Cowboy Days: Music and Stories of their Vanished World

The Cowboy Days program focuses on the stories of how cowboys drove cattle in their thousands north to the railroads and to the richer grazing of Wyoming along routes such as the old Chisholm Trail. The music is presented with dramatic scenes adapted from the stories of a young cowboy on his first trail drive, which Lomax described as “the best cowboy stories ever written”.

The program material is based on the pioneering work of John Lomax and his son Alan Lomax, whose famous collections of folk material are preserved in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington.

• Date: October 16 (Wednesday), 16:00-18:00.
• Venue: Building R., 356.