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PCTC backs new concert series

By Richard Reeder

This document was published online on Monday, November 24, 2008

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The Park County Travel Council is hoping to make some noise during the “Quiet Season” in Cody.

A new PCTC program will help bring musical entertainment to Cody outside the summer months. The program will be funded with a $25,000 line item in the marketing budget.

“The ‘Cody Wild West Shows' are a pilot program we're starting for the ‘quiet' months,” marketing director Claudia Wade said. “We'll have eight concerts during the off-season.”

Dan Miller will assist in securing acts for the eight concerts.

There will be one each January-April and then September-December.

“Dan is securing the acts through his many contacts in Nashville,” Wade says. “The PCTC will help do the promoting, but won't pay for the acts.

“Dan will provide Cody Theatre downtown and there may be some shows in Wynona Thompson Auditorium as well,” she added.

Miller is excited about the new project.

“I approached Xanterra in Yellowstone and the travel council with this idea,” he said. “I'm trying to bring in a series of entertainers, mainly some buddies of mine from my days in Nashville.

“It will be good to create some packages, bring people to town and have them shop and eat and see a show,” he added.

Wade said the focus is to give people in the Big Horn Basin a reason to come to Cody.

“We're hoping to develop a draw to bring people to Cody during the winter,” she added. “We'll develop some room packages similar to what we did with the Riders in the Sky concert.”

Miller said he'll utilize Cody Theatre for most of the concerts.

“Wynona Thompson will be nice once in a while too,” he said. “But I think there's an intimacy to Cody Theatre that makes it special.”

Miller has secured the first concert in January.

“Lacy J. Dalton will perform in the first show,” he said. “She's a friend of mine and has had many hits.

“And I'm talking to many other people,” he added.

While Miller is working on the pilot program, Wade said he's not the only individual who might bring concerts to Cody.

“There is certain criteria the act must meet to be eligible,” Wade said. “We'll look at anything that involves a well-known act.”

The criteria include releasing a hit song or CD that sold well nationally.

(Richard Reeder can be reached at richard@codyenterprise.com.)

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