SALES STAMPEDE FOR EVENT TICKETS; COWBOY POETRY FESTIVAL SETS RECORDS.Byline: Angela M. Lemire Staff Writer Still six months away, the 2000 Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival is roping in new sales records. Ticket availability began last week for the Old West-style festival, and ticket sales in the first two days surpassed by $2,000 last year's box-office receipt totals for the entire first week, city spokeswoman Gail Ortiz said. After $42,000 in tickets were sold during the first two days of sales, city officials estimated that $60,000 in tickets would be sold by the end of this week's sales. The 2000 festival, recently expanded to five days, will take place March 29-April 2, beginning on Wednesday and continuing throughout the weekend. Events will include theatrical and musical performances at the Hyatt Valencia, the Hart Mansion and Heritage Junction, Plaza Cinemas and Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio, a working Old West film set. Headline performers include Bob Wills' Texas Playboys, Red Steagall Russell ("Red") Steagall (born December 22, 1937) is a multitalented showbusiness personality whose career has covered a period of 35 years and has spanned the globe. He has performed for heads of state, including a special party for President Reagan at the White House in 1983, and and Wylie and the Wild West. Some shows during the festival have limited seating options, including performances by Michael Martin Murphey Michael Martin Murphey is the best-selling performer of American Cowboy Music. Among the most respected singer-songwriters in pop and country-western music, Murphey has become the world's most prominent musical voice of the Western horseman, rancher, and cowboy. , Sons of 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. , 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 and Waddie wad·die n. Western U.S. Variant of waddy2. Mitchell. Information on ordering tickets by mail for the 2000 festival was distributed in a city-issued brochure. More than 13,000 brochures were mailed last month to households which had registered on a city mailing list An automated e-mail system on the Internet, which is maintained by subject matter. There are thousands of such lists that reach millions of individuals and businesses. New users generally subscribe by sending an e-mail with the word "subscribe" in it and subsequently receive all new , officials said. ``We are so happy to have hit this record in ticket sales, but we encourage people to request a free brochure because there are many tickets still available,'' said Michael Marks, regional events coordinator. To request the brochure or be placed on the mailing list for the 2001 Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, call City Hall at (661) 255-4910. A description of festival performers may be viewed on the city Web site, www.santa-clarita.com. |
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