Put away the turkey leftovers, pack up the family and head out to Old Tucson Studios Thanksgiving weekend for a day full of Western family fun and adventure!  Special weekend hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 27, Saturday, Nov. 28, and Sunday, Nov. 29.

 Enjoy dramatic gunfights, thrilling stunt shows, and musical revues. Celebrate the Christmas season with a Western flair. Don’t miss “Miss Kitty’s Cowboy Christmas” our special holiday musical and Santa’s daily arrival by stagecoach!  

Make family holiday memories with great photo opportunities at every turn or don some Western duds for a family portrait in the Old Time Photo Emporium. Enjoy great food and get a jump on holiday shopping.  The kids will love panning for gold, the Iron Door Mine, Antique Cars they can drive and more!

Help Old Tucson Studios refill the coffers of the Tucson Community Food Bank and save on admission!  Bring a canned or packaged food item and save $3 off regular adult admission and $2 off regular child admission. One discount per food item donated.  The food bank would appreciate the following priority items: 

 So what are you waiting for?  Head out to Old Tucson Studios for some good old-fashioned fun at a great price!

Join the Pima Rotary Club at Old Tucson Studios on November 7 from 4PM-9PM for their first ever City Slicker Rodeo! The event, which is open to the public, will raise funds to support youth projects both in our local community and internationally: building a playground for the children at the new Tucson Gospel Rescue Mission facility, providing clothing, furniture and household items to Youth On Their Own in Tucson and supporting the Rubaga Community School, an orphanage school in Uganda. Through the Rotary International matching grants program, Pima Rotary Club has an opportunity to double the local funds and more than triple the international funds allowing them to help many children.

 The fun-filled family event features a city slicker team rodeo, children’s carnival booths, a chuck wagon dinner, and a barn dance with live music by the Bill Ganz Western Band. Join in the fun by getting a team of four people together to compete in City Slicker Rodeo events including Build-A-Horse, Rope-A-Steer, Double-Sided Barrel Races, Tomahawk Throw, Cross Country Shuffle, Calf Tying and Poker Darts. Competition is sure to be fierce as teams vie for bragging rights as rodeo champs. No live animals are used in the city slicker competition. “It would be too dangerous to allow ordinary ‘city slickers’ to compete with live animals,” according to Project Co-Chair David Flieger, MD

 Admission to the event is $40 for adults and $25 for children over 3 years.  For more event information including entering your own team or being an event sponsor and to purchase tickets, visit http://www.pimarotary.org/rodeo/.

 Rotary International is the world’s first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary Club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto, “Service Above Self.” The Pima Rotary Club is a Tucson based Rotary Club that meets at 11:15 am at Chad’s Steakhouse the first three Fridays of each month.

Old Tucson Studios 2009 NightFall, Harvest of Fear which begins October 1 and runs throughout the month of October will feature a performance on Thursday, October 29 by hip-hop superstar Flo Rida.

 Flo Rida’s current hit, Right Round, has been # 1 on the Hot 100 for six weeks. Even before the Carol City, FL native’s debut album, “MAIL ON SUNDAY,” was released by Poe Boy/Atlantic Records on March 18, 2008 his explosive first single, Low, shot to the top of nearly every chart—Top 40 radio, Billboard’s Hot 100 chart and Hot RingMasters chart, Soundscan’s Digital Song chart, iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, MySpace, MTV’s TRL, and BET’s 106 & Park.  Don’t miss this unique opportunity to see Flo Rida against the backdrop of Nightfall.

 Each year, the terrifying haunted houses, entertaining live shows and high scare factor of wandering and unpredictable asylum inmates “streetmosphere” make NightFall Arizona’s most popular Halloween attraction. In 2008, Haunted World Magazine named the popular annual horror fest one of its Top Ten Halloween Attractions for Theme Parks nationwide.

For more information about NightFall and to purchase tickets (including the performance on October 29^th), visit our website at www.NightfallAZ.com or call us at 520-883-0100.  The special performance will be included in the $24 admission price.

Old Tucson Studios is located at 201 S. Kinney Road, Tucson, Arizona, 85735.

Old Tucson Studios will be presenting Rip Roarin’ Round Up on March 25-March 28, 2010.  Among the festivities will be a Young Riders TV series reunion.  Mark your calendar and check back for details!

