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August 23, 2024 - 4:30 PM
Giddy up and get ready for Vernon’s annual Cowboy Festival at the Historic O’Keefe Ranch this weekend.
Guests visiting the ranch Saturday and Sunday have the opportunity have a wagon ride, play croquet, do cowboy crafts and take part in old-fashioned games. There will also be an opportunity to line dance, square dance and learn to use a lasso.
There will also be high noon classic cowboy shoot-out as well as a presentation about cowboy life in the Okanagan.
Well known local musician Duane Marchand will be the wandering troubadour playing cowpoke songs.
The tickets for the classic Saturday night cowboy dinner have been sold out, but attendees are still invited to come along for the rest of the wild west weekend.
Saturday night will finish with a campfire filled with stories, poems and singing under the starry sky.
The following Sunday morning will offer a cowboy church session with local country singer Rob Dinwoodie.
The Cowboy Festival goes Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 24 and 25, at the Historic O'Keefe Ranch just north of Vernon on Highway 97.
For more information about the festival and O'Keefe Ranch go here.
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