Fourth-generation Texas Panhandle rancher Dale Burson is an award-winning singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar, fiddle, mandolin, and banjo. He runs cow-calf and yearling operations near Channing, Texas, and writes songs focusing on ranch life and family values.

Dale is a featured performer at cowboy gatherings and concerts throughout the United States. In 2004 he was awarded the Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum for A Life More Than This as outstanding Original Western Composition.

He has recorded with his son and daughter, Ross and Brittany, releasing the albums The Burson Family Ranch and Dancing With Daddy, and has written songs with Red Steagall while touring with his band. Dale also can be heard playing guitar on the album Ridin’ Old Paint: Documenting the Canadian River Breaks Fiddle Tradition, produced by the Western Folklife Center. He released The Heart in 2015 and has a new album coming out soon.

Floyd Beard, a lifetime cowboy, sixth-generation rancher, and 2016 and 2017 IWMA Male Poet of the Year, comes from Southeastern Colorado. Drawing from his own experiences and observations of the western way of life, Floyd delights his audience with humor and by bringing alive original, classics and contemporary cowboy poetry.

Floyd has three CDs. His most recent CD, Short Grass Country has been on the International Western Music Association’s list of Most Played Poetry CD’s for the final quarter in 2016 and first quarter in 2017, placing #1 and #3. He has been honored by his fellow Western Music Association artists as a Nominated and Top 5 Finalist for IIWMA Male Poet of the Year and was honored to be named WMA Male Poet of the Year twice for 2016 and 2017.

Floyd’s latest CD, Short Grass Country, was a Nominee and Top Five Finalist for IWMA Cowboy Poetry CD of the Year for 2017 and continues to be one of the Top 10 Cowboy Poetry CDs played on the radio since its release in 2016.