Tracy Morrison

Song Swap on Owyhee Region Ranching Songs

Friday February 1, 3:30-4:30pm, Silver Room, Elko Convention Center

The Owyhee region is a vast area of desert mountains, canyons and rivers that spans southwest Idaho, southeast Oregon and north east Nevada. The region is storied for its ranching and mining history and still holds on to vestiges of the early days. The Idaho Songs Project has collected and documented numerous songs related to Owyhee history that were written before radio came to the area and before recordings were available to common people (early 1920s). We continue to search for Owyhee songs written before this time, as well as more recently written songs related to early Owyhee history. In this informal song swap, hosted by Tracy Morrison (Boise, Idaho) and Gary Eller (Pickles Butte, Idaho) we will play a few examples of interesting Owyhee songs and then open the floor for others to perform and inform us of related songs we don’t know about.

sponsored by Idaho Humanities Council

sponsored by Idaho Humanities Council

sponsored by Idaho Humanities Council

sponsored by Idaho Humanities Council

sponsored by Idaho Humanities Council

sponsored by Idaho Humanities Council

sponsored by Idaho Humanities Council

sponsored by Idaho Humanities Council

Sponsored by The Idaho Humanities Council

Sponsored by The Idaho Humanities Council

Sponsored by The Idaho Humanities Council

Sponsored by The Idaho Humanities Council

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