Ranch Breakfast Show

Saturday 11:00AM-1:00PM

Hosted by Tom Wilhelm, Kelli Trujillo

Credit Jeremy Martin/Boomerang photographer

The Ranch Breakfast Show started in 1984 as a half-hour segment hosted by Tom Wilhelm. Since then, Tom has grown it into Wyoming’s premier acoustic music show, serving up big helpings of bluegrass, old-time, and folk music every Saturday.

Requests are welcome by e-mail.

Buffalo, Wyoming Bluegrass Trio Prairie Wildfire On Ranch Breakfast Show

By Wyoming Public Media • Feb 18, 2019

Prairie Wildfire live on Wyoming Sounds recorded 02/16/19.

Colorado-Based Indie Rock Trio Edison On Wyoming Sounds

By Wyoming Public Media • Mar 19, 2018

Indie rock trio Edison playing live — Grady Kirkpatrick

Edison live on The Ranch Breakfast Show recorded on 3/17/18.

Dakota Dave Hull: The Long Drive Home

By Ben Slater, Micah Schweizer & Anna Rader • Jul 21, 2014

Dakota Dave Hull is one of America’s premier finger-style guitarists. Based in Minnesota, Dakota Dave logs a lot of miles touring, so here’s a composition that fades out like the highway receding in the rear-view mirror.

Big Horn Mountain Festival Celebrates 10 Years Of American Roots Music

By Micah Schweizer • Jul 5, 2014

The Big Horn Mountain Festival in Buffalo celebrates ten years of roots, bluegrass and Americana music at the Johnson County Fairgrounds, July 11 through 13. Wyoming Public Radio’s Micah Schweizer asked one of the organizers, Paul Jarvis, to remember the festival’s early years.

Steep Canyon Rangers: Come Dance

By Ben Slater & Anna Rader • May 12, 2014

WPM’s Ranch Breakfast show recently had a visit from the Grammy Award-winning bluegrass sextet the Steep Canyon Rangers. Here’s a live performance of an original song from their newest album, Tell The Ones I Love.

WPM Music Hosts Introduce The Steep Canyon Rangers

By Wyoming Public Media • Mar 3, 2014

Grady Kirkpatrick and Tom Wilhelm, Wyoming Public Media hosts of Morning Music and the Ranch Breakfast Show, showed off their music industry connections. They were lucky enough to introduce the Steep Canyon Rangers at the Gryphon Theatre in Laramie during their show on March 1st.

The Ranch Breakfast Show Celebrates 33 Years

By Wyoming Public Media • Jan 8, 2014

Host Tom Wilhelm of the "Ranch Breakfast Show" is celebrating 33 years of being on air with Wyoming Public Radio. The bluegrass radio show started in the early 1980s and has continued to be a great local music program.

Ranch Breakfast Blog

By Tom Wilhelm • May 1, 2012

Tune in for these upcoming Ranch Breakfast programs.

· May 5 Water Music with songs about rivers, lakes and oceans and the people who make their living on them. A few rain songs thrown in to coax some spring showers on our dry state.

· May 12 Get ready moms for a special Mother’s Day Salute. You’ll hear “Medals for Mothers” from the Osborne Brothers and “Mothers, Don’t Let your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys.”

Upcoming shows

By Tom Wilhelm • Mar 22, 2012

Laramie now has two bluegrass jams going. The Bluegrass Jam at Coal Creek Coffee House happens the third Wednesday of every month from 7:00 till 10:00. (Hey, that’s March 21st.) Beginners are welcome. So bring your instrument or come to listen. The other Bluegrass Jam happens the first Thursday of the month at Night Heron Books on Ivinson Avenue in Laramie. Let me know if your community has a bluegrass/folk jam and we’ll get it posted.