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Mike Puhallo is one of the very few Cowboy Poets in the world to actually make a living from his poetry. He performs at cowboy gatherings and festivals, as well as taking his poetry into schools, libraries and community halls throughout the West. Mike writes and performs Cowboy Poetry that appeals to a broad audience, not just ranchers and working cowboys. I’ve performed at brandings, coffee houses and stock shows, done kindergarten classes, writer’s workshops and a Biker’s Bar-B-Q, all in the same week, I guess I’m fairly versatile.
Mike Is the only cowboy Poet to have his work read into the official record at a NASA launch and in the Canadian House of Commons.
In 2001 Mike was voted in for the third year in a row as one of the finalists for Cowboy Poet of the Year at the prestigious Will Rogers Awards, in Fort worth Texas. Mike was also nominated for Best Cowboy Poetry Book, and Best Cowboy Poetry Album at the 2001 awards. In 1998 Mike had nominated for Best Western Song (Cinnamon) as well as Best Cowboy Poetry Book of the Year.
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 Bill Black is a North Carolinian who left the state when he entered the Army. While a youngster in North Carolina, he began performing magic at almost any place he could find an audience. He continued this through all the other things he has done over the years. Bill has performed as a magician and MC for shows throughout the country. He is a writer and creator of magic effects and has lectured coast to coast in "Semi-Monumental Magic." He was a portion of the "Magic of Success," a self-help and motivational program presented along the West Coast.
Bill recorded “Classic Western Poetry” and “The Changing West” on Compact Disc. The Academy of Western Artists, in their Eighth Annual Will Rogers Awards for Outstanding Achievement of Contemporary Cowboy Skills chose “Classic Western Poetry” as one of the selections in the Top Ten voting for the Poetry Album / CD category for 2002.
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Paul Hendel
 Paul is favorite performer at many of the cowboy music and poetry festivals most recently being seen at Wyatt Earp's Old West Days, WMA Roundup at the Autry Museum, Under California Skies, La Fiesta De Los Californios, and many others. He has also performed at Festival of the West and past WMA Festivals. Paul is a member of The California Ole Time Fiddlers and performs at many of their venues.
He is also an active member of the Southern California Branch of the Western Music Association serving on its program committee and can be seen as a regular participant of the Autry Museum monthly jamboree.
In addition to performing at live venues Paul has performed on "Murder She Wrote" been a regular performer on the regional television show "Country Review" appeared in the Video "Ladies Night Out" and has radio commercials to his Credit. His song writing ability has been rewarded by many of his compositions being played in movies and television programs such as "The Howard Cosell Story", and on ESPN events. One of country-recording star John Schneider's popular performance songs "Lincoln County Queen" was written by Paul and was on John's first country album on CBS Records.
Paul shares his love of Western Music through his performances continuing to be a player and participant in the promotion and preservation of Western Music.
 With a love and passion for Western music and "The Cowboy Way," The Lost Canyon Rangers were formed in 2002. The melodic voice of "Miss Lindalee" combined with the dynamic yet dreamy voice of "Skeeter Mann" causes an almost hypnotic effect on their audience. The instrumentals performed by Skeeter Mann and his finely tuned, extremely talented & carefully selected "Deputy Rangers", including Howard Yearwood, David Ferguson, John Nelson & John Bergstrom, becomes a fun, nostalgic, western journey! Each has decades of experience in several facets of the entertainment & music genres, but their hearts all belong to the traditional and contemporary music of the cowboy!!
Today you will find The Lost Canyon Rangers at the heart of western music, performing as a duet, trio or quartette & sharing their gift of music throughout the world. They will transport you to the days of Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Gene Autry & Hopalong Cassidy, and then magically bring you into to the present, and the life of the modern day cowboy. Tapping feet, clapping hands, and big-ol’, toothy grins abound while "The Rangers" engage their audience.
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KATY CREEK BAND
 Wes and Nancy Ruybal of Katy Creek Band began performing Western Music, Cowboy Poetry and Cowboy Gospel at Truck stop Churches, Rodeo's, Barrel Races and other Equine events in 2000. With a pure uncomplicated style, Cowboy Music And Poetry are presented in an enjoyable family format with renditions and recitations from the 1700-1800's to the modern day working cowboy. Wes's cowboy heritage originates with his ancestors' settling of the San Luis Valley in Colorado and moves forward to Nancy, his mail order bride. This is an enlightening performance of laughter and fun, sing alongs and salutes you won't want to miss.
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Ken Whitecotton was born in 1948 in Northwest Colorado. He was raised on a small ranch just south of Steamboat Springs. Years later, after deciding it was a mite too cold there for man or beast, he moved to Tucson, Arizona. (One of his works, "The Wood Pile," tells of this). He worked in law enforcement in Colorado and Arizona for nigh on to 30 years. He is now retired, and spends his time fixin' up houses, fishin', huntin', and writin' cowboy poetry.
He began his writing in his late teens (one of his works, "Ditties on a Beer Label," explains this). After a tour in Viet Nam his work began to acquire greater depth. He experimented in many different genres, and has only recently adopted the Cowboy Poetry approach because, as he says, "it's so much more fun."
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Whispers of the West
