| Being involved in a livestock show or rodeo in | | | | imagine, most people in Houston have quite a bit |
| Texas is as common as being involved in skiing in | | | | of great cowboy clothing and accessories to do |
| Colorado or in baseball in Boston. It is what | | | | this. Another tradition is the Rodeo Parade that |
| Texans grew up participating in or being involved, | | | | starts off the whole event. The parade route |
| in some way whether as a participant or a | | | | goes down Memorial and onto Texas Avenue and |
| spectator. The largest event of this kind takes | | | | has over 15 local high school and university |
| place in the Lone Star state and is called the | | | | marching bands, 20 floats, several trail riders and |
| Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and the city | | | | wagons and lots of balloons. |
| of Houston essentially shuts down in order to | | | | There are so many popular events to see at this |
| support or attend this event that lasts several | | | | show and rodeo and many people go to it for |
| days says an attorney that handles Houston child | | | | several days in order to catch a glimpse of |
| custody and Houston family law. This article will go | | | | everything there whether it is a cattle auction or |
| into detail all of the things that happen at this | | | | one of the concerts that bring in huge musical |
| event and how it has become so big. | | | | names to its venue. Not only do they feature all |
| This event attracted more than two million people | | | | kinds of music at their concerts like Hip-Hop, |
| to it last year and requires more than 22,000 | | | | Country, Tejano, Blues and rock but they also |
| volunteers. That is why many businesses and | | | | have other performers such as stand up |
| even schools in the Houston area shut down | | | | comedians perform. This event has hosted some |
| during those couple of weeks in March. The | | | | of the world's most famous performers such as |
| Houston livestock Show and Rodeo has been | | | | Elvis Presley. This year will feature the Jonas |
| going on for twenty years now and has grown | | | | Brothers, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, and Brooks |
| each year to be even larger than the year | | | | and Dunn as some of the headline performances. |
| before. It is held at Reliant Park and features | | | | One of the more popular events at the Rodeo is |
| various things like bull riding, parades, carnivals, | | | | called the calf scramble which is when they let 14 |
| food and beverage tasting competitions, trail rides | | | | calves loose and 28 students attempting to |
| and cattle auctions and judging. | | | | harness them and get them into the winners |
| There are a few long standing traditions | | | | square. The students take care of their own |
| surrounding the rodeo in Houston. One of the | | | | calves and win prizes for that as well as winning |
| traditions is on March 16th each year and is called | | | | the popular scramble which entertains many who |
| Go Texan Day. This is when people from Houston | | | | come to watch it. |
| dress in their best cowboy apparel. As you can | | | | |