HAPPENIN' NOW

FEATURED ARTIST

Now through February 29
Artist & Jewelry Designer
Jaylene Armstrong
Every month OutWest brings you the work of local artists on our changing Art Wall. This month and continuing through February, we are pleased to present the work of artist, jewelry designer, art educator, and Santa Clarita resident Jaylene Armstrong. An active participant in the Santa Clarita Artists Association and contributing columnist to The Magazine of Santa Clarita, Jaylene has a Heart for Art. Just in time for Valentine's Day, her Heart Collages and unique one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces are the ideal way to say, "I love you."

This year, make a conscious decision to choose things "made in the USA." OutWest features many items hand made by local artisans. Choose a unique coaster set, art glass plate, or nightlight by fused glass artist Laila Asgari. Or choose from a wide assort of framed pieces by fine art photographer Ken Lubas.  Local Native American artist, Nadiya Littlewarrior's, gourd art is in demand nationwide. Even our note cards are created and printed in the USA.

Shop OutWest's collection of Western inspired clothing, accessories, home decor, books, CDs, and more for unique gifts. Gift Wrapping is always complimentary!

2012 Featured Artists Receptions
*February 16 2012 SENSES Mardi Gras! Meet all our artists 5:00-8:00 pm
*March 1, 2012 Art Walk Returns! Featured Artist Trae Mundt
*April 5, 2012 Art Walk, Artist TBA
*May 3, 2012 Art Walk, Featured Artist Bob Hernandez
*June 7, 2012 Art Walk, Featured Artist Cecily Willis
 
HAPPENIN' NEXT
2012 SCVTV Presents The OutWest Concert Series
All performances doors open at 7:30 p.m. Concert at 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, February 11
 The Haunted Windchimes

Doors open 7:30 p.m.
Concert 8:00 p.m.
Suggested Donation $15.00
Reservations 661.255.7087
First Appearance in the SCV!

{>}The Haunted Windchimes sound draws from traditional folk and American roots music. The songs have a vintage quality, as if they might have been written yesterday or 75 years ago. Grounded in honeyed harmonies and spirited pickin’, it lies in a nowhere land between distinct styles: It’s not quite bluegrass or blues or country. Still, there are elements of all those in songs that paint pictures of empty train stations and nights of passing a jug of moonshine around.

OutWest is excited to present this original group, traveling here all the way from Pueblo, Colorado! Learn more about them on our {>}Live Music page. Make your reservations today! 661.255.7087.

Tuesday, February 21
Cookin' With Carolyn
Carolyn Martin with Dave Martin

Doors open 7:30 p.m.
Concert 8:00 p.m.
Suggested Donation $15.00
661.255.7087 Reservations


Saturday, March 24
An Evening with Belinda Gail
Belinda Gail


Doors open 7:30 p.m.
Concert 8:00 p.m.
Suggested Donation $20.00
661.255.7087 Reservations





Saturday, April 14
An Evening with Juni Fisher
Doors open 7:30 p.m.
Concert 8:00 p.m.
Suggested Donation $20.00
661.255.7087 Reservations

Go to {>}Live Music for more details
For details on OutWest's in-store events visit our event pages: {>}Art Events including First Thursday Art Walk, {>} Live Music includes our on-going concert series, {>}Author Events include Rendezvous With A Writer, {>}Designer Showcases feature special collections of  apparel, accessories, jewelry, or folk art, and {>}Special Events include outreach off-site events, special sales or guest appearances.

Marrika Näkk Collection
Looking for designer Marrika Näkk's handmade, signature Peasant Tops, Princess Skirts, Bias Tops, Sexy Ts, and Romance Jackets? We've posted pieces from her Collection. Click Here for photos!

Planning a wedding? Celebrating a special event and need something gorgeous, unique, Southwestern, Western, Gypsy, Cowgirl maybe even with a Rock 'n Roll edge? Choose a stunning Marrika Näkk piece and we guarantee your moment will be memorable! Looking for something you don't see? Let us assist you!

