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The 40th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering—Be the Poem. Be the Song. 
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Saturday, February 1
 

9:00am PST

Dusty Vaquero
Saturday February 1, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am PST
Elko Convention Center - Auditorium
Artists & Special Guests
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Sterling Drake

Steeped in the traditions of roots music, songwriter Sterling Drake’s journey has taken him from the Big Cypress of south Florida to the mountains of western Montana and everywhere in between. With a penchant for honest storytelling, Sterling weaves his own perspective into the... Read More →
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Dave & Tris Munsick

Father and son Dave and Tris Munsick hail from northern Wyoming, where they have ranched and made music together for most of their lives, often as The Munsick Boys with Dave’s other two sons Sam and Ian. Tris trains horses and works in the ag industry, while Dave has run mountains... Read More →
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Matt Robertson

Raised in Wyoming, Matt Robertson grew up on the back of a horse, starting colts as a young teen and riding broncs through his youth. He has been writing and playing music since the age of 16 and credits Ian Tyson and Chris LeDoux for his inspiration. In his earlier years, Matt made... Read More →
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Dave Stamey

Dave Stamey has been a cowboy, a mule packer, and a dude wrangler. Now, he is one of the most popular western entertainers working today. Dave has made it his life's work to celebrate the rural American West. In the past two decades, he has recorded 11 albums of original music, traveled... Read More →
Saturday February 1, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am PST
Elko Convention Center - Auditorium 700 Moren Way, Elko, NV 89801, USA
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

10:30am PST

Kristyn Harris
Saturday February 1, 2025 10:30am - 11:15am PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Ballroom
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Kristyn Harris

Kristyn Harris is a singer, songwriter, and entertainer known for her western swing spin on original and classic songs of the rural lifestyle. Her music is heavily influenced by her own ranch life experiences and her love for Texas and the West. She has received accolades and recognition... Read More →
Saturday February 1, 2025 10:30am - 11:15am PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Ballroom
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

11:00am PST

Jessie Veeder
Saturday February 1, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Music Stage
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Jessie Veeder

Jessie Veeder writes and sings about the Badlands of western North Dakota where she grew up as the fourth generation on her family’s cattle ranch. She released her first original album at 16 and has gone on to tour nationally, releasing five more original albums and two books about... Read More →
Saturday February 1, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Music Stage
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

11:45am PST

Sourdough Slim & Robert Armstrong
Saturday February 1, 2025 11:45am - 12:30pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Ballroom
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Sourdough Slim & Robert Armstrong

.Sourdough Slim and Robert Armstrong joyously rekindle the cowboy classics, country blues, vintage jazz, and string band favorites from 1920s and ’30s prewar America. Whether capturing the haunting refrain of a Jimmie Rodgers’ blue yodel or swinging out a hot novelty number, everyone... Read More →
Saturday February 1, 2025 11:45am - 12:30pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Ballroom
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

12:00pm PST

Hot Club of Cowtown
Saturday February 1, 2025 12:00pm - 12:45pm PST
Elko High School Performing Arts Building - Auditorium
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Hot Club of Cowtown

Hot Club of Cowtown has been stunning audiences worldwide for over 20 years with its trademark blend of hot jazz, western swing, American songbook standards, and music from 1930s Paris and the American West. Elana James (fiddle, vocals) grew up in a musical family, and early on spent... Read More →
Saturday February 1, 2025 12:00pm - 12:45pm PST
Elko High School Performing Arts Building - Auditorium
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

12:30pm PST

Pipp Gillette & Lloyd Wright
Saturday February 1, 2025 12:30pm - 1:15pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Music Stage
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Pipp Gillette & Lloyd Wright

Distinguished singer and musician Pipp Gillette lives and works on the family ranch near Lovelady, Texas, where his grandfather raised cattle and cotton. His lifelong interest in western history and music was fostered as a kid through the stories told to him by his grandfather and... Read More →
Saturday February 1, 2025 12:30pm - 1:15pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Music Stage
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

1:00pm PST

Dave Stamey
Saturday February 1, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm PST
Elko High School Performing Arts Building - Auditorium
Artists & Special Guests
avatar for Dave Stamey

Dave Stamey

Dave Stamey has been a cowboy, a mule packer, and a dude wrangler. Now, he is one of the most popular western entertainers working today. Dave has made it his life's work to celebrate the rural American West. In the past two decades, he has recorded 11 albums of original music, traveled... Read More →
Saturday February 1, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm PST
Elko High School Performing Arts Building - Auditorium
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

1:45pm PST

Lone Piñon
Saturday February 1, 2025 1:45pm - 2:30pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Music Stage
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Lone Piñon

