From the Fall 1995 issue of The Trail Blazer Gazette:
Michael's Cowboy Christmas Ball Tour was inspired by the original Cowboy Christmas Ball in Anson City, Texas in 1885. After attending a cowboy wedding celebration in the Morning Star Hotel, William Lawrence Chittenden was inspired to write the poem The Cowboy's Christmas Ball. The poem described the dancing, the people and the emotions of the evening and was later observed as a yearly event. Today, Michael is keeping the tradition alive with the Cowboy Christmas Ball Tour. The tour starts December 1st and continues on through December 31st, with a stop where it all began, Anson, Texas on December 22nd. You'll enjoy an evening of Cowboy Christmas Music, old and new with music from Michael's Cowboy Songs II -- Cowboy Christmas in a beautiful, historical, cowboy atmosphere. So if you are looking for an evening that is sure to please the whole family, join Michael for a Cowboy Christmas evening.
And from the Spring 1996 issue of The Trail Blazer Gazette:
As snow fell gently behind them, Michael Murphey, Gary Roller, David Coe, Leroy Featherston, Don Woodbury, Frank Swiech and special guest Ryan Murphey mesmerized and delighted audiences with their magical Old West Cowboy Christmas Ball. Every Christmas tune you learned to hum when you were small fell into the hands of these wonderful musicians, who performed them diligently and transformed the commercial mood of the everyday world into the enchanting feeling of quiet winter nights around the tree. Along in the sleigh came cowboy poets Vincent Craig, who appeared in the Eager, Arizona show, and Colen Sweeten, who brightened spirits in Logan, Utah and Sparks, Nevada. The Cowboy Christmas Ball took off this year in Albuquerque with two fund-raising events, for the Salvation Army and the Toys-for-Tots program, to call off the true spirit of Christmas. The tour came to a close in Anson, Texas, the place where it was first held by a group of jolly cowboys on Christmas Eve of 1885. Look for Michael and his band again in the wintertime of 1996.
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