Mark your calendars for the 2021 Ridgway Old West Fest
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About
Singer songwriter Carin Mari to perform
Singer songwriter Carin Mari to perform
Singer songwriter Carin Mari to perform
Inspired by the mountains of Colorado where she was born and raised, Carin Mari is a songwriter who is passionate about life and playing her own brand of music. Her talents as guitarist/singer/songwriter have won numerous awards, including the North America County Music Association 2009 Entertainer and Songwriter of the Year, Female Vocal
Inspired by the mountains of Colorado where she was born and raised, Carin Mari is a songwriter who is passionate about life and playing her own brand of music. Her talents as guitarist/singer/songwriter have won numerous awards, including the North America County Music Association 2009 Entertainer and Songwriter of the Year, Female Vocalist and Female Entertainer of the Year for South Plains College, and eight Colorado Country Music Awards. In 2010, Carin, entered the Texaco Country Showdown and won the Southwest Regional final and a
trip to Nashville.
As an added bonus, we are attempting to present an encore performance from Debby Campbell, Glen Campbell's daughter with her band Adamas. Debby performed at the first Old West Fest in 2019.
Festival partners include the Ouray County Ranch History Museum and the Ridgway Railroad Museum, both of which are planning additional events for the same weekend. The historical society will be offering rides on the Galloping Goose and special children's tours.
Also on this weekend is the Sneffles Fiber Arts Festival in Ridgway. All in all, this promises to be a huge weekend of family fun during our peak of fall colors.
Mission
Singer songwriter Carin Mari to perform
Singer songwriter Carin Mari to perform
The Ridgway Western Heritage Society celebrates Ridgway, Colorado's film, ranching
and railroad heritage,
and Western arts & culture.
EVENTS & ACTIVITIES
Plans are well underway and we anticipate this year’s festival will include two movies, eight lectures or workshops, a beer garden, a 90-minute Wild West horse show, and a Saturday evening
The Ridgway Western Heritage Society celebrates Ridgway, Colorado's film, ranching
and railroad heritage,
and Western arts & culture.
EVENTS & ACTIVITIES
Plans are well underway and we anticipate this year’s festival will include two movies, eight lectures or workshops, a beer garden, a 90-minute Wild West horse show, and a Saturday evening country music concert. We also have children’s activities, horse-drawn wagon rides, Western karaoke, a Western heroes and villains look-alike contest and more. In addition, event attendees will be able to tour two locations used during the filming of the 1969 John Wayne movie True Grit: the restored courtroom at the Ouray County Courthouse and the Mattie's ranch east of town.
SCULPTURES WANTED
Festival goers: Know of a John Wayne sculpture someone is trying to find a home for? We would love to have you donate it to the Ouray County Ranch History Museum. Contact
Joan Chismire, 970.316.1085,
History
Singer songwriter Carin Mari to perform
History
The first annual Ridgway Old West Fest in 2019 celebrated Ridgway Colorado's brief transformation into Fort Smith, Arkansas, for the filming of True Grit.
2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the release of True Grit, for which John Wayne won his only Academy Award.
The famous director Henry Hathaway brought the True Grit cast and crew to
The first annual Ridgway Old West Fest in 2019 celebrated Ridgway Colorado's brief transformation into Fort Smith, Arkansas, for the filming of True Grit.
2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the release of True Grit, for which John Wayne won his only Academy Award.
The famous director Henry Hathaway brought the True Grit cast and crew to Ridgway and Ouray County in late summer of 1968.
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This year's Old West Fest is slated for September 2021 during the Ouray County Railroad Days weekend, September 24-26.