PRESS RELEASES  Events and Activities by Area Songwriters       RETURN “No Ordinary Cowboy Rides to Town“ What is a retired English professor, Order of Canada award winner, and world traveller who has had two audiences with the Dalai Lama, doing riding the range “chanting poetry and rhyme”? Carrying on his quest of course! Ken Mitchell continues to promote and preserve Canadian culture with his newest theatre production “No Ordinary Cowboy”, and with his new book release, an anthology of Canadian Cowboy Poetry called “Rhyming Wranglers” (Frontenac House, Calgary) including Doris Daley, Corb Lund, Sheri D Wilson, Phyllis Wheaton, Robbie Robertson and many more. Accompanied by equally talented brother, Slim, and Calgary singer songwriter Phyllis Wheaton, "No Ordinary Cowboy" is on tour across the Prairies this summer. On their way to the Pincher Creek Cowboy Poetry Gathering they will be stopping in Calgary for one show, Thursday, June 14 at Nelsons Bar & Grill Stage, 7:30. Tickets $15. and available at Nelsons 232-6704 Thursday, June 14 Nelsons Bar & Grill Stage 7:30 PM

"No Ordinary Cowboy" is an hilarious and moving tribute to the cowboy and rodeo man Bill Gomersall, a treasured icon of Canadian Prairie culture. A “cowboy cantata” features a pair of cowboy poets, the Mitchell Boys from Moose Jaw, with singer songwriter Phyllis Wheaton. The show is a celebration of the life of an authentic wrangler, who also told stories and cowboy poems throughout his life. He rode on horseback for his hundredth birthday celebration, and died in 2006 on his 101st birthday. It will generate gales of laughter and vales of tears, as these writers of the purple sage bring the old cowboy back to life. "No Ordinary Cowboy" is directed by Gerald Lenton-Young. See www.burningsun.ca     www.phylliswheaton.com

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