friday

6:30pm Western Art & Gear Show & Sale (Monterey Marriott Hotel) opens

7pm "Ride the High Country" Wally McRae and Wylie & the Wild West; also Jessie Smith, Joni Harms & Ken Overcast ($30)

saturday

8:30am Western Art & Gear Show opens

9am "Poems Old, New, Borrowed & Blue" Doris Daley, Virginia Bennett, Jesse Smith, Wally McRae ($15)

10:30am "Singing My Favorite Cowboy Songs" Ken Overcast, Skip Gorman & Waddie Pals, Joni Harms, Wylie & the Wild West ($15)

Noon Open Mic Session with Emcee Doris Daley

Noon Lecture by Daniel Dixon about his father, western painter Maynard Dixon (Free)

1pm "Cowboy Comedy Hour" Ernie Sites, Clem Albertoni, Wally McRae, Jesse Smith ($15)

2:30pm "Songwriter Serenade" RW Hampton, Dave Stamey, Stephanie Davis, Tom Russell ($30)

7pm "Appalachia to Abilene" Don Edwards with Special Guest Peter Rowan, Skip Gorman with his Waddle Pals, Mel Detmer ($30)

sunday

Western Art & Gear Show opens immediately following Cowboy Church

9am "Cowboy Church" Ken Overcast, Joni Harms, Virginia Bennett, Wylie Gustafson, Ted Lister, Rich & Valerie O'Brien, RW Hampton (Free)

10:30am "Songs of Marty Robbins" Dave Stamey, RW Hampton, Lone Prairie, Don Edwards ($15)

Noon Open Mic Session 2 with Host Mel Detmer (Free)

1pm "Rich O'Brien's Monterey Cowboy All-Star Band" Also Valerie O'Brien, Skip Gorman & his Waddie Pals, Marvin Dylchuis, Lone Prairie, Richard Chon, Stephanie Davis, Dave Wilkie & Cowboy Celtic ($10)

2:30pm "A Taste of Cowboy Culture" Tish Hinojosa, Dave Wilkie & Cowboy Celtic. Also Virginia Bennett, Ernie Sites, Rich & Valerie O'Brien ($30)

All events in the Steinbeck Forum at the Monterey Conference Center, unless otherwise noted. For ticket info, call 1-800-722-9652