Royal Wade Kimes Presents National Day Of The Cowboy's 'Cowboy Keepers' Award At 2006 Golden Boot Awards

NASHVILLE, TN. (Royal Wade Kimes PR) - Country and Western icon Royal Wade Kimes presented the prestigious National Day of the Cowboy "Cowboy Keepers Award" to the Golden Boot at the 2006 Golden Boot Awards on Sat. Aug. 12, 2006 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. Kimes is a spokesperson for National Day of the Cowboy, a day set aside by Congress to pay homage to our Western history and the men and women who contribute to Western culture in America. The Cowboy Keepers Awards were inaugurated in May 2006 by the National Day of the Cowboy organization as a way to honor individuals and organizations who are preserving our American Cowboy heritage.
Kimes, a native of Arkansas who grew up on a cattle ranch, states, "I have always believed that the Cowboy Way should be honored, so it is with great pleasure that I present the "Cowboy Keepers Award" to the Golden Boot on behalf of National Day of the Cowboy." The Golden Boot Awards is an annual Western theme gala presented by the Motion Picture and Television Fund, featuring a cocktail party, silent and live auction, seated dinner, and awards show for over 800 guests.
Honorees (past and present) include Powers Boothe (HBO?s Deadwood), Ann-Margret, James Caan, Melissa Gilbert, Peter Fonda, Debbie Reynolds, Johnny Cash, Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood and The Encore Westerns Channel. To find out more, visit https://www.mptvfund.org/events/gba.htm.
Kimes, a Platinum songwriter and two time winner of the Academy of Western Artists? Will Rogers Award, has just released a blazing new CD, "Strikin? Matches," and his first novel, "Eminent Domain and Old Man Smith." Kimes has been on tour across the U.S. heartland performing at historic theaters, state fairs, festivals, and military bases. He recently received a proclamation for the National Day of the Cowboy from the governor of West Virginia.