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GETTING BACK IN THE SADDLE COWBOY EVENT SET TO START.


Byline: Daily News

NEWHALL - The best cowboy poets, balladeers, comedians, singers and bands from across the nation will once again converge con·verge  
v. con·verged, con·verg·ing, con·verg·es

v.intr.
1.
a. To tend toward or approach an intersecting point: lines that converge.

b.
 on Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country,  for the 10th annual Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, which will take place Wednesday through Sunday at Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio, as well as at other locations across the valley.

The five-day festival celebrates the spirit and influence of cowboy culture and features western entertainment, plays, dances, trail rides and cowboy-inspired fashion and food.

This year, cowboy poet Waddie wad·die  
n. Western U.S.
Variant of waddy2.
 Mitchell will be hosting all the shows in the Melody Ranch Theater. Some of the entertainers scheduled to perform are Riders in the Sky, Bob Wills' Texas Playboys, Don Edwards For other persons named Don Edwards, see Don Edwards (disambiguation).
William Donlon Edwards, (born January 6, 1915), usually known as Don Edwards, is an American politician of the Democratic Party, formerly a member of the United States House of Representatives from
, Katy Moffatt and Sons of the San Joaquin San Joaquin (săn wäkēn`), river, c.320 mi (510 km) long, rising in the Sierra Nevada, E Calif., and flowing W then N through the S Central Valley to form a large delta with the Sacramento River near Suisun Bay, an arm of San Francisco Bay. .

Other festival events will include an Artist's Quick Draw, a Cowboy Couture fashion show and the Walk of Western Stars Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony.

For ticket information, call the city of Santa Clarita at (661) 286-4021.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Mar 24, 2003
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