Hear Mark Gardner, curator of the music-themed exhibition, “The Power of Music.” Using vintage instruments from his own collection, Gardner will demonstrate the songs and instrumentals popular during the time period represented in exhibition subtitled “Photographic Portraits of Americans and Their Musical Instruments, 1860-1915.” Some instruments he uses are identical to those found in the exhibit photos. He also will demonstrate the historic playing styles common to those instruments, with an emphasis on music of the American West. Book signing follows

 

Immediately following the Museum’s Tuesdays At Sundown program, author Mark Lee Gardner will sign his latest release To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West. Drawing on voluminous primary sources and a wealth of published scholarship, Mark Lee Gardner digs beneath the myth to take a fresh look at these two men, their relationship and their epic ride to immortality.Gardner’s award-winning book Jack Thorp’s Songs of the Cowboy and CD Frontier Favorites: Old-Time Music of the Wild West also will be available.