Corbin
Flag View Auxiliary Auditorium
Sign up for the Take Your Turn Open-Mic Music Sessions
at 10:00 am at the Flag View Auxiliary Auditorium
11:00 am – 11:45 am
Marley’s Ghost
Host: Bill Mansfield
11:45 am – 12:30 pm
Take Your Turn #1
Open Mic Participants
Host: Mike Christensen
12:30 pm – 1:15 pm
Ronstadt Generations
Host: Mike Christensen
1:15 pm – 2:30 pm
Writing the West
Gail Steiger, Andy Wilkinson, Dave Stamey
Host: Hal Cannon
2:30 pm – 3:15 pm
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Host: Mike Christensen
3:15 pm – 4:00 pm
Stephanie Davis
Host: Liz Dreisbach
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm
Skip Gorman, Connie Dover and the Waddie Pals
Host: Liz Dreisbach
Dance floor open
4:45 pm – 5:30 pm
Hot Club of Cowtown
Host: Liz Dreisbach
Dance floor open
Great Basin College - Greenhaw Technical Arts Building, Room 130
4:00 pm – 5:15 pm
Thomas Sheridan Lecture: Native Peoples of the Southwest
Sponsored by Great Basin College Intellectual and Cultural Enrichment
(ICE) committee and Nevada Humanities
Northeastern Nevada Museum
1:30 pm – 2:45 pm
Film Screening : My Canyonlands: The Adventurous Life of Kent Frost
Introduced by filmmaker Chris Simon
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Film Screening: Miles Away
Introduced by filmmakers Daniel Dumitrescu, Titus Simoens and Wouter Bouvijn
→FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3
Western Folklife Center - G Three Bar Theater
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Stakeholders’ Breakfast
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Deep West Video Screening
Amir Beardsley "The Beast From the Middle East," Cherry Cloudt
"Longrider Gene Glasscock," Julie Freitas "El Vaquero de Fort Davis, "
Frank Kanig "A Tales of Two Barnes," Kristin Windbigler "Blocksburg
Post Office," Darcy Gillett & Students of Panoche Elementary School,
Paicines CA "831.628.3438"
Host: Taki Telonidis
12:45 pm – 2:15 pm
Kissing the Muse
Dave Stamey, Paul Zarzyski, Wylie Gustafson
Host: Sally Haueter Rampe
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
AZ [$35]
Ross Knox, Gail Steiger, Ronstadt Generations
Host: Jim Griffith
Sponsored by: Charter Media
8:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Ian Tyson [$35]
Host: Willy Matthews
Western Folklife Center - Wiegand Gallery
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Leatherwork Demonstration
Don Butler
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Leatherwork Demonstration
Bob Park
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Following the Cow from Border to Border
Slide show and presentation in the Black Box Theater
Jay Dusard and Ross Knox
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Wiegand Gallery Exhibition Opening
Southwest Ranch Country
Music by the Gillette Brothers and Skip Gorman
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Western Folklife Center Members and Stakeholders Only
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Open to the General Public
Western Folklife Center - Pioneer Saloon
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Saloon Piano
Dave Bourne
10:00 pm - Late Night Jam in the Pioneer Saloon
Western Folklife Center - Fireplace Nook
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Learn a Knot, Share a Knot
Drop-in Workshop with Jennifer Whitely
Western Folklife Center - Lobby
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Autograph Signing - Dave Stamey, Wylie Gustafson, Paul Zarzyski
Elko Convention Center - Auditorium
10:00 am – 11:30 am
Harmony Singing Workshop
Ronstadt Generations and Marley’s Ghost
Host: Dan Wheetman
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Western Folklife Center Members' Show #2: National Treasures
$40 / Free to Members
National Heritage Fellowship recipients Joel Nelson, Glenn Ohrlin,
Wally McRae, National Medal of Arts recipient Ramblin’ Jack Elliott.
Host: Jim Griffith, recipient of the Bess Lomax Hawes NEA National
Heritage Fellowship
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Charlie Goodnight: His Life in Poetry and Song [$30/$35]
Jerry Brooks, R.W. Hampton, Rod Taylor, Don Richmond,
Andy Wilkinson, Andy Hedges, Emily Arellano, Alissa Hedges,
Scot Wilburn, Rick Bryceson, Waddie Mitchell, Michael Martin Murphey
and Barry Corbin.
