Reckless Rooster
Next Wed Oct 7 Bar 365, Garden City ID · 5:00 PM RSVP

Out of a gold town.

Idaho City started as a Boise Basin gold-rush camp, and in the 1860s it ran three dozen saloons. Rooster lives there now.

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Saloons, honky-tonks, barrooms.

About 150 nights a year across the Rocky Mountain region, solo or as a one-man band.

In his own words, Rooster turns those rooms into whiskey-soaked, boot-stomping dens of debauchery, where western swing dancing is always encouraged. He plays fiddle, guitar, harmonica and dobro, and he plays lead on them for three other bands.

  • Matthew & The HopeSalt Lake City, Utah
  • David Henry BandBoise, Idaho
  • Denver Venoit BandCalgary, Alberta
Rooster holding a sunburst acoustic guitar in front of a tall stack of weathered driftwood.
With the guitar

On the record

  1. 2022 · 2023 · 2024Wyoming Singer-Songwriter CompetitionSemifinalist
  2. 2019Wyoming State Flatpick Guitar Competition2nd place
  3. 2004Utah Old Time Fiddlers Association State Fiddle Contest, Jr. Jr. Division2nd place

Competition results as Reckless Rooster lists them.

Off stage

Rooster standing on a rocky shore with a lake and mountains behind him.
Lake and mountains
Rooster with his fiddle among yellow aspens beside an old grey car.
Aspens in fall
Rooster standing beside a dark horse in an open field.
With the horse
A fiddler in sunglasses playing outdoors, red cliffs behind.
Fiddle, outdoors
Rooster holding his fiddle on a wooden bridge.
On the bridge
A guitar leaning on the running board of an old grey car, boots beside it.
Guitar and boots
Black and white photo of Rooster singing into a microphone with a guitar.
Live, black and white
Rooster crouched in tall grass holding an acoustic guitar.
With the guitar

Portraits © Outlaws Paradise Photography. Other photos courtesy of Reckless Rooster.

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Now you know him. Come hear him.

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