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Focal Point's 50th Anniversary with Bob Bovee & Ryan KoenigFriday November 14th, 2025
7:30pm doors 8pm show
Advance $26 (includes all fees)
Day of Show $30 (cash) / $31 (card)
The Focal Point Friends of Old-Time Music are happy to welcome back our old friend Bob Bovee as part of our 50th Anniversary Celebration series. Bob has been a regular performer at the Focal Point for nearly all 50 years of our existence. He is a native Nebraskan who grew up in a family that sang and played the old-time songs popular in rural areas in the Midwest before the era of commercial recordings and radio broadcasts. Many of the western and railroad songs he performs were learned directly from his grandmother and uncle. Bob plays guitar and autoharp, sings and yodels, and can drive a square dance band with his guitar and harmonica. Since 1971, Bob Bovee has traveled the country taking old-time music to audiences of all ages at festivals, fairs, coffeehouses, schools, libraries, and radio and TV programs. Bob is well known and loved for his dry wit and humorous stage patter. Along with a repertoire that includes old-time square dance tunes, ballads, cowboy songs, humorous and sentimental numbers, blues and rags, Bob spices up his shows with stories, history, and folklore of cowboys and the Old West. He has published numerous articles and reviews for The Old-Time Herald and Inside Bluegrass and has been an instructor for a course called “The History of Country Music” for the Honors Division at the University of Minnesota. Bob is also the Artistic Director for the Bluff Country Gathering and the organizing force for the Lanesboro Barn Dance.
We're pleased to have St. Louis's own rambling minstrel, Ryan Koenig, play an opening set for Bob. Ryan promises original numbers, novelties, and some "I'm not a real cowboy but I play one on Cherokee Street" songs.
” You are a national treasure!” David McLaughlin, Johnson Mountain Boys
“. . . taste and sensitivity to repertoire, arrangement and execution are unimpeachable.” Bill Hinckley, Buzz Magazine
“. . . bitingly authentic, without ever sounding imitative.” Paul Stamler, Come For To Sing
“I’ve long felt that Bob is one of the great singers of cowboy song alive today.” Kerry Blech, The Old Time Herald
“Have you heard those real old recordings of a cowboy singing a traditional song? The songs have an ‘old’ quality about them, and the singers’ voices seem to belong to a dried up old puncher just in from off the trail. Well, intentional or not, that is exactly how Bob Bovee sounds. His voice isn’t pretty, but it’s darn sure true to the genre . . . he renders these songs with authenticity and affection. It seems as though he belongs to this music and it to him.” Cowboy Magazine
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2720 Sutton Blvd, Maplewood, MO, United States, Missouri 63143, 2720 Sutton Blvd, St Louis, MO 63143-3036, United States, Richmond Heights
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