Cantaloupe Festival organizers continue to build and expand Nevada's longest-running agriculture celebration as they head into the 38th annual event this August 25–27.
On tap, this year is a rodeo on Saturday night, which will run from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., followed directly by a concert in the 3C Arena featuring Ned LeDoux, son of famous country music star Chris LeDoux.
Noel Lambert is heading up the committee for the rodeo and has big plans. The rodeo has been sanctioned through an amateur rodeo circuit, California Cowboys Professional Rodeo Association, and has also applied for sanction rodeo by the Idaho Cowboys Association. "Hopefully, within the next three years, we will have a pro rodeo; that's our goal," she said. The event will draw contestants from Idaho, Oregon, California, and Nevada.
There will also be junior rodeo events, with a contest on Saturday morning, August 26, at 8 a.m., with 20 contestants for each event, including steer, sheep, calf riding, and barrel racing. The top five of each event will return to the performance that night. "We want to get these kids involved in rodeo and spark that interest."
Ned LeDoux will headline the Saturday night concert at roughly 8 p.m. after the rodeo. He has been playing music since he got his first drum set at the age of five and joined his father's band as a pinch-hitter at 21 when their drummer, KW, was in a car wreck. He has toured with groups like Sawyer Brown, Toby Keith, and Garth Brooks. LeDoux is playing at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville this week and will make his way across the country all summer, playing the top festivals and fairs before landing late summer in Fallon.
The rodeo is included in the general admission festival ticket cost, and the concert will be an extra ticket, available on the festival website at FallonCantaloupeFestival.com. General admission tickets can be purchased ahead of the festival for $10 and at the gate for $12.
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