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Skip Gorman and Connie Dover

Cowboy singer/musician Skip Gorman and Celtic singer and poet Connie Dover bring together their down-deep, heartfelt interpretations of the traditional music of the American West, Ireland and Scotland. Dover, described by the Boston Globe as the "finest ballad singer America has produced since Joan Baez," and Gorman, who Bluegrass Unlimited magazine calls "a masterful interpreter of cowboy ballads" blend their music in a concert of the "sweet old songs" of the trail, the cow camp, and the Old-World ballads that were their predecessors.

Connie and Skip met in the Owl Creek Mountains of north central Wyoming, where Connie is a ranch cook, and Skip worked as an entertainer and wrangler during cattle drives and roundups. Their chance meeting on the trail led to impromptu duets around evening campfires, and blossomed into a musical friendship that led to concerts throughout the United States and embassy-hosted tours of South America with musical friend Tom Sauber, where they sang traditional North American songs at community concerts and school workshops throughout Chile, Argentina and Paraguay. Recent collaborations include a series of concerts to benefit Wrangler Ranch, Inc. (Thermopolis, Wyoming), whose mission is to offer children in crisis the healing benefits of horse-related activities in a working ranch environment.

Skip and Connie's performances are a rare treat: their music is drawn from the ballads and old-time dance tunes that brought them together on the Wyoming prairie.