Article Contributed on: 4/18/2006 1:05:03 PM
From "Boatman's Dance" to "Little Joe, the Wrangler",
Mark Gardner and
Rex Rideout perform the historic music of the
West using vintage instruments and playing styles. As "living
historians", they recreate the authentic music of the Santa Fe
Trail, the battlefields of the Civil War, the cow camps of
Colorado, and more.
On May 20, Mark and Rex will appear at Hiwan Homestead
Museum, 4208 S. Timbervale Dr., Evergreen Colorado.
Their concert of cowboy songs will begin at 7 P.M. and last
for approximately 90 minutes. The duo of Mark and Rex has appeared
at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, at the Palace of the Governors in Santa
Fe, New Mexico, at Bent's Old Fort in Colorado, at Fort Vancouver
in Washington, and many other venues across the West. Music from
Mark's cd "Frontier Favorites" is featured in National Park Service
visitor center films at Bent's Old Fort and Fort Union, New Mexico,
and in the PBS documentary, "The U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848".
This cowboy songs concert coincides with the publication
of
Jack Thorp's Songs of the Cowboys, a new edition of the original book
collection of cowboy songs published by Jack Thorp in 1908. This
original source of cowboy music has been edited by Mark Gardner,
and the new edition includes a cd of cowboy songs played and sung
by Mark and Rex Rideout. Copies of the book will be available for
sale at the concert. Reservations are required and a $5 donation is
requested.
Hiwan Homestead Museum is a 17-room log mansion built from
the 1890's through the early 1940's. It was once the headquarters
for the 15,000-acre Hiwan ranch. It is operated as an active and
lively museum through a partnership between Jefferson County Open
Space and the Jefferson County Historical Society. For
reservations, or more information about the concert or other
events, contact the Museum at 303-674-6262.