While we can't cover all of the many Texas rodeos planned for the first part of the year, the 2010 Texas rodeo season includes the following major competitions:
The Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo (now through Feb. 7). America's oldest stock show will celebrate its 114th year in 2010, with specialty and professional rodeo events taking place daily.
With approximately 900,000 visitors each year, this annual event features a carnival midway full of attractions, education exhibits, vendors - selling everything from jewelry and belt buckles to boots and clothing apparel - livestock shows and sales at one of the best equestrian centers in America, the Will Rogers Memorial Center.
New this year, The WinStar Rodeo Roadhouse will have live music prior to and following every Rodeo performance. For more information, visit www.fwstockshowrodeo.com.
The San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo (Feb. 4-21). Visitors will converge upon the AT&T Center and Freeman Coliseum Grounds for a host of rodeo events, along with a carnival and star-studded performance.
Entertainers will include Tim McGraw, Lady Antebellum, Allan Jackson, Toby Keith, Trace Adkins, Gary Allen, Dierks Bentley, Blake Shelton, Darius Rucker, Foreigner, and Selena Gomez, among a host of others. For more information, visit www.sarodeo.com.
The Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo (March 2-21). Since the show's 1932 debut, it has contributed more than $250 million to scholarships, research, endowments, calf scramble participants, junior show exhibitors, the Rodeo Institute for Teacher Excellence, School Art participants, and other educational and youth programs.
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This year's impressive list of performers includes: Keith Urban, Alan Jackson, Kenny Chesney, Brooks & Dunn, Rascal Flatts and even the Jonas Brothers. For more information, visit www.rodeohouston.com.
The Star of Texas Rodeo in Austin (March 12-27). Austin goes cowboy as competitors hit the Travis County Expo Center arena and area exhibitors show prize livestock at the 72nd annual event. Headline entertainers will appear in concert nightly, with such performers as Gary Allan, Lady Antebellum, Charley Pride, The Randy Rodgers Band, Billy Currington, and the Doobie Brothers.
Those looking for more than bull riding and calf roping can check out the Rodeo Rumble Run (March 13), the Chuck Wagon Cook-off (March 12-14), the BBQ Cook-off (March 19) and the Bullet Proof Blowout (March 26). For more information, call (512) 919-3000 or visit www.staroftexas.org.
For more information about rodeos, events and travel across the state of Texas, visit www.TravelTex.com.
