2026 Entertainers

Cowboys and Indians Magazine has called him the Charlie Russell of Western Music. Western Horseman Magazine has declared his Vaquero Song to be one of the greatest Western songs of all time.

True West Magazine named him Best Living Western Solo Musician four years in a row.

Dave Stamey has been a cowboy, a mule packer, a dude wrangler, and is now one of the most popular Western entertainers working today. He has been voted seven times Entertainer of the Year, seven times Male Performer of the Year and Five times Songwriter of the Year by the Western Music Association, and received the Will Rogers Award from the Academy of Western Artists.

He's delighted audiences in twenty three states, and finds that he prefers this to being stomped by angry horses.In November of 2016 Dave was inducted into the Western Music Hall of Fame.

Bill Dale began to write poetry in 2022 on a whim. “I challenged myself to see if I could put a story together in rhyme. Once I started, I found the challenge to be addictive.”

Finding inspiration in the talents of Dave Stamey and Red Stegall, Dale began writing about life experiences and personal observations. “I’m not sure that what I write is textbook ‘cowboy poetry,’ per se. I tend to draw on a cowboy’s perspective of living on the fringes of urban life. There has always been a story in the interaction between urbanites and country folk and there probably always will be.”

Bill has spent his life in the cattle industry; from the ranch to the halls of academia, to an advocate for beef in the American diet.

Bill joined us as the emcee at the 2024 Cowpoke Fall Gathering and will be making his debut with some of his original poems at the 2025 Gathering.

The purity of the songs written and sung by Trinity Seely are a deep-rooted reflection of the ranching lifestyle she lives and loves. Trinity was raised in British Columbia with horses and music in her soul. Her life has taken her from Ojai, California, to the high plains of Wyoming, the Sandhills of Nebraska and finally to the Big Belt Mountains outside Cascade, MT where she and her husband, Jeff, and their three young boys live and work on a cattle operation.

Singing from the perspective of a ranch wife, cowgirl and mother, Trinity’s honest lyrics touch the heart.

Annie Mackenzie is a fourth-generation rancher and part-time cowboy poet. She was born and raised in Jordan Valley Oregon, growing up on her family’s ranch just North of the small town.

Annie has always had a love of the written word and the western way of life. She’s combined the two into the cowboy poetry that she shares. Whether it’s moving cows, fixing fence, working dogs, or watching a cowboying disaster unfold, there’s a lot that happens on the ranch to inspire her poetry.