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2021 Fish Creek Road
Estes Park, CO 80517
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Open Star Productions
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2021 Fish Creek Road
Estes Park, CO 80517 (map) - (970) 214-5020
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Open Star Productions • Estes Park, CO • $500 per hour
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Vic is a very diverse and highly recommended entertainer. A singer/songwriter who primarily plays guitar, as well as banjo, ukulele, and harmonica. He is a champion yodeler, a world class melodic whistler (you know, he whistles songs. He calls it his poor man's fiddle) who also does trick and fancy roping, is a lauded cowboy poet, and many times, published freelance writer who is also an oral story teller and humorist.
He is an evening's entertainment by himself. He gets the audience involved, whether young or old. He is also an accomplished horseman, a former rodeo cowboy raised on the ranges of Montana - he is available for your show; in bars or barns, afoot or horseback, indoors, or outdoors, from cornfields to concert halls.
Vic also fronts a western music band "Vic Anderson and the High Country Cowboys," The members are: Vic, vocalist/Guitar, Tom, fantastic fiddle/vocals, Dan, bassist extraordinaire/ vocalist, and a female vocalist/guitarist of reknown, Liz. They also have an outstanding accordianist available. They play music reminiscent of: The Sons of The Pioneers, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, and Tex Williams and the Western Caravan.
The prices quoted below do not reflect those of the band.
Question and answer
Q. Why does your work stand out from others who do what you do?
A. First off, Versatility. Many western entertainers can sing and play an instrument, generally a guitar. I also do these. In addition, I am a champion yodeler, and a world class melodic whistler. Beyond those, I also do rope spinning and some fancy rope catches.
Secondly, many western entertainers call themselves cowboys, and I'm certain they are in their hearts. I was born and raised on a ranch in Montana, and spent many years feeding, calving, lambin, fencing, doctoring, haying and otherwise caring for cattle, sheep, and horses. In addition, I spent approx. 50% of my time sleeping in a sleeping bag, either in a cow camp or, during the fall and winter, in a tent or outside while guiding big game hunters. I am an accomplished horseman and horse trainer of both riding and draft horses.
Q. What do you like most about your job?
A. Immediate satisfaction and response from the audience. When I sing and see their feet tapping or smiles on their faces, perhaps while singing along, I know what I'm doing is making them feel good
Q. What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?
A. Why do cowboys have to rope cows and calves. I answer by explaining that large ranches in particular cannot get a sick or injured animal to a corral when the corral might be many miles away. For example: a ranch where I worked had one pasture that was over 50 miles square, with very few roads and the only corral could be more than 20 miles away. If we made a cow travel that far, they'd be much sicker by the time they got to the corral than if they are roped and doctored on the spot
