Hal Cannon (born 1950) is an American songwriter, musician, radio producer, and folklorist. He is the founding director of the Western Folklife Center and the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.[1][2][3]
Early life and education
editCannon grew up on a ranch in Elko, Nevada.
Career
editCannon and Taki Telonidis produced around one hundred radio features in a series called What’s In A Song which aired on Weekend Edition on NPR from 2004 to 2012.[4][5][6]
He is a member of the string trio 3hattrio.[7]
He gave his archive to Utah State University.[8][9][10]
Awards and honors
editIn 1999, he was given the Utah Governor's Award in the Arts. On Novemebr 9, 2002, Cannon was presented the Utah Governor's Award in the Humanities.[11]
He has been awarded three Wrangler Awards from the Cowboy Hall of Fame.[12]
He received the 1998 Will Rogers Lifetime Achievement Award.
He was presented the distinguished alumni award from the University of Utah Communications Department in 1999
In 2001, he was awarded the Benjamin Botkin Award from the American Folklore Society.[13]
In 2015, he was honored as Utah performer of the year by Governor Gary Herbert.
Books
edit- Buckaroo: Visions and Voices of the American Cowboy co-editor with an introduction and accompanying CD Simon and Schuster, 1993.
- New Cowboy Poetry: A Contemporary Gathering editor with an introduction, Gibbs M. Smith Publishers, 1990.
- Rhymes of the Ranges, editor with an introduction, Gibbs M. Smith Publishers, 1987.
- Songs of the Sage, an introduction to a reprint of the 1935 classic by cowboy poet, Curley Fletcher, Gibbs M. Smith Publishers, 1986.
- Cowboy Poetry, A Gathering, editor, with an introduction, Gibbs M. Smith Publishers, 1985.[14]
- The Grand Beehive, editor, University of Utah Press, 1980
- Utah Folk Art: A Catalog of Material Culture, editor, Brigham Young University Press, 1980.
References
edit- ^ "A Gathering of Cowboy Poets". 29 January 2019.
- ^ "2/10/11: The Music of Hal Cannon". 10 February 2011.
- ^ "Folklorist Gets His Comeuppance from the Pioneer Past". 21 February 2014.
- ^ https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4124291
- ^ "What's in a Song".
- ^ "Interview".
- ^ "3hattrio: Lord of the Desert". 2 March 2018.
- ^ "Hal Cannon collection - Archives West".
- ^ "USU Libraries | Special Collections and Archives - Cowboy Poetry".
- ^ https://www.si.edu/object/siris_sil_470883
- ^ "Champion of folk arts to be honored". November 2002.
- ^ "Announcing Hal Cannon as the Keynote Speaker for the WMA 2013 Annual Meeting | Western Museums Association".
- ^ https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/at-the-forefront-of-folk/Content?oid=2152483
- ^ "A Gathering of Cowboy Poets". 29 January 2019.