Lone Piñon is a New Mexican string band, or orquesta típica, whose music celebrates the integrity and diversity of their region’s multicultural and rural roots. The group spurs creativity around the oldest sounds of the region's traditional string music, which had all but disappeared... Read More →
Saturday February 1, 2025 1:45pm - 2:30pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Music Stage
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

2:15pm PST

Trinity Seely
Saturday February 1, 2025 2:15pm - 3:00pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Ballroom
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Trinity Seely

Trinity Seely's life has taken her to many different places, from the Chilcotin of British Columbia to the high deserts of central Wyoming to the Big Belts outside Cascade, Montana. She now lives in Ojai, California, where she is Director of The Thacher School’s Horse Program. Living... Read More →
Saturday February 1, 2025 2:15pm - 3:00pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Ballroom
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

4:00pm PST

How the West Is Sung
Saturday February 1, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Music Stage
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Juni Fisher

Growing up in a central California farming family, Juni Fisher participated in 4-H and FFA. She captained her college horse show team, then worked for a reined cow horse trainer before hanging her own shingle and winning her first Snaffle Bit Futurity. While working for a cutting... Read More →
avatar for Kristyn Harris

Kristyn Harris

Kristyn Harris is a singer, songwriter, and entertainer known for her western swing spin on original and classic songs of the rural lifestyle. Her music is heavily influenced by her own ranch life experiences and her love for Texas and the West. She has received accolades and recognition... Read More →
avatar for Melanie LaRue

Melanie LaRue

Melanie LaRue is a self-proclaimed desert rat, wildflower picker, part-time doodler, paparazzi for the working cowboy, and western singer-songwriter and word-slinger. She grew up on the high desert of Baker, Nevada, surrounded by sagebrush and big blue mountains. Now living and working... Read More →
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Zach Martinez

Musician and horseman Zach Martinez is a true western original. Raised alongside horses, mecate reins, and old spade bits, and steeped in the heritage of his Spanish ancestors, Zach developed a profound connection with the rural West from an early age. Influenced by the stunning landscape... Read More →
Saturday February 1, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Music Stage
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

8:00pm PST

Be The Poem, Be The Song
Saturday February 1, 2025 8:00pm - 9:30pm PST
Western Folklife Center - G Three Bar Theater
Close out the 40th by gathering in the spirit of the Gathering’s essence, by gathering for the good and the true. Here, the creative possibilities are endless. The inspiration of everyday people is epic. The poetic expressions become a medium through which we envision, and enact, new possibilities for the communities that feed us and the communities that are fed. Join musicians Margo Cilker, Sterling Drake, Lara Manzanares, and Ed Peekeekoot, along with all the “old ghosts and young cowpunchers” that haunt these halls, to soak up the artistic life and to conjure the next 40 years.

Sponsored by Alex Benna & Chrissy Menicucci Benna
Artists & Special Guests
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Margo Cilker

Singer-songwriter Margo Cilker has spent the last few years on the road—from South Carolina to Montana, to the Basque Country and back to the American West. She says she pines for “Basque wine, music, and cowboys.” Forging a path that is both deeply rooted and ever-changing... Read More →
avatar for Sterling Drake

Sterling Drake

Steeped in the traditions of roots music, songwriter Sterling Drake’s journey has taken him from the Big Cypress of south Florida to the mountains of western Montana and everywhere in between. With a penchant for honest storytelling, Sterling weaves his own perspective into the... Read More →
avatar for Lara Manzanares

Lara Manzanares

Lara Manzanares is a bilingual singer-songwriter from Northern New Mexico. She grew up singing the traditional New Mexican boleros, rancheras, and corridos of her sheep-ranching childhood, and composes her own style of music in both English and Spanish. Through a combination of storytelling... Read More →
avatar for Ed Peekeekoot

Ed Peekeekoot

Multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and storyteller, Ed Peekeekoot is a skilled and seasoned performer who has received much recognition over the years. He has a timeless kind of cool that appeals to audiences of all ages. Ed’s performances go from blazing guitar work to foot... Read More →
Saturday February 1, 2025 8:00pm - 9:30pm PST
Western Folklife Center - G Three Bar Theater
  Music, Ticketed

9:30pm PST

Saloon Session: Sam Platts & the Plainsmen
Saturday February 1, 2025 9:30pm - 10:30pm PST
Western Folklife Center - Pioneer Saloon
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Sam Platts & the Plainsmen

Sam Platts and the Plainsmen is an energetic Americana band that brings traditional country and western swing to modern audiences. Sam’s songwriting is in the vein of “old” country music, and his inspiration comes from rural, agricultural life and his family’s western heritage... Read More →
Saturday February 1, 2025 9:30pm - 10:30pm PST
Western Folklife Center - Pioneer Saloon
  Music, Free
 
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