Winnsboro Cowboy Music and Poetry Gathering – 1 Ticket, 2 Shows!

200 Market St.,Winnsboro TX 75494

30 September, 2023

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We’ve again reached deep to bring you some of the best in cowboy music and poetry this year. You all approved of our two-concert-schedule last year with a little break between to enjoy dinner and downtown Winnsboro. Our “Cowboy Tales” art exhibit will be hanging in the gallery again. Shows are at 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm. Tickets are $30 and $50 and tickets are good for admission to both shows. The 4:00 concert will feature Kristyn Harris, Teresa Burleson and Jay Snider Kristyn Harris: Kristyn is a 5-TIME and CURRENTLY REIGNING International Western Music Association Entertainer of the Year and a 6-time and CURRENTLY REIGNING International Western Music Association Female Performer of the Year. Teresa Burleson: Teresa is the International Western Music Association, 2019 and 2017 Female Poet of the Year and her CD, The Calf Book, was named 2017 Poetry CD of the Year. She has been in the Top 5 Nominees for Female Poet of the Year with the International Western Music Association (WMA) in 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013. In 2010 she was awarded the Cowgirl Poet of the Year by the Academy of Western Artists Jay Snider: Jay is the current poet laureate of Oklahoma serving from 2023 to 2024.. He was previously named Lariat Laureate by CowboyPoetry.com in 2001 and Cowboy Poet of the Year by the Academy of Western Artists in 2008.[4] He resides and works as a rancher.[ The 7:00 Concert will feature Andy Hedges, Dom Flemons and Pipp Gillette Andy Hedges is a songster, reciter, storyteller, guitarist, and collector of cowboy songs and poems. He is the next generation of the genre and he takes it seriously, working with the legends. Waddie Mitchell – the man that brought cowboy poetry to our generation says “He embodies the future of the tradition.” Dom Flemons: Dom “The American Songster”is a GRAMMY Award Winner, Two-Time EMMY Nominee, 2020 U.S. Artists Fellow Pipp Gilllette: Pipp is from Crockett, Texas. He was the WINNER of the 2016 Western Heritage Award for “Traditional Western Album” from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City!