- THE COMPANY COWBOY BAND, shown singing the National Anthem at the 1987 National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, will observe 40 years of performing together during next week’s Black Hills Stock Show in Rapid City. Lennis Fagerhaug, Brian Bergeleen, Dale Schimke and the late Kyle (Fagerhaug) Evans are shown above. The band has continued to perform without Kyle, since his death in 2001.
BY CRAIG WENZEL
Members of the Company Cowboy Band, Wessington Springs, are observing their 40th anniversary in February-2009. The band formed to play the local crop show in February of 1969, performing with Kyle (Evans) Fagerhaug.
The band included Kyle Evans, Dale Schimke, Brian Bergeleen and Lennis Fagerhaug.
Forty years later the band is still performing at local and regional events, including Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) rodeos.
They will perform at a band reunion at the Rapid City Civic Center on February 6, from 5:00-5:30 p.m. in conjunction with the Black Hills Stock Show.
The opening at the PRCA rodeo on the same day will feature a tribute to the late Kyle Evans at 7:00 p.m. Kyle died in a motorcycle accident near Wessington Springs on July 5th, 2001. Kyle’s son, singer/songwriter Dustin Evans, the son of Linda Cosby, Wessington Springs, will sing his Dad’s role as the band opens the Black Hills Stock Show Friday night rodeo by singing the National Anthem along with the Company Cowboy Band.
Following the rodeo the Company Cowboy Band will perform at a two-hour reunion celebration in the Rodeo Zone at the Civic Center.
Everyone is welcome to come. There is no charge for the reunion party.
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