Songs and Tales from A Ballad of the West

Bobby Bridger performed parts of his epic trilogy A Ballad of the West as a one-man show all over the planet for over four decades. Full company musical productions of Part One, Seekers of the Fleece were also produced each summer in Wyoming from 1988-1994 in such locations as Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center and featured such stars of stage, screen, and records such as Joe Sears, Wes Studi, Steve Fromholz, and many others

Songs and Tales from A Ballad of the West: An Evening with Epic Balladeer and Western Historian Bobby Bridger is a two act retrospective of Bridger’s Americana masterpiece. In Act One Bridger describes the western history that inspired songs from Seekers of the Fleece and Pahaska as well as sharing dramatic and humorous behind-the-scenes tales of various theatrical incarnations of the shows. Act Two is a performance of Bridger’s moving Lakota ballad in its entirety.

“A Ballad of the West is poetry to be chanted, sung,and acted. It calls to mind the great mavericks Whitman, Sandburg, and Earl Robinson. The form is speech song, written for both eye and ear. It also
happens to be electrifying theater.” Dale Wasserman, playwright Man of La Mancha, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (adapted for the stage) 

A Ballad of the West is Bridger’s highly-acclaimed trilogy of epic ballads that chronicle the American west from 1822-1950 with musical biographies of mountain man Jim Bridger, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, and Lakota holy man, Black Elk. 

“A major work!...a unique historical presentation of monumental dimensions.” The Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming