Performers in Colorado

If you are seeking entertainment for a large convention or a small group on a camping trip, Vic can provide just what you need. He can spin a rope and take the time to teach you how; he can whistle a tune that will make you yearn for peaceful nights on the prairie or he will yodel a tune that will make your toes tap in delight. WMA Award: 2003 International Male Yodeling Champion.

Bar D Wranglers have performed Western Music for well over 2,000,000 guest at the chuckwagon and perform concerts from coast to coast and recently returned from a tour in Japan. Contact Gary Cook at 970-749-2572 to book the Bar D Wranglers for your concert event.

You might recognize Bill Barwick from the Starz/Encore "Westerns" Channel, and the "six gun salute". Hailed as a cowboy's cowboy- song singer, and accompanied by superb guitar work, his singing, songwriting and storytelling are a performance not to be missed. He's the Academy of Western Artists’ 2005 Cowboy Music "Male Vocalist of the Year". An internationally recognized entertainer, Bill appears regularly at Denver's historic Buckhorn Exchange, and is a frequent guest at cowboy gatherings and music festivals across the country.

Troy Bateson is a Christian entertainer, songwriter and poet based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His songs and stories reflect the colorful heritage of the Old West and his own experiences. Troy cowboys a little on a nearby ranch, and he hunts, fishes, and wanders in the Rocky Mountains. In addition to building walking sticks and shooting a camera, he serves as "band pastor" to the Flying W Wranglers, a popular Colorado Springs cowboy band.

Roz lives in Lakewood, Colorado. He has been singing cowboy and folk songs at the Buckhorn Exchange Restaurant since 1980. The Buckhorn has been around since 1893 and has liquor license #1 for Colorado. Roz uses the Autoharp (invented in 1883) to accompany his songs. He has been a regular performer at the Walnut Valley Festival in Kansas for over 15 years. He also performs regularly at Cowboys Songs and Range Ballads in Cody, Wyoming.

Patty Clayton was named Western Female Vocalist of the Year for the Academy of Western Artists in 2007 and Female Performer of the Year for the Western Music Association in November of 2004. Her music is a blend of original ballads and borrowed songs about today and yesterday in the West. Patty’s renditions have delighted audiences in a career that has spanned several decades, both as a solo artist, and with her band “Cimarron Wind”.

Fred is a Native Kansan, and now lives near Monte Vista, Colorado. Through countless hours in the saddle, raising cattle and horses, and managing the land, Fred has gained the knowledge needed, to write, and sing, his original Cowboy Songs. He has been performing on stage, since 1992. Has been a member of the Western Music Assoc., since 1996. Fred has performed throughout the Western U.S., Canada, and even Switzerland.

Tom and Donna Hatton are past the half century mark as Colorado Beef Ranchers and love every minute of it. The Hattons take the rich history of the West and of family heritage and weave the music, poetry and stories into a tapestry to share around the campfire or while sitting on the front porch sipping coffee. The Hatton Family has a history in ranching as rich as the stories they tell.

Peggy Malone is a country, western, pop singer performing at family style venues, large groups and conventions.  Ageless audience appeal.  Large repertoire of songs.  Listen or dance!  Crowd participation is her specialty, with her stick horses and maracas. Ghost Riders in the Sky is especially fun, when audience members ride around on her corral full of stick hosses!! "Don't know who has more fun, her or her audience!"  - Randy Witte, Publisher, Western Horseman Magazine.

Colorado CMA “2008 Best Western Band” features sixteen-year-old Carin,  an accomplished guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Her younger brother, Evan, who plays a driving beat on the bass guitar, and older brother, Colin, who plays the mandolin that gives this group their unique western sound, that keeps traditional western music alive, but adds a contemporary twist.

Their fourth CD – “Follow the Trail” - features seven of Carin’s original songs, and was named “Best Western Album” by CCMA.

WMA Award:
1998 Female Performer of the Year

Nominated For:
1998 Duo/Group of the Year
1999 Female Performer of the Year (Liz Masterson)

Hailing from Boulder, Colorado, Al Mehl has performed in Nebraska, Wyoming, Texas, Iowa, and along the Colorado Front Range. Al composes an eclectic brand of cowboy poetry and original music. Audiences throughout the West know that if you live the life of a cowboy over a period of years, there is some likelihood that you will wake up one morning to discover that you have become a cowboy poet. Al is simply hoping that the principle holds true in reverse!

Michael and Dawn Moon live with their four young children on the Valle Grande Ranch, east of Santa Fe, NM. Their music reflects their life, which is centered around their faith, family, love of the ranching and the amazing landscapes and people of which they have been a part. When needing to classify, they call their genre of music Western folk and it has little blues and country added into the mix.

Dick is a Colorado native whose grandparents settled in Colorado in the 1870's. By learning the classics he passes on the "cowboy heritage" of the great early day poets. Dick has been invited to perform at gatherings throughout Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Washington, Wyoming and Colorado. As a reciter he took home the championship buckle at the 2005 Cowboy Poetry Rodeo in Kanab, Utah. His CD "Cowboy Classics" is featured on the Bar-D web site www.cowboypoetry.com

Jane Morton, named Female Cowboy Poet by the Academy of Western Artists in August 2007, writes poems connected to her family and the ranch they owned and operated near Fort Morgan, Colorado.  Her book, TURNING TO FACE THE WIND, won four national awards.  Her CD of the same title features nineteen poems from that book.  She recites her poems at poetry events throughout the West.  Her poems have been published in numerous western magazines.

"Unique Harmony Country Western Duo" Having met in 1984 they started singing and writing songs pretty soon to begin recording CDs at the in home studio located just below "Grand Mesa" in Western Colorado. Having written a humor song titled "Sweetest Sweet Corn" for the "Olathe Sweet Corn Fest" and also a song titled, "A Wormy Apple" for the "Cedaredge Apple Fest" has helped increase their popularity in the local performing area.

Barry Ward is an accomplished singer and songwriter from southwest Kansas. His music is a tribute to Western traditions and lifestyles. A fourth generation farmer and rancher, Barry and his family continue to live in the farmhouse and work the land where he was raised. In 2003, he was one of the top three finalists for The Western Music Association's Male Performer of the Year.

Ken and Fran pamper visitors and tourists with their cabin rentals in Custer County, Colorado and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, so the beauty and peach of the mountain ranges and prairie ranches can be enjoyed by vacationers. They met in a Victor Herbert musical, “The Fortune Teller”, and married in 1964. When not “hosting”, they’re singing! Or composing. About 20% of their repertoire consists of original songs written by Fran.

Steve Jones and John Fisher are the YAMPA VALLEY BOYS. 2008 is their 8th year of performing together, logging over 1,000 shows. The pure fun they have presenting cowboy music, traditional or swing, classic or original, connects with audiences young and old. They also include some poetry in their shows. Steve plays guitar and has written many of the songs featured on their CD’s. John plays banjo, dobro, mandolin and guitar.