Host: Andy Wilkinson
Sponsored by: Blach Distributing Company
8:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Michael Martin Murphey and the Rio Grande Band [$30/35]
Featuring Pat Flynn
Host: Stacey Sawyer, KRJC
Sponsored by: Newmont Mining Corporation
Elko Convention Center - Turquoise Room
10:00 am – 10:45 am
Cowboy History and Heritage
Doris Daley and Georgie Sicking
Host: R.P. Smith
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Storytelling and Prose
Vess Quinlan and Wally McRae
Host: Teresa Jordan
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
For the Fun of it
Ken Cook, Doris Daley, Jess Howard
Host: Yvonne Hollenbeck
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Humor in Stories and Verse
Rolf Flake, Andy Nelson, Pat Richardson
Host: David Stanley
2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Been There, Done That
Jess Howard, Waddie Mitchell, Rodney Nelson
Host: Andy Nelson
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Western Changes
John Dofflemyer, Amy Hale Auker, Dick Warwick
Host: Teresa Jordan
9:30 pm – 12:30 am
Friday Night Dance with Hot Club of Cowtown [$25]
Sponsored by: NV Energy
Elko Convention Center - Gold Room
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Men We Rode With
Ken Cook, Joel Nelson, Jay Snider
Host: Randy Rieman
11:15 am – 12:15 pm
Tragedies and Tearjerkers
Carol Heuchan, Ross Knox, Andy Nelson
Host: Jerry Brooks
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Western Poems
Connie Dover, Vess Quinlan, Jay Snider
Host: Carol Edison
1:45 pm – 2:45 pm
Weathering the Seasons
Dick Gibford, Yvonne Hollenbeck, R.P. Smith
Host: Anne Hatch
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Classics
Jerry Brooks, Randy Rieman, Clarence Carnal
Host: Andrea Graham
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
The Four Elements
Rolf Flake, DW Groethe, Henry Real Bird
Host: Carol Edison
Elko Convention Center - Cedar Room
Sign up for Anything Goes Open Mic Poetry Sessions
at 9:00 am in the Elko Convention Center Lobby
at the Guest Services Desk
10:00 am – 11:30 am
A Border Runs Through It: The Southwest
Jim Griffith, Gary Nabhan, Thomas Sheridan, Gail Steiger
Moderator: Jim Griffith
Sponsored by: Nevada Humanities and Jennifer Speers
11:45 am – 12: 45 pm
Anything Goes #4
Open Mic Participants
Host: Nan McEntire
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Anything Goes #5
Open Mic Participants
Host: Nan McEntire
2:15 pm - 3:30 pm
Agrarian Poetry: Why We Need Its Message and Beauty
Now, More Than Ever Before
Gary Nabhan
Discussant: John Dofflemyer
3:45 pm – 4:45 pm
Anything Goes #6
Open Mic Participants
Host: Carol Heuchan
Elko Convention Center - Sage Lounge
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Rocky Mountain Oyster Tasting with Wally McRae
Western Folklife Center Members Only
*Remember to pick up your sticker at the Membership Desk in the Lobby!*
Become a member of the Western Folklife Center at the
Membership Desk in the lobby of the Elko Convention Center
Elko Convention Center - Outside the Ruby Room
11:45 am – 12:30 pm
Autograph Signing - Jim Griffith, Gary Nabhan, Thomas Sheridan
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Autograph Signing - C.J. Hadley, Gus Brackett
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Autograph Signing - Baxter Black
5:15 pm – 5:45
Autograph Signing - Dick Warwick, Amy Hale Auker
10:00 pm – 10:45 pm
Autograph Signing - Michael Martin Murphey
Flag View Auxiliary Auditorium
Lamoille Woman’s Club concessions open 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sign up for the Take Your Turn Open-Mic Music Sessions
at 10:00 am at the Flag View Auxiliary Auditorium
10:00 am – 10:45 am
Rod Taylor
Host: Liz Dreisbach
10:45 am – 11:45 am
Take Your Turn #2
Open Mic Participants
Host: Mike Christensen
11:45 am – 12:30 pm
DW Groethe
Host: Bill Mansfield
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Legendary Laughter
Stephanie Davis and Sourdough Slim
Host: Lorraine Rawls
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm
R.W. Hampton
Host: Bill Mansfield
2:15 pm – 3:00 pm
Martha Scanlan
Host: Liz Dreisbach
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Take Your Turn #3
Open Mic Participants
Host: Mike Christensen
3:45 pm – 4:30 pm
Tim Hus and the Rocky Mountain Two
Host: Liz Dreisbach
Dance floor open
4:30 pm – 5:15 pm
Mike Beck and the Bohemian Saints
Host: Mike Christensen
Dance floor open
Elko High School Old Gym
