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Purchase Tickets to the 26th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Starting October 8, the general public can purchase tickets to the 26th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering by clicking on this blue National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Tickets button. You won't want to miss our special guests from Florida and Louisiana, including Cracker cowboys and swamp cowboys, and Creole zydeco musician Geno Delafose. Check out our ticketed shows and visit our National Cowboy Poetry Gathering site for all the information you need to purchase your tickets. View the preliminary brochure in pdf format.

Channeling Music of the Ancient Aztecs

Photo by Ellen Gallager

Sometimes…amid the bustle and harried pace of the day…percussionist David López closes his eyes and imagines what his street corner in Mexico City might have sounded like before there was traffic, before there was a Mexico, even before the Spanish conquistadors arrived centuries ago. This episode of our What’s in a Song series was on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday, November 8, 2009. Click here to listen to David Lopez and "Corazon de Fuego (Heart of Fire)" and more. See all of the What's In a Song episodes.

What's in a Song is the occasional series on National Public Radio that weaves together a tapestry of American music, one song and one story at a time, produced by Hal Cannon and Taki Telonidis. What's in a Song is broadcast over 500 NPR stations nationwide, and is made possible with the support of the R. Harold Burton Foundation and the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation.

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