One for the Road

Susan Froyd January 15, 2009 4:00AM

[
          {
            "name": "Related Stories / Support Us Combo",
            "component": "12017627",
            "insertPoint": "4",
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "6"
          },
          {
            "name": "Air - Billboard - Inline Content",
            "component": "12017623",
            "insertPoint": "2/3",
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "7"
          },
          
          {
            "name": "Air - MediumRectangle - Inline Content - Mobile Display Size 2",
            "component": "12017624",
            "insertPoint": "12",
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "12"
          },{
            "name": "Air - MediumRectangle - Inline Content - Mobile Display Size 2",
            "component": "12017624",
            "insertPoint": "4th",
            "startingPoint": "16",
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "12"
          }
          
            ,{
              "name": "RevContent - In Article",
              "component": "13027957",
              "insertPoint": "3/5",
              "requiredCountToDisplay": "5"
            }
          
        ]

Boy, those folks at the Arvada Center’s annual Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering really know how to end a run. This year’s fest, which each year assembles rural bards from across the country (and, occasionally, from around the world) for an intensive five-day celebration of poetry and music inspired by ranching culture, benefited from a little family-friendly tweaking, which allowed for more family-style events interspersed throughout. And today’s Flapjack Breakfast and Concert, a fitting final yee-haw! (and the capper for a fine twentieth-anniversary event), follows suit.

Stack up your plates with hotcakes, then enjoy music by Colorado-bred Westcliffe bluegrassers Sons and Brothers, who like to call their unique, homespun blend of Western, bluegrass and gospel music “West-grass,” today beginning at 11 a.m., in the Arvada Center ballrooms, 6901 Wadsworth Boulevard in Arvada. Host Gary McMahan (the famous mustachioed Colorado cowpoke featured in a mural on the side of the William Matthews Gallery in LoDo) and South Dakotan versifier Yvonne Hollenbeck contribute to the entertainment end of the morning, which costs $36 for adults and $15 for children ages five to fourteen.

Here’s to feeling full, and satisfied, too! For details and tickets, visit www.arvadacenter.org or call 720-898-7200.
Jan. 14-18, 2009

KEEP WESTWORD FREE... Since we started Westword, it has been defined as the free, independent voice of Denver, and we'd like to keep it that way. With local media under siege, it's more important than ever for us to rally support behind funding our local journalism. You can help by participating in our "I Support" program, allowing us to keep offering readers access to our incisive coverage of local news, food and culture with no paywalls.

Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1.

Susan Froyd started writing for Westword as the "Thrills" editor in 1992 and never quite left the fold. These days she still freelances for the paper in addition to walking her dogs, enjoying cheap ethnic food and reading voraciously. Sometimes she writes poetry.

Contact: Susan Froyd

Follow:

Facebook: Susan Froyd

Twitter: @sosfrojd

Trending Arts & Culture

Latest Stories

Keep Scrolling or Click to Read:

One for the Road

Trending Arts & Culture

[%title%]

Latest Stories

This Week's Issue