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Dance Workshop: Ranch Dance with Craig Miller [$20]
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Dance Workshop: Two Step and Swing with Martha Jane [$20]
Northeastern Nevada Museum
1:30 pm – 2:45 pm
Film Screening: Ranch Album
Introduced by filmmaker Gail Steiger
2:45 pm – 3:30 pm
Film Screening: The Last Wagon
Introduced by Gail Steiger
Great Basin College - Greenhaw Technical Arts Building, Room 103
4:00 pm – 5:15 pm
Thomas Sheridan Lecture: Native Peoples of the Southwest
Sponsored by Great Basin College Intellectual and
Cultural Enrichment (ICE) Committee
→SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4
Western Folklife Center - G Three Bar Theater
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
The Texas Drought
The Gillette Brothers, Joel Nelson, Andy Wilkinson & Andy Hedges
Host: Hal Cannon
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Expressing Montana
Wally McRae, Henry Real Bird, Martha Scanlan, Paul Zarzyski
Hosts: Hal Cannon and Taki Telonidis
3:15 pm – 4:45 pm
Far Out West
Stephanie Davis, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Ronstadt Generations
Host: Lorraine Rawls
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Beauty and the Beasts [$35]
Doris Daley, Rodney Nelson, Pat Richardson, Dave Stamey
Host: Rodney Nelson
Sponsored by: Red Lion Hotel & Casino
8:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Rhythm and Rhyme [$35]
R.P. Smith, R.W. Hampton, Skip Gorman, Connie Dover
and the Waddie Pals
Host: Teresa Jordan
Sponsored by: KNPB Channel 5 Public Broadcasting
Midnight – 2:00 am
The Midnight Dance - Mike Beck & the Bohemian Saints
$20/Free with the purchase of a Day or Deluxe Pass; ticket required
Western Folklife Center - Wiegand Gallery
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Leatherwork Demonstration
Andy Stevens
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Following the Cow from Border to Border
Slide show and presentation in the Black Box Theater
Jay Dusard and Ross Knox
Western Folklife Center - Pioneer Saloon
11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Saloon Piano
Dave Bourne
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Saloon Piano
Dave Bourne
Western Folklife Center - Lobby
10:00 pm – 10:45 pm
Autograph Signing -R.P. Smith, R.W. Hampton, Skip Gorman,
Connie Dover and the Waddie Pals
Elko Convention Center - Auditorium
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
Saturday Special with Baxter Black
Ticket required; issued by lottery
Host: Leslie Parraguirre, Western Folklife Center Board of Trustees
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Ranch Family Show
$30 / Free to ranch families; ticket required
Yvonne Hollenbeck, Rod Taylor, Waddie Mitchell
Host: Jon and Mackie Griggs
Sponsored by: Elko Convention and Visitors Authority
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Classic Poetry [$30/$35]
Baxter Black, Jerry Brooks, Andy Hedges, Carol Heuchan,
Ross Knox, Waddie Mitchell, Joel Nelson, Vess Quinlan,
Randy Rieman, Gail Steiger, Stephanie Davis, Paul Zarzyski
Host: Wallace McRae
Sponsored by: Ruby Pipeline, LLC/El Paso Gas
8:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Flying Strings and Western Swing [$30/$35]
Sourdough Slim, Marley’s Ghost, Hot Club of Cowtown
Host: Lori Gilbert
Sponsored by: NV Energy
Elko Convention Center - Turquoise Room
10:00 am – 11:30 am
Crossing Boundaries: Ranching in the 21st Century Part 1
William McDonald, Pat O’Toole, Sharon O’Toole, Thomas Sheridan,
Kent McAdoo, Meghan Brown
Moderator: Thomas Sheridan
Sponsored by Nevada Humanities, Jennifer Speers, and
Northeastern Nevada Stewardship Group
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Western Whimsy
Doris Daley, Rolf Flake, Waddie Mitchell
Host: DW Groethe
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
The Lucky Country
Jerry Brooks, Carol Heuchan, Dick Warwick
Host: David Stanley
2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
The Full Nelson
Andy Nelson, Joel Nelson, Rodney Nelson
Host: Jim Nelson
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Cowboy Philosophy
John Dofflemyer, Dick Gibford, Jess Howard
Host: Dick Warwick
9:30 pm – 12:30 pm
Saturday Night Dance with Wylie & The Wild West [$25]
Sponsored by: NV Energy
Elko Convention Center - Gold Room
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Rodeo
Yvonne Hollenbeck, Henry Real Bird, Pat Richardson
Host: R.P. Smith
11:15 am – 12:15 pm
Riding
Ross Knox, Georgie Sicking, Jay Snider
