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The 40th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering—Be the Poem. Be the Song. 
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Wednesday, January 29
 

5:00pm PST

Come & Get It! (Dinner Show)
Wednesday January 29, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm PST
Elko Euzkaldunak Club (Basque House)
SOLD OUT

Brandings are fun, sociable events, but they are also hot, grueling affairs that depend on the willingness of your neighbors and friends. The Wright family has perfected the art of keeping their crews satisfied and coming back every year. Their secret? Feed them well and feed them everything. So, belly up for the Wright take on branding grub. Jordan Wright and his kitchen crew will serve up a dinner that’ll have you asking for a second helping. No strangers to the sweat of branding season, Sam Platts & the Plainsmen provide songs of work and revelry while you supper up. In the true spirit of brandings, this fancy dinner will be served on paper plates. Grab your Koozie and get in line!
Artists & Special Guests
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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 →
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Jordan Wright

Jordan Wright grew up in Elko County, being raised in Tuscarora on his family’s cattle ranch. He learned to cook by watching his mother, grandmas, and aunts, who always had the best stories to accompany the recipe lessons. Jordan refined these food service skills working in different... Read More →
Wednesday January 29, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm PST
Elko Euzkaldunak Club (Basque House)
  Music, Ticketed
 
Thursday, January 30
 

11:00am PST

Adrian Brannan
Thursday January 30, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Ballroom
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Adrian Brannan

Adrian Brannan is a chart-topping singer-songwriter who is equally at home in the branding pen, on stage, or on a bucking horse. An author and musician, she is also known for her successful series of publicly written “Dear Cowgirl” letters on social media that spurred an online... Read More →
Thursday January 30, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Ballroom
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

11:00am PST

Dave Munsick
Thursday January 30, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PST
Elko Convention Center - Turquoise Room
Artists & Special Guests
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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 →
Thursday January 30, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PST
Elko Convention Center - Turquoise Room
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

12:15pm PST

Dom Flemons
Thursday January 30, 2025 12:15pm - 1:00pm PST
Western Folklife Center - G Three Bar Theater
Music
Artists & Special Guests
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Dom Flemons

Dom Flemons is a GRAMMY-winning songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music scholar, slam poet, podcaster, and creator and host of the American Songster Radio Show on WSM in Nashville. Carrying on the songster tradition, Flemons strives to mix a repertoire covering over one hundred years... Read More →
Thursday January 30, 2025 12:15pm - 1:00pm PST
Western Folklife Center - G Three Bar Theater
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

12:15pm PST

Juni Fisher
Thursday January 30, 2025 12:15pm - 1:00pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Ballroom
Artists & Special Guests
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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 →
Thursday January 30, 2025 12:15pm - 1:00pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Ballroom
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

12:30pm PST

Matt Robertson
Thursday January 30, 2025 12:30pm - 1:15pm PST
Elko High School Performing Arts Building - Auditorium
Artists & Special Guests
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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 →
Thursday January 30, 2025 12:30pm - 1:15pm PST
Elko High School Performing Arts Building - Auditorium
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

1:45pm PST

Sam Platts & the Plainsmen
Thursday January 30, 2025 1:45pm - 2:30pm PST
Elko High School Performing Arts Building - Auditorium
Artists & Special Guests
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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 →
Thursday January 30, 2025 1:45pm - 2:30pm PST
Elko High School Performing Arts Building - Auditorium
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

2:45pm PST

Lara Manzanares
Thursday January 30, 2025 2:45pm - 3:30pm PST
Elko High School Performing Arts Building - Auditorium
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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 →
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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 →
Thursday January 30, 2025 2:45pm - 3:30pm PST
Elko High School Performing Arts Building - Auditorium
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

2:45pm PST

Wylie & the Wild West
Thursday January 30, 2025 2:45pm - 3:30pm PST
Elko Convention Center - Auditorium
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Wylie & the Wild West

Wylie Gustafson is an American original. He was born into a fourth-generation ranching family on the empty sprawl of northern Montana. A singer, songwriter, rancher, horseman, and world-famous Yahoo! Yodeler, Wylie has led the musical outfit known as Wylie & the Wild West for over... Read More →
Thursday January 30, 2025 2:45pm - 3:30pm PST
Elko Convention Center - Auditorium 700 Moren Way, Elko, NV 89801, USA
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

3:00pm PST

Buffalo Kin
Thursday January 30, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Ballroom
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Buffalo Kin

