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MSC Room 201 6-8 p.m. Sponsored by Aggies for Rains Refreshments Provided “...the most articulate and knowledgeable Republican... -Texas Monthly Political Ad Paid for by AGGIES FOR RAINS, President Sherly Schluter, 1403 Athens Dr., College Station, Texas 77840. 696-1571 Cowboy poets who once practiced their art mainly in bunkhouses, bars and at family gatherings have ex tended their stage across America in recent years, appearing on national television and tne banquet circuit. Cowboy poetry has existed as long as there have been cowboys. Several old songs began as cowboy verse and books of cowboy poems were pub lished as early as the 19th century. But it didn’t really attract a wide audience until January 1985 when Hal Cannon, former state folklorist for the state of Utah, organized with several others the Cowboy Poets Gathering in Elko, Nev., now an an nual event held every January. “Cowboy poetry was a part of American folklore but it had almost no exposure,” says Cannon, who has become the director of the Western Folk Life Center in Salt Lake City. “America didn’t know about the po etic cowboy. “So we all started thinking about it. We started looking around and found that almost everyone who in terprets the cowboy is an outsider. Movie makers, TV producers, jour nalists, artists, folklorists. “The cowboy hadn’t really had a chance to tell his own story. He really didn’t have a public forum.” Baxter Black of Henderson, Colo., considered to be the only such f ioet who derives his entire income rom rhyme, says audiences find Western poetry enchanting because of the cowboy’s independent image. “He has a physical job,” Black says. “He’s outdoors. He’s placing himself against the elements with the mythical Code of the West to guide him. When the chips are down, this is the person you want to stand be side you.” Black, who has traveled the ban quet circuit for years with stopovers in such places as Muleshoe, Texas, says acceptance from the general public began with that first poetry gathering in Elko. Before the poets went public. Cannon says, “the only place you really heard them was in bars or cow camps. They were pretty private ses sions.” Cowboys and ranchers first pub lished their poetic works as early as replied: “ ‘He’d do to ride the river will, “ I’d have you say of me. “And if I lived to lit the words, “I’d he all 1 should be.’ Waddy Mitchell, a ranch for® near Elko who also has foundi tional prominence as a cowboypj estimates participation sincetfiM gathering has increased 2,000 ff cent. Mitchell has appeared on sc 66 He has a physical job. He’s outdoors. He’s placing himself against the elements with the mythical Code of the West to guide him. When the chips are down, this is the person you want to stand beside you." — Baxter Blad cowboy poll 1880, he says, but, “It just never got out to the public.” The public exposure has brought out “several hundred” other cowboy poets, some better than others. “The quality ranges from bad to great,” Cannon says. Buck Ramsey of Amarillo, Texas, one of the newcomers to the cowboy poet circle, is considered by Cannon to be one of the best. “When I hear Buck Ramsey recite his poetry, I’m much more moved than when I see someone throw his hat all around the stage,” Cannon says. Performance, which includes ges tures, facial expressions and tone of voice, sometimes overshadows the content at cowboy poetry readings. Ramsey’s verse is straightforward with no histrionics. Asked for a cou plet about a cowboy poet, Ramsey television specials and toured cently with country singer Mfe Martin Murphy, to places like Si tha’s Vineyard, Mass., and Miaou Black, who acts as his own 1m ness manager and limits hisappti ances off the banquet circuit to al' five a year, has been a guest one Johnny Carson show twice. Other poets have beguntolli as headliners at dinners, banf and conventions throughoui West. Cannon is preparing an anthol of cowboy poetry that will some of Ramsey’s work. Ramsey, injured in abronc-nli accident on a Texas Pant ranch in 1963, has written non* tion for Southwestern publicaM for years. He believes thai ® cowboys are far betier-educaift literature than most people reals Revelers fancy strange music OLIVE HILL, Ky. (AP) — This year’s winner of the 10th annual Strange Music Festival was a hosa- phone. Runner-up honors went to a harp that came from from the broad side of a barn. Third place went to the humongaphonium. The festival began in 1980 at Car ter Caves State Resort Park and was intended to celebrate the jaw harp. “But we decided that was too lim ited, so the thing just started getting a whole lot bigger,” said festival co founder Dick Albin, a Nashville, Tenn., humorist. Albin said the festival has at tracted musicians from Japan, Is rael, Canada and West Virginia. “This brings out latent musical abilities,” said John P. Tierney, park naturalist and the other co-founder. More than 100 people squeezed into the meeting room at the park lodge to watch six musicians demon strate their creations. Prizes went to the instruments that were the most unusual and the best able to play a recognizable tune. Dick Mansfield, a folk musician from Mansfield, Ohio, won with what he called a hosaphone. He took the mouthpiece from a trumpet and stuck it into a hose from his mother’s washing machine. Twirling one end of the hose, he played “Taps.” “I came up with this 30 years ago but never had a place to play it,” Mansfield said. Robert Toothman of South Point, Ohio, came in second with his board harp, a 5-foot-4 piece of lumber from the side of an old barn that he fitted with frets and banjo strings. Third-place went to J.C. Ramey of Olive Hill, a former elementary school principal who said he spent a year developing his entry, which he called a gigantic, compressed-air, PVC humongaphonium. It was a long piece of plastic pipe with a slide in one end and an air compressor on the other. With the help of two assistants, he played “The Of Gray Mare.” Tierney recalled some previous entries: “This couple had a baby, and they figured out that if they patted him, he’d gurgle, so they played that.” Another contestant tied a stick to a dog’s wagging tail so the animal could play the drums. “Visually it was strange,” Tierney said, “but mu sically, it was lacking something.” Magic (Continued from pageS) owner Antonio Heleno takesspt 1 pride in ordinary looking rock ceramic bowls of water. Their® ical properties lie protectee blessed water, he explains, atid‘ ing a week-long special they're! $3 per rock. In the shop next door,animal sold for sacrificial rituals, a coil versial but widely toleratedpradi “It’s absolutely barbaric, > Maureen Roth, a member of World Society for the Protect® Animals in Rio. “But who do complain to? Sacrifice is accept everyone here, from the presit of the country on down.” Last July, Rio councilman Leite Passos called for a law prof ing animal sacrifice. Some 281 leaders gathered on the stepsoi hall and threatened to casta® over each councilman. The bl withdrawn. Professional magicians ail magical powers don’t come packaged. “You can’t just buy magicalf; erties,” says Coelho, who claim advise a number of congress# the properties of magic. “Pf must be earned through ritual