The Rodeo Parade
41st Gathering
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4m 26s
Dave compares life’s inevitable chaos and crumbling endeavors to a passing rodeo parade. Dave Stamey sings "The Rodeo Parade" during the "Upside Down in a Cow Town" show at the 41st National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Dave Stamey
Orange Cove, CA
Dave Stamey has been a cowboy, a mule packer, and a dude wrangler. Now, he is one of the most popular western entertainers working today. He has made it his life's work to celebrate the rural American West with songs that capture the life of the modern cowboy. In the past two decades, he has recorded 14 albums of original music, traveled hundreds of thousands of miles, and performed thousands of shows doing just that. He lives in the farthest northeastern corner of Tulare County, California, where the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains begin just outside his back door.
"The Rodeo Parade"
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Filmed in front of a live audience at the Elko Convention Center’s Laurena Moren Theater on Jan. 29, 2026.
Made possible by Blach Distributing and by the multitude of staff, artists, volunteers, and community members working behind the scenes to make this show happen.
Brought to you by the Western Folklife Center, using story and cultural expression to connect the American West to the world.
www.westernfolklife.org
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