| Put on your cowboy boots, hat and saddle up to the annual Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival for a fascinating glimpse into what life was like in the Old West. From the days of the gold rush to Western movies old and new, Santa Clarita has played an integral role in the history of the cowboy. Amongst the historic charm of Santa Clarita’s Arts and Entertainment District in Old Town Newhall, the Cowboy Festival will celebrate the cowboy with western food, entertainment and activities along with living history and western wares. Enjoy approximately 4 hours at leisure to explore the festival and have lunch on your own, with cowboy grub and all the fixins’, like Dutch oven peach cobbler, available for sale. Marvel at professional trick ropers and hatchet throwers, western swing and country line dancers, and three stages of live cowboy, country, folk and bluegrass music. Stroll through a western-town environment where a variety of vendors will be on-hand selling vintage boots, hats, leather goods, jewelry and western fashion along with western art and other cowboy and western-themed merchandise that celebrates the past with the flair of today. |