Seldom will you find a duo weaving high and lonesome sounds with such ease as Buffalo Kin. The West comes alive with their blending of traditional cowboy folk tunes and haunting original pieces. At home in rural Oregon, Buffalo Kin is Seth Brewster on guitar, banjo, and vocals, and... Read More →
Thursday January 30, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Ballroom
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

3:15pm PST

Sterling Drake
Thursday January 30, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Music Stage
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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 →
Thursday January 30, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Music Stage
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

4:15pm PST

Brigid & Johnny Reedy
Thursday January 30, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Music Stage
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Brigid & Johnny Reedy

Brigid Reedy is a singular young voice representing her beloved home state of Montana. A charismatic performer since the age of two when she first yodeled at the Pioneer Saloon, she has traveled widely, carrying with her boundless enthusiasm, grace, passion, and soul. An accomplished... Read More →
Thursday January 30, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Music Stage
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

10:00pm PST

Saloon Session: Jessie Veeder
Thursday January 30, 2025 10:00pm - 10:45pm PST
Western Folklife Center - Pioneer Saloon
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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 →
Thursday January 30, 2025 10:00pm - 10:45pm PST
Western Folklife Center - Pioneer Saloon
  Music, Free
 
Friday, January 31
 

9:00am PST

Dave & Tris Munsick
Friday January 31, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am PST
Elko High School Performing Arts Building - Auditorium
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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 →
Friday January 31, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am PST
Elko High School Performing Arts Building - Auditorium
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

9:00am PST

Doug Figgs
Friday January 31, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Music Stage
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Doug Figgs

Doug Figgs is an AFA Certified Journeyman Farrier, horseman, and western music singer-songwriter from New Mexico. For more than three decades, Doug has lived close to his greatest love—horses! He has shod tens of thousands of steeds, started around a hundred colts, raised cow ponies... Read More →
Friday January 31, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Music Stage
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

10:15am PST

More Banjo
Friday January 31, 2025 10:15am - 11:45am PST
Elko High School Performing Arts Building - Auditorium
Artists & Special Guests
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Buffalo Kin

Seldom will you find a duo weaving high and lonesome sounds with such ease as Buffalo Kin. The West comes alive with their blending of traditional cowboy folk tunes and haunting original pieces. At home in rural Oregon, Buffalo Kin is Seth Brewster on guitar, banjo, and vocals, and... Read More →
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Hal Cannon

Hal Cannon is a folklorist, musician, and founding director of the Western Folklife Center and the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. Now a decade into retirement, he is revisiting his fieldwork to explore the incredible impact of the Lomax family in emphasizing the artistic contributions... Read More →
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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 →
avatar for Sourdough Slim & Robert Armstrong

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 →
Friday January 31, 2025 10:15am - 11:45am PST
Elko High School Performing Arts Building - Auditorium
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

10:30am PST

Brenn Hill
Friday January 31, 2025 10:30am - 11:15am PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Ballroom
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Brenn Hill

For more than three decades, Brenn Hill has stood under a cowboy hat and behind a microphone on countless stages blending his voice with bending guitar strings in a performance style all his own. He uses lyrical language to peel back the layers of life in the West to reveal a more... Read More →
Friday January 31, 2025 10:30am - 11:15am PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Ballroom
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

12:00pm PST

Michael Martin Murphey
Friday January 31, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm PST
Western Folklife Center - G Three Bar Theater
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Michael Martin Murphey

For more than 40 years, Michael Martin Murphey has left an indelible mark on the American music landscape by topping the pop, country, bluegrass, and western charts with hits like “Wildfire,” “Carolina in the Pines,” “Geronimo’s Cadillac,” “Boy From the Country... Read More →
Friday January 31, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm PST
Western Folklife Center - G Three Bar Theater
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

1:00pm PST

Cattle Calling & Mountain Hollering
Friday January 31, 2025 1:00pm - 2:15pm PST
Elko Convention Center - Auditorium
Cowboys are no strangers to situations that call for a good yodel. Like most cowboy necessities, yodeling has been elevated into an artform stamped with regionally distinctive touches and performed with range, skill, and showmanship. Montana hollerer Wylie Gustafson will wow you with his mastery of the phrase “little old lady who.” Kristyn Harris carries on in the ilk of “The Queen of the Yodellers” Rosalie Allen. And, Gary & Kurin Haleamau share paniolo yodeling like that that took root when cows took hold of Hawai’i. Get ready for a pitch-defying, coyote-crying, lung-frying yodeling extravaganza.

