The Cowtown Serenaders

05/15/2025

Cowtown goes back to school!

Here's some snapshots from our week of performing at the four elementary schools in Eureka, exploring the relationship between farming and the food that kids eat. It's all part of a collaboration with the Eureka City Schools food service department and the North Coast Grower's Association, and each school visit includes a pop up farmers market where families get to take home free food at the end of the day! What a dream! Gratitude to all the folks behind the scenes who helped put these events together, lotsa happy kids learned a lot about farming this week...

05/11/2025

⭐️ New show cooking in Cowtown! 🫘 🌿 🌸

Here’s some process pics from the last month, taken while creating a new piece titled Flower Child and the Beanstalk. Created as the edutainment portion of a Farm to School grant awarded to Eureka City Schools and Grow Together Gardens, the show will be performed this week at each of the 4 elementary schools in Eureka. Over 1000 kids will get to see the show! To cap things off, we’ll take the show down to SoHum to the KMUD Block Party on Saturday May 17, where we will perform at 1pm in the kids zone. That’s a lotta show business for one week, yeehaw!

We will share some more documentation of the performances, puppets, and clowning as we gather it. Thanks for stopping by to see what we’re working on, have a great spring! ☀️

03/08/2025

Dreaming forward a new show 🌈🐄🫘

Can you guess the story inspiration?!

07/19/2024

Greetings from Cowtown!

We are reflecting on our tour, and the wonderful connections we made with people in Humboldt, Mendocino, Trinity and Lake County. Thank you to everyone who came to a show and connected with us afterwards to share stories and participate in the Puppet Petting Zoo.

We are grateful to the Upstate California Creative Corps for funding this project, and as we finish up our grant report, we'd love to hear from those who saw our puppet show!

If you can, please fill in our survey linked below, and/or comment here to share your thoughts about Tales From Cowtown, a puppet show for all ages.

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07/06/2024

Come play with us .roominations today!

We will be at Table Bluff with the Downtown Cowtown stage and puppet residents. Let’s play and tell story stories together!!

06/26/2024

That’s a wrap! We just completed our final round of scheduled performances for Tales From Cowtown a puppet show centering rural resiliency supported by and !

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We are beyond grateful to Barbara Clark and Jon from Lake County for clowning around with us and for sharing their love of Lake County!

This photo is from the River Tale during our final performance in Lakeport. Taken by Barbara Clark. Sending love to the friends we met there!

We sure do hope to be back soon!

06/21/2024

06/03/2024

Fun day in the Pepperwood grove alongside the Eel River! Thanks friends and families for joining us for a show at home❤️🌈❤️ LunaFarm

05/29/2024

Thank you Willits Weekly for attending the show and writing about our project and process!

Thank you Matthew Cane for the photos and conversation🌈

We had a lot of fun at Recreation Grove with the Oak trees, kids, and community!

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05/24/2024

We'll be setting up the Puppet Stage this Saturday May 25th at the KMUD BLOCK PARTY! Come parade with us, see our show Tales From Cowtown, and participate in our Puppet Petting Zoo!

Meet for the parade @ 11:30 at Redway School, Wahoooo!

Thank you KMUD - Redwood Community Radio, Inc. !!!

KMUD will close some roads in Redway to celebrate, on Saturday, May 25th.  What’s NEW this year is the Memorial Parade, honoring our veterans, which will leave Redway School at 11:30, take Briceland Road to Redwood Drive, pass Shop Smart and end at KMUD by noon.  Those roads will be closed until the parade passes, and Redway Drive in front of KMUD will be closed from 10 am until 10 pm, or possibly as late as midnight.  Please join us for the Parade, live music, kids’ zone and Ninja zone, vendors, CD sale, and great food and drink.

05/15/2024

05/13/2024

Heading to Trinity County this weekend! Weaverville on Saturday and Hyampom on Sunday....

We will be taking our free, family friendly puppet show "Tales From Cowtown" out to Trinity County this weekend, performing two shows. Expect marionettes, live music, giant animals, clowning, and more!

Saturday May 18th - 6pm - Lee Fong Park - Weaverville
Sunday May 19th - 6pm - Hyampom Community Hall
This activity is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, through the Upstate California Creative Corps program.⁠
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