HAPPENED! Podcasts and Video Stream On-Line On SCVTV and KHTS Radio
Watch and listen to OutWest interviews and concerts! Find links to past SCVTV interviews and concerts as well as KHTS 1220 AM talk show interviews {>}ON THE AIR.

SCVTV Presents The OutWest Concert Series
Almost Kin Performed December 3

Almost Kin combines the talents of three talented, experienced entertainers who have traveled many roads to this point in their musical careers. Husband and wife team, Steve and Kathy Coon, have played the LA music scene with the popular group, Scambooty, and also established themselves as successful voice-over artists for many years. Mike Fleming led the acclaimed Western music group, New West for 15 years. Almost Kin are an eclectic-acoustic mix of new original songs, smooth harmonies, and dollops of humor.
Click here for SCVTV concert {>} for Part One
Click here for SCVTV concert {>} for Part Two

RADIO
Around the Barn with Heads Up
Nominated by the Western Music Association
2011 DJ/Radio Program of the Year  
Join one of our purveyors, Bobbi Jean, co-host on our local radio station, KHTS. Tune into "Around The Barn with Heads Up" with host Nancy Pitchford Zhe and Producer Mike Dowler every Saturday morning at 9:00 a.m. For local residents, KHTS 1220 AM. Or from anywhere, enjoy streaming live on-line at hometownstation.com. Below is just a sample of shows, listen to all podcasts on our {>}"On the Air" page.

2012 Happenin' Next:

{>}February 4, It's All About {>}The Haunted Windchimes
The Haunted Windchimes arrive in the SCV Feb. 11 for a concert at OutWest. Their sound is very traditional folk and blues and the songs have a vintage quality, as if they might have been written yesterday or 75 years ago.

{>}January 28, It's All In The Bag!
North Carolinian artist and hand bag designer extraordinaire, {>}Denise Meyers, calls in chat with us about her passion for the West, for art and for the creative process. She is joined by Western Fashion Blogger Christin Miller of {>}www.MaverickStyle.net and Native American Gourd Artist{>}Nadiya Littlewarrior.

Happened 2012

{>}January 21, It's All About Rustlers-The Red Hot Rhythm Rustlers that is!
Western singer, songwriter, record producer and Radio DJ {>}MARVIN O'DELL joins us. We'll be playing music from his CDs, "Letter to Molly," the award winning "Silver Screen Project," and his newest with The Red Hot Rhythm Rustlers "Breakin' Out." Based in Palm Springs, Marvin is a longtime collector and student of classic country, western, and bluegrass music. Local radio audiences will remember both his western and bluegrass programs that aired on KCSN beginning in 1998. Now you can catch his radio show, "Around the Campfire" on {>}www.defendersoffreedomradio.com and KKRN in Redding, CA. Learn more about Marvin at {>}www.musikode.com

{>}January 14, It's All About Heads Up Therapy on Horseback
Heads Up Therapy on Horseback Board Member, and Treasurer, Beverly Hardigan, shares her passion for Heads Up Therapy on Horseback AND gives us the details for the upcoming Valentine's Day Dinner fund raising event at Robinson Ranch - includes a romantic carriage ride. As always,we'll play entertaining music too - by Dave Stamey, Juni Fisher, and Royal Wade Kimes.

{>}January 7, It's All About The Touch of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
Join us for conversation with author Tricia Spencer's whose new book {>}The Touch of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans was just published. Roy Rogers' granddaughter, Julie Fox Ashley Pomilia shares about her experience riding in the year's Rose Parade with the RFD Cable Network's float honoring the 100th anniversary of Roy Rogers' birth.

2011 Happened - See all links on the On The Air Page

{>}Dec. 17 It's All About Stuart Hamblen and Christmas in the West!
This is our final show of 2011. We'll chat with Bill Lindsay, Sr. Vice President & Administrator
Hamblen Music Company, and grandson of the famous singer/songwriter/performer Stuart Hamblen. Tune in for great Western Christmas music too.

