beartrap summer festival

Jalan Crossland is becoming quite the alum at the Beartrap Summer Festival! He's now taken the stage two days in a row--each day drawing a larger crowd. The local has drawn quite the gathering in the Casper area, as well as the state. The performer will be touring the state in the next few weeks, hitting Cody, Ten Sleep, Cheyenne, Gillette, and more...

One of the few acts at Beartrap Summer Festival that makes flatpicking a true art form--Rebecca Frazier and Hit Run stepped on stage to engage the festival crowd with some plucky, upbeat tunes. Rebecca is nominated for Album of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year, Guitar Player of the Year, Emerging Artist of the Year, and Instrumental Recorded Performance of the Year according to her website...

On the brink of a brand new album being released this summer, Rebecca Frazier teases the audience with a sneak peak of her twangy, feminine vocals and bluegrass stylings. Check out one of her songs here, originally written and sung with a Wyoming native...

For the folks who wanted to be in church this morning and still enjoy the great outdoors---Beartrap Summer Festival welcomed Spencer Bohren and the Tremors back to the stage for an hour of gospel and soul music. Clad in white with matching black pants, the guys looked dapper as they preached a little bit of the good-for-your-soul bluegrass gospel to early festival-goers...

Take a deep breath. Do you smell that? It's the smell of air. Rustic living. Trees. Dirt. Manly things. So it's no surprise that the rugged, masculinity of Casper Mountain brought about the best of the best in lumberjack-like, mountain-man-esque, bearded wonders...

Is that a dragon? Butterfly? Snake? Kids paid a visit to one of three face painting booths at Beartrap Summer Festival and got everything under the sun painted on their faces. All you need to do to crack a smile is take a look at the gallery of cute faces below...

Right outside the Family Area at Beartrap Summer Festival is a frisbee golf cage. There's a ton of discs sitting around for those who want to play the game---and these kiddos decided to burn off some energy by playing a fast-paced version. Despite the fact they flung the discs vertically, and were only a foot away, they weren't that bad...

Well, it might not be the most exciting of topics for the average bear, but for these young'uns at Beartrap Summer Festival, moulting happened to be a topic they knew and wanted to talk about. Jim and Samantha from Birdie Bayou in Casper brought out their parrots, big and small, to teach kids more about their feathered friends...

When Johnny Sketch and The Dirty Notes took the stage at the 2014 Beartrap Summer Festival, there was one guy who popped up to his feet and got down with his bad self. He was in such a good mood, dancing the night away, that the band even pointed him out multiple times during their performance...

Johnny Sketch and The Dirty Notes brought Beartrap Summer Festival 2014 to a close with a combination of percussion, strings and brass---saxophone and trumpet notes belted into the audience as the group performed for more than an hour and a half...

Johnny Sketch and The Dirty Notes belted out a rhythmic jazz with saxophones, guitars, bass and guitars Saturday night, as they took the stage as the last performance of the evening. Beartrap Summer Festival closed out the day with a group of festival goers dancing, eating, and generally having a good time...

This may be the only festival you attend this summer where your four-legged friend is just as welcome as your neighbor, kid, or spouse. Yep--Beartrap Summer Festival welcomes Fido. And in the spirit of having dogs attend the festival, we thought a photo gallery of some faces that stopped to give us a sniff and a wag would be appropriate...