Events

Coming Up

April 2, 2008: Rex will perform at the Fox Theatre in McCook, Nebraska. This will be in celebration of the history of cowboy culture and cattle drives in the area and the centennial of Jack Thorp's first book of cowboy songs.

April 4–5, 2008: Rex will join classic banjo player Clarke Buehling at the Mahaffie Stage Stop in Olathe, Kansas for the grand opening of their new visitor center.

April 10–13, 2008: Rex will join famed singer and yodeler, Liz Masterson for the opening banquet and other sets at the 26th anniversary Cowboy Songs & Range Ballads, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody. Rex will be telling about the centennial of Jack Thorp's first book and the early days of Yellowstone National Park. More info at the BBHC.

April 19, 2008: Rex will meet Tom Noel's history group at the Colorado History Museum to give a presentation of the songs of Colorado.

April 20, 2008: In recognition of Cowboy Poetry Week and the great work of CowboyPoetry.com, Rex will recite some of the first cowboy poems at the Conifer Public Library. More info at Cowboy Poetry.

April 25, 2008: Rex will join cowboy poet, John Nelson at the WSU Savage Library in Gunnison for more cowboy poetry during Cowboy Poetry Week.

April 30, 2008: Rex will perform at the Buffalo Bill Museum on Lookout Mountain for an American Association of Museums conference.

May 10, 2008: Rex, Tom and Don will give a special Pike performance in Crestone, Colorado

June 14, 2008: Mark and Rex will play the music of Jack Thorp and other cowboy songs at the Rock Ledge Ranch, Colorado Springs, Colorado

September 21, 2008: Mark and Rex will perform the music of Jack Thorp for a special release of their book, "Jack Thorp's Songs of the Cowboys". This will be a limited release, hand crafted by the Palace Press, The Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, New Mexico

throughout September, 2008: Mark and Rex will travel across New Mexico to perform the music of Jack Thorp for concert venues and school groups. This tour has been generously sponsored by the New Mexico Humanities Council in the celebration of the centennial of the first book of cowboy songs ever printed, Songs of the Cowboys by Jack Thorp, 1908.

Now Part of History

May 13, 2007: Mark and Rex presented a special musical program on the music of Billy the Kid for the opening of "Dreamscape Desperado: Billy the Kid and the Outlaw in America," an exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum.

June 14–17, 2007: Mark and Rex entertained for the annual rendezvous at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, North Dakota.

July 20–22, 2007: Rex, Tom and Don joined the Alpine Orchestra in concert in Leadville, Salida and Buena Vista for a grand celebration of Zebulon Pike's expedition.

September 8, 2007: Rex joined several of his friends for Conifer Tales and Trails. This was Conifer's first celebration of cowboy poetry, music and Western culture.

September 27–30, 2007: Mark and Rex performed at the 2007 Santa Fe Trail Symposium, held in Trinidad, Colorado.

January 11–12, 2008: Mark and Rex performed at the 19th Annual Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering, held at the Arvada Center in Arvada, Colorado.

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