Événement

Ernie Sites: Singing the Stories of the West

Ernie Sites is an ambassador for the western cowboy and promotes this wonderful culture so inherent to our national heritage. Likely, you have seen the Hollywood version of the West but theres nothing like seeing and hearing, up close and personal. Ernie will be telling, singing and performing his life story. He is the real deal! Joining Ernie is cowboy poet, Mark Munzert, whos new album, Day Workin, is currently the #1 most played on the Western Poetry Charts.

Among Ernies many talents, he is a western performer, songwriter, cowboy poet, trick roper, bull rider, rodeo clown, bareback rider, team and a calf roper, yodeler, educator and author. A native-born son of Idaho, Ernie splits his time between Idaho and our Hudson River Valley.

Performing with big names in Western music history, such as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Patsy Montana, Riders in the Sky and Sons of the Pioneers he became well-recognized by the Western Music Association (WMA). This core of entertainers attracted him to a much larger audience as he pursued cowboy entertainment, singing and yodeling, along with performing rope tricks and sharing Cowboy history.
Working with children is what Ernie considers as one of his greatest accomplishments. "Native American Indians and Cowboys Too," is a theatrical program for children Ernie wrote and helped produce is a performance that ran for five years during the winter months in Queens College, New York, and entertained 2,000 children a day, five days a week. Along with his current program, "Singing the Stories of the West", he is an artist-in-residence, conducting creative writing classes that focus on rhyming poetry as well as free verse.
Ernie Sites isn't just from the West ~ he is the West; he is its authentic, native son. - Persimmon Hills Story

Call 845 528-7280 to reserve seats. For more information email info@tompkinscorners.org.

Tompkins Corners Cultural Center is a 501c3 not-for-profit organization located in the historic church at 729 Peekskill Hollow Road in Putnam Valley, NY. Presentations include concerts, play readings, family events, weekly Tai Chi classes, occasional music jams and monthly poetry readings. Check our website at www.tompkinscorners.org or our Facebook page at Facebook.com/tompkinscorners, or for more information, email info@tompkinscorners.org or leave a message at 845 528-7280.