Cowboys Music Festival is an 11-day music festival during July, which hosts a variety of global artists every year at Cowboys Park.
This year’s ‘Drag Me to Cowboys’ set was hosted by local performer Farrah Nuff, who told the Calgary Herald that she was honoured to be a part of one of the festival’s biggest events. Her co-performer Karla Marx explained to the publication that the show’s rising popularity demonstrates that the public is still accepting of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in Alberta, and that there will always be others ready to share in your joy.
“It shows that queerness is celebrated and welcome in Alberta,” she said. “It shows that on the biggest stages and in the biggest celebrations in Canada and Alberta, that queerness is absolutely a vibrant part of our communities.”
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And in addition to all the talented performers that took to the stage, the festival’s organizers wanted to highlight all of the incredible attendees who made the energy at the show so entertaining.
Despite the hot weather that day, participants danced, sang, and celebrated for hours – turning the open-air tent into a loud and celebratory hall fit for Queens (and Kings).
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“[People were] connected through music,” said Guinness World Records Adjudicator Tina Shi, who remotely reviewed the event and confirmed the attendance count through PatronScan.
“This inspired them to embrace life more fully, and experience the passion and joy of music and dance.”
And finally, after a series of electric opening performances from local drag artists, organizers took to the stage to announce that the crowd had taken the title for the largest attendance at a drag artist stage show on Earth.
The audience was thrilled – and the celebrations continued as RuPaul took over the microphone to lip-sync to Queen’s ‘We Are The Champions’.
