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Cheyenne Depot Museum
121 West 15th St., Cheyenne Wyoming, 82001
(307) 632 - 3905 | FAX (307) 632 - 0614

Located in Historic Downtown Cheyenne
Building Open 8 AM to 6 PM Monday - Friday
Museum Open 9 AM to 6 PM Monday - Friday
9 AM to 5 PM Saturday
11 AM to 5 PM Sunday

Drew Harrison will be performing works by John Lennon in the Cheyenne Depot lobby tomorrow (Tuesday) night at 6:30pm as part of the Downtown Entertainment Program, Performing Arts Series.  On Tuesday, May 13th, Drew Harrison will be performing in the Cheyenne Depot lobby at 6:30pm.   Drew Harrison will be singing songs written and performed by John Lennon.  The performance will be acoustic and will be "paying homage to someone whose music and ideals I admire immensely."    The performance, entitled "In the Spirit of Lennon" is a celebration of John Lennon's life and his work.

The Cheyenne Depot Museum is Celebrating International Museum Day With a “Build a Train” Project

Cheyenne – Children are encouraged to create a train car using a shoebox. The train car may be any type of car, including an engine, coal car, passenger car, box car or caboose. The Cheyenne Depot Museum will display the “Build a Train” Project in the Cheyenne Depot lobby on May 18, 2008 through May 26, 2008.

In order to identify each child to each train car, the Cheyenne Depot Museum is requesting that the child’s name, address, phone number and age on an index card, which should be attached to the bottom of the train car.

Please deliver the train cars to the Cheyenne Depot by 5pm, Saturday, May 18, 2008.

For more information on the “Build a Train” Project, call the Cheyenne Depot Museum at (307) 632-3905.

CHEYENNE ANNOUNCES THIRD CELTIC MUSICAL ARTS FESTIVAL

CHEYENNE, WY – There will be kilts, bagpipes, and plenty of Scottish and Irish dancers in downtown Cheyenne during the third annual Cheyenne Celtic Musical Arts Festival June 27 through June 29, 2008 at the Cheyenne Depot Plaza. Admission to all festival events on the plaza is free.

Event sponsors include the City of Cheyenne, the Cheyenne Depot Museum, Shamrock Audio, the Historic Plains Hotel, the Cheyenne Downtown Development Authority, the Cheyenne Area Convention & Visitors Bureau, Ayres Associates and WINHealth Partners.

The festival will feature a variety of Celtic music, traditional Irish and Scottish dancing, bagpipers, recitation of the works of Scottish poet Robert Burns, a Scotch tasting and workshops on Celtic instruments and dancing. Inside the depot, various clans will have information to share with visitors about their Scottish heritage, while retail vendors will offer a variety of Celtic-related items. Authentic Scottish food --- including Scotch eggs and haggis --- will be available for purchase, along with American food. Headline bands performing traditional and contemporary Irish and Scottish music will cap each day’s activities.

Friday night’s activities will begin at 5:30 p.m. with the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle’s Fridays on the Plaza concert, featuring the Indulgers, a Celtic rock band from Colorado that has rocked the plaza for several years. Immediately following will be Gobs O’Phun, a trio known as much for its comedy as its repertoire of traditional, foot-stomping Irish and Scottish music. Gobs O’Phun will break at 9:00 for an authentic Calling of the Clans on the plaza. Following the calling, the group will wrap up the evening with more music and fun.

On Saturday, festival activities will begin at 10 a.m. with a mass pipe band procession down Capitol Avenue to the Depot Plaza.

Saturday’s headliners begin at 4 p.m. with Cheyenne’s own Musical Chairs. Known for their versatility, the band’s members frequently swap “chairs” or instruments and play a wide assortment of music. For the Celtic Musical Arts Festival, they will play Irish and Scottish folk music, as well as contemporary Celtic rock.

At 8 p.m. the Cheyenne Celtic Musical Arts Festival presents the Prodigals, a four-piece group known as one of the most talented bands on the East-Coast Irish scene. Its members grew up largely in Ireland; their music is both traditional and rock. The New York Times called the Prodigals “indelibly Irish,” while the All Music Guide said lead vocalist Gregory Grene’s “expertise on the accordion and his understanding of Irish music elevates the group as one of the premier Celtic rock bands leading into the 21st century.”

Sunday morning will begin with a Kirking (blessing) of the Tartans at 10 a.m. and events will continue until 5 p.m. Sunday’s headliners include Skean Dubh, a Denver-based band that uses a wide variety of musical instruments – including Irish bagpipes, fiddle, guitar, accordion, djembe, doumbek and didgeridoo – to produce traditional melodies and foot-stomping tunes.

For information on Saturday evening’s Scotch tasting and weekend packages at the Plains Hotel, located directly across the street from the festivities, please call (307) 638-3311 or 866-2PLAINS or see the website at www.theplainshotel.com. For more information on the festival, contact Jim or Mary Angell at (307) 635-3498 or (307) 635-3905 or 3angells3@bresnan.net or the Cheyenne Depot Museum at 307-632-3905.

Retail vendors, food vendors and clans interested in participating in the Cheyenne Celtic Musical Arts Festival should contact Pam Crochet at the Cheyenne Depot Museum (307) 632-3905 or pam@cheyennedepotmuseum.org.