Cowboy Jim Garling

Cowboy and Western Swing Music at Its Finest

Schedule - 2009,  2010 & 2011

  October - 2000
  • Saturday, 10-3, 1:15 p.m.   Art & Wine Festival, Guthrie, OK. Jim & Janine Handler
  • Tuesday, 10-6, 5:30 p.m.   Private Party, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Jim and Sons of Sage
  • Wed-Fri, 10-7, 8, 9  2009 Oklahoma Arts Conference, Stillwater, OK
  • Thursday, 10-8  Registered Longhorn Cattle Breeders of America, Buckhorn Cattle Company. Private Party.
  • Saturday, 10-10  Putnam, Oklahoma, Alumni Banquet. Private Party
  • Thursday, 10-15  Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma City,  Private party - Jim and Sons of the Sage.
  • Saturday, 10-17, 7:30 p.m.  Rodeo Opry, Stockyards, Oklahoma City, Agnew & Exchange Avenues. Jim emcees the show. Janine Handler, who occasionally sings with Jim, will perform with him that night, and our friends, the Pendleton Family Band, from Tulsa will also be on the show.  Ticket info
  • Thursday, 10-22  Payne County Cattlemen's Association, Stillwater, OK. Private
  • Friday, 10-23,  7:00 p.m.  House Concert  Doyle & Anita Tackett's home, Edmond. COST: donation in the tip jar. It is an outside event; please bring your lawn chairs. Please email us through my contact page to let us know if you'd like to attend so we can give you location, etc.
  • Saturday, 10-24  Wewoka Sorghum Festival  Open to the public. Prairie Drifters - Jim, Richard Sharp, Janine Handle.  Parade begins at 10:00 a.m. and performance is scheduled for some time after the parade and before 3:00 p.m. 
  • Tuesday, 10-27 Cattleman's Association Annual Meeting, hosted by OSU Extension, Woodward, OK. Private party.

November

  • Friday,  11-27, 2-4 p.m.  Langston's Western Wear, Exchange & Agnew, Stockyards, OKC. Jim and Sons of the Sage

 December

  • Friday, 12-4, 2:00 p.m.  Sterling House Christmas Party,  Jim & Janine Handler - Private Party
  • Friday, 12-4  BancFirst Christmas Party, Guthrie, OK.  Jim and Janine Handler -Private Party
  • Friday, 12-11, 10:30 a.m.  Concordia Life Care Community Christmas- Private party
  • Friday, 12-11, 1:00 p.m.  Bill Weaver Daily Living Center Christmas - Private party
  • Saturday,  12-12, 1-3 p.m.  Langston's Western Wear, Exchange & Agnew, Stockyards, OKC. Jim and Sons of the Sage
  • Saturday, 12-12,  5:00 p.m. Victorian Walk - Mark's Drugs, 112 W. Oklahoma St., Guthrie, OK
  • Thursday, 12-17 Moore Medical Center Volunteers Christmas Party - Luncheon
  • Thursday, 12-17, 3:00 p.m.  Orville Ray Tower Retirement Center Christmas - Jim & Janine Handler - Private Party
  • Friday, 12-18, 3:00 p.m. -  Spanish Cove Retirement Village Christmas , Yukon, OK -  Jim & Janine Handler - Private party
  • Saturday,  12-19, 1-3 p.m.  Langston's Western Wear, Exchange & Agnew, Stockyards, OKC. Jim and Sons of the Sage
  • Saturday, 12-19, 5:00 p.m.  Victorian Walk - Mark's Drugs, 112 W. Oklahoma St., Guthrie, OK

2010

January

  • Saturday, 1-9  Private Party, Prairie Drifters
  • Wed-Fri, 1-27, 28, 30 National Cattleman's Beef Association Convention, San Antonio, Texas. My attendance sponsored by PlainJans.com, Scotts City, Kansas

February

  • Friday, 2-5, 7:00 p.m.  District Meeting of Lions Clubs, Masonic Temple, Guthrie.
  • Saturday, 2-13, 1:30-3:30 p.m.  Langston's Western Wear, Stockyards, Exchange & Agnew Streets, Oklahoma City.  PBR Bull riders will be there signing autographs. Jim and Sons of the Sage perform.
  • Thursday, 2-18, 10:30 a.m. Daily Living Center, Edmond, Private Party
  • Thursday, 2-18, 2:00 p.m.  Grace Living Center, Oklahoma City, Private Party
  •  Friday, 2-19, 6:30-8:30 p.m.   R & R Restaurant, 409 W. Oklahoma Street, Guthrie (at the railroad track/station) Phone: 405-260-0723.   Make your reservations early so we'll be able to have a special room large enough for everybody to enjoy the music. Come join me on this occasion, so maybe we'll have this venue again!

 March

  • Thursday, 3-18,  6:30 p.m.   Senior Meals Fundraiser - Weatherford, OK, Pioneer Center, 1000 Gartrell Pl.  Open to the public.  Donation at the door for the fundraiser; light meal available.   Cowboy Jim and Janine Handler provide entertainment.
  • Friday, 3-19 - Private Party
  • Saturday, 3-27, 2:00 p.m.  National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum  Guitar workshops in conjunction with the museum's guitar exhibition: "The Guitar: Art, Artists and Artisans" The workshop will be held in the S.B. "Burk" Burnett  Board Room at the Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., Oklahoma City.

April

  • Saturday, 4-10, 12:00 - Customer Appreciation Beck Implements, Guthrie.  Sons of the Sage. All Beck's customers are invited to the luncheon and entertainment.
  • Saturday, 4-17, 12:00-2:00 p.m.  Focus Federal Credit Union, Oklahoma City,  Annual Share Holders Meeting
  • Thurs-Fri, 4-22, 23 Choctaw Land Run Festival, at Choctaw Creek Park, 2001 N. Harper, Choctaw, OK.  Festival Website: www.choctawfestival.org  Activities begin at 9:00 a.m. each day. I will be there until about 2:30 p.m. each day.
  • Saturday, 4-24  Museum of the Great Plains, Lawton, Oklahoma
  • Thursday, 4-29  Bus Tour Luncheon, R & R Restaurant, Guthrie, Oklahoma

May

  • Thursday, 5-13  Blue Water Reunion, WW II Navy - Private PartyJim & Janine Handler
  • Tuesday, 5-18  International Symposium in Computer Science, Oklahoma University, Norman.  Private Party.
  • Saturday, 5-22  Relay for Life - Concert in the Park, Scott City, Kansas
  • Saturday & Sunday, 5-29 & 30  Annual Chuck Wagon Gathering & Children's Cowboy Festival, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 N.W. 63rd St., Oklahoma City.

June

  • Fri-Sun, 6-4, 5, 6  Cedar Depot Festival-9th Annual, Cedar, Kansas.
  • Thursday, 6-10, Southeastern Library System
    • 10:00 a.m. Arkoma Public Library, Arkoma, Oklahoma
    • 1:00 p.m. Spiro Public Library, Spiro, Oklahoma
    • 2:30 p.m.  Spiro Nursing Home, Spiro, Oklahoma
  • Mon.-Tues. 6-14, 15  Dewey Hotel & Museum, Dewey, Oklahoma, in conjunction with Bartlesville's OK Mozart Festival.

July

  • Thursday, 7-15, 1:00 p.m.  Wagoner Library Wagoner, Oklahoma, Civic Center. Open to the public; come have a good time!
  • Saturday, 7-24   Pond Creek, Oklahoma,  Round Barn, Private Party, Sons of the Sage

August

  •  Friday, 8-27  Oklahoma Electric Co-op Annual Meeting, Lloyd Noble Center, Norman. Sons of the Sage

September

  • Saturday, 9-18  Tom Mix Festival, Dewey, Oklahoma.  Music, parade, activities at the City Park, Tom Mix Museum, & Dewey Hotel Museum.
  • Sunday, 9-19  Wild West Show, Prairie Song Ranch, just north of Bartlesville, Oklahoma--cowboy church, chuck wagon, reenactments, great wild west show.
  • Wednesday, 9-22, 7-9 p.m.  American Association of State and Local History; Oklahoma Museum Association, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, OKC. Private party.

November

  • Thursday, 11-4  McKenzie Tours Luncheon, Granny Had One Restaurant, Guthrie, Private Party
  • Tues-Fri.,  11-16, 17, 18, 19  Grand National Quail Hunt, Enid, Oklahoma

2011

February

  • Wed-Sat, 2-2, 3, 4, 5,  National Cattlemen's Beef Convention/Trade Show, Denver, Co.   My attendance sponsored by PlainJans.com, Scotts City, Kansas

May

  •  Friday, 5-6   Rose Rock Festival, Noble, OK.  Jim sponsored by the Pioneer Library System.