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Date: Mar 29, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM
Cost: $80.00
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The 2025 Clem Albertoni Cowboy Gathering will be held on Saturday, March 29th at the Salinas Sports Complex.

Trinity Seely will headline the show. More information coming soon.

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Tickets are $80 and go on sale here at 10 am on Thursday, October 10th. The ticket price includes a barbecue dinner along with the show.

Performers include Trinity Seely, who was a crowd favorite back in 2023, and Andy Nelson. Read more about each talented artist below.

This is the fourth time the California Rodeo Salinas will produce the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in honor of the great man and renowned cowboy poet, Clem Albertoni.

Clem, along with his wife Phylis, were the beating heart behind this event for years, helping us all grow our love for cowboy stories and western music. Clem’s talent for entertaining as a poet was legendary in the Salinas Valley as the resident Master of Ceremonies, as well as at numerous other cowboy poetry events. His skill with words were sought by those celebrating their happiest days or their saddest. He was a man who filled a room with charisma and energy, but with the rare quality of making each person feel as if he were speaking directly to them. His ability to make people laugh, smile, cry and “feel” was a gift from above.

Trinity Seely

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Trinity Seely's life has taken her to many different places, ranging from the Chilcotin of British Columbia, where she grew up; to boarding school in Ojai, California; to Utah Valley University, where she met and married her husband; and then to ranches in the high deserts of central Wyoming, the Sandhills of Nebraska, and the Big Belts outside Cascade, Montana. Trinity is now back in Ojai where she directs the Horse Program at The Thacher School, her alma mater, leading a team of seven who manage 120 horses. Trinity says the Horse Program "was founded 130 years ago with the belief that the outside of a horse is good for the inside of a kid. This statement still rings true today."

As Trinity says, "We have spent the majority of our married life working on cattle ranches across the west while raising our four kids. While we are not pushing cows at the moment, the opportunity to work with the youth of the future and good horses is the most meaningful work we could do, and we love it."

Trinity Seely, her debut album, was released in 2011. Produced by Brenn Hill and Ryan Tilby, it received multiple outstanding reviews, including writeups in Western Horseman, Ranch and Reata, Cowgirls in Style, Working Ranch Magazine, and True West. She followed it up with three more albums: Old Poly Rope, Cowboy's Wage, and Camp to Camp.


Trinity has been a featured performer at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, NV; Heber City Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival in Heber City, UT; Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Durango CO; Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering in Prescott, AZ; and many more gatherings and ag-related events, including a trip to Germany where she shared her western lifestyle with her friends across the Atlantic.
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2025 Clem Albertoni Cowboy Gathering
Mar 29, 2025 | 6:00 PM
This year's event will showcase music from the beautifully talented Trinity Seely and Andy Nelson who is an energetic and high-spirited cowboy poet and humorist. The event will feature a barbecue dinner as well as silent and live auctions.
General Seating $80.00 Ages 2+







Andy Nelson

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As a second-generation farrier, Andy Nelson has the experience and the talents and humor to bring authenticity and entertainment to an audience. Raised in Oakley, Idaho, Andy traveled the

Great Basin of southern Idaho, northern Utah and northern Nevada with his father on farrier jobs, from the time he was a child until he went off to college, and while in college at Utah State University, he continued to shoe horses for the USU Horsemanship Program. Now Andy lives in Pinedale, Wyoming, where among other things, he and his wife Jaclyn raise horses and children. Andy his farrier brother Jim, co-host the

"Clear Out West (C.O.W.) Radio" weekly syndicated radio show and the brothers are in demand as announcers at regional rodeos.



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