Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Make it a Real Rendezvous, a Gathering Place for Budding Singers

   How about the Cache Valley Cowboy Rendezvous? I mean, as an event worth hyping, hoping to attract people from across the nation. I've never been to this event in Hyrum, (this year it was March 4-5), so I don't know how good it is.
   Cowboy poets, music and artisans.
   I suppose, to attract a nationwide audience, you'd need to be able to say you've got as good of cowboy poets and music and artisans as there is to be found. I wonder how close the Cache Valley Rendezvous makes it, in those terms.
   Another way to go for a national audience would be to invite all the western singers, or as many as you could fit in. You are already hailing it as a reunion of cowboy music, poets and artisans, so make it so anyone who can carry a good tune, can come and perform. Throw away the amplifiers, stick them each in rooms far enough apart, and let them play simultaneously. The concert-goers poke their heads in room after room, staying just long enough, perhaps, to see if they like the performers.
   You issue all kind of awards.
    It becomes a place where western singers come to to get a break in the industry. You issue CDs featuring the best performances of the year. It becomes a star search event. It becomes the biggest and best gathering of cowboy singers, bar none.
   Frankly, I think it would work.

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