Tickets are required for the chuckwagon breakfasts, 1 PM and 3:30 PM afternoon shows, cowboy suppers, and night shows.
Thursday evening
Friday morning
Friday afternoon
Friday evening
Saturday morning
Saturday afternoon
Saturday evening
Thurs., Feb. 20, 2025
- Thurs 12:00 pm: The Mercantile opens; ticket sales and packet pickup begin (University Center, second floor)
- Thurs 5:30-7:00 pm: Cowboy Supper at the Civic Center, catered by Roux Alpine (ticket required: $33 advance; includes tax and tip; not available at door). Full menu: Chicken-fried sirloin with cream gravy, scalloped potatoes, creamed spinach, green goddess salad, Roux biscuits, chocolate chunk and coconut pecan cookies, water and iced tea.
- Thurs 7:30-9:45 pm: Thursday Night Show: Western Voices (Marshall Auditorium, Morelock Academic Building) (with intermission; ticket required: $35 advance; $40 door)
Joel Nelson, Juni Fisher, Amy Hale, and Kristyn Harris
Gene Nowell, MC
Fri., Feb. 21, 2025
- VETERANS Library of Congress Story Project: Drop by 9:30-11:30 am / 1:30-3:30 pm, Morelock 108
- Fri 7:30 – 8:30 am: Chuckwagon Breakfast (Poet's Grove, Kokernot Park) (ticket required: $10 advance or onsite)
- Fri 8:30 am: The Mercantile opens (University Center, second floor)
- Fri 9:00 am: Welcome, followed by keynote address from Brenn Hill
- Fri 10:30 – 10:45 am: Break
- Fri 10:45 – 11:45 am: "A Taste of the Gathering" featuring 11 performers (Marshall Auditorium) – includes Trinity Seely, Patricia Frolander, Allan Chapman and Rodeo Kate, Deanna McCall, R.W. Hampton, Gail Steiger, Skip Gorman, Kye Rieff, Brenn Hill, Darrell Holden, and Zack McGuinn
- Fri 12:00 – 1:00 pm: Grub Up! (lunch on your own)
- Fri 1:00 – 1:45 pm: Friday Afternoon Show: Handed Down (Marshall Auditorium) (ticket required: $20 advance, $25 door)
Allan Chapman and Rodeo Kate, Rod Taylor, and Jake Riley
- Fri 2:00 – 3:15 pm: Free daytime sessions
- Marshall Auditorium: Traveling West
Trinity Seely (host), Andy Nelson, Juni Fisher, and John Lowell
- University Center Open: A Ride Through Rhyme
Terry Nash (host), R.P. Smith, Carson Houser, and Ross Knox
- Fine Arts: Just for Fun
Dale Burson (host), John Moore, Jeff Gore, and Craig Carter
- Museum Education Room: New Voices
Kye Rieff (host), Darrell Holder, Patricia Frolander, and Zack McGuinn
- Museum Event Center: Soldiers and Patriots
Brenn Hill (host), R.W. Hampton, Randy Huston, and Joel Nelson
- Lawrence 300: Fiddle in the Cow Camps
Brigid Reedy with Johnny Reedy (host), Rodeo Kate with Allan Chapman, Lloyd Wright with Pipp Gillette and Skip Gorman
- Lawrence 309: Prose of the West
Andy Wilkinson (host), Amy Hale, Deanna McCall and Tom Sharpe
- Fri 3:30 – 4:45 pm: Friday Late Afternoon Show: Cowpuncher Songs: Old and New (Marshall Auditorium) (ticket required: $25 advance, $30 door)
R.W. Hampton, Andy Hedges, Trinity Seely and Chris Ryden
- Fri 3:30 – 4:45 pm: Free daytime sessions
- University Center Open: Old Time Cowboy Songs
Pipp Gillette (host), Rod Taylor, Gail Steiger and Skip Gorman
- Fine Arts: Songwriters in the Round
Kristyn Harris (host), John Lowell, Andy Wilkinson, and Craig Carter
- Museum Education Room: Looking Back
Vess Quinlan (host), Patricia Frolander, Tom Sharpe, and Jay Snider
- Museum Event Center: Family Ties
Deanna McCall (host), Carson Houser, Jake Riley, and Randy Huston
- Lawrence 300: Open Mic
Karen McGuire, MC
sign up form not available yet
- Fri 5:30-7:00 pm: Cowboy Supper at the Civic Center, catered by Roux Alpine (ticket required: $33 advance; includes tax and tip; not available at door). Full menu: Taco pie with beef, queso, tortillas, and chiles; borracho beans; yellow rice; green salad with ranch and chopped vegetables; Mexican chocolate pecan cake, water, and iced tea.
- Fri 7:30–9:45 pm: Friday Night Show: Out Under the Stars (Marshall Auditorium) (with intermission; ticket required: $35 advance; $40 door)
Randy Rieman, Brigid and Johnny Reedy, R.P. Smith, and Brenn Hill
Sat., Feb. 22, 2024
- VETERANS Library of Congress Story Project: Drop by 9:30-11:30 am / 1:30-3:30 pm, Morelock 108
- Sat 7:30 – 8:30 am: Chuckwagon Breakfast (Poet's Grove, Kokernot Park) (ticket required: $10 advance or onsite)
- Sat 8:30 am: The Mercantile opens (University Center, second floor)
- Sat 10:00 – 10:45 am: Free daytime sessions
- Marshall Auditorium: Definitely Cowboy
Jeff Gore (host), R.W. Hampton, and Zack McGinn
- University Center Open: Appalachia to Abilene
Andy Hedges (host), Chris Ryden, and Skip Gorman
- Fine Arts: High Lonesome Cowboys
Rod Taylor (host), John Moore, and Andy Nelson
- Museum Education Room: Ranch Families
Chuck Milner (host), Gail Steiger, and Amy Hale
- Museum Event Center: Swing It!
Craig Carter (host), Kristyn Harris, and Brigid and Johnny Reedy
- Lawrence 300: A Horse in the Middle
Trinity Seely (host), Ross Knox
- Lawrence 309: The Creak of the Leather
Jay Snider (host), Randy Rieman, and John Lowell
- Sat 11:00 – 11:45 am: Free daytime sessions
- Marshall Auditorium: Call You Cowboy
Andy Hedges (host), Brenn Hill, and Zack McGinn
- University Center Open: The Lighter Side
R.P. Smith (host), Kye Rieff, and Andy Nelson
- Fine Arts: Let's Talk Poetry and Songwriting
Joel Nelson (host) and guests
- Museum Education Room: The Life and Times of Gail I. Gardner
Presented by Gail Steiger
- Museum Event Center: Been There—Done That
Vess Quinlan (host), Terry Nash, and Chris Ryden
- Lawrence 300: Youth Poetry Contest Winners
Hosted by Elizabeth Baize and Karen McGuire
- Lawrence 309: Panhandle Stories
Dale Burson (host), Rod Taylor, and Andy Wilkinson
- Sat 12:00–1:00 pm: Grub Up! (lunch on your own)
- Sat 1:00 – 1:45 pm: Saturday Afternoon Show: . . . And I Will Go to Texas (Marshall Auditorium) (ticket required: $20 advance, $25 door)
Pipp Gillette, Jeff Gore, and Dale Burson
- Sat 2:00–3:15 pm: Free daytime sessions
- Marshall Auditorium: Banjo in the Cow Camps
Pipp Gillette (host), Dale Burson, Brigid and Johnny Reedy, and Allan Chapman
- University Center Open: Cow Country Values
Darrell Holden (host), Kye Rieff, Jay Snider, and Kristyn Harris
- Fine Arts: The Female of the Species
Amy Hale (host), Deanna McCall, Trinity Seely, and Patricia Frolander
- Museum Education Room: Northern Cowboys
Tom Sharpe (host), Carson Houser, Terry Nash, and Vess Quinlan
- Museum Event Center: Songs of the Saddlemen: S. Omar Barker and other classics
Jake Riley (host), Randy Rieman, Andy Hedges, and Ross Knox
- Lawrence 300: Western Tales
Juni Fisher (host), Craig Carter, Gail Steiger and Chuck Milner
- Lawrence 309: A Cowboy Has to Sing
John Moore (host), John Lowell, Jeff Gore, and Randy Huston
- Sat 3:30–4:45 pm: Saturday Late Afternoon Show: Straight Ridin' Job (Marshall Auditorium) (ticket required: $25 advance, $30 door)
Randy Rieman, Joel Nelson, Brenn Hill, and Ross Knox
- Sat 3:30–4:45 pm: Free daytime sessions
- University Center Open: Songs of the Trail
Andy Wilkinson (host), Rod Taylor, Chuck Milner and Chris Ryden
- Fine Arts: All in the Day's Riding
Allan Chapman & Rodeo Kate (host), Patricia Frolander, Vess Quinlan, and John Moore
- Museum Education Room: Home Ranch
Darrell Holden (host), Tom Sharpe, Terry Nash and Randy Huston
- Museum Event Center: Rodeoin' 'n' Ranching
Deanna McCall (host), R.P. Smith, Carson Houser, and Jay Snider
- Lawrence 300: Open Mic
Karen McGuire, MC
sign up form not available yet
- Sat 5:30-7 pm: Cowboy Supper at the Civic Center, catered by Roux Alpine (ticket required: $33 advance; includes tax and tip; not available at door). Full menu: Pot roast with gravy, mashed sour cream potatoes, green beans with bacon, warm dinner rolls, cherry peach cobbler, water and iced tea.
- Sat 7:30 – 9:45 pm: Saturday Night Show (Marshall Auditorium) (with intermission; ticket required: $45 advance; $50 door)
Around the Campfire
Andy Nelson, Skip Gorman, Jake Riley, and R.W. Hampton
Patrick Sullivan, MC
