Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo

The Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo opened yesterday at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in the heart of the Cultural District 3 blocks South of the Store.  The Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo is a 23-day extravaganza, offering a unique atmosphere rich in tradition and history.  Also known as Tarrant County's largest annual event, the Show attracts more than one million visitors each year.  The 118-year old event is the nation's oldest livestock show, featuring over 22,000 head of world-class livestock on exhibit.  The Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo is home of the World's Original Indoor Rodeo®.  The annual Stock Show and Rodeo All Western Parade begins this morning at 11 AM in downtown Fort Worth.  As a band kid in Junior High and High School, I marched in this parade every year.  There are no motorized conveyances allowed, everyone is either riding a horse, in a horse drawn conveyance of some type or walking.  For the next three weeks, the uniform of the day will be boots and western chic and almost everyone will be getting their cowboy on.  Because it is happening in the heart of the Cultural District, we will be crazy busy at the store because that is where we are also.  It started last night and will continue until all the participants and visitors pack up and leave town.  The Stock Show is the show case for every 4H kid in Texas to show off the results of their year long projects involving almost any type of ranch animal you can imagine.  It also brings horsemen from around the country to bring their finest to see how they measure up to the competition.  Then of course there is the Original Indoor Rodeo with two shows a day with all the pageantry you could want and fierce competition in events like calf roping, barrel racing, bulldogging, bull riding, bucking broncos and wagon races.  Champions will be crowned in all events before all is said and done for the cowboys and cowgirls and the Grand Champion Bull will be auctioned off to the highest bidder that will make some 4H kid's college fund swell magnificently.  If you are within driving distance and you have never been to the see all the best of Fort Worth there is to see, come on down and have a great time getting your cowboy on.  

Your Weekend Musical Moment  features the late great Pianist Glenn Gould performing Franz Liszt's Piano Transcription of Ludwig von Beethoven's Symphony Number 6, Pastoral.  You can also check out the 1960 recording of a Glenn Gould performance of 15 Variations And Fugue In E-Flat Major, Op.35 'Eroica'15 by Ludwig von Beethoven over on my tumblr along with the Hottie of the Day!.  I suppose I should have gathered up some long and lean lads in their western chic for you today, but I thought you would rather cruise and peruse these examples of prime beef in the buff in this week's edition of Naked or Nearly So on display below the play list.  Thanks for sharing part of your weekend with me, see you again on Monday for another week of Music, Men and More!  Until next time as always, Enjoy!