Country music takes center stage with still stomping acts such as the Gatlin Brothers and Ty Brown. The 21st annual Festival of the West will be held March 17-20, 2011 at the Westworld facility in Scottsdale.
Other acts include Lynn Anderson, Don Edwards, Dave Stamey, Waddie Mitchell, Johnny Rodriguez, Michael Martin Murphey, and Josh Gracin, Belinda Gail, The New Pioneers, Clint Walker, Rollie Stevens (also now the festival organizer), Robert Fuller, Rocin’ M Wranglers, Waddie Mitchell, Jon Messenger, Johnny Western, and Rusty Richards.
Tons of kids and teen fun too, as well as chuckwagons, log home show, poet and songwriters, a cowboy race, mountain man rendezvous and the tradition of 9th Cavalry Buffalo soldiers and TV and movie performers.
FestivalOfTheWest.com – presented by Real Country, 96.3. Tickets are $25 each (separate from festival entry cost)