Baxter Black Plays Cowboys And Agritainers

As a veterinarian, rancher and sorry team roper, Baxter Black is a cowboy. As the most popular cowboy poet, he is an agritainer. On Saturday May 30th Baxter will be playing agritainer in Benson Arizona for the first SWRRA winter finals and Crossroads Cowboy Gathering. This event is the only one of its kind, featuring vaquero style, big loop roping in the arena with cowboy singers, poets and storytellers performing on stage at the same time.

This event kicks off with an open jam session on March 28th at the Benson Country Club. Everyone is welcome to attend whether you want to play or just listen. There will be cowboy music and poetry all day on the 29th, followed by another great open jam at the Country club. On the 30th, there will be big loop roping in the arena with agritainers doing their thing onstage, with vendors offering specials on everything from art, to horse tack to massage. Be sure not to miss the Crossroads Title Challenge where cowboy singers and poets will recite their original version of this year's title Under The Rimrock!

The agritainer portion culminates the night of the 30th with the Finals Show and Dance. The top five poets, and top five performers will give a final set, followed by Baxter Black, then an old fashioned cowboy dance under the stars. All proceeds from this activity are being donated to the Benson FFA (Future Farmers of America) club.

Activities kick off again on the 31st with Cowboy Church, followed by another day of big loop roping. For more information on activities and schedule visit www.txcg.org, then come on down to Benson and play cowboys and agritainers...After all, ranch roping and cowboy music and poetry go together like chocolate and peanut butter!

Supporting Kids In Agriculture!

   As the agriculture gets older, we are having fewer and fewer young people wanting to make a career out of farming and ranching. This means it is up to the old codgers to do what we can to help those few kids interested in an agricultural career to do what we can to help them out.

    One way we can do this is by holding and sponsoring events which support youth in agriculture. On Saturday, March 30th just such an event will be taking place. The SWRRA winter series finals, and Crossroads Cowboy Gathering will have the Crossroads Finals Show and Dance with all proceeds going straight to the Benson, Arizona FFA. Setting an example for the rest of us involved in agriculture, Baxter Black will be donating his time to perform during this event. The community of Benson has shown great support for this event as well. Even the agritainers coming to this event are supporting Benson's kids in agriculture by donating their time to provide music for the dance.

For more information on this event, visit our web page. If you can't make it, and would like to support the agritainers donating their time, you can buy their cd's on the Crossroads Agritainer's Sales Page. We need to remember that the children are not our future, but what we do now, contributes to theirs!

Trending @4H Tonight through Saturday

We are trying to make @4H the Texas Crossroads Cowboy Gathering held tonight through Saturday night trend on Twitter. Crossroads donates all proceeds to 4H and the Christian Homeless Shelter here in Van Horn Texas. If you want to help, follow, mention and RT @Texascrossroad on Twitter. You can view this event on the browser below or at http://www.texascrossroadscowboypoetry.org



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