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Keepin it Western! Ralph Hampton and Tamara Boatright were awarded the "Radio Station of the Year" award from the Western Music Association.

Violinist Rigney proved his fiddle mettle, and considerable range, years ago with Back in the Saddle, Queen Ida's Bon Temps Zydeco Band, Cajun/rock fusion champs the Sundogs and the Flambeau band.

They strap on their six- shooters, mount their trusty steeds and give a tip of their cowboy hats to Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and John Wayne.

Norton Buffalo's harmonica playing - whether for years with the Steve Miller Band or when he and former Novato resident Roy Rogers connected - is legendary in music circles.

Today in Russia there exists a tremendous flourishing of the arts, brought upon by a more free society, relative prosperity and a surge in interest in the arts by the huge numbers of young Russians populating the immense country.

Apparently quite a few mamas paid no heed to musician Willie Nelson when he advised them "don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys." Plenty of bronc-bustin', bull-ridin', steer-wrestlin', barrel-racin' and calf-ropin' cowboys and cowgirls have converged on Freedom Hall for the North American Championship Rodeo this weekend.

He was 58 years old. A member of the Steve Miller Band for over 30 years, Norton's talent on the harmonica was unmatched.

Think of Psycho , Night of the Living Dead , the entire oeuvre of Jason and Freddy: it's the time of year when all get plucked from the pumpkin patches of our imagination for round-the-clock cable airings and DVD parties with punch chasers.

The second performance in the Athens Area Council for the Arts' 30th Anniversary Big Time/Small Town Performance Season is Riders in the Sky, Thursday, Oct.

I was a kid when Roy Rogers was "King of the Cowboys", when "Tail Gunner"Joe McCarthy warned of the "red menace", and gangster Frank Costello went on trial.

Eli Barsi, the singing cowgirl who specializes in traditional Western songs popularized by Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, will be the featured artist in a special Horseshoe Theater show at 7 p.m. on Friday at the Monett City Hall Auditorium.

Fans of Westerns made before the advent of color television know how to distinguish, upon first glance, the good guys from the bad the heroes of their serials and matinee features from the villians they've been charged to dispatch.

Published: Friday, October 2, 2009 at 7:43 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 2, 2009 at 7:43 a.m. Out in the West Texas town of El Paso Jason Petty sings during 'Marty's El Paso,' a musical playing at the Flat Rock Playhouse about late country star Marty Robbins.

Fifty years ago today, ticket sales for the Allentown Fair were selling at four times the rate of the previous year, apparently because of the planned appearance of television's western singer Roy Rogers: Sept 19 Almanac Saturday, September 19, 2009 Sept.

Roy Rogers will headline a Rock for MS benefit concert Sunday at the Boom Boom Room.

Schrader: Ask people who their hero is and the answer usually depends on their age bracket.

Salt Lake City, UT There aren't many Americans in the history of this great country that have seen as much of the lower forty-eight states up close as I have, and that would include Lewis and Clark.

Cheryl Rogers Barnett, daughter of cowboy movie legend Roy Rogers, is one of several western actors who will visit Azle as part of the Wild West Toys Third Annual Cap Gun and Vintage Toy Show on Saturday, Sept.

Roy Rogers Rock for MS is the major fundraising event for MSFriends , that is conceived under the leadership of president, Amelia Davis , and inspired by Jim Marshall , one of the world's most renowned rock music photographers and winner in 2004 of the prestigious photography Lifetime Achievement Lucie Award .

Here are a few of my not-favorite things: scalps graphically removed, throats savagely slashed, heads brutally beaten by baseball bats, necks forcibly strangled, fingers sadistically twisted in open wounds.