Draft:Hal Cannon
Hal Cannon (born 1950) is an American songwriter, musician, radio producer, and folklorist. He is the founding director of the Western Folklife Center and the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.[1][2][3]
Early life and education
[edit]Cannon grew up on a ranch in Elko, Nevada.
Career
[edit]In 1985, Cannon cofounded the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.[5] Later that year, he published the book Cowboy Poetry: A Gathering with the publisher Gibbs Smith.[6]
From 2004 to 2012, Cannon and Taki Telonidis produced around one hundred radio features in a series called What’s In A Song which aired on Weekend Edition on NPR.[7][8][9]
Cannon is a member of the string trio 3hattrio.[10]
In 2018, Cannon gave his archive to Utah State University.[11][12][13]
Awards and honors
[edit]In 1999, Cannon was given the Utah Governor's Award in the Arts. On Novemebr 9, 2002, Cannon was presented the Utah Governor's Award in the Humanities.[14]
He has been awarded three Wrangler Awards from the Cowboy Hall of Fame.[15]
He received the 1998 Will Rogers Lifetime Achievement Award.[16]
He was presented the distinguished alumni award from the University of Utah Communications Department in 1999
In 2001, he was awarded the Benjamin Botkin Award from the American Folklore Society.[17]
In 2015, he was honored as Utah performer of the year by Governor Gary Herbert.
Books
[edit]- Buckaroo: Visions and Voices of the American Cowboy co-editor with an introduction and accompanying CD Simon and Schuster, 1993.
- New Cowboy Poetry: A Contemporary Gathering editor with an introduction, Gibbs M. Smith Publishers, 1990.
- Rhymes of the Ranges, editor with an introduction, Gibbs M. Smith Publishers, 1987.
- Songs of the Sage, an introduction to a reprint of the 1935 classic by cowboy poet, Curley Fletcher, Gibbs M. Smith Publishers, 1986.
- Cowboy Poetry, A Gathering, editor, with an introduction, Gibbs M. Smith Publishers, 1985.[18]
- The Grand Beehive, editor, University of Utah Press, 1980
- Utah Folk Art: A Catalog of Material Culture, editor, Brigham Young University Press, 1980.
References
[edit]- ^ "A Gathering of Cowboy Poets". 29 January 2019.
- ^ "2/10/11: The Music of Hal Cannon". 10 February 2011.
- ^ "Folklorist Gets His Comeuppance from the Pioneer Past". 21 February 2014.
- ^ "Fall 2007 Continuum - the Revivalists".
- ^ Wohlwend, Chris (26 September 2018). "At the Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Tall Tales, Resonant Rhymes". The New York Times.
- ^ "A Gathering of Cowboy Poets". 29 January 2019.
- ^ "'What's in a Song?': Don't Laugh". NPR.
- ^ "What's in a Song".
- ^ "Interview".
- ^ "3hattrio: Lord of the Desert". 2 March 2018.
- ^ "Hal Cannon collection - Archives West".
- ^ "USU Libraries | Special Collections and Archives - Cowboy Poetry".
- ^ "Buckaroo : Visions and voices of the American cowboy / Edited by Hal Cannon and Thomas West".
- ^ "Champion of folk arts to be honored". November 2002.
- ^ "Announcing Hal Cannon as the Keynote Speaker for the WMA 2013 Annual Meeting | Western Museums Association".
- ^ "Champion of folk arts to be honored". November 2002.
- ^ "At the Forefront of Folk".
- ^ "A Gathering of Cowboy Poets". 29 January 2019.