with Margo Cilker, Michael Martin Murphey, Dave Stamey Buy your tickets and day passes now—before shows sell out! See the schedule of shows and day sessions. https://www.nationalcowboypoetrygathering.org/

Come enjoy the carnival with us! Lots of games/prizes and a silent auction!

https://www.nationalcowboypoetrygathering.org/around-town

Performer - Musician Sam Platts & the Plainsmen is an energetic Americana band that brings traditional country and western swing to modern audiences. Sam got his start in music on the windy plains of southern Wyoming, and today he and his wife, Lilly, call southwest Montana home. Sam’s songwriting is in the vein of “old” […]

Performer - Poet Yvonne Hollenbeck is a South Dakota cattleman’s wife who writes poetry about her life on a beautiful, remote ranch where she helps with everyday duties–putting up hay, feeding a crew, doing bookwork, or working cattle. Her writing, often humorous, takes a serious side when she reflects upon the hardships experienced by her […]

Performer - Musician The Munsick Boys (Dave, Sam, and Tris) have a natural appeal to enthusiasts of western culture. Hailing from northern Wyoming, they have ranched and made music together for most of their lives. They participate in horsemanship clinics, help out at local brandings, and day work on neighboring ranches. Their unique sound, a […]

https://ncpg2023.sched.com/event/1GYXx/the-quebe-sisters

https://ncpg2023.sched.com/event/1GYY0/lyrical-journeys

Cheryl Foggo (director) 73 min | 2020 Part ode, part eulogy, part mystery, with views of sweeping prairie landscapes and music inspired by the film’s subject, John Ware Reclaimed follows filmmaker Cheryl Foggo on her quest to uncover the complex story of John Ware, the larger-than-life Black cowboy who settled in Alberta prior to the […]

https://ncpg2023.sched.com/event/1GYYC/ranching-the-family-land

https://ncpg2023.sched.com/event/1GYY9/different-strings-for-different-folk

Gail Steiger and Henry Real Bird https://www.nationalcowboypoetrygathering.org/around-town

Mike Day (director, producer), Intrepid Cinema and Sue Turley (producer) 80 min | 2022 Every year since 1985, cowboys have gathered at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering to share their heartfelt poems. An unlikely documentary-Western set in the world of the Gathering, Cowboy Poets is a celebration of the creative process as an expression of […]

Performer - Musician Dave Stamey has been a cowboy, a mule packer, and a dude wrangler. Now, he is one of the most popular western entertainers working today. Dave has made it his life's work to celebrate the rural American West. In the past two decades, he has recorded 11 albums of original music, traveled […]

Sam Platts & the Plainsmen Guided by classic country music, a life in agriculture, and western swing danceability, Sam Platts and the Plainsmen's style isn’t simply a throwback–it’s modern music played by, and for, modern listeners. They’re old-school. They’re new-school. They’re our kind of school. And they’re holding class—get yourself here for a lesson in […]