{>}Dec. 10 It's All About the West
Two call-in guests join Bobbi Jean and Mike in the studio. First up is Western historical fiction writer, LaDene Morton, author of {>}What Lies West callin' in from Kansas City, MO. We highlight a couple of songs of The Cross Town Cowboys new CD {>}That Old Prairie Moon. WMA award winner, singer/songwriter Dave Stamey joins us for the second half and we feature 3 songs off his new CD, {>}Twelve Mile Road.

{>} Dec. 3 It's All About a Western Mystery and Great Music!
Two in-studio guests joined Nancy, Bobbi Jean, and engineer George. British young adult mystery writer, Caroline Lawrence, shares her newest book The Case of the Deadly Desperados with us. This is the first of a new Western Mystery Series! Western musician, Gency Brown (in-coming President of the WMA), sings live and shares news of the California chapter of the Western Music Association.

{>}Nov. 19 It's All About the Western Music Association Conference in Albuquerque!

Recorded November 19
Guests: R.W. Hampton, Joe Herrington and Mike Fleming
Listen live at {>}Around the Barn, www.hometownstation.com
Tune into "Around the Barn" for a special show! Co-host Bobbi Jean called in live from Albuquerque where she attended the Western Music Association Conference. Her first guest was award winning {>}singer/songwriter R.W. Hampton. R.W.'s newest CD, Austin to Boston, was nominated for Traditional Album of the Year. R.W. is the newest member of the Western Music Association's Hall of Fame. Cowboy Poet Joe Herrington and Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival Director Mike Fleming joined us in the studio. R.W. Hampton is a headliner at the April 21 & 22 Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival.

  Art OutWest Everyday

Explore the visual art of legendary Western artist Al Shelton, "Cowboy Artist to the Stars" shown here with OutWest's owners Bobbi Jean and Jim Bell. Well known for his superb leather craftsmanship, he is also a painter and musician. Many pieces of Al Shelton's work now live in the collection of the nearby Autry National Center Museum of the American West.

Other artists represented by OutWest include visual artists Walt La Rue, Bob Hernandez, Cecily Willis, Virginia Miranda, Todd Cooper, Donna Weil, Evie Cook, and Darryl Willison. Find fine art photography by Ken Lubas, Bill Birkemeier, Robert Mance, Frank Lozano, Jason Moran, and Sandy Fisher.

Also available are the works of fine handcraft by Silversmiths Silver King, glass artist Laila Asgari, gourd artist Nadiya Littlewarrior, woodcarver John Morris, leather artist "Biskit" Hatch, stone and bead jewelry by Roger Bashom, handbags by DCM Squared Denise Meyers, weavers Rick and Julie Ayers of Ayers Hand Wovens, beadwork by Sara Hauim, dreamcatchers by Rebecca Wood and, wrapped stones by Ginger MacDonald.

Browse OutWest's Featured Artists in our on-line Art Gallery, Native America, Jewelry, and Home Decor categories. You will always find their latest work in our store as well.

OutWest's Purveyors
Our Purveyors of Fine Western Goods add new items to our Boutique regularly and post many of these on-line. Visit our store to see our full selection. The featured items on the Home Page have been personally selected by our purveyors. Some are from our collection of New Arrivals, others are our Purveyors' favorites. Click Who Are Those Guys? to meet our Purveyors. Shop The Sale Room for their price reductions, short-term discounts , and special buys.

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Meet Us on Main Street!
Offering the convenience of on-line shopping OR the ambiance of a physical Western Boutique and Cultural Center.

Our "brick" boutique offers classic Native American and Western inspired apparel, accessories, home decor, children's items, music and more for the discriminating buyer. In addition, we present handmade, high quality arts and crafts created by local artisans of our home, the Santa Clarita Valley. In-store events include art exhibitions, live music and poetry, book signings, designer showcases and more.

Located on the Walk of Western Stars in Old Town Newhall, CA 91321
24265 Main Street (formerly San Fernando Road)
Local: 661.255.7087  Toll Free: 877.340.WEST (9378)
Home is the Santa Clarita Valley in historic Old Town Newhall, conveniently located off the Interstate 5 North and the 14 North. Easy to get to. Find details and store hours at Visit Us.