BCAC Presents: Hoedown at the Berry Patch! – Brighton, CO

Join us for a rustic evening of country music, cowboy poetry, line dancing, great food, and good times at Berry Patch Farms in Brighton, CO.

• Ticket includes full meal plus dessert
• Plenty of free parking on site
• Entertainment and dance instruction
• Cash bar
• Door prizes

Come support the arts at this fundraiser for the Brighton Cultural Arts Commission (BCAC), a non-profit whose volunteers work hard all year to bring the transformative power of art and culture to our community. For more information about BCAC’s important contributions to the people of Brighton, please visit https://brightonculturalarts.org/

ABOUT WEST HWY 7: Born from the fertile soil outside of Brighton, Colorado, is this six-piece Outlaw Country Honky Tonk machine. This band honors the old school country legends like Cash, Hag, Willie, Waylon, Paycheck, Jones, the CDB, and Dwight. No country pop here, just the raw unfiltered Boom Chick Twang that makes your mama proud. See https://westhwy7.com/ for more information.

ABOUT VALERIE BEARD: Valerie is a rancher’s wife, teacher, writer, crew cook, quilter, reader and Nana. She and her husband, Cowboy Poet Floyd Beard, live in Southeast Colorado and run cattle. She has been writing poetry for about eight years but thinking about it for her lifetime. Her first cowboy poetry CD, No Better Life, was released in 2022 and won the International Western Music Association’s (IWMA’s) Cowboy Poetry CD of the Year in 2023. She was also named Female Poet of the Year in 2022 and 2023. Visit https://www.valeriebeard.com/ for more information.

ABOUT FLOYD BEARD: Floyd Beard and wife, Valerie, ranch in the canyons near Kim, Colorado, where they run a cow/calf operation. Floyd, who has a gift for putting words together that build a vivid picture in the readers’/listeners’ minds, has been writing and rhyming for over 40 years and is the 2016, 2017, 2021, and 2023 International Music Association’s Male Poet of the Year. His most recent CD, Horse Tales and Cow Trails, won the IWMA’s 2021 Cowboy Poetry CD of the Year. For more information, go to https://www.floydbeardcowboy.com/

ABOUT ROSALIE FARRER: Rosalie has lived in Colorado her entire life and has had a love of dancing her entire life. Rosalie loves to stay active and has tireless energy to encourage others to dance and have fun. She has been teaching line dancing for over 30 years and can be found teaching at Eagle View Adult Center in Brighton and at Two Left Boots in Denver. Her motto, both on the dance floor and off, is “no mistakes, just journeys that we learn from.”

Email wilma.k.rose@gmail.com for more information about the event.