ANSON, Texas - For the 86th year, the Texas Cowboys' Christmas Ball begins Thursday at historic Pioneer Hall in Anson. There will be dancing on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The doors open at 8 p ...

Pioneer Hall is located at 2300 Ave. G in Anson. If you've been to a Cowboy Christmas ball somewhere else, the genesis of that dance was likely here in Anson. The ball's heritage has been wrapped ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edna Ferber recognized the “Cowboy Christmas Ball at Anson in Jones County” in her memorable novel "Giant." There is also a permanent historical exhibit of the ...

Michael Martin Murphey and his band will be on stage Dec. 16 in Anson for yet another annual Cowboy Christmas Ball. This is as much a historical recreation as a night of entertainment, and one ...

Head over to the Cowboy Christmas ... shoes and drive to Anson, a small hamlet north of Abilene, for a historic tradition—the ninetieth annual Texas Cowboys’ Christmas Ball, at Pioneer Hall.

"If you want to talk about the origins of Texas music, you'll find it all in what they still dance to and they still sing and what we still perform at the Cowboy Christmas Ball in Anson." ...

And I’ve unearthed a lot of great stuff on the first cowboy Christmas ball. A New Yorker named Larry Chittenden in­­herited a ranch in Anson from his uncle, and when he came down to see it ...

But other than that, it’s an unbroken tradition.” Food and dancing The Cowboy Christmas Ball in Anson, north of Abilene, was Murphey’s point of entry into his own holiday show that has ...

a concert inspired by Anson, Texas’ long-running Cowboy Christmas Ball and its blend of Christmas carols, cowboy ballads, waltzes and schottisches, a program dating from the original 1885 ball.

Texas music legend Michael Martin Murphey will bring the full version of his Cowboy ... The Christmas ball is a tradition dating back to 1885, when it was launched on Christmas night in Anson.