Performers by Name

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.

Carolyn Martin is a native Texan who has lived in Nashville for many years. She began singing professionally while living in Abilene, and began traveling and performing throughout Texas and the rest of the US a few years later. She's has toured Europe, performing her own music in addition to singing and playing with other artists. In 2005, Carolyn released "The Very Thought Of You" on Cuppa Joe Records, a project that celebrated the golden era of American songwriting.

WMA Award:
1998 Female Performer of the Year

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

For the past decade, Mag has been writing western/cowboy poetry and performing at major cowboy festivals, as well as other events, across Western Canada.  Her recitations have also been aired on TV and radio. Mag also enjoys freelance writing and has been published internationally in numerous magazines, anthologies, newspapers and web sites.  Western publications and web sites her articles and reviews have appeared in are: The Cowboy Times, Canadian Cowboy Country, cowboypoetry.com, I.M. Cowgirl, Cowboy Troubadour, Cariboo Calling and Western People.

In 2007 she was awarded Honorable Mention for her poem, "Those Who Have Gone Before", sponsored by BC Cowboy Heritage Society and Pacific Horse Journal. In March 2008, she received an "8 Seconds" Award for her poem, "Winter Range", in the global Lariat Laureate Competition at cowboypoetry.com.

Her third poetry book "Dreams of Fast Horses", states--"she writes with a humor that sometimes stretches the truth, but she also shows her sensitivity to the human spirit and her love for rural life."

Traditional, contemporary, and original songs of the American West are the music of award winning songwriter and cowboy & western balladeer Rodger Maxwell. His rich descriptive baritone blends with his unique guitar styling for a distinct performance.  Folks say that Rodger's songs take them back to the old west.  His dad had a show on WRNY radio, in the 30’s, singing cowboy songs, so he really is the “Son of a Cowboy Singer”.

Janet McBride has been singing as long as she can remember. Janet McBride has released seven CD's and a number of cassettes since she resumed recording in 1981. Her latest CD was released in January 2005. The album features McBride singing an original song, "A Cowgirl's Dream," which includes a clip of Patsy Montana's singing and yodeling that was taken from an undated demo tape found in Montana's house after her death. And what yodeler hasn't dreamed of singing with Patsy Montana?

I grew up on a cow outfit in the badlands of South Dakota. My mother sang old cowboy songs and read me her poetry since I was small. I started writing poetry in high school. For the past 30 plus years have operated Slim’s Custom Leather, a saddle, boot, and hand tooled leather shop. Recently downsized to hand tooled leather items, cowboy poetry gatherings. Since 1981 published five books, one CD. Have ten great grandchildren.

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!

From the heart. From the land. All great music starts where those two meet. William Merritt moved to Arizona in 2000 and found both in abundance ... he fell in love with western music.

Jubilant or sorrowful, historical or imagined, his songs bring us back to the legends and the truth that make the West great.

Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist. William Merritt is proud to share the heart of the west in song.

Arizona singer/songwriter Jon Messenger sports an impressive list of credentials. An accomplished songwriter, with an extensive musical background, Jon¹s original Folk and Western tunes have been well received by audiences at festivals and gatherings throughout the West. Jon¹s songs reflect his love of the West and the American Cowboy, and his writing has been favorably compared to the works of such notable contemporary Western songwriters as Jack Hannah, Michael Fleming, Dave Stamey, Curly Musgrave, and Bob Wagoner.

James Michael began performing at rodeos and county fairs as a teenager and has sung and played his guitar for audiences large and small all across the West. His father was a professional rodeo cowboy and many of the songs he performs were learned from rodeo cowboys. He has also written western songs including "Turn To Die", "Lone Cone Peak", "Rodeo Cowboy" and the title song on his new CD "All American Cowboy".

Harold has been intrigued with the cowboy way since childhood, when his dad would take the kids to the movie show in downtown Corinth, Mississippi to watch Roy Rogers and Gene Autry gallop across the silver screen. Harold tries to capture the lighter side of horses and cowboy life in his writings. As his daddy said, "You might as well laugh as cry; the outcome's gonna be the same." Harold now lives in Stagecoach, Nevada.

Marshall Mitchell does Cowboy Music for Kids!
He rides the range in song and story with his trusty sidekicks.
Target audience is preschool through 1st grade children, but the rest
of the folks seem to like it as well. Visit his web-site for calendar of events and more information than you can shake a stick at!
Happy trails for now….saddle pals!!

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.

Veteran country singer and recording artist, Artie was one of the pioneer black country music singers in the 50s. Artie was host and producer of “Continental Country” in the Southeast Los Angeles area on Continental Cablevision.  He was chosen as a regular on the Bog D Jamboree and appeared on the Louisiana Hayride in Shreveport, Louisiana. He also appeared on the Saturday Night Jamboree in Houston, Texas.

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.

Raised in the ranching life of Eastern Oregon, A.K. spent her youth and ambition learning about horses and cattle. From starting colts and helping troubled horses, to roping, branding, calving heifers, to rodeos and trailing cattle in the high desert, it is a passion, earned not given. Making her home in Grant County Oregon with her husband Tracy, A.K. writes of the people around her that influence the western way of living.

Mike Moutoux makes his home in Grant County, New Mexico where he works on a 13,000-acre cattle ranch. At the JEJ ranch, most work is still done using traditional methods and horseback. Mike has been entertaining since 2002 and this summer produced his third CD, Headin Home. This year, he has been nominated for male poet of the year in the Western Music Association and will perform at their festival in November.

Doug has lived in New Mexico for about 50 of his 55 years and in as much, considers himself a native. He owns a cattle ranch (the LIB) just north of Claunch, NM in the heart of the state in southern Torrance county. In addition he teaches Science at Taft Middle School in Albuquerque and plans to retire soon. In collaboration with Steve Kinabrew, himself an astute musician, he is working on a 3CD package of western, New Mexico, and ranch songs.

Nominated For:
2001 Male performer of the Year
2001 Song of the Year
2001 Crescendo Award