Dave stamey biography
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Give Dave Stamey a campfire and he'll sing you a song. And you can bet your bottom dollar it will be a good one.
A Montana native who was raised on a ranch in California's Central Coast, Stamey nearly gave singing up for good after years of playing "electrified cheating songs" in night clubs and cocktail lounges.
He found smaller crowds more appreciative of his music, however, and has thrived with an acoustic guitar and original songs at county fairs, cowboy poetry gatherings and events like Beckwourth Frontier Days and Feather River Fiddle and Bluegrass Jamboree.
In fact, he's so good that he is one of the most popular cowboy entertainers on the stage today. Two years running he was a finalist in the nominations for the Western Music Nominations Male Performer of the Year. In 1998, he was a finalist for Songwriter of the Year and his song, "Montana," was nominated as Song of the Year.
Stamey brings his original western songs, which include some yodeling and poetry, to Beckwourth Frontier Days on Saturday and Sunday.
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Dave Stamey
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Cowboys and Indians Magazine has called him “the Charlie Russell of Western Music.” Western Horseman Magazine has declared his “Vaquero Song” to be one of the greatest Western songs of all time. True West Magazine named him Best Living Western Solo Musician four years in a row.
Dave Stamey has been a cowboy, a mule packer, a dude wrangler, and is now one of the most popular Western entertainers working today. He has been voted seven times Entertainer of the Year, seven times Male Performer of the Year and Five times Songwriter of the Year by the Western Music Association, and received the Will Rogers Award from the Academy of Western Artists. He’s delighted audiences in twenty three states, and finds that he prefers this to being stomped by angry horses.
In November of 2016 Dave was inducted into the Western Music Hall of Fame.
Dave's Press Kit includes two print quality photos and a .txt file with his biography and is available for download (1.25 MB)
"Perhaps the greatest cowboy balladeer alive today."
--Seth Hopkins, Director, Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA
"If you haven’t discovered him yet, it’s time you broadened your horizons."
--Cowboy Magazine