The Cul de Sac Cowboys kicked off the Waterstop Jamboree in Medicine Bow on Friday. The band that features Ryan Martin, a International Western Music Association first place award winner as instrumentalist, started to play about 7 p.m. on an evening that was showering off and on.

The band was inside a tent in between JBs Convenience Store and the Old West Bar. Both businesses were sponsoring the Waterstop Jamboree.

Justin George, an owner of JBs, was one of the movers to get this two day event started.

"I grew up in Medicine Bow and graduated in 1989 and then I went off to the Navy, nursing...