Host: Anne Hatch
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Hoofbeats
Andy Nelson, Glenn Ohrlin, Randy Rieman
Host: Andy Nelson
1:45 pm – 2:30 pm
Chapter and Verse
John Dofflemyer and Vess Quinlan
Host: Andrea Graham
2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Community, Friends and Family
Ken Cook, DW Groethe, R.P. Smith
Host: Andrea Graham
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Arizona and New Mexico
Rolf Flake, Amy Hale Auker, Ross Knox
Host: Jim Griffith
Elko Convention Center - Cedar Room
Sign up for Anything Goes Open Mic Poetry Sessions
at 9:00 am in the Elko Convention Center Lobby
at the Guest Services Desk
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Crossing Boundaries: Ranching in the 21st Century Part 2
(Lunch available with donation)
William McDonald, Pat O’Toole, Sharon O'Toole, Thomas Sheridan,
Kent McAdoo, Meghan Brown
Moderator: Thomas Sheridan
Sponsored by Nevada Humanities, Jennifer Speers, and
Northeastern Nevada Stewardship Group
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Anything Goes #7
Open Mic Participants
Host: Nan McEntire
2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Anything Goes #8
Open Mic Participants
Host: Carol Edison
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Anything Goes #9
Open Mic Participants
Host: Jay Snider
Elko Convention Center - Outside the Ruby Room
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Autograph Signing - C.J. Hadley, Gus Brackett
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Autograph Signing - Baxter Black
Elko Convention Center - Sage Lounge
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Arizona and New Mexico Party
If you’re from Arizona or New Mexico, stop by to meet your neighbors!
Flag View Auxiliary Auditorium
Lamoille Woman’s Club concessions open 10:10 am – 5:00 pm
Sign up for the Take Your Turn Open-Mic Music Sessions
at 10:00 am in the Flag View Auxiliary Auditorium
10:00 am – 10:45 am
Dave Stamey
Host: Liz Dreisbach
10:45 am – 11:30 am
Take Your Turn #4
Open Mic Participants
Host: Mike Christensen
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Fiddles in Cowtown
Hot Club of Cowtown and Skip Gorman,
Connie Dover and the Waddie Pals
Host: Bill Mansfield
12:30 pm – 1:15 pm
Wylie & The Wild West
Host: Liz Driesbach
Dance floor open
1:15 pm – 2:00 pm
The Gillette Brothers
Host: Bill Mansfield
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Take Your Turn #5
Open Mic Participants
Host: Mike Christensen
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Andy Wilkinson & Andy Hedges
Host: Mike Christensen
3:45 pm – 4:30 pm
Gail Steiger
Host: Liz Dreisbach
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Mike Beck and Tim Hus and the Rocky Mountain Two
Host: Mike Christensen
Dance floor open
Great Basin College Theatre
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Kids of All Ages: Family Show
$13/$4 students 17 and under
with Sourdough Slim
Host: Deb Howard
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Autograph Signing -Sourdough Slim
Elko High School Old Gym
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Dance Workshop: Waltz and Polka with Martha Jane [$20]
Northeastern Nevada Museum
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Film Screening: Texas Cowpuncher
Introduced by filmmakers Susan Jensen and Paul Singer
→SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5
Western Folklife Center
9:00 am – 12:00 pm - Pioneer Saloon
Farewell Coffee and Donuts
9:00 am – 3:00 pm - Gift Shop Open
GENERAL HOURS OF VENUE OPERATIONS for the 28th Gathering:
Saturday, January 28 and Sunday, January 29
Western Folklife Center
Gift Shop Open 10:00am-5:00pm
Pioneer Saloon 12:00pm-9:00pm
Monday, January 30 and Tuesday, January 31
Western Folklife Center
Office Open 9:00am
Guest Services Desk 9:00am-9:00 pm
Gift Shop 10:00am-9:00pm
Pioneer Saloon 12:00pm-10:00pm |
Elko Convention Center
Ticket Desk 10:00am-5:00pm |
Wednesday, February 1 through Saturday, February 4
Western Folklife Center
Office Open 9:00am
Guest Services Desk 9:00am-9:00pm
Gift Shop 10:00am-11:00pm
Pioneer Saloon 9:00am-Close |
Elko Convention Center
Guest Services Desk 8:30am-10:00pm
Ticket Desk 9:00am-9:00pm
Gift Shop 10:00am-11:00pm |
Every Day at the Western Folklife Center During the Gathering:
Black Box Theater
Why the Cowboy Sings, 16-minute music video
Exhibitions
In the Wiegand Gallery: Southwest Ranch Country
In the G Three Bar Theater: Student Art Show |
