Events

Coming Up

December 21, 2024: The 9th annual Conifer Christmas will be at the StageDoor Theatre, Saturday, December 21. There will be two shows, a matinee at 2:00 and the evening show begins at 6:00. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, after eight years, Conifer Christmas is at a new location, the StageDoor Theatre located in the Aspen Park Village Shopping Center. I will be joined again by my friends: multi instrumentalist, Norman Hughes and zen percussionist, Dennis Swiftdeer Paige. There will be carols and tunes of old Christmas and tales of celebrations of Christmas in the old west. Go to the StageDoor Theatre website for tickets and more information. This is an all volunteer show, 100 percent of ticket proceeds benefit three local nonprofit organizations. The theater will also be hosting a non-perishable food drive all through December for the Mountain Resource Center. Conifer, Colorado.

Now Part of History

November 9, 2024: I was delighted to be a part of the first ever BanjoFest at Swallow Hill Music. I was there presenting the banjo orchestras from the late 19th century. Denver, Colorado

September through November 2021: I was happy to be able to observe the bicentennial of the opening of the Santa Fe Trail in Old Franklin, Council Grove, Bent's Fort, Trinidad and Santa Fe and other locations. I was joined by Mark Lee Gardner for many of these events. Mainly west of the Mississippi.

2015–2017:Charles Badger Clark published his 1st and 2nd books, Sun and Saddle Leather,1915 and Grass Grown Trails, 1917. It was a pleasure to join my friends, Pegie Douglas and the Badger Sett Band as well as Greg Scott, author of "Cowboy Poetry: Classic Poems & Prose by Badger Clark". We recalled the life and times of Badger Clark in the years 2015 and 2017 at his home, The Badger Hole and other places in Custer State Park. South Dakota Historical Society Custer State Park, South Dakota.

September 23, 24, 25–26, 2015: Mark and I performed for the 2015 Fur Trade Symposium at Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, La Junta, Colorado.

July 1–2, 2015: Mark and I performed for the Santa Fe Opera Company to wrap up their symposium of the Legacy of the Civil War with the New Mexico History Museum as part of the premier of Cold Mountain, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

August 2013: Mark and I were invited to perform at the New Mexico History Museum for its big Wild West Weekend. The Palace Press also released 100 copies of the limited edition of our Jack Thorp's Songs of the Cowboys. Santa Fe, NM.

September 2011: Mark and I had the pleasure of performing at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix. We did shows and workshops over three days and got to explore the place I wanted to visit it since it opened.

July 2011: I had the pleasure of seeing the motion picture, "Cowboys & Aliens" in the theatre with my wife and sons. I also took in a couple more showings with my friends. Hey, how often am I likely to be on the big screen?

2008 Mark and I completed a nine-city tour of New Mexico to celebrate the centennial of the first book of cowboy songs ever printed, Songs of the Cowboys by Jack Thorp. This tour was generously sponsored by the New Mexico Humanities Council. True West Magazine awarded us "Best Musical Tour of the West" in their 2009 Best of the West issue.

2007 Tom, Don and I joined the Alpine Orchestra in concert in Leadville, Salida and Buena Vista for a grand celebration of Zebulon Pike's expedition.

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