Slap on your spurs and head out to Old Tucson Studios for the third annual COWBOY BALL on Friday, November 6, 2009, from 5pm – 10pm.  The event, which will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Arizona is presented by Tanque Verde Ranch. The evening festivities will feature cocktails on Old Tucson’s Main Street, dinner in the Grand Palace Hotel & Saloon, a hosted bar, silent and live auctions and western performers. In keeping with the theme of the evening, guests are encouraged to dress in their best “Cowboy Chic” style. One of the highlights of the evening will be a performance by legendary country band “Restless Heart.” The evening will be emceed by actor and comedian Bob Elliot. 

Since 1980, the Make-A-Wish Foundation has enriched the lives of children with life-threatening medical condition.  With the support of  more than 25,000 volunteers, the Make-A-Wish experience makes life-changing impacts on children, families, referral sources, donors, sponsors and entire communities.  Tucson boasts nearly 100 Make-A-Wish volunteers, along with four members of the Foundation’s Board of Directors.  Learn more about the Foundation at Make-A-Wish Foundation of Arizona and  Make-A-Wish Foundation of America.

Tickets are $150 per person with tables of 10 available for $1,250. Tickets can be purchased online at www.cowboyball.com or by phone at (520) 731-WISH.  Sponsorship opportunities also are available.

Contacts:
Media / Production: Roni Ziemba 520.820.4412 / roniz@tvgr.com
Tickets and Sponsorship: Molly Ankney 520.731.WISH (9474) / mjankney@wishaz.org

Triboro Pictures, a production company from New York City, is scheduled to shoot Ghost Wolf, a western horror film, at Old Tucson Studios Wednesday, September 16 through Friday, September 18. Old Tucson Studios will provide production services including old west town set and desert locations, props, wardrobe, gun wrangling, stagecoach with horses, and catering. 

 Old Tucson Studios guests are welcome to watch production in town as long as they follow sound and film control guidelines.  Access to some sets may be restricted at times to facilitate the shooting schedule.

 Old Tucson Studios is an active film location providing a full range of location services since 1939. This year marks the 70^th Year of Old Tucson Studios, which is also a western theme park.

First Annual SASS Appreciation  Membership Drive
& World Outdoor Championship Wax Shooting

June 14, 2009 ~ Old Tucson Studios

Hosted by: Tombstone Buscaderos
Sponsored by:    Cowboy Way,  LLC

The main event is the Outdoor World Wax Championship at 10:30 a.m. This event is similar to the highly successful SASS Indoor World Wax Championship Match held annually near the lobby of the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas.  

 
Limited to the first 100 shooters                          Cost: $30.00 

 
 Entry includes:  Main match (10:30 a.m.) and the ShowDown match (High Noon, 12 p.m.), five raffle tickets. Furnish your own #209/.45 wax ammo (no gunpowder).  Loaded #209/.45 ammo will be available at .20¢ each. Use any gun/holster accepted by any Six Shooter Recreational Gun Sport Association. Everyone is a Safety Officer.  Relevant common sense SASS^TM rules will apply.

 
 Nice Trophy Buckle and full Bragging Rights to 1^st place winner of each event!

* * * Awards thru 4^th place * * *

 Single Action Pistols and Double Barrel Shotgun firearms will be provided. The Wax Match will be open to non-modern shooting category only (period correct clothing required). 

Raffles  with proceeds to benefit the SASS scholarship fund

 
Celebrity Gunfight  (Open to the Public to try – So you think you’re fast?)
 

 
 ***Entry Form***************Entry Form**************Entry Form***

Name:_____________________________________

Alias:__________________________ SASS#:___________

Address:________________________________________

E-mail:______________________________________

Phone:______________________________________

City: __________________________________ State: ______ Zip: ________

Make Check Payable to: Cowboy Way LLC.
Send to:
Cowboy Way LLC
HC3 Box 1028
Tucson, AZ. 85739

The Canutillo, Texas  Middle School Advanced Band will visit Old Tucson Studios on Friday, May 15.  It promises to be a big day for both the CMS band and Old  Tucson Studios guests who will enjoy their performance!

The Advanced Band is the top performing band at CMS and band students are chosen by their musical abilities.  Students must be a 7th or 8th grader to be in this group.  The Advanced Band performs at concerts, pep rallies, contests, solo and ensemble contests and play at other public events. 

This will be the first band performance trip for this up-and-coming middle school band from West Texas.

