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Ellensburg’s Spirit of the West Cowboy Gathering February 17-19

by Kim Roe

 

February 2017
Photo courtesy Juni Fisher

The Spirit of the West Cowboy Gathering is a celebration of western music, art, gear, and cowboy poetry in Ellensburg, Washington, February 17-19.

Juni Fisher is one of the musicians headlining at this year’s gathering. Juni and I spent time riding horses together in the Sierra foothills of California. She grew up in a farming family and spent her early years training horses, working on cow-calf operations, and singing.

While attending college, Juni trained and rode horses for my mother. I always looked up to her for her horse training skills. She specialized in bridle horses, working cow horses, and cutting horses.

I was captivated by her charisma too. Funny, pretty, smart as a whip, and full of cowgirl spunk, she could get everyone around her laughing. Years later, after I’d moved to the Pacific Northwest, she told me she was living in Nashville and riding steeplechase horses to support herself while she pursued her music career.

Over the years I purchased and enjoyed some of Juni’s CDs, but never had the opportunity to see her perform until I finally caught her act in BC. I was stunned by the poignancy of her lyrics and the clarity and strength of her voice — and she was still the same joke-cracking, storytelling Juni I remembered. The audience was captivated.

Juni Fisher is one of the nation’s top solo Western music performers. Her awards include 2006, 2009 and 2011 Western Music Association (WMA) Female Performer of the Year, and Composer and Performer of the Year in 2007, 2011, and 2013.

I asked Juni to explain the difference between western music and country music. She said, “Country music is based on the failure or success of a personal, family, or working relationship. Western music is based on the wide open vistas of the western landscape, the lifestyle, and work of the people who settled it and now inhabit it.”

Fisher performs at the major festivals and concert venues of all sizes across the US, and spends saddle time on her snaffle bit futurity prospect as she prepares for the 2017 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity competition in Fort Worth, Texas.

If you love horses, Western music, cowboy poetry, and the culture of the West, plan to attend The Spirit of the West Cowboy Gathering in Ellensburg. Be sure and catch Juni Fisher’s performance; you won’t be disappointed.

Find Out More:

www.ellensburgcowboygathering.com – (888)-925-2204

www.junifisher.com

 

Originally Published February 2017 Issue


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