NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
PRETTY PRAIRIE, Kan. — Kansas Largest Night Rodeo is back again this weekend in Pretty Prairie.
"Each night, Wednesday through Saturday night, we'll be rodeoing in Pretty Prairie," said Booster Club Vice President Dusty Tacha. "The rodeo starts at 8 p.m. and the rodeo performance is about two hours long each night, so approximately 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. each night. Gates open at 6 p.m. Tickets are available online. You can go to pprodeo.com and there'll be a button there that will take you to etix.com. Etix is our ticket provider, so if you are buying tickets online, be sure you are getting them from etix.com and not some other website, okay? You can also get them from our Pretty Prairie Rodeo office."
The Pretty Prairie Rodeo has been going on since 1936. It's almost a guaranteed sellout every year. In fact, Friday night and Saturday night's rodeo performances are already sold out.
"Don't let that deter you from coming down to Pretty Prairie," Tacha said. "If you did not get a rodeo seat for Friday and Saturday, we do have dance-only tickets. There is a live band, Prairie Smoke, each night, Friday and Saturday night. We do have a live band for Wednesday and Thursday as well. Your rodeo ticket will get you into the rodeo dance. However, if you don't have a rodeo ticket for Friday and Saturday, we will sell you a dance-only ticket the night of, starting at 9.30 p.m. only in person from the Pretty Prairie ticket office."
The money raised at the rodeo stays in Pretty Prairie to provide scholarships to high school seniors, help groups such as the Prairie Sunset Home, the local food bank, scout troops, golf course, EMS, and the 4-H club.
For more details on the rodeo go to pprodeo.com.
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