DAVE STAMEY

Cowboys and Indians Magazine has called him “the Charlie Russell of Western Music.” Western Horseman Magazine has declared his “Vaquero Song” to be one of the greatest Western songs of all time. True West Magazine named him Best Living Western Solo Musician four years in a row.

Dave Stamey has been a cowboy, a mule packer, a dude wrangler, and is now one of the most popular Western entertainers working today. He has been voted seven times Entertainer of the Year, seven times Male Performer of the Year and Five times Songwriter of the Year by the Western Music Association and received the Will Rogers Award from the Academy of Western Artists. He’s delighted audiences in twenty-three states and finds that he prefers this to being stomped by angry horses.

In November of 2016 Dave was inducted into the Western Music Hall of Fame.

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She was named one of True West's favorite western artist for 2012. She has received nominations for the Crescendo Award with the Western Music Association for 2012 and 2013. Female western singer and western album of the year with the Academy of Western Artists in 2012. She received an award with the Western Music Association for song of the year for 2014 for her song "Cowboy Hat". Trinity's Second release "Old Poly Rope" has also received many great reviews and nominations and awards for her songs, "Old Poly Rope", "Cricket Roll", and "Cowboy Hat".

"Cowboy's Wage" Trinity's third release, was just recently archived into the Cowboy Hall of fame museum in Oklahoma City and the song "The Hand", Co-written with Waddie Mitchell won the Spur Award with the WESTERN writers of America for Best Song of 2016.

Trinity has been a featured performer at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, NV. Heber City Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival in Heber City, UT, Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Durango CO, Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering in Prescott, AZ and many more gatherings and Ag related events, including a trip in 2014 and 2015 to Germany where she shared her western lifestyle with her friends across the big puddle.

Special Guest Venessa Carpenter

Living in Texas for 12 years laid down the foundation and gave 18 year old Miss Venessa Carpenter the heart and soul for the adventures that have found her. One day while her family was picking up a client's horse in Golden Texas, they got lost going down a narrow wrong road where they met a lady that let them turn their truck and horse trailer around in her yard and when they were telling her thanks she asked if they would vote on the CMT’s for her daughter Kasey Musgraves and that led to the beginning of many years of learning how to play guitar with Kacey's guitar teacher Mr. John Defoore.

Trying out for the Tex Ritter Showcase Miss Venessa would soon find her voice the with the help of her voice coach Miss Shawnda Rains Shearer and with the help of Miss Shawnda’s husband Mr. Charlie Shearer she would continue her love of learning the guitar.

In the fall of 2017, her family moved to Idaho for her dad’s work and she wasn’t sure where her music career was going when she was introduced to the IWMA in the spring of 2018 and her adventures would soon take her to Seirra Vista Arizona to perform at the Folklore Preserve and there she would meet Mr. Les Buffham and through that friendship she would meet Mr. Dan McCorison and he would begin teaching Miss Venessa how turn her stories into songs.

When covid hit and Miss Venessa couldn’t perform on stage she brought the stage to her home and started her Spurs and Strings Instagram Livestream show @venessacarpenter_westernsinger and the guest performers that she would showcase and get to know became the friends she now calls family.

Awards & Accomplishments

2019 Miss Venessa was featured with the IWMA Youth Officers at the Folklore Preserve in Sierra Vista AZ

2019 The Western Music Songwriters Series First Youth Showcase in Tooele UT

2020 The Western Music Songwriters Series Second Youth Showcase Awards: