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Popular broadcaster Jim Thompson and Creative Broadcast Services present Heritage of the American West, with "music and poetry of the great American Cowboy" on the third Wednesday of each month at 7:00 PM (MT). Directed by Francie Ganje, the show brings top talent from across the West to an appreciative audience. The show takes place before a live audience at the High Plains Heritage Center in Spearfish, South Dakota and is broadcast simultaneously on the web (archived web broadcasts are available).
Recent Heritage of the American West guests include Red Steagall, Juni Fisher, Brenn Hill, Yvonne Hollenbeck, Andy Nelson, DW Groethe, Yvonne Hollenbeck, R. W. Hampton, Ken Overcast, Rodney Nelson, Elizabeth Ebert, Robert Dennis, and other top cowboy poets and Western musicians. The schedule includes a Cowboy Poetry Week show in April, a special anniversary show each August, a Cowboy Christmas show in December, and an Easter Country Gospel show.
See the Heritage of the American West web site for the show's schedule and to listen to archived broadcasts.
Heritage of the American West, which "utilizes the uniqueness of radio and the web," is available at no charge to radio stations for live or re-broadcast. Contact Jim Thompson at Creative Broadcast Services for more information.
South Dakota poet Slim McNaught (pictured, in a photo by Jen Dobrowski)
and singer and songwriter Hank Harris (www.hankharris.com)April 16, 2008
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Heritage of the American West Ticket Information
Read the Heritage of the American West News at their web site (PDF file)
Photo by Jeri L. Dobrowski, obtain permission for reproduction rights
Red Steagall at the Heritage of the American West, August, 2005
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Ticket Information
Heritage of the American West is presented on the third Wednesday of each month at 7:00 PM (MT) in front of a live audience at High Plains Heritage Center, 825 Heritage Dr. Exit 14, I-90, Spearfish, South Dakota
Advance: $5.00 (excluding August & December shows)
At the Door: $10.00 (excluding August & December shows)Advance tickets are available at First Western Bank (605)642-2734. Heritage
Center 605-642-9378 and Creative Broadcast Services 605-722-2511, all
located in Spearfish, SD or by emailing info@livewithjt.comTickets include admission to the High Plains Western Heritage Center, a premiere western museum.
See the Heritage of the American West web site for the show's schedule.
March 19, 2008
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Photo of Bob Petermann by Jeri L. Dobrowski; see her gallery of western performers and others here.February 20, 2008
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Photo of Ken Cook by Jeri L. Dobrowski; see her gallery of western performers and others here.October 17, 2007
Photo of Andy Nelson by Jeri L. Dobrowski; see her gallery of western performers and others here.Andy Nelson and Arlie Hulm
September 26, 2007
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Mislette the Singing Cowgirl and Rod NicholsAugust 15, 2007
Celebrating National Day of the American Cowboy!
Monte "Hawkeye" HensonJuly 25, 2007
June 27, 2007
May 30, 2007
April 18, 2007
See more on page 2 and at the Heritage of the American West site here
Read more in our report here.
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March 21, 2007
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February 21, 2007
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January 17, 2007
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December 20, 2006
See "A Cowboy Christmas" (pdf) for more information
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November 15, 2006
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October 18, 2006
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September 20, 2006
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August 16, 2006
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July 19, 2006
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June 21, 2006
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Producer Francie Ganje presents a colorful report on the May, 2006 show that featured Juni Fisher. See the report here.
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April 19, 2006See more on page 2 and more on the April, 2006 Cowboy Poetry Week show with photos and more here.
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March 15, 2006
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February, 2006
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January, 2006
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