Michael Martin Murphey News

The region's fastest growing excursion train, the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad is steaming into the 2009 summer season with a sizzling combo train and country music concert ticket deal, promising an unforgettable experience in the mountains of Fir, Colo.

Cowboy music singer and songwriter Michael Martin Murphey will perform during the Mile High Rendezvous, celebrating the opening of the Mile High Marketplace Event Center, Friday through Sunday.

There is just something about trains that fascinates both young and old alike. Historic trains are even more fun ... the ones that roll down tracks that were laid down more than a century ago to bring gold and silver ore out of the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

Brenn Hill, well-known local cowboy poet and country music singer, with his 3-year-old son Briggs, who is in the hospital fighting cancer.

When Jerry Kehoe gets into his 19th century period costume as a cowboy, he can't get enough of the Wild West shooting action that comes along with his character.

During the long Iowa winter, it seems at times that warm-weather fun will never return to Messengerland.

Michael Martin Murphey hits include "Wildfire," "Cowboy Logic," "Carolina in the Pines" and "What's Forever For." The title song of his album "Geronimo's Cadillac" in 1972 was recorded by Hoyt Axton and taken up as an anthem by Native American civil rights activists.

Gates open at 10 a.m. 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. - General entertainment 11:30 a.m. - Ed Aragoni, balloon artist and magician, west side of the stockade Noon to 12:30 p.m. - Bob Hamm, cowboy entertainer, in front of the stockade 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. - Doc Anderson on the porch of the Trading Post or other areas along Front Street 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. - Hole ...

Michael Martin Murphey, whose hits have included "Wildfire," "Cowboy Logic," "Carolina in the Pines," "What's Forever For," and "Long Line of Love," as well as "Geronimo's Cadillac" and "Cherokee Fiddle," will perform at Frontier Days.

People from all over Texas descended upon Palestine for the 7th annual Texas Music Awards - filling up the Palestine Civic Center with cowboy boots, cowboy hats and high heels Sunday.

From encampments to wagon rides and concerts, people can immerse themselves in the Old West at the Prairie Rose Western Days near Benton the first three days in May.

In many ways, Michael Martin Murphey has the career that Michael Nesmith of the Monkees -- with whom Murphey performed early in both of their careers -- might've had if he'd never been picked for the NBC series.

Veteran country-music star Michael Martin Murphey is performing another benefit concert for the Route 66 Interpretive Center of Chandler, Okla., on April 16.

Fans of guitars and fiddles will get their annual gift from WKCR this coming weekend when the station rolls out its Country Music Festival.

Michael Martin Murphey and Dailey & Vincent are among the acts headlining the Bluegrass Returns to Its Roots Festival taking place Thursday through Saturday in Owensboro, Ky.

Singer, Michael Martin Murphey is set for a busy April beginning with a headlining performance April 3rd at the Bluegrass Returns to its Roots Festival at the River Park Stage in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Some of country music's most laureled songwriters trekked to the ASCAP building on Music Row Wednesday afternoon to toast Guy Clark and Allen Shamblin on being named to the Texas Heritage Songwriters' Association's Honor Roll.

New Mexico balladeer Syd Masters didn't expect to cool his heels next to Pat Garrett's daughter in the state's history books.

Tickets are now on sale for a red carpet event - the 7th annual Texas Music Awards set for April 26 at the Palestine Civic Center .

Two native East Texans are among three country music artists destined for the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame, officials announced this morning.