Dispatch from Nevada's cowboy poets confab
An older generation of artists looks for a younger set to take over the tradition.
Although folklorists and poets are divided on whether that's a good or bad thing, Cannon says there's no denying that some of the festival's original participants are getting older, and a younger batch of artists and audience members alike -- some of whom are slightly more removed from the ranch -- are needed to keep the event going. One such youngster is Grammy award-winning musician Dom Flemons, who stopped by this year's gathering on his way to play Carnegie Hall, and hosted a sold-out workshop on playing the bones (that's cow rib bones, of course).
Listen in on that session, and enjoy a poem from cowgirl poet Purly Gates in this episode of Range: