KELSEYVILLE — The Kelseyville Pear Festival begins a new tradition. To mark the kick off of the Festival, a western barbecue with authentic cowboy flavor and concert featuring singing cowboy Dave Stamey will be held at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 24 outdoors at Wildhurst Tasting Room.
Stamey has twice been voted Entertainer of the Year, three times Male Performer of the Year and twice Songwriter of the Year by the Western Music Association. He has also received the Will Rogers Award from the Academy of Western Artists.
His biography states he has been a cowboy, a mule packer and a dude wrangler, and now is one of the most popular Western entertainers working today.
Stamey says that his “experiences all came out of the world in which I was raised ? the ranching world. It just happens to be a way of life I know very well and it”s what I”m comfortable writing about. It keeps me anchored. There are thousands of things in everybody”s day that can be turned into songs, and the secret is, if you do it in a truthful way, everybody gets it.”
Opening the evening”s entertainment will be Lake County”s own Lake Fiddlers, featuring Andi Skelton and Eleanor Cook.
Tickets are $35 per person which includes Suenram”s Smokin” “S” Barbecue and all the fixings, a complimentary glass of wine and the concerts. Advance tickets may be purchased at the Wildhurst Vineyards Tasting Room, 3855 Main St. in Kelseyville.
For more information call, (800) 595-WINE.
