IWMA Convention
The International Western Music Association is an organization that encourages and supports the preservation, performance and composition of historic traditional and contemporary music and poetry of the West. Members are from the United States, Australia, Canada, England, Japan, Switzerland, and Germany.
Western music is the folk music of the Western lifestyle and vista. Some Western music originates from roots in English, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh ballads, as well as musical influences from the European countries of immigrants who "went west;" others carried jazz and blues with them. While "cowboy" music is an important part of the history of Western music, the stories and lifestyles of the larger populations of Western culture are equally important. Settlers, farmers, ranchers, horsemen and women, soldiers and the women who accompanied them into the west, miners, opportunists, gamblers, saloon keepers, school teachers, and other town folk who populated the great American West are all subjects of modern-day Western music.
The IWMA 2026 Convention and awards show will be held Nov. 11-15 at the Hotel Albuquerque Old Town in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
categories: Annual event, Music: Western country, Music: Western cowboy, Music: Western swing
Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town
800 Rio Grande Blvd NW
Albuquerque, NM 87104
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