Mountain View Arts Council

Welcome to the Mountain View, MO Arts Council website!

Jennie Cummings, Director, mountainview@macaa.net 

The Mountain View Arts Council is a volunteer organization of a director and forty volunteers.  We write grants to the Missouri Arts Council and receive assistance from our membership in the Missouri Association of Community Arts Agencies, www.macaa.net, Mountain View civic groups, merchants, banks and individuals.

Our Cowboy Poetry Festival is held each April, the last full weekend.  The 2008 festival will be April 24,25,26, 2009.  It includes 24 cowboy poets who present their original writings of poems, songs, music, comedy and a couple of reciters who present famous works.  These are very talented singers, actors, storytellers that startle the laughter, bring the tears and just plain out entertain you!  We serve a great Sunday Dinner after the Cowboy Church they perform at the Mountain View United Methodist Church. 

Missouri Cowboy Poetry Festival

11th annual festival set for April 24-26

Mountain View, MO - One of the largest cowboy poetry and music events in the Midwest returns to Mountain View, Missouri, on April 24-26, when nearly two dozen performers from five states are expected to participate in the 11th annual gathering of the Missouri Cowboy Poets Association.

Held at the Mountain View Community Center, the annual festival attracts cowboy musicians, singers and recording artists, cowboy poets, storytellers, country humorists, chuckwagon cooks and rope spinners from throughout Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas.

The three-day event kicks off Friday afternoon, April 24, with a special Cowboy Poets performance for Mountain View Elementary students, followed by a "Supper with the Cowboys" dinner and show beginning at 5:00 p.m. Performances that evening will also feature the winners of the Mountain View Elementary 5th grade cowboy poetry competition. Dinner/show tickets are available at the door for $12 per person, or show tickets only for $6.

Saturday morning, April 25, the poets will feature performances for residents, families and friends at the Mountain View Health Care Center.There is a free afternoon show for the public at the Community Center at 1:00 p.m.

At 7:00 that evening, all performers will present a "grand finale" cowboy poetry and music show at the Community Center. Tickets will be available at the door for $6 per person. On Sunday morning, April 26, the poets and musicians will conclude the event with Cowboy Church at the Mountain View Methodist Church Mountain View is located in South-central Missouri, about 100 miles east of Springfield.

The Missouri Cowboy Poetry Festival is organized by Jennie Cummings and Eulalia Polk of the Mountain View Arts Council. Financial assistance is provided by a grant from the Missouri Arts Council