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What Ranch concert, camping and songwriting workshop fundraisers – supporting Chico Basin Ranch education programs
Location Chico Basin Ranch – Colorado Springs, Colo. (just southeast of Colorado Springs, 15 minutes east of I-25)
Dates Saturday, July 23– Concert
Sunday, July 24 – Songwriting workshop
Highlights Chico Basin Ranch is an 87,000 acre working cattle ranch, one of Colorado’s largest historic, cattle ranches.
Musician Corb Lund sells out arenas in Canada, recently played main stage at the Cavendish Beach Music Festival with the likes of Brad Paisley, Toby Keith, Trace Adkins, etc., is signed to New West Records, the same label as Kris Kristofferson and Steve Earle, and is a multiple award-winning artist.
There will be camping and games at the campground, a bonfire during and after the concert, jam sessions before and after the concert and food available all night.
Concerts are held outdoors in the open prairie with an unobstructed view of Pikes Peak.
There will be a Special songwriting workshop with Corb Lund July 24.
Proceeds support Chico Basin Ranch education programs that are provided free to school children throughout the year, teaching kids about conservation, ranching, land stewardship and prairie ecosystems – over 2,000 students visited the ranch last year.
Event info Saturday, July 23 – Concert with Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans
Sunday, July 24 – Songwriting workshop with Corb Lund
Camping opens at 12, concert area opens at 6:30, headliners go on at 8. Jam sessions led by local musician Michael Moon will be held in the campground before the show and around the bonfire after the show, so be sure to bring your instrument. Food available for purchase, alcohol is BYO. General admission $21 (price goes up at the gate), Camping $16/vehicle.
Songwriting Workshop Corb Lund has won several awards for his songwriting skills, including the Canadian Country Music Association’s Roots Artist of the Year award five years in a row, Roots and Traditional Album of the Year for Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer at the 2006 JUNO Awards (the Canadian Grammys) and a CCMA Album of the Year. He was also nominated in 2007 for the prestigious Polaris Music Prize for Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier!
Sunday, July 24, the day after the concert there will be a special songwriting workshop with Corb where he’ll be teaching his songwriting process and sharing the tools he uses in crafting his own songs. To start things off Corb will share a few songs he is working on and will talk through the techniques he used and how the songs evolved. A few participants will also be selected at random to play their song for the group that Corb will critique and give feedback on. At the end there will be a large block of time for Q and A.
The workshop will be from 11 to 2 p.m. and will be held in a remote, outdoor location on the ranch that will provide an intimate setting for learning, Q and A, and being out on the prairie. The workshop is $41 per person.
What Ranch concert, camping and songwriting workshop fundraisers – supporting Chico Basin Ranch education programs
Location Chico Basin Ranch – Colorado Springs, Colo. (just southeast of Colorado Springs, 15 minutes east of I-25)
Dates Saturday, July 23– Concert
Sunday, July 24 – Songwriting workshop
Highlights Chico Basin Ranch is an 87,000 acre working cattle ranch, one of Colorado’s largest historic, cattle ranches.
Musician Corb Lund sells out arenas in Canada, recently played main stage at the Cavendish Beach Music Festival with the likes of Brad Paisley, Toby Keith, Trace Adkins, etc., is signed to New West Records, the same label as Kris Kristofferson and Steve Earle, and is a multiple award-winning artist.
There will be camping and games at the campground, a bonfire during and after the concert, jam sessions before and after the concert and food available all night.
Concerts are held outdoors in the open prairie with an unobstructed view of Pikes Peak.
There will be a Special songwriting workshop with Corb Lund July 24.
Proceeds support Chico Basin Ranch education programs that are provided free to school children throughout the year, teaching kids about conservation, ranching, land stewardship and prairie ecosystems – over 2,000 students visited the ranch last year.
Event info Saturday, July 23 – Concert with Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans
Sunday, July 24 – Songwriting workshop with Corb Lund
Camping opens at 12, concert area opens at 6:30, headliners go on at 8. Jam sessions led by local musician Michael Moon will be held in the campground before the show and around the bonfire after the show, so be sure to bring your instrument. Food available for purchase, alcohol is BYO. General admission $21 (price goes up at the gate), Camping $16/vehicle.
Songwriting Workshop Corb Lund has won several awards for his songwriting skills, including the Canadian Country Music Association’s Roots Artist of the Year award five years in a row, Roots and Traditional Album of the Year for Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer at the 2006 JUNO Awards (the Canadian Grammys) and a CCMA Album of the Year. He was also nominated in 2007 for the prestigious Polaris Music Prize for Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier!
Sunday, July 24, the day after the concert there will be a special songwriting workshop with Corb where he’ll be teaching his songwriting process and sharing the tools he uses in crafting his own songs. To start things off Corb will share a few songs he is working on and will talk through the techniques he used and how the songs evolved. A few participants will also be selected at random to play their song for the group that Corb will critique and give feedback on. At the end there will be a large block of time for Q and A.
The workshop will be from 11 to 2 p.m. and will be held in a remote, outdoor location on the ranch that will provide an intimate setting for learning, Q and A, and being out on the prairie. The workshop is $41 per person.
Chico Basin Ranch education programs
Chico Basin Ranch education programs: Ranching the New West, the Prairie Ecosystem, the Lone Star Prairie School House and Chico Basin Bird Roundup are available to school groups throughout the year.
The ranch has renovated the Lone Star Schoolhouse, built in 1898 and uses it as a facility for school kids. Programs include taking students out into the prairie and wetlands to study nature, learning about ranching methods used to preserve and restore the land, into the saddle house and corrals to learn about ranching traditions, cowboys, horses and cattle, and tools of the trade, to the school house to learn about frontier life, and the bird banding station to learn about birds and their habitat needs. School groups can stay up to several days. Workshops for adults are also held for horsemanship, grazing and financial planning, ranch roping, art and cattle handling.
To visit the ranch with a school call (719) 683-7960 or email learning@chicobasinranch.com
Corb Lund
Signed to the same record label as Kris Kristofferson, he has been a recent main-stage performer with the likes of Brad Paisley, Toby Keith, Trace Adkins, Tanya Tucker and various other artists at the Cavendish Beach Music Festival.
Lund, Canada’s acclaimed alternative country star who sells out arenas back home, is quickly growing in popularity in the U.S., appearing with everyone from other alt-country stars like Robert Earl Keen and Hayes Carll to mainstream country acts like Tim McGraw.
Growing up in a ranching and rodeo family Corb’s songs tell tales of the West and accurately hit the subtle nuances that ring true with those who know the trials, tribulations and good times that come from working with the land and living a lifestyle revolving around horses and cattle.
“My family is all ranchers and rodeo people,” Lund said. “They’ve been in Canada for about 100 years, and before that they were raising cattle in Utah and Nevada. Some of my relatives are still down there. I grew up rodeoing. I was a steer rider – that’s like the junior version of bull riding. I was on horseback pretty much as soon as I could walk.”
