4th Annual White Mountain
    Storytelling Festival

in Show Low, Arizona
September 16-18, 2005

Bring your family and friends to enjoy music, Old West reenactments, food, and cultural, ethnic, and historical stories about Arizona and the real Southwest at the 4th Annual White Mountains’ Storytelling Festival, September 16 - 18th. This year’s event will take place at Show Low's Festival Marketplace on Cooley, a block south of the Deuce of Clubs and two blocks west of White Mountain Boulevard.   

The event kicks off on Friday the 16th with Storytellers visiting local classrooms and the Show low Senior Center during the day.  In the evening the Show Low Historical Society presents an evening of campfire stories and music with the following local storytellers and musicians: Duane Harris, Curt Gillespie, Ed Miller's Family Western Band, Greg Butler, Christine Jeffs and Daughters, Eric McNeil, Steve Taylor, Pete Stock, Norma Savage Franke and Bradford Nikolaus.  Come early and visit with the many vendors along Cooley Avenue starting at 4:00p.m.  The campfire storytelling will start at 6:00 p.m. 

On Saturday the 17th, attend storytelling workshops from 8 to 11 a.m. brought to you by the Show Low Library Friends and event storytellers.  At 10 a.m., activities will get underway at Festival Marketplace with stories from professional storytellers, music, reenactments of the OK Corral shootout by the Arizona Gunfighters, and an appearance by Wyatt Earp’s great grandnephew at 6:00 p.m. Also, we anticipate participation by many food, art, and craft vendors. 

Catch a Story from the Southwest from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Show Low Stage with any of this year's storytellers and performers, including: Tony Norris, Arizona Gun Fighters, Liz Warren, Sue Harris, Yellow Bird Indian Dancers, Madison Walker, Dean Cook, Jim Easterbrook, Dorothy Daniels Anderson, Martin Rivera, Wyatt Earp, Don Doyle, and local talents.  This event is being brought to you with help from our sponsors, including the Show Low Library Friends, Bison Homes, White Mountain Entertainment, Corral West and grants from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Arizona Humanities Council.   For more information, call 532-4140 or 532-4073 or Watch this website for detailed updates.

Schedule of Events





This program was made possible by a grant from the Arizona Humanities Council

Supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts with Funding from the State of Arizona
and the National Endowment for the Arts

Updated 8/5/05