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Gary & Kurin Haleamau

Gary Kawiliau Haleamau of Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i began his musical career at an early age; first as a solo artist, then traveling with Hawaiian music groups throughout the world sharing his amazing talent. Gary is a recipient of the 2008 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award for “Best Religious... 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 Wylie & the Wild West

Wylie & the Wild West

Wylie Gustafson is an American original. He was born into a fourth-generation ranching family on the empty sprawl of northern Montana. A singer, songwriter, rancher, horseman, and world-famous Yahoo! Yodeler, Wylie has led the musical outfit known as Wylie & the Wild West for over... Read More →
Friday January 31, 2025 1:00pm - 2:15pm PST
Elko Convention Center - Auditorium 700 Moren Way, Elko, NV 89801, USA
  Music, Ticketed

2:45pm PST

Ed Peekeekoot
Friday January 31, 2025 2:45pm - 3:30pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Music Stage
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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 →
Friday January 31, 2025 2:45pm - 3:30pm PST
Elko Conference Center - Ruby Mountain Music Stage
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

3:00pm PST

Margo Cilker
Friday January 31, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm PST
Elko High School Performing Arts Building - Auditorium
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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 →
Friday January 31, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm PST
Elko High School Performing Arts Building - Auditorium
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

4:15pm PST

Tris Munsick
Friday January 31, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm PST
Elko High School Performing Arts Building - Auditorium
Artists & Special Guests
avatar for Dave & Tris Munsick

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 →
Friday January 31, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm PST
Elko High School Performing Arts Building - Auditorium
  Music, Day or Deluxe Pass

8:00pm PST

Get Ridin', When You Get the Blues
Friday January 31, 2025 8:00pm - 9:30pm PST
Elko Convention Center - Auditorium
Two great American musics ride hard across the open range of rural life. Country and blues draw their power from everyday speech, emotional resonance, lived stories, and hard-driving, hard-laboring beats. Both sing with the contributions of Black artists, as does the cowboy trade itself. Join Buffalo Kin, Dom Flemons, Andy Hedges, and Jessie Veeder as they explore the crossroads of these musical styles, from old-timey favorites to contemporary stylings, delivering a bit of blues, a bit of country, a bit of cowboy philosophy. And, one powerful show.

Sponsored by Maverick Casino & Hotel
Artists & Special Guests
avatar for Buffalo Kin

Buffalo Kin

Seldom will you find a duo weaving high and lonesome sounds with such ease as Buffalo Kin. The West comes alive with their blending of traditional cowboy folk tunes and haunting original pieces. At home in rural Oregon, Buffalo Kin is Seth Brewster on guitar, banjo, and vocals, and... Read More →
avatar for Dom Flemons

Dom Flemons

Dom Flemons is a GRAMMY-winning songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music scholar, slam poet, podcaster, and creator and host of the American Songster Radio Show on WSM in Nashville. Carrying on the songster tradition, Flemons strives to mix a repertoire covering over one hundred years... Read More →
avatar for Andy Hedges

Andy Hedges

Andy Hedges is a songster, reciter, storyteller, guitarist, and collector of cowboy songs and poems. The son of a schoolteacher and a rodeo-cowboy-turned-preacher, Andy grew up in Tokio, Texas, where his family paid rent on an old farmhouse by looking after a few head of cattle. There... Read More →
avatar for Jessie Veeder

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 →
Friday January 31, 2025 8:00pm - 9:30pm PST
Elko Convention Center - Auditorium 700 Moren Way, Elko, NV 89801, USA
  Music, Ticketed

10:00pm PST

Saloon Session: Matt Robertson
Friday January 31, 2025 10:00pm - 10:45pm PST
Western Folklife Center - Pioneer Saloon
Artists & Special Guests
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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 →
Friday January 31, 2025 10:00pm - 10:45pm PST
Western Folklife Center - Pioneer Saloon
  Music, Free
 
Saturday, February 1
 

9:00am PST

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

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 →
avatar for Matt Robertson

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 →
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 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
Artists & Special Guests
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 →
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
Artists & Special Guests
avatar for Jessie Veeder

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
Artists & Special Guests
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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
Artists & Special Guests
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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
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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 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
Artists & Special Guests
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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
Artists & Special Guests
avatar for Juni Fisher

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 →
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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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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 →
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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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