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Bobby Bridger

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About Me

Check out my website BobbyBridger.com for a full history, photos, music, paintings, updated news and more.
Bobby Bridger is singer/songwriter/poet/actor/playwright/author and painter who for three decades has traveled the globe performing a trilogy of one man shows for audiences in America, Canada, Europe, Australia and Russia. He has recorded numerous albums on Monument, RCA, and Golden Egg Records and has appeared twice on PBS's "Austin City Limits", on ABC's "Good Morning America", NPR, A &E and C-Span. He is the composer of "Heal In The Wisdom", the official anthem of the internationally famous Kerrville Folk Festival for 25 years.
Bridger has been an artist-in-residence at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, WY., the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT., the John G. Neihardt Center in Bancroft, NE. and Yellowstone National Park . Bridger starred in Dale Wasserman's groundbreaking musical, Shakespeare and The Indians and was featured with David Carradine and Will Samspon in the drama Black Elk Speaks . Full company productions of Bridger's Seekers of the Fleece ran for eight consecutive summer seasons in Wyoming. He is the author of the award-winning book, Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull: Inventing The Wild West, and contributed essays to anthologies on western icons Frank Waters and John G. Neihardt as well as numerous magazine and newpaper features. He is the subject of the documentary film "Quest Of An Epic Balladeer," and DVD production of his trilogy, both in post-production.
Bobby currently has one book on the galley at the University of Texas Press - memoir/autobiography "Seeking History's Heartsong" and is also working on a book of essays on modern indigenous lifestyle in North America currently titled Becoming Indigenous: Essays and Interviews, 1988-2007.

My Interests

Painting, sculpting, being with my family

I'd like to meet:

John Neihardt
Black Elk

Music:

My albums are now available for purchase and download on iTunes and CDBABY! Here's the links:
Heal In The Wisdom
A Ballad of the West
Songs From A Ballad of the West
Download your favorite songs, and leave your comments.
Find my albums available for purchase at CD BABY here.

Books:

Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull: Inventing the Wild West
Anything by Vine Deloria Jr.

Heroes:

Vine Deloria, Jr., Black Elk, John Neihardt, Pablo Picasso, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Dale Wasserman, Frank Waters, Alvin Josephy, David Amram