The Elko Report - 2006!

Had a great time in Elko again this year, saw lots of fantastic shows and ran into some old friends and CPU members! Michael and I arrived late afternoon Thursday, missing most of the events at the Convention Center, but managing to find enough entertainment at the Folklife Center that we couldn’t worry about what we might have missed. We ran into Margo Metegrano almost immediately, then found Brooksie just heading into a show. We managed to buy tickets for the Ian Tyson show in the Convention Center auditorium, and

bumped right into Shannon Wrango from Kansas Saddlery - and old friend we just made last summer at the roundup - and still were able to be there for Tyson’s performance. The days do blur together in retrospect, but some of the highlights for me this year were Brooksie’s on the- big-stage-performance (she was wonderful!) at the convention center, a little outside the music building tete-a-tete with Milton Taylor (the best of the best Australian poets) all the fun of Pat Richardson’s Roast at Stockman’s (no body can tell an insulting story like Glen Orlin. We laughed until we were sick!) EVERYTHING Tom Russell did (What an artist!) and the highlight of the entire weekend, the Don Edwards, Curly Musgrave, Kip Kalahan show at the Folklife Center - the final official event of the day Saturday, a show so good it would have justified the trip just by itself. Colen Sweeten once again showed up on stage with Michael Martin Murphey, our buddy Brooke Turner was there with his two young ‘uns, we kept running into Val and Keri Carter, Bimbo Cheney, Rod Miller. Doug Keller and Pam were in town, Doug Brewer, CR and Jeane Wood, Kenny Hall... Saw so many people I’m probably forgetting to mention someone who is a great friend, but I’m sure all of you who attended will agree we had a ball. AND, if you weren’t there,... why not??? - jo