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| Eli Barsi |
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Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Yodeler, 9 CDS , 11 Canadian Charted Radio Singles, 3 CMT videos, Award Recipient, Entertainer.
Eli Barsi is driven by her passion for music, committed to giving her best, and strives for excellence on and off stage. For the past 22 years Eli has been working as a professional musician. Early in her career she performed mainly in the provinces of Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. After a few years of non stop shows, she moved to Nashville Tennessee, where she honed her craft as a songwriter. Following several years of roadwork both sides of the border, she started to record albums, release radio singles, and moved on to the bigger stages. Eli was hired to perform with the legendary Sons of the Pioneers in the year 2002, and since this show, she has been based out of Branson Missouri. Eli is a diverse artist that can include a large variety of genres in her shows such as, Western Roots, Gospel, New Country, Bluegrass, Classic Country & Folk. With a 3, 4, or 5 piece band or on stage alone with her guitar, Eli is a crowd pleaser…..
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| Joni Harms |
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"I personally can’t live without Western music," says Joni Harms, whose new album is Let’s Put The Western Back In The Country (Wildcatter Records). "I like a lot of today’s country music, but the truth of the matter is that I’m very serious about keeping the western side of country music alive." The sincerity in her voice is clear.
Indeed, Harms has been praised for her pure country voice since she signed her first record deal with the famed producer Jimmy Bowen for Capitol in the early 1990s. After that Harms moved to on to her celebrated Cowgirl Dreams (1999 / Warner Western). That release was followed by last year’s After All.
In 2003, Harms was named Female Vocalist of the Year and accepted the award for Song of the Year from the Western Music Association. She is also a multiple winner of Academy of Western Artists Awards, including the top honor of Entertainer of the Year for 2002, and she continues building audiences through appearances on the famed Grand Ole Opry and a recent stint at New York City’s Carnegie Hall.
"Growing up, I learned to sing and write songs by listening to Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard and George Strait," says Harms. "I remember seeing Emmylou Harris, and, after playing a while with the famous Hot Band, she came out on stage with just her black, Gibson guitar, and showed that she really is an artist. That’s what I try so hard to be able to do. You shouldn’t need all that electronic computerized stuff to make your voice perfect. You just need your heart."
Harms lives in Oregon with her family on a ranch that was homesteaded by her great, great grandfather in 1870. They raise quarter horses and Christmas trees.
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| Doris Daley |
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Award-Winning Cowboy Poet
Doris has been an emcee and featured performer at every cowboy festival in Canada as well as several in the United States, including Texas, California, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Montana and Oregon. In 2004 she was named Best Female Cowboy Poet in North America by the Academy of Western Artists, the first time any Canadian, male or female, has won the cowboy poetry category.
Born and raised in Southern Alberta ranch country, Doris Daley writes cowboy poetry that celebrates the humour, history and way of life of the west. Her great grandfather came west with the North West Mounted Police in the 1870s; her family has been ranching in the Alberta foothills for five generations.
Doris comes from a gene pool that includes ranchers, cowboys, Mounties, good cooks, sorry team ropers, Irish stowaways, bushwhackers, liars, two-steppers and saskatoon pickers
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