Celebrating Cowboy Spirit
On the Northern Range
Happy Easter from Hat Creek
April 12, 2009 by Adam Ainsworth
2009 Cowboy Campfire Festival in Hat Creek
March 1, 2009 by Adam Ainsworth
Adam Ainsworth will once again will host the 12th Annual Cowboy Campfire Festival in Hat Creek. The festival will celebrate its tweleth anniversary on July 25, 2009. Although there were less than 20 at the first Campfire Festival in 1997, this festival has grown steadily every year since. This summer another crowd will gather around the campfire for music, stories & lies. The Annual Cowboy Campfire Festival is a place for the tellers of long winded stories that have happy endings.
Adam Ainsworth has been a storyteller most his life. He is a long time resident on Hat Creek & has always dreamed of producing & hosting a cowboy music festival. The dream came true for Adam in 1997 with the very first Cowboy Campfire Festival in Hat Creek, Alberta.
Beyond Beans Cowboy Cuisine in Hat Creek
February 1, 2009 by Adam Ainsworth
Cowboy Cuisine in Hat Creek
January 1, 2009 by Adam AinsworthThe Golden Lotus Cafe
It is Hat Creek’s only restuarant
The Golden Lotus Cafe serves cowboy cuisine with a world flavour
The Golden Lotus Cafe opened in 1995
Ground Hog Day 2008
February 2, 2008 by Adam Ainsworth
Edmonton Folk Festival Announces Line Up
June 1, 2007 by Adam Ainsworth
Terry Wickham announced the 2007 Line Up for the Edmonton Folk Music Festival today. Appearing on MAINSTAGE this year will be bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys; Nanci Griffith; City & Colour, Blue Rodeo; Michael Franti & Spearhead; Mary Margaret O’Hara; Marty Stuart. Buffy Sainte-Marie will close out the festival on Sunday night August 12.
Australia Sings
April 1, 2007 by Adam Ainsworth
Flying Horse Legends
March 1, 2007 by Adam Ainsworth
Perhaps our greatest fascination with the cowboy
Comes from the fact that, more than we realize it
There is a bit of the cowboy in us all
Flying Horse Spirit
February 1, 2007 by Adam AinsworthThe best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse
Cowboy is defined by Ramon Adams in The Cowboy Dictionary as: “just a plain everyday bow-legged human. He is carefree and courageous, fun loving and loyal. He is uncomplaining and doing the best to live up to a tradition of which he is proud.” Cowboys are called everything from cowpokes to dudes and wrangers, but never cowards. Cowboys are still with us today and will always be as long as the west has cows. Cowboys will change perhaps with the times, but they’ll always be witty, friendly and fearless.