Preserving and promoting the spirit and traditions
of the Old West!

Old Tucson Studios and SASS – a match made in movie heaven!
Old Tucson Studios, home to more than 300 movies and shows, has been steeped in the Hollywood western tradition since 1939.  Cowboy Action Shooting was created in 1981 by Harper Creigh an avid shooter who, while watching old westerns, was inspired to create a shooting match using western-type guns.

 Today’s Single Action Shooting Society, an international organization, stages shooting matches and endorses matches conducted by affiliate clubs. In the spirit of the Old West, SASS match participants sport shooting aliases, costumes, and firearms reflective of the period.

 Old Tucson Studios brings these two iconic western traditions together by welcoming current SASS members with free admission* when they comply with following guidelines: 

1.  Members must be dressed in period costume with a SASS badge and must
      present a current SASS ID card.

2.  No live ammunition will be allowed in the Park. Dummy rounds in gun belts
      will be allowed provided that the primers are dimpled and/or the brass is
      drilled.

3.  Guns will be allowed provided that they are unloaded. (Guns will be
      safety checked at the gate).

4.  No alcohol may be consumed by a SASS member wearing firearms.

5.  SASS rules apply.

 So come out and spend a day in the Old West, complete with gunfights and stunt shows, dance hall musicals, and rides for the kids. Pan for gold, tour our movie museum and chow down on authentic chuckwagon barbecue. It’s a fun-filled day at one of the west’s most famous and still-active movie locations.  Old Tucson Studios – Celebrating 70 years of Western Movie Magic

 Learn more and join SASS now (text will be a link to http://www.sassnet.com/)

 *Special events may be excluded

Our Western Music Sampler Series concludes with a 1:00 p.m. performance by Arizona singer/songwriter Jon Messenger. Jon brings to his audiences a hearty stew concocted from the influences of an eclectic musical background. Influenced by everything he’s heard, he likes to say, “I play what I can, and what I can’t, I want to learn.” Jon’s original Folk and Western tunes have been well received by audiences at festivals and gatherings throughout the West, and these songs reflect Jon’s love of the West and the American Cowboy. 

Bringing a unique approach to today’s Cowboy and Western Music, Jon’s vocal and acoustic guitar stylings blend together to bring to all his audiences a haunting and authentic portrait of cowboy life, past and present. Interspersed with the fine Western Music are some wonderful selections of Cowboy Poetry, some by traditional authors, and some original poems from Jon’s pen. 

Jon has been playing at gatherings, festivals, churches, parties, dinners, etc., etc., for a long time…almost exclusively performing Western Music around the southwest and points east, west and north of Sierra Vista, Arizona for nearly fifteen years with a smattering of bluegrass and western swing in the between spots. He was a founding member of the Western trio, Rimfire, and played guitar for the very popular Raw Deal Bluegrass Band. An ongoing collaboration with Jeanne Cahill and Jerome Campbell … they of Oklahoma’s Call of the West, in 2004 produced the recording Ponydance…the recording features ten original tunes and two treatments of old and new classics…the title tune was also recorded by award winning Western singer-songwriter Kip Calahan, and Ponydance was among the top five nominees for the Western Music Association’s 2004 Song of the Year. The trio of musicians also collaborated on Jon’s latest release, entitled Spirits. The tune Spirits of Truth, which inspired the album title, was nominated for Song of the Year by the WMA in 2005, and the recording was also among the top five nominees for Traditional Album of the Year. 

The love and appreciation of the Western state of mind is in every tune he writes; Jon has earned his spurs among true cowboy poets and musicians. He writes some of the most hauntingly beautiful songs of our time and has found a way to express insights into the livestock community that most people simply overlook. He’s become an integral part of the Western Music community, and is well respected as a performer and songwriter by all. 

Jon served four years as a member of the Board of Directors of the Western Music Association; three years of which were served as the President of the Board of Directors. After a brief reprieve, he has found himself once again occupying a seat on the WMA Board, and is currently serving as the President of the Board of Directors.  He is also a member of the WMA Advisory Board. 

With an eye on the future, Jon’s presentations of Western song and verse are dedicated to the fierce spirit of liberty exemplified by the ranching community and the love of self-sufficient freedom.

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La Roca Western Music
 ♦ 972 Mesquite Drive ♣ Sierra Vista, AZ 85635 ♥ Phone (520) 459-4274 ♠

rocamusic@msn.com