Date/Time
Friday, Oct 4, 2019 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Coming Back to Bonners Ferry
Gary Eller will be returning to Bonners Ferry for a program from his Idaho Songs Project on Friday, October 4, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Boundary County Museum. Gary has played American roots music since childhood. He was born and raised in West Virginia, having lived most of his life in the American West. After a lengthy career in nuclear science and engineering at Lost Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, he retired to Pickles Butte near Nampa, Idaho in 2004.
“Strong Women of Early Idaho” is the title of this year’s celebration in song of historical personalities of notable early Idaho women. Featured will be May Arkwright Hutton, a force in the Coeur d’Alene Valley (and Spokane, WA), Mira Persons, a school teacher at Hope, ID who wrote a song entitled, “What’s the Matter with Ol’ Lake Ponderay?,” as well as other colorful women from throughout Idaho.
Gary is certainly no stranger to Bonners Ferry, having performed “Bad Asses and Disasters of Early Idaho,” and “Work Songs of Early Idaho.”
Gary loves a good ole jam session, following his program, so all in attendance are invited to bring a favored instrument and share in some fine sing-along-time.
Refreshments will be served.
This program is sponsored, free of charge, by the Boundary County Historical Society and the Idaho Humanities Council Speakers Bureau.
Below are links to Gary’s earlier visits to the Museum:
Gary Eller – Idaho Songs Project – October 5th, 2017
Gary Eller – “Song Swap” at the Museum – September 26th, 2008