Award-winning Western songwriter Kerry Grombacher will present his concert program
“Songs and Stories of the American West” at four of the Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries including Ridgefield. The concert programs are free to the public.
The concert at the Ridgefield Community Library will start at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 7. Additional concert programs are scheduled for the Cascade Park, Stevenson and Goldendale community libraries. For information on the Cascade Park concert program, visit fvrl.librarymarket.com/songs-sto ries-american-west.
“In the spirit of the troubadours of old, Kerry Grombacher’s contemporary folk and Western songs paint vivid portraits and tell fascinating stories that are set in the landscape he travels, from the bayous of Louisiana, through the desert Southwest, to the Hi-Line of Montana and the forests of the Pacific Northwest,” according to a press release.
“Range of the Buffalo,” the title track of his 2021 CD, was named song of the year by the International Western Music Association. His songs about the region include “Along the John Day River,” which was rooted in his experiences fighting forest fires in the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon in the early 1970s.
Grombachers logs as many as 40,000 miles each year driving from show to show, and he is a regular visitor to Washington, the release states.
“I’m looking forward to performing throughout the Fort Vancouver Regional Library system,” Grombacher said in the release. “I know I’ll meet some great folks, and I’ll have five days to explore the gorgeous Washington side of the Columbia River, from Vancouver to Goldendale.”
