Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival

The 19th Annual Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival at Melody Ranch Studios was hosted on April 21 and 22, 2012. Guests came to celebrate and experience the Western culture of the 1800s, a scene set by those who dressed in clothing authentic to that time period, by those who performed the cowboy music and poetry the Festival is famed for, and by those who sold cowboy memorabilia throughout the Melody Ranch set. This unique historic event attracted thousands from all over the nation who share the fascination of old time Western culture, and opened the doors to all who wished to spend a day visiting a time that has been glamorized through the wonders of film. Visitors were able to step through the doors of time in visiting this event and experience a town as authentic to the 1800s West as the best in the business could possibly design.
 

Melody Ranch Studios hosted the annual Cowboy Festival in Santa Clarita.

Visitors to the Santa Carita Cowboy Festival roam Main Street of Melody Ranch Studios. Vendors, shops, and volunteers in costumes filled the Old Western film set for curious spectators.

Visitors to the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival at Melody Ranch studios wander down the Main Street of the set.

A volunteer of the Cowboy Festival carves a name into a horseshoe using authentic tools that would have been used by 1800s blacksmiths.

Dave Thornbury, a professional trick roper, ropes a young girl at the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival in Melody Ranch Studios.

Dave Thornbury (right) ropes himself while another volunteer at the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival plays his fiddle for spectators at Melody Ranch Studios.

A young boy dressed as a cowboy aims over the wall at the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival in Melody Ranch Studios.

Visitors of the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival at Melody Ranch Studios wander the Main Street of the set where vendors and actors lined the street.