Artists:Mark Gardner & Rex Rideout
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From "Boatmans Dance" to "Little Joe, the Wrangler," Mark Gardner and Rex Rideout perform the historic music of the Western experience using vintage instruments and historic playing styles. As "living historians," they recreate the authentic music of the Santa Fe Trail, the battlefields of the Civil War, the cow camps of Colorado, and more. To hear one of their performances is to take a trip back to the days of Stephen Foster, Dan Emmett, and Jack Thorp. Their "music...is precisely what your ancestors heard, what they danced to," writes Jon Chandler of their popular release, Frontier Favorites: Old-Time Music of the Wild West. "It's a musical journey to the mid-19th century that transcends cultural nostalgia; this music is realistic enough in style and content to have been played and sung in its exact form on the Western frontier....It is rollicking, it is exhilarating, and most of all, it is real." Music from Frontier Favorites is fea- tured in two new National Park Service visitor center films, those for Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, La Junta, Colorado; and Fort Union National Monument, Watrous, New Mexico.
Mark L. Gardner: Mark is a respected independent historian with numerous scholarly and popular publications to his credit, including several guides for the National Park Service. His latest NPS publication is a biography of GERONIMO, to be published by Western National Parks Association during the summer of 2006. Mark is an authority on cowboy ballad collector Nathan Howard "Jack" Thorp. His feature article on Thorp appeared in the March 2004 issue of New Mexico Magazine, and he recently collaborated with the Museum of New Mexico to produce a book and CD of the cowboy songs collected by Thorp in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mark's first CD, Songs of the Santa Fe Trail and the Far West (Native Ground Music), received critical acclaim as an accurate portrayal of the music of the 19th-century American Southwest, receiving a nomination for a 1998 Indie Award in the Traditional Folk category. The CD has been featured on the soundtracks of several television documentaries, most notably the PBS documentary "The U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848." Mark's musical instrument of choice is the 5-string banjo, although he is also a master of the bones and jawbone!
Rex Rideout: Rex is a long-time student of the music and songs of the 19th-century American West. As the proprietor of Time Travel Music, Rex has performed at countless historic sites and museums across the West. His music has also been featured on television and radio specials. Rex contributed to the soundtrack of two HGTV documentaries: "Homes of the Gold Rush" and "Ghost Towns," both of which aired nationally in 2001. He worked closely with Mark on the music CD to accompany the book Jack Thorps Songs of the Cowboys, the trade edition for which was recently published by the Museum of New Mexico. Rex plays many musical instruments: mandolin, fiddle, guitar, banjo, and tin whistle, to name a few. He has been a student of the trades and skills of the 19th century for over twenty-five years, specializing in traditional woodwork and metalwork. Studying how 19th-century man obtained food, shelter and, when possible, entertainment, has been a life-long interest. When he is not performing, Rex works in the Geology Department of the Colorado School of Mines in Golden. He lives with his family in Conifer, Colorado. Visit Rex's brand-spanking new web site at www.TimeTravelMusic.com..
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