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Toker Timothy Many Hats named as the Offical Host of FRONTIER FEST

THE HOST OF FRONTIER FEST Toker Timothy Many Hats

In 1942 French Canadienne Marselle Gordenaire, eight months pregnant, walked five days through snow from St. Johns British Columbia to northern Idaho so her baby would be born an American citizen. After Timothy was born, Marselle returned to Canada where, after seven years, her trapper husband met an untimely death while on a seal hunt.

Timothy’s Blackfoot grandfather, Long Feather, brought the boy up as his own until, at age fourteen, Timothy struck out on his own searching for his “vision of life”. His quest took him eventually to Utah in 1959, where between the Uintah Mountains and the red rocks of southern Utah he made his home.

Timothy’s Indian name, “Many Hats” describes him perfectly, as he has been a trapper, mountain man, adventurer, cabin builder, rancher, gardener, storyteller, interpreter of mountain man and Native American cultures, patriot, and most recently, motivational speaker.

Because he embodies the spirit of the frontier encountered by the pioneers when they arrived in Utah territory in 1849, Toker Timothy has become the Official Host of FRONTIER FEST presented by Utah Pioneer Heritage Arts and Clog America at Gardner Village June 13th and 14th. .

Toker Timothy has appeared for the following:

 Festival of the American West- 18 year veteran  Fort Bridger Rendezvous  Trapper’s Look Summer Festival  Rocking R Ranch-Mesa, Arizona  National Buffalo Association  Western National Cutting Horse Association  Golden Spike Arena  Rocky Mountain ATV Jamboral- Richfield, Utah  Utah State Fair and Weber County Fair  Footlighters Acting Association- Fort Bragg, CA  Fort Buenaventura Dinner Company  Clients include: Bridgerland Travel Council and Chamber of Commerce, National Golf Society, Snowbird Ski Resort, Boy Scouts of America, Girl Scouts of America, AT&T, US West,Ogden Convention & Visitors’ Bureau,Utah Hemophilia Foundation, National Forest Services Uintah, Ogden, & Sevier), innumerable church and private events.

CLOG AMERICA Europe-bound in July 2008

CLOG AMERICA TO REPRESENT THE USA AT PRESTIGIOUS FESTIVALS IN FRANCE AND SPAIN

CLOG AMERICA has received an invitation to represent the USA in the 20th anniversary celebration of “LA FESTIVAL DE MARTIGUES” in Martigues, France in July, 2008. The festival has received unfailing support from the City of Martigues, the Provence Alpes Cotes d’Azure region and the Council of Bouches du Rhones Department.

In addition to CLOG AMERICA, this year’s anniversary festival will host from ARGENTINA- “Gran Ballet Argentino”, BURYALIA- “Baykal Waves”, CANADA- “Mackinaw”, CATALONIA-“Colla Castellera”, CUBA- “Maraguan”, FRANCE- “La Capouliero”, IRELAND- “Bastable Warren Irish Dancers”, ITALY- “Sbandieratori Dei Rioni Di Cori”, KAZAKHSTAN- “National Ensemble Naz”, SOUTH KOREA- “Jung Je Man Company”, SPAIN- “Ballet Flamenco Ursula Lopez” and ZIMBABWE- “Amawumbo”.

Raymond-Yves Martinez, Festival Vice-President of International Relations wrote, “Our FESTIVAL OF MARTIGUES wishes to invite the CLOG AMERICA ENSEMBLE, in order to celebrate the 20th edition of our Festival. We are waiting with great impatience the performances of your Ensemble “CLOG AMERICA” in particular for the great Evening “Gigues & Reels”. Your artists will be the splendid ambassadors of the American culture…..”

CLOG AMERICA will also represent the USA this coming summer at the XXXII FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE FOLCLORE in Burgos, Spain. This festival is one of Spain’s oldest and most prestigious festivals.

Because the USA rarely has representation at International Folklore Festivals abroad, CLOG AMERICA has been repeatedly thanked for bringing the folklore and energetic enthusiasm of the USA to the festivals thus continuing the group’s mission of “Building Bridges of Friendship and Peace Through Music and Dance”. After CLOG AMERICA’s performance which closed the final concert of the 39th Festival Internazionale del Folklore Aviano-Piancavallo in Italy, Brig. Gen. Craig A. Franklin, the Commander Aviano Air Base (who was in attendance) thanked the group for representing the USA with such enthusiasm and artistic excellence.

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