16:00-18:00

Cowboy Days, R356

We cordially invite you to the Cowboy Days: Music and Stories of their Vanished World program hosted by the Department of American Studies.

Date: October 16 (Wednesday), 16:00–18:00. Venue: Building R, 356

The Cowboy Days program will feature authentic cowboy music collected by John Avery Lomax, performed by Paul Kreshka and Ilene Kreshka.

The Cowboy Days program focuses on the stories of how cowboys drove cattle in their thousands north to the railroads and to the richer grazing of Wyoming along routes such as the old Chisholm Trail. The music is presented with dramatic scenes adapted from the stories of a young cowboy on his first trail drive, which Lomax described as “the best cowboy stories ever written”. The program material is based on the pioneering work of John Lomax and his son Alan Lomax, whose famous collections of folk material are preserved in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington.