Red Lodge Home of Champions Parade

07/06/2026

Thanks to everyone who entered our parade, and everyone who attended this year. Here are the winners for each day:

July 2 (Kids Day):
Best Pet and Best Comical: Fox Stars 4-H
Best Costume: Cora, Elise
Best Bikes: CC Boys & Girls Club
Best Motorcycle: Dixon, Rowdy, Hazen, Parker

July 3 (Mining & Ag Day):
Best motorized: Double Deuce Ventures;
Best Other: John Cordes

July 4:
Best Dressed Sr. Cowboy: Kelly Fugere
Best Dresses Sr. Cowgirl: Meg Graham
Best Dressed Jr Cowboy: Carter Bennington
Best Dressed Jr. Cowgirl: Aubri McDowell
Best Harness: Palisades Livestock
Best Mounted: Wild Rose Equine Performance
Best Float: RL School of Dance
Best Musical: Red Lodge Ice
Best Motorized: Red Lodge Trolley

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07/06/2026

Thank you to Red Lodge Proud & Beautiful and all of their sponsors for that amazing fireworks display on the 4th! This was our best and biggest yet!

07/02/2026

On Saturday the 4th of July, Kathy Robson will be singing our national anthem, after performing the military medley as she does each year.

Kathy has been singing in the Home of Champions Rodeo and Parade for over 20 years, originally auditioning for Glory Mahan. She is a former church choir director and sang in a large choir and for large church productions.

She is a pioneer in the field of closed captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, writing live events from national news to major sporting events like the Olympics and World Series. Today, she provides captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing college students and others.

A native of CA, Kathy moved to Red Lodge in 2001 following in the footsteps of her great-grandparents who homesteaded in central MT in 1906.

She was president of the Red Lodge Business Alliance, president of the Belfry, MT school board, and has spent over 20 years working in Red Lodge Proud & Beautiful, bringing not only Independence Day fireworks to downtown Red Lodge, but the flower baskets along Broadway as well. She’s been a key organizer of the Red Lodge Christmas Stroll since its early days.

In her “spare” time she loves to travel, read, watch old television shows, and spoil her 10-year-old granddaughter.

07/01/2026

Beware, folks.

⚠️Rodeo fans- please beware of ticket scams on social media! There are Facebook groups selling illegitimate tickets to our rodeo performances. To ensure your tickets are valid, please purchase only through our official ticketing channels, including our official website at https://redlodgerodeo.com/tickets/
Stay safe, and we will see you at the rodeo!

07/01/2026

Kids Day on Thursday!!

07/01/2026

On Friday the 3rd, our national anthem will be performed by Jennifer Coutts.

Jennifer performs as a keyboardist and singer with the Cellar Door band, serves as an accompanist at Messiah Lutheran Church, and has worked as a music teacher, as well as a bartender, server, line cook, lift operator, ski instructor, stage manager at Tippet Rise and landscaper. Currently, Jennifer works by day as a legal assistant.

A native Pennsylvanian, Jennifer made Red Lodge her permanent residence in 2006. Skiing was a factor. Jennifer is a graduate of Wyoming Valley West High School. She has a Bachelor of Music degree from Mansfield University in Pennsylvania and Master of Education from MSU Billings. Recently, Jennifer tried her hand at acting in two recent productions: "Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" and "If All the Sky Were Paper." At home, she stays busy as a proud dog mom to three energetic four-legged companions, Lucy, Zoey and Eddy. Jennifer enjoys running, skiing, biking, cooking, reading, and skiing (and did she mention skiing?).

06/30/2026

Our national anthem will have different performers every day this year. On Thursday the 2nd, the anthem will be sung by Marty & The 3-D's!

They have been performing together since 2012. They started out with three Davids and Marty, but when one of the Daves retired and wanted to be free to travel more, they were lucky enough to find Dana who could step in... so they still have 3 D's. Marty & The 3-D's are all members of the Big Sky Chorus, which was incorporated in 1962 as the Billings Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society.

Besides sending out quartets to deliver Singing Valentines in Red Lodge and the greater Billings area, the Big Sky Chorus does several Show each year. They will perform in Huntley August 16th, in Billings August 22nd and right here in Red Lodge August 30th.

They also do a lot of performance (many of them free to the public) around Christmas time.

06/29/2026

The Home of Champions rodeo may be sold out on the 4th, but you don't need tickets for the parades! We'll be lining the streets on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, and the parade will start at noon sharp. We strongly recommend grabbing your spot early!

You can settle anywhere along the parade route on Broadway, but please keep your chairs on the sidewalk (not the road) and leave enough room for people to walk between you and the buildings.

See you there!

06/29/2026

It's time! See you soon, Red Lodge! 🥳

06/25/2026

Fireworks on July 4 about 10:10pm on the East Bench, visible all over town.

Happy Birthday, America-Red Lodge style!
The crew at Flying S Title & Escrow is helping light up the sky this year with a Rodeo Ticket Raffle benefiting the Red Lodge fireworks show.
Tickets are just:
• $6 each
• $30 for 6
You will win:
• 6 Box Seats to the July 2nd Home of Champions Rodeo
• A Bottle of Pendleton
This year’s fireworks display is going to be BIGGER than ever, which means we need to raise a little more money to make it happen. Every raffle ticket helps support the tradition we all know and love.
Plus, you could win rodeo tickets and enjoy one of the best weekends of the summer.
Help us give America the birthday celebration she deserves — Red Lodge style.
Get your raffle tickets today at Flying S Title & Escrow, Red Lodge and support the Red Lodge fireworks fund!