Adam Ainsworth will once again will host the Annual Cowboy Campfire Festival in Hat Creek. The festival will celebrating its thirteenth anniversary on July 25, 2009. Although there were less than 20 at the first Campfire Festival in 1997, this festival has grown steadily every year since. This summer another crowd will gather around the campfire for music, stories & lies. The Annual Cowboy Campfire Festival is a place for the tellers of long winded stories that have happy endings.

Adam Ainsworth has been a storyteller most his life. He is a long time resident on Hat Creek & has always dreamed of producing & hosting a cowboy music festival. The dream came true for Adam in 1997 with the very first Cowboy Campfire Festival in Hat Creek, Alberta.

Hat Creek Harvey did not see his shawdow this morning! That means that winter is on the way out!

Long time session guitarist and sideman, Nathan Tinkham has released his first solo CD entitled Nathan Tinkham Sings Wilf Carter.  This CD has been a long time in the making and Nathan has just returned from a successful tour in the Maritimes playing his songs of Wilf Carter.  Nathan will be touring Alberta in the spring with this new CD.  He will be at the Blue Chair on February 13, 2009.

Justin Rutledge on stage at Convocation Hall at UofA
November 2008

This image of Jeanette Wormald comes with permission from Italo Vardaro

David Wilkie, Cindy Church and Nathan Tinkham

In 1987, Cindy Church, Nathan Tinkham and David Wilkie teamed up to form the Great Western Orchestra. This trio received national acclaim when they released their self-titled album of contemporary cowboy music. Cindy Church gained much attention with her songs “Train of Life“, “Vagabond” and “Spanish is a Loving Tongue“.