Katy Creek Band, Western performers from Arizona grace the Grand Palace Saloon stage at 1:00 p.m. Wes & Nancy Ruybal perform Western Americana, Cowboy Poetry and Gospel.  With a pure uncomplicated style, they present renditions and recitations about the American West and it’s people from the 1800’s to the modern day working cowboy. Wes grew up a horseback, cowboying with his father and brothers.  His family’s cowboy heritage dates back to the settling of the San Luis Valley in Colorado.  Wes’s poetry and songs reflect his many experiences as a working cowboy, including the folks he’s met and places he’s worked. Nancy, a country girl from Ohio, began writing and performing folk music at age fourteen. When they came together, it was only natural their music and poetry would speak of our great American Heritage, the settling of the West and Wes’s own cowboy experiences in the modern world.   A Katy Creek concert is an exciting adventure of life and love, laughter and tears with a dash of murder, mayhem and mystery you won’t want to miss.  Katy Creek is the name of a creek running through our place at Table Top National Wilderness.  Watch for The Legend of Katy Creek on our next project!  

  Reviews

 Marvin O’Dell,  Around the Campfire HeartlandPublicRadio.org  2007  Western Music Association  Disc Jockey of the Year:  Katy Creek, western performers from Arizona, have begun to build a solid reputation for putting on finely tuned performances… Nancy’s heartfelt vocals place her as the band’s centerpiece.  After a song finds its way through her wonderful vibrato to your ears, you are completely satisfied.  Her lead and rhythm guitar work are noteworthy and Nancy has become a force to be reckoned with as a songwriter

 Wes Ruybal evidences a writer who has lived the cowboy life – the REAL cowboy life.  This isn’t  “stuff we already know”, as Billy Joe Shaver wrote, from watching television and reading books.  This is stuff that’s been lived.  It’s authoritative.  ……. 

 Ralph and Tamara of Ralph’s Back Porch Radio gave this review:  I’ve heard the Texas breezes play in the tops of tall oak trees.  I have heard the laughter of people enjoying a good song. I have heard a child at play.  All these sound make me smile and all these sounds are good, and now, right there amongst these wonderful sounds I have heard a band called Katy Creek make beautiful music for the heart and soul.

 Dee Strickland Johnson “Buckshot Dot”  Academy of Western Artists Female Cowboy Poet of the Year:    A fresh new sound I find completely charming. Katy Creeks’ Autumn’s On Its Way is a compelling album and Katy Creek, outstanding !  

 Contact Katy Creek by phone at 520-705-5901, or by E mail at katycreek@gmail.com                                       www.katycreek.com