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Carnegie Center for the Arts has two upcoming events scheduled in connection with its newest exhibit.
The exhibit will be featured at the center's Final Friday celebrations, and a reception for the exhibit will be held March 3. The exhibit features the art of Allen Bailey.
Marshal Allen D. Bailey was born on a small farm four miles east of Gate, Okla., and grew up in Cimarron, graduating from Cimarron High School in 1973. As a child, he developed a strong interest in both music and art.
Teaching himself to play the guitar, he started playing dances at the age of 13. Over the years, he learned to play a number of instruments including keyboard, fiddle, and pedal steel guitar.
As a result of his love of music, coupled with his knowledge of Old West history, Bailey loves to sing the cowboy songs of the Old West and western swing.
In 1988, Bailey and his western swing band were performing on High Plains Public Radio for a fund drive when he was asked to host a radio program of his own. Thus his program, "Western Swing and Other Things," was started and has continued to run on HPPR for over two decades. It can be heard worldwide over the Internet at www.hppr.org.
Bailey was among the first to be inducted into the Kansas Western Swing Hall of Fame in 2004. He was inducted into the Western Swing Society of the Southwest Hall Of Fame in 2009 and named the Cowtown Society Of Western Music Disc Jockey of the Year in 2011.
On Feb. 21, 2000, Bailey was commissioned as the marshal of Dodge City by the mayor and city commission and has served as marshal since that time.
Bailey is also a self-taught artist, painting in acrylics. Over the years, he has worked as a freelance artist for several national outdoor hunting magazines and catalogs and done art for Western publications. He has sold his paintings all over the world via the Internet.
The exhibit of Bailey's work will be on display for Final Friday this week and will remain through the March 3 event.
Come along, pardner
Marshal Bailey will be joined for the March 3 event by Pat Jacobs.
Pat Jacobs, born and raised in Ashland, has been a guest on Bailey’s radio show on numerous occasions.
Pat’s CD, "The Oklahoma Swing Project," was recognized by the Oklahoma Historical Society and named The Cowtown Society of Western Music CD of the year, according to a news release from Jacobs. He’s worn many different hats over the years — rancher, cowboy, nationally-known cutting horse trainer and musician — but the most rewarding of all is the 25 years it took to produce his historic western swing album.
Pat is also a renowned writer of Western literature. Pat’s second novel, “The Chameleon Rancher,” is set in southwest Kansas and the Great Plains region during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl era in 1941, an time that the Western writers and historians failed to cover.
Since Jacobs lived it, including riding cutting horses in a race for the World Championship of the National Cutting Horse Association, he used actual Dodge City characters, with made-up names, from his huge bank of memories for this book. He has woven colorful individuals into a backdrop of actual events with fictional, yet believable, cowboys and ranchers, plus a dash of love, sex, drama and human frailties.
Pat’s music and novels can be found online at www.patjacobs.com.
Both Bailey and Jacobs will be on hand for several events on March 3, including a book signing from 2 to 3 p.m. and a concert from 6 to 8 p.m., during which Jacobs will talk about his books at 7 p.m.
For more information about Final Friday at Carnegie or the March 3 event, call 225-6388.
IF YOU GO
What: Final Friday celebration
When and Where: 4 to 6 p.m. Friday at the DC3 Little Theatre gallery, 5 to 7 p.m. at Carnegie Center for the Arts and 6 to 8 p.m. at 2nd Ave. Art Guild's gallery
Featuring: "Deployed in Iraq," photography by Zach Mettlen at DC3, the paintings of Marshal Allen Bailey at Carnegie and an 8x8 fundraising auction at 2nd Ave. Art Guild.
Carnegie Center for the Arts has two upcoming events scheduled in connection with its newest exhibit.
The exhibit will be featured at the center's Final Friday celebrations, and a reception for the exhibit will be held March 3. The exhibit features the art of Allen Bailey.
Marshal Allen D. Bailey was born on a small farm four miles east of Gate, Okla., and grew up in Cimarron, graduating from Cimarron High School in 1973. As a child, he developed a strong interest in both music and art.
Teaching himself to play the guitar, he started playing dances at the age of 13. Over the years, he learned to play a number of instruments including keyboard, fiddle, and pedal steel guitar.
As a result of his love of music, coupled with his knowledge of Old West history, Bailey loves to sing the cowboy songs of the Old West and western swing.
In 1988, Bailey and his western swing band were performing on High Plains Public Radio for a fund drive when he was asked to host a radio program of his own. Thus his program, "Western Swing and Other Things," was started and has continued to run on HPPR for over two decades. It can be heard worldwide over the Internet at www.hppr.org.
Bailey was among the first to be inducted into the Kansas Western Swing Hall of Fame in 2004. He was inducted into the Western Swing Society of the Southwest Hall Of Fame in 2009 and named the Cowtown Society Of Western Music Disc Jockey of the Year in 2011.
On Feb. 21, 2000, Bailey was commissioned as the marshal of Dodge City by the mayor and city commission and has served as marshal since that time.
Bailey is also a self-taught artist, painting in acrylics. Over the years, he has worked as a freelance artist for several national outdoor hunting magazines and catalogs and done art for Western publications. He has sold his paintings all over the world via the Internet.
The exhibit of Bailey's work will be on display for Final Friday this week and will remain through the March 3 event.
Come along, pardner
Marshal Bailey will be joined for the March 3 event by Pat Jacobs.
Pat Jacobs, born and raised in Ashland, has been a guest on Bailey’s radio show on numerous occasions.
Pat’s CD, "The Oklahoma Swing Project," was recognized by the Oklahoma Historical Society and named The Cowtown Society of Western Music CD of the year, according to a news release from Jacobs. He’s worn many different hats over the years — rancher, cowboy, nationally-known cutting horse trainer and musician — but the most rewarding of all is the 25 years it took to produce his historic western swing album.
Pat is also a renowned writer of Western literature. Pat’s second novel, “The Chameleon Rancher,” is set in southwest Kansas and the Great Plains region during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl era in 1941, an time that the Western writers and historians failed to cover.
Since Jacobs lived it, including riding cutting horses in a race for the World Championship of the National Cutting Horse Association, he used actual Dodge City characters, with made-up names, from his huge bank of memories for this book. He has woven colorful individuals into a backdrop of actual events with fictional, yet believable, cowboys and ranchers, plus a dash of love, sex, drama and human frailties.
Pat’s music and novels can be found online at www.patjacobs.com.
Both Bailey and Jacobs will be on hand for several events on March 3, including a book signing from 2 to 3 p.m. and a concert from 6 to 8 p.m., during which Jacobs will talk about his books at 7 p.m.
For more information about Final Friday at Carnegie or the March 3 event, call 225-6388.
IF YOU GO
What: Final Friday celebration
When and Where: 4 to 6 p.m. Friday at the DC3 Little Theatre gallery, 5 to 7 p.m. at Carnegie Center for the Arts and 6 to 8 p.m. at 2nd Ave. Art Guild's gallery
Featuring: "Deployed in Iraq," photography by Zach Mettlen at DC3, the paintings of Marshal Allen Bailey at Carnegie and an 8x8 fundraising auction at 2nd Ave. Art Guild.
