Bandera - where the fun never sets - really comes alive on Labor Day weekend. That's when Bandera returns to its roots. It is the time of the cowboy - and music, horses, longhorn cattle, gunfights, American Indian Powwow, gospel singing and cowboy church on the river. It's Celebrate Bandera 2010 organized by the Bandera Community Foundation.
Get an early start on Celebrate Bandera with all the Friday night events:
COWBOY MOUNTED SHOOTERS; CIRCLE OF LIFE INTERTRIBAL POWWOW WITH THE BLESSING OF THE CIRCLE AND THE GRAND ENTRY, THE NATIVE AMERICAN SILENT AUCTION; AND THE WELCOME TO BANDERA DANCES.

Labor Day week-end Saturday and Sunday will find the whole town alive with cowboys and dudes and little buckaroos jostling for position to see Dr. E.T. Bushrod's Medicine Show, the San Antonio Living History Association, the Concho Cowboys, the famous Brazos Bottom Cowographers, a chance to ride in a stagecoach, The Texas Longhorn Riders and the Buffalo Soldier’s Camp. Folks will be scramblin’ to watch the Fancy Dancers and ceremonial dances of the Celebrate Bandera Circle of Life Intertribal PowWow.
Saturday morning kicks off with the opening ceremony, parade and a cattle drive down Main Street. A cattle drive with real longhorns.
The great thing about Saturday and Sunday is that every event on the river and on Main Street is FREE. And that includes the juried Arts and Crafts Show, the Living History and re-enactors and the Antique Chuck Wagons.
You can move to Mansfield Park and catch the Grand Entry of the Circle of Life Intertribal Pow Wow and the afternoon performance of the Invitational Roping and Barrel Racing. Saturday evening catch the Cecil Adkinson Ford’s Cowboy Mounted Shooters ,the new and exciting Wild West Show and the Invitational Rodeo Finals.
Sunday brings back the Western Heritage Cowboy Church services on the banks of the Medina River. Country Gospel Music is featured most of the afternoon. A Native American Church service will also be held at Mansfield Park at the Intertribal PowWow.
Sunday evening it the Hottest 8 seconds of the year at the National Professional Bull Rider’s Challenge at Mansfield Park. Cowboys from all over the U.S. will gather to ride some of the best bucking bulls in the United States.
Each year, a number of civic and church groups benefit from participation in Celebrate Bandera. To learn more about how you or your group can participate, call Genie Strickland at 830-796-4447.
Notice: Some outfitters charge fees for their rides such as stage coach, pony or horseback riding.
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Twin Elm's Cap'n Kury & Miss Victoria

Running R Ranch's Diane Migliaccio
Crawford Pharmacy's Niki Collins

Silver Spur Ranch's Gary Waltsmith
Susan Jenkins of the Flying L Guest Ranch
Bandera City Council

Comprehensive Physical Therapy and Bandera Fitness,
Carman Gascot owner
11th Street Cowboy Bar's James McGroarty
The Almost Patsy Cline Band
American Indian Store owner Bo Miller
Bandera County Convention and Visitor's Bureau, Homer Stevens
Bandera Saloon, Art Crawford
Johnny Boyle, owner of Boyle's Bandera Hardware
The Bandera Bulletin, Christina Ryrholm
Bandera Chamber of Commerce, Cerise Ripps
Bandera County Courier, Gail Joiner
Denise of The Cowboy Store
Clay Conley, owner of The Dixie Dude Ranch
R&S Dairy Queens, Manager Scott Middleton
Bandera's Economic Development Corporation
Margaret Paradee, owner of the Gingerbread House &
President of the Bandera Business Association, Both Proud Sponsors
Jim Barlow of Hondo National Bank
Brian Black owner of The Longhorn Saloon and Charlotte Browning
Kim Monroe of O.S.T.
Lloyd & Linda Randall of Pioneer River Resort
Peggy Ashmore, owner of Shoe Biz
Lou Mack, owner of Skyline RV Resort
Sully Woodland of Well's Fargo Bank
Bob & Gail Click, owners of Bandera General Store
Debbie Corley of Bandera Electric Coop.
Braun Medicine Chest, Lauren Wilson Pharmacist
Brick & Jennifer Gibson, owners of Brick's River Cafe
Allen & Dorothy Strong of Cow Creek
Stagecoach Realty's Renee Leith and Martha Bodiford
Lew Pewterbaugh of Bunkhouse Leather
Beverly Hanks of Star Light Bookkeeping
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Photo Credits James Taylor and Jessica Hawley of the Bandera Bulletin
Carl Holt from the Bandera County Courier
And Chuck Murphy ~~ ALL PROUD SPONSOR PICTURES with
Bandera Community Foundation President Dave Demers taken by Jackie Demers









