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NEWS FLASH!
6 top-ten award nominations from the Western Music Association, 2008
-Traditional Duo/Group of the Year
-Crescendo Rising Star Award
Best Album: "Herds, Horses, & Song"
Best Song: "Heart of the West" (Cimarron Sue)
Best Song: "Lope Along" (Nevada Slim)
Best Collaboration Musician/Poet, Clark Crouch & Cimarron Sue for
"Come Riding With Me"
to hear these songs and read about
the CD, click here
News Releases and Photos are below:
SHORT BLURB:
Nevada Slim's rich
baritone voice and stylish guitar work have delighted audiences for
upwards of 42 years on stages from the casino showrooms of Nevada to
West Germany to New York. When he teams with Cimarron Sue,
sparkling lady bassist and vocalist extraordinaire, the result is an
energetic, entertaining and informative stage show especially
popular with seniors and other fans of vintage western music.
For 2008, look for Slim & Sue
at County Fairs and Cowboy
Gatherings with a show of irresistible genuine cowboy
songs and old-time country tunes : the music folks
remember. The duo offers spirited interpretations of traditional songs of
the old west, and the music of the movie cowboys and cowgals too,
all
spiced with narrative highlighting the historical context of the music.
For 2008, the duo has been nominated in the top ten finalists for 6
Western Music Association awards.
GENERAL PRESS RELEASE 2008 “NEVADA SLIM & CIMARRON
SUE”
Contact: nevadaslim@NevadaSlim.com
HERITAGE YOU CAN HEAR
Nominated for 6 different awards
in 2008 by the Western Music Association, Nevada Slim and Cimarron Sue,
“Minstrels of the Old West,” deliver a spirited interpretation of traditional
western music, honoring working cowboys and cowgirls, as well as those who rode
their ranges in the movies. They draw from a large repertoire of songs and
cowboy poetry to
provide glimpses of the people who built the American west, blending music with
storytelling to lend historic perspective to the show. The diverse duo also
offers the music of early country legends, such as Hank Williams, Patsy Cline,
Marty Robbins, Johnny and June Carter Cash, and Jimmy Rogers.
Susan “Cimarron Sue” Abraham is a
native of Port Townsend, WA. Her family comes from mining, ranching, and
railroad folks in Republic and Starbuck, WA. She is a seasoned performer of
over 20 years, plays bass guitar, and handles half the vocals for the duo.
Bruce Matley, aka “Nevada Slim,”
has performed for forty-plus years. Born and raised in Reno, Nevada to a pioneer
cattle ranching family, Slim spent much of his childhood and teen years in the
saddle on the ranges of Northern Nevada, in the hayfields, and engaged in the
various tasks associated with ranching. Many of the traditional western songs in Slim’s repertoire were learned in childhood on the family ranch from cowboys who
began their working lives in the 1890s.
Nevada Slim and Cimarron Sue
logged 147 performances in 2007 at county fairs, cowboy gatherings, festivals,
and other events. For winter 2008 they've performed at the Western Music
Association Festival in Albuquerque, NM, the Spirit of the West Cowboy Gathering
(Ellensburg, WA), the Lee Earl Cowboy gathering (Lewiston, ID), the Columbia
River Cowboy Gathering in Pasco, WA, and Waitsburg, WA's Touchet Valley Western
Show. The duo’s 2008 summer
season of county and state fairs will cover Oregon’s Linn and Hood River County Fairs, and the Cowlitz,
Clark, Skamania, Klickitat, Walla Walla, and Columbia County Fairs in
Washington, as well as Pendleton's Main Street Cowboys celebration.
For schedule updates and news about their new CD “Home Ranch
Tales”
visit Nevada Slim and Cimarron Sue at
www.nevadaslim.com.
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