Name: An Evening with Jon Chandler and invited performers
Start: 2025-10-02T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-10-02T21:45:00-06:00
Location: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Durango

An Evening with Jon Chandler and invited performers

As one of the country's oldest Cowboy Gathering’s, we have won numerous awards for “Best Cowboy Gathering”, and recently we were recognized as one of “Durango’s Best Events” by the Durango Herald in their annual competition.  We take pride in continuing the traditions of the West in the heart and spirit of our past and western roots through music, poetry, and art, as well as educational programs for local schools.

Durango Cowboy Gathering

A seventh-generation Coloradan and well-known fixture in the Colorado country and Americana music scenes

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Durango

2025 Durango Cowboy Gathering Line up

Don't miss our nighttime performances at the Doubletree Hotel and our Durango Cowboy Gathering Western Dance at the Wild Horse Saloon. Buy your tickets now! Visit www.durangocowboygathering.org for events schedule.

Jon Chandler ~ Commerce City, ColoradoA seventh-generation Coloradan and well-known fixture in the Colorado country and Americana music scenes, Jon's music and stories reflect his heritage. His CDs, novels, non-fiction works and myriad short stories are collected by Western lifestyle aficionados. He was named True West magazine's Best Western Musician and is a three-time winner of the prestigious Spur Award from the Western Writers of America."Linwood," his moody examination of Doc Holiday's life, was named Best Song, as well as his tribute to Wyoming's Hole in the Wall country, "Morning Star Moon." His novel The Spanish Peaks received the WWA's Medicine Pipe Bearer Award/Spur Award and Wyoming Wind, A Novel of Tom Horn, was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award.Ghost Smoke is his latest recording, released in October 2024, while Homage, a highly praised collection of cover songs that have influenced his writing and singing, was released in 2021. He is at work on a new recording, I'm Still Here, and his long-awaited novel, He Was No Hero is awaiting publication. Jon has travelled throughout the country performing at concert venues, honky-tonks, nightclubs, cowboy poetry gatherings and music festivals, and has appeared everywhere from the legendary Ryan Auditorium in Nashville to the Congressional Earth Day Reception in Washington D.C. He was most recently honored with the Branding Iron Award by the Friends of the William S. Hart Museum in Newhall, California, and received the International Western Music Association's Award of Excellence as 2023's Male Performer of the Year.

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