2025 IWMA Songwriting Contest

May 1, 2025
July 31, 2025

IF THERE’S A SONG IN YOUR HEART, now’s the time to get it down on paper, record it, and send it in for the Annual IWMA Songwriting Contest. Anyone can enter, anyone can...

Dusty Vaquero Days

Gillette, Wyoming

May 30, 2025
May 31, 2025

DUSTY VAQUERO DAYS celebrates the intersection of country music and the modern cowboy lifestyle, highlighting the artists who live the stories behind the songs.

Sidney Gold Rush Days

Sidney, Nebraska

June 13, 2025
June 15, 2025

Day of the Cowboy

Westcliffe, CO

July 26, 2025

Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering

Prescott, Arizona

August 7, 2025
August 9, 2025

The 2025 Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering 37th event brings the best in authentic Cowboy Poetry and Music to the stage once again to the Jim & Linda Lee Yavapai College...

World Yodel Day

August 8, 2025

Durango Cowboy Gathering

Durango, Colorado

October 1, 2025
October 5, 2025

The Gathering is a five-day exciting, fun-filled event held the first week of October with evening performances and Saturday daytime sessions. Poets and musicians from throughout t...

Western Slope Cowboy Gathering

Grand Junction, Colorado

October 31, 2025
November 1, 2025

The Western Slope Cowboy Gathering was initiated by Terry Nash, Peggy Malone, Nona Kelley Carver and the Museums of Western Colorado in 2016, for the celebration and sharing of mod...

IWMA 2025 Convention

Albuquerque, New Mexico

November 12, 2025
November 16, 2025

MAKE YOUR HOTEL RESERVATIONS at the Hotel Albuquerque or call their Reservations Department at 866-505-7829 and let them know you're attending the International Western Mu...