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TITLE: D.W. Groethe
SPEAKER: D.W. Groethe
EVENT DATE: 07/20/2005
RUNNING TIME: 58 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
D.W. Groethe performs cowboy songs and poetry from Montana, another in the Homegrown 2005 Concert Series sponsored by the American Folklife Center.
Speaker Biography: D. W. Groethe is the genuine article, a working cowboy who writes and sings about the everyday life of a rancher on the northern Great Plains. The descendent of Norwegian immigrants who homesteaded in Williams County, N.D., Groethe has a deep respect for and knowledge of those who came before him, Native and immigrant alike. He draws on the long-standing and vigorous traditions of cowboy songs and poetry, which continue to thrive in the American west. Chris Billings, writing in the Billings Gazette, summed up Groethe's art succinctly: "When he sings, you hear bawling calves, smell the fire at branding time and shiver at the chill of a skin-stripping prairie wind. You ache at the contradiction of ranch life, starving to death to do the thing you love."
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SERIES: Homegrown