Born in Brownwood, Texas, Jeff grew up in a pastor's home. From the time anyone can remember, all Jeff wanted to be was a cowboy. Though many children say this for a time, the desire never left him as he grew older. At age three, Jeff began singing for churches, civic and community groups with his family. The desire to be a cowboy continued in his heart and at about the age of ten, he began working on a ranch owned by friends of the family who had a son about his age. He graduated from Howard Payne University in 1984 and from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1986. For twelve years he ministered in local churches as youth, music, and education minister, day-working on ranches all he could. Jeff had continued singing and entertaining through the years, and because he mostly sang cowboy and gospel music, he began to get invited to cowboy poetry/music gatherings, chuck wagon competitions, ranch rodeos, and community celebrations across the country. Eventually, these cowboy events began using Jeff's abilities as a minister to do church services around the chuck wagons and in the rodeo arenas. For over thirteen years, Jeff has been traveling full time singing cowboy music and doing ministry. Jeff lives in Coleman County, just south of Abilene, TX with his family on a small ranch. He cowboys on ranches and ministers in ranching and rural areas as well as singing at many of those same cowboy events. He has recorded six albums of cowboy and gospel music, was named the Male Vocalist of the Year by the Academy of Western Artists in 1997 and has been nominated several other times. He has appeared in movies with Tommy Lee Jones, Sissy Spacek, and Farah Fawcett, among others, and has appeared in commercials for Maxwell House Coffee, and Chevy Trucks. Jeff is respected by the cowboys with which he rides as a true hand. This is what he is most proud of. After all, from the time anyone can remember, all Jeff wanted to be was a cowboy.
Contacting Jeff Gore:
325-280-5457
www.jeffgore.org
or email us at: [email protected]
--Schedule--
FEBRUARY
1-16 San Antonio Rodeo and Livestock Show
21-24 Saddle Up @ Pigeon Forge, TN
29 Texas Poetry Gathering, Alpine, TX
MARCH
1-2 Rodeo Austin, Austin, TX
16 Senior Pro Rodeo, Alvarado, TX
22-23 Top Hand Cowboy Church, Crawford, TX
28-30 Lenapah, OK
APRIL
9-10 Tent Revival Camp-out
12 VA Hospital, San Antonio, TX
19 Bar B Que Cook-Off, Lytle, TX
23-29 Gone to Talladaga with Freddie, Barbara,
Joe Bob, & Elaine Donna's Parents
Celebrate 50 years of Marriage!
MAY
9-11 Western Heritage Classic, Abilene, TX
10 Addie Barnett (Gore) Graduates Howard
Payne University Suma Cum Laude
JUNE
5-8 Wild Horse Prairie Days, Haskell, TX
13-14Poetry Gathering 777'S Ranch, Ferron, UT
29- FBC Jack Pot, NV
JULY
1-2 FBC Jack Pot, NV
25-27 National Day of the Cowboy Celebration,
Bristoe, OK
AUGUST
8-9 Big Bend WRCA Ranch Rodeo, Alpine, TX
24 Senior Pro Rodeo, Hamilton, TX Circle T Arena
(tentative)
SEPTEMBER
4-7 National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration
12-13 Round-Up Cowboy Gathering, Seguin, TX
(to Benefit Guadalupe Regional Medical Foundation)
25-29 Rochelle Baptist Church, Rochelle, TX
OCTOBER
5-8 First Baptist Church, Balmorhea, TX
12 Round Up Sunday - Bible Baptist, Beeville, TX
NOVEMBER
4-9 WRCA World Championship Ranch Rodeo,
Amarillo, TX
DECEMBER
4-13 NFR Las Vega, NV
