The following entertainers are scheduled to appear at Windmill Park and the Rex Allen Theater in historic downtown on Friday, Oct. 5 and Saturday, Oct. 6.
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Dave Wilburn, singer/songwriter, guitarist and mandolinist, first performed on a 50,000-watt radio in 1933 in North Carolina, Woodbridge, Virginia. Allan & Corean Romriel, of Fruitland, Iowa, are singers back to the festival after several years' absence.
Larry Harmer, of Avondale, is a storyteller, historian, writer and reciter of cowboy poems.
Tom Hiatt, of Goodyear, is longtime performer at Rawhide and the Festival of the West. This is his first time at the festival.
Scotty Fitch and the Silver Screen Cowboys, of Carlsbad, New Mexico, is a Western Swing band.
Lyle Suttill, of Laveen, is a reciter of classic cowboy poetry and former rough stock rodeo performer.
Rollie Stevens, of Phoenix, is a much-admired singer with a familiar Western sound back after a several-year absence from the festival.
Katy Creek, singers and musicians, Wes & Nancy Ruybal, of Maricopa.
Cindy Rae, of Willcox, a local favorite singer and guitarist.
Ken Whitecotton, of Tucson, is a cowboy poet.
Johnny Bencomo, of Tombstone, is a Western singer in the pattern of Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and Marty Robbins.
Catherine 'Lil' Bit Devine, of Vail, is a poet and singer, at the festival for the first time.
Jon Messenger, of Sierra Vista, is a much-admired singer, songwriter and guitarist & sound provider for the Windmill Park Stage.
Trail Mix, Western Swing band, Jerry and Elaine Holcomb, on guitar and Vickie, on bass, and fiddlers Alice Pitts and Elizabeth Simmons
Jan Choate Richins, of Animas, New Mexico, is a lifelong ranch woman and singer of classic cowboy songs.
Jon Richins, of Tucson, is a poet & singer, banjoist guitarist, at the festival for the first time.
Willcox' s own Jim Nancy Sober, are singers, musicians and storytellers.
Skelly Boyd is a legend in the Gila Valley as a guitarist, singer and songwriter. This is his first time at the festival as a single act.
Editor's Note: Willcox resident Jim Sober contributed to the report. He is the coordinator of the Rex Allen Museum Western Music and Cowboy Poetry Festival.





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