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Saddle Strings
Saddle Strings is a cowboy band with roots that run deep into the Cowboy lifestyle. Members include Kurt Argyle, bass guitar, rhythm guitar, and vocals. Cindy Argyle, vocals and percussion, Laurie Morgan, vocals and percussion. Jodi Thackeray plays fiddle, sings and yodels. Brian Arnold sings, performs poetry, and plays rhythm/lead guitar. Each has ranching and/or rodeo experience, and are at home performing around a cow camp fire or on stage.
Saddle Tramps
Dave Schildt
I am a music hand on a new trail. I was born in Killeen, Texas in 1953 and grew up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana and learned about the West by rodeoing for half my life. I have taught, coached and competed in rodeo at all levels from Kid Rodeos to the PRCA level. I grew up on a small reservation ranch until we were wiped out by a flash flood in 1964. Later I taught school and began to get into performing arts as a way to stay in touch with my idea of the West.
Christine Schuman
Christine is a native Montanan raised on a dry-land wheat and cattle ranch in the cowboy country of Miles City. The ranch she and her husband live on has been family-owned and operated for 53 years and has four generations living and working on it. She is a self-taught musician and songwriter but did not get serious about it until their oldest son was killed in a car crash six years ago. Music was a catharsis for her broken heart. As she says, "Music kept my spirit alive." She has one CD, Montana Magic, out and working on a second to be released in 2011. Both of her CDs are original songs about her faith, her ranch life, and her home state. Christine was a Costume Designer, Production Designer, and Art Director for many years in the movie industry specializing in vintage and western clothing and decor. Her movies have won nominations and awards including Hi-Line which won the Audience Appreciation Award at Sundance, an Emmy nomination for Frontier House and a Golden Spur Award for Miracle at Sage Creek. She also had the privilege of being a showcase singer at WMA in 2010.
Clyde Score
Clyde Score has performed music throughout the U.S. and Canada. This includes performances at the Club 58 in Geneva, Switzerland, Carnegie Hall in New York City, The Sahara in Las Vegas, The Fontainebleau in Miami, King's Castle in Lake Tahoe and the L.A. Playboy Club. Since completing his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music at Prescott College, Clyde has taught percussion, jazz and guitar classes and Yavapai College. He also teaches general music at Christian Academy of Prescott. Clyde currently performs on the Grand Canyon Railway and produces a country variety show called "The Arizona Revue." He is also on the artist roster for the Arizona Commission on the Arts, performing throughout the state with "The Diamondback Brothers" and "The Arizona Swing Machine." Recently, Clyde performed at the Grand Hotel on Mackinaw Island for Win-Some Women Christian Retreat. His special brand of humor always wins over an audience.
trinity seely
Trinity Seely "Sings from the heart and touches the soul" with her original songs written first hand about what it is like to be the wife and the lover of a cowboy. She released her debut album, Trinity Seely, in December of 2012. She makes her home on the Handcart Ranch in Wyoming and she and her family live and love the "Cowboy Way" of life.
Jane Shehan
Jane Shehan grew up in Wisconsin dreaming of living in the mountains. So the summer she turned 18 she headed west and never looked back. Now, from her home in Montana, she fondly remembers singing on her horse down the trail to pass the time and to let the Grizzlies know she was coming. She sang at ranch cookouts, wrangling the horses in the morning and dayherding, singing to the horses to pass the time. She still loves singing them around the campfire with the cracklin sound of the fire and the smoke in her eyes. This is truly where she is at home and where these songs- so important to the history of the west, come alive. Janes debut CD is titled 'Snowstorms and Mule Wrecks' Her CD can be found at www.JaneShehan.com
Lonnie Shurtleff
Lonnie grew up in the Owyhee Desert running wild horses and in Eastern Oregon's Blue Mountains running cattle. It was "Wild horses and saddles and rawhide riatas...", then he discovered guitars! His material is largely biographical and reflects his experiences growing up in the saddle and the years of playing lead guitar in cowboy hangouts, honky-tonks, and bars around the Northwest. For unique cowboy-flavored entertainment, music, poetry and unlikely stories, please consider engaging Lonnie the Electic Cowboy for your next dinner party, campfire gathering, calf branding or necktie party. It will be a memorable occasion! CDs are available.
Cindy Smith
Royce Smithey
Sons of the Pioneers
"The world's premiere cowboy singing group" - American Cowboy Magazine
"A living legend in their own time...an American institution" - Western Music Association
Sons of the San Joaquin
WMA Awards:
1997 Duo/Group of the Year
1998 Duo/Group of the Year
1998 Songwriter of the Year (Jack Hannah)
1998 Song of the Year
1999 Duo/Group of the Year
1999 Songwriter of the Year (Jack Hannah)
2000 Songwriter of the Year (Jack Hannah)
2000 song of the Year 2001 Duo/Group of the Year
2001 Songwriter of the Year (Jack Hannah)
2001 Song of the Year
2001 Traditional Western Album of the Year
Sourdough Slim
A performance by Sourdough Slim is a hoot to say the least. His fast-paced stage show combines comedy routines, award winning yodeling and catchy western tunes with accompaniment on accordion, guitar, ukulele and harmonica. A well traveled veteran of stages ranging from The National Cowboy Gathering to The Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, Slim transports audiences to a whimsically entertaining world where vaudevillian camp intermingles with cowboy lore to produce grins galore.
Rev. Dr. Steven Spalding
Steven is a cowboy preacher,singer/songwriter,recording artist and western painter. He has raised and trained and worked cattle all of his life. Steven is a favorite at many cowboy poet gahterings,theaters and horse events.
Featured on cowboypoetry.com Steven has been nominated as Entertainer Of The Year, Male Vocalist Of The Year and Single Of The Year by the C.M.A. in Nashville and is a member of the Country Gospel Music Assoc. in Branson.
Ed Stabler
Singer/guitarist Ed Stabler is well-known to Western Music fans for his fine voice and finger-style guitar playing. Stabler has been a force in Western Music since 1990, when he retired from law enforcement in Colorado and became a full time performer. Stabler served a three-year term on the Western Music Association Board of Directors in the mid-1990s, holding the vice-presidency for two years. He has recorded several solo projects and has played on other performer's recordings.
Dave Stamey
WMA Awards:
2000 Male performer of the Year
2005 Songwriter of the Year
2006 Male Performer of the Year
2006 Entertainer of the Year
2007 Male Performer of the Year
2007 Songwriter of the Year
2008 Male Performer of the Year
2008 Entertainer of the Year
2009 Entertainer of the Year
2010 Traditional Western Album, "Come Ride With Me"
2010 Best Original Song, "Come Ride With Me"
2010 Songwriter of the Year
2010 Entertainer of the Year-Individual
Stampede!
From West of the freeway in Northern Utah come Western Music Association performers, STAMPEDE!, a multiple award winning Western music duo that brings good music, classic and original, harmony, humor and just downright good fun to the stage. From state fairs to county fairs, large gatherings to small neighborhood BBQs, STAMPEDE! delivers the absolute best every time and will leave you laughing or crying - but you'll go away knowing you have been entertained by one of the best groups in Western Music today. The group is made up of the husband/wife team of Steve Taylor, "The Best Driver in the West" and pretty darn good on the upright bass and Terri Taylor, dubbed "The Epiglottis Goddess" and "a Triple Threat" by Ranger Doug of Riders In The Sky. STAMPEDE! has been performing throughout the West since 2000.
Gail Starr
Gail has been singing far a long time on stages, at campfires and corporate events. Her life has been based on the western ways as she has traveled, worked with ranchers and helped bring the romance of the West to folks that just wanted an experience to remember. The Cattle Drives, the Chuck Wagons, and the time on the trail have helped the past meet the present. These experiences have given her the soul that is needed for an authentic western serenade.
Dan Steadman
Dan Steadman was born and raised on his family ranch in Willits, CA. A fourth generation Californian, he has had a lifelong interest in horses and the cowboy way. Under the guidance of his grandfather, he became an accomplished horseman at an early age. He is doing his part to continue to pass this legacy on to his children and grandchildren. As a youngster, he started his cowboy entertaining at overnight trail rides and attended the Hank Thompson School of Country Music in Claremore, OK. As a western singer and songwriter, Dan enjoys sharing his musical talents on the stage, around campfires or at corporate and professional events. He always appreciates interest in western traditions and the cowboy way.
Red Steagall
Nominated For:
1997 Song of the Year ("The Wagon Tongue")
Steer Crazy
A new brand of Western Swing and American Music. It's musical fun that requires no complicated explanations. Steer Crazy's combination of musical arrangements, tight singing, exciting soloists, and an irresistibly swinging rhythm delights audiences at every performance. Steer Crazy performs two ways. You can see them with classic, high quality acoustic instruments in the tradition of your favorite silver screen cowboys. For your dancing pleasure, the band can also break out the electric instruments. The Fender Telecaster and double neck steel guitar fill the room with swinging rhythms for your dancing pleasure. Steer Crazy doesn't worry about musical genre. These boys just play the greatest songs of all time for you to enjoy. Rick King-Guitar, Glenn Denison-Mandolin, Tim Dawdy-Dobro and Steel Guitar.
Ken Stevens
Ken played with a variety of musical groups over the years, but eventually he returned to his roots performing and writing western style folk music. He formed his own “Desert Sage Band”, played with “The Red Rock Wranglers”, and currently performs with his new group “LATIGO” as well as performing solo. His musical voice and melodic guitar have been familiar sounds at countless concerts, club dates, private parties and church gatherings.
Keeter Stuart
I was born in Woodland, California in 1951. Moved to Mexico when I was five and lived there for four years. I still love Mariachi bands. Came back to California and my grandfather's ranch in the Valley of the Moon north of San Francisco. Moved to Tahiti for a couple of years. Sailed back to California at sixteen with a Harmony Sovereign guitar, lovin' to play and sing. Been doing that ever since, though the Sovereign is long gone. I've got the blood of a great western songwriter in me, one Stanley Davis Jones, my great-uncle. I hope someday to write a song to rival his best, "Ghost Riders in the Sky". A fella's gotta dream....Playing music has sustained and inspired me through all kinds of trials and tribulations. I'll keep doing it until I shuffle off this mortal coil. I'm married, have four children, and now live in West Linn, OR. Onward...
Sunrise
The duo - Ron and Anna Green joined WMA in the year 2000. They entertain young and old with Western, Folk and old Country music we all remember. Everyone can join in singing on many songs and often laugh along as well. In 2004 they were inducted into the Old Time Traditional Country Music Hall of Fame, honored as performers, educators and coordinators of a family music camp where all can play and sing along around the campfire.
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