,,, and phantastic musicians in the evening

The first big evening concert - the NCPG's two main parts are cowboy poetry and western music - took place in the Elko Convention Center and consisted of a trio of very different musicians, all of them equally interesting and all of them having nothing to do with the soft-washed, flat country music we are used to.

First performer was Gary McMahan from Colorado with more traditional Western Music and yodelling:

Second, Western Swing performed by Carolyn Martin's Swing Band. Especially amazing was the talent of one blind musician in the band, who was playing the clarinet, the guitar and the accordeon. Great dance music.

Third, and our favorite, was Geno Delafose from Louisiana. We have seen him perform a couple of times in New Orleans and at other festivals Louisiana. He is a zydeco musician (zydeco is the modern "black version" of cajun music) with a broad spectrum of songs, mostly sung in Cajun French. He is not only a musician, but a cowboy with a ranch in LA, breeding quarter horses.