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Feb 4th 5th & 6th 2011

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      Crossroads began as a way for beginning entertainers, or people looking to widen their audience base to do so. We are set up as a talent show, and in our second year, 22 invitations were given to five different performers from Crossroads. We managed to break another barrier this year with two gatherings selecting Crossroads performers over the internet. Now that barrier has been broken, we are hoping to have more entertainers hired for more events in 20011!

     Rather than being an invitation only event, we have gone back to the original concept of a cowboy gathering. You hear about the party and show up! All you have to do is be a cowboy or cowgirl entertainer and fill out the 
form  below. The first 42 entertainers to sign up are in the show. Each entertainer will get a 20 minute set in the order they sign up in on either Friday or Saturday, with the first 6 to sign up in the extra Dinner show on Friday night. The top ten acts, plus the two entertainer's acting as judges will perform on the Saturday night show from which the participating gatherings will select their acts.

     In order to give entertainers a chance to make some money we will be having a Calcutta auction in conjunction with our mixer on Wednsday night. The money from this auction will be split between the top five acts and their bidders, as selected by our judges. The payback split between the entertainer and their bidder will be
1st place-30%, 2nd place 25%,  3rd place 20%, 4th place 15%, 5th place 10% . So that bidders know what kind of talent they are bidding on, each entertainer or band will perform their own original poem/song, written especially for this event, with the title The Kamikaze Cow. This promises to be a fun part of the gathering!

     Three judges will each give up to 50 points an act, divided equally between material and delivery. The Judges will be Evelyn Roper, judging from a musician's point of view, Dave P. Fisher, judging from a poet's point of view, and Gary Fuentes, of Van Horn, judging from a spectator's point of view.  The scores will be tallied and the top ten put on a whiteboard for all to see as each entertainer finishes their act.  Any events participating via internet will be immediately put in contact with the entertainers of their choice! To sign up, simply
fill out the form and you are in the "Cowboy Correct Gathering!"



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If you want your name added to the list, fill out the form below the entertainers.

1)Buck Helton -singer, poet, and storyteller from Dallas, Texas had truck problems and had to cancel two days before the show in 2010, but not only signed up for 2011 when he did, also volunteered to be our MC . Thanks Buck!

   




Tumbleweed Crawford

 2) Returning all the way from St. Francis, Kansas for the third time is Phil "Tumbleweed "Crawford, Poet, singer and song writer ! Great to have you back Tumbleweed!


3) Rusty Battenfield, Texas Cowboy poet and mule racer from Odessa Midland area. Rusty was offered several invitations in 2010!


4)Pete Kennedy,  Cowboy poet from Tyrone, NM He will also be judging and picking an act for the 2012  Tyrone Gathering. In 2010 he picked Eddy Harrison to to to Tyrone in 2011.


5) Deann Smith Little, She came down with Evelyn Roper last year to watch, and wound up being a volunteer, helping with the sound and signed up to perform in 2011!


6) Eddy Harrison, singer ,songwriter and luthier  is returning from Las Cruces, New Mexico. Eddy was offered 5 invitations from Crossroads in 2010!
7) Bill Shaw, cowboy poet from Arizona.  Crossroads 2010 was Bill's first time on stage. Great poet and reader!


8) Darrel  Staedtler, Texas Singer songwriter turned cowboy poet. He wrote three songs for George Straight,"Blame it on Mexico", "A Fire I Can't Put Out,", his second number 1, and 80 Proof Bottle. He was selected to appear at the Campfire Tales held in conjunction with Fort Worth Stock Show!It is truly an honor and privilege to have this great man returning to Crossroads!
9) Tony Argento is  returning out of the Reno Nevada Area. He was offered 5 invitations from the 2010 Crossroads show. He brings his own brand of "Twisted Cowboy Poetry at its best" to Van Horn. This guy is great fun both on and off stage!
10) Harold Roy Miller Returning all the way from Stagecoach, Nevada, was given 5 invitations from 2010 Crossroads!
11) Steven Spalding will be returning to perform and select entertainers for FOUR different gatherings. For the 2010 show he offered a total of 16 invitations to 4 entertainers!
12) Charles Williams is a cowboy poet who also puts on the Campfire Tales held in conjunction with the Fort Wort Stock Show. This is his third year with Crossroads! He got sick a couple of days before the 2010 show and couldn't make it in person, but he did select four entertainers for Campfire Tales, and another for the Cat Springs Gathering via the internet!

13) Debra Coppinger Hill, Cowgirl poet from Oklahoma. She will also be holding a poetry writing workshop at the Cornerstone during the 2011 Crossroads. Details coming!
14) Lyn Stokes, Texas Cowboy Poet & storyteller who's just getting started!
  15) Dave King, Cowboy poet, singer, humorist & auctioneer from Oklahoma!
16) Robert Beene, Cowboy poet, musician storyteller from Oklahoma
17) Buzz Wilson, Texas cowboy poet who is just starting out his entertaining career. In 2010 Rusty Battenfield surprised everyone by winning gigs his first time performing. Some of these guys are plain natural entertainers!

  18) Jeff Hildebrant, Cowboy and gospel poet from Colorado
 19) Wallace C. Moore Senior, historical poet and story teller  from Oklahoma
    20) Teresa Burleson, Texas Cowgirl poet. This gal is pretty well known in Texas, its about time we get her known everywhere else (as if there is an everywhere else to Texans!)

21 Gail T. Burton, Cowboy Poet well known in Oklahoma looking to get known out of the state!
 

22 Jeff Streeby, California cowboy poet

23) Slim Farnsworth   Poet and yarn spinner from Cedar Edge, Colorado. Slim was here for our first year and is returning.

24) Charlie Ware...Another Colorado poet who was here for the first Crossroads is returning in 2011!

25 ) Waynetta Ausmus
is a cowgirl storyteller out of Texas. She also has her own internet radio show!

26) David McBroom, Cowboy Gospel poet from Houston. David was here for our first gathering in 2009. He was on the road coming to Van Horn in 2010 when his "Ice sream turned into buttermilk" and he had to head back home. David is a great poet and it is wonderful to have him coming back to Van Horn in 2011!










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