{"id":23981,"date":"2017-02-25T17:10:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T01:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23981"},"modified":"2017-02-25T17:10:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T01:10:07","slug":"western-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/western-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Kick Up Your Heels at California&#8217;s Western Themed Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/westdays.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From cowboy poetry and music festivals to rodeos, fairs and heritage events that celebrate the Old West, California is the\u00a0go-to state for Western-themed celebrations. Several\u00a0of the biggest, most publicized festivals every spring are\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-clarita-cowboy-festival.html\">Cowboy Festival in Santa Clarita<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/bishop-mule-days.html\">Bishop&#8217;s Mule Days<\/a>. There are many events that don&#8217;t get quite the publicity but offer incredible country appeal and hometown hospitality.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-cowboy-festivals.html\">California Western &amp; Cowboy Fests<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: Western Music Association Showcase\u00a0every\u00a03rd Sunday at The Autry.<\/li>\n<li>VINTON:\u00a0Sierra Valley Grange Cowboy Poetry and Music Show March 17-18, 2017<\/li>\n<li>OAKDALE: Cowboy Museum Cowgirl Luncheon April 7<\/li>\n<li>INDIO<b>: <\/b>Coachella Music Festival April 14-16 \u00a0&amp; April 21-23<\/li>\n<li>NORCO: Horse Week April 21-30<\/li>\n<li>SANTA CLARITA:\u00a0Cowboy Festival April 19-23<\/li>\n<li>VACAVILLE: Country &amp; Western Festival April 21-22<\/li>\n<li>GENOA \/ SOUTH TAHOE: Genoa Cowboy Festival April 27-29<\/li>\n<li>ELK GROVE: Elk Grove Western Festival May 5-7<\/li>\n<li>BANNING: Wild West Festival May 20-21<\/li>\n<li>BISHOP: Mule Days May 23-28<\/li>\n<li>McKINLEYVILLE: Pony Express Days\u00a0May 31-June 4<\/li>\n<li>MIDDLETOWN: Middletown Days Festival June 16-18<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From cowboy poetry and music festivals to rodeos, fairs and heritage events that celebrate the Old West, California is the\u00a0go-to state for Western-themed celebrations. Several\u00a0of the biggest, most publicized festivals every spring are\u00a0the Cowboy Festival in Santa Clarita and Bishop&#8217;s Mule Days. There are many events that don&#8217;t get quite the publicity but offer incredible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23981"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}