STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK
Those wooly buggers are about to appear on TV again!
The Trailing of the Sheep Festival will be featured on the Rachael Ray show on Wednesday as part of a segment on unique hometown traditions and celebrations.
The daily, one-hour syndicated show is among the top ranked daytime programs on television, reaching a nationwide audience of more than 53 million viewers in 2018-19.
It won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Informative Talk show in 2019, marking the third time the show has won the award.
“We are very proud of our unique event and excited to be featured on the Racheal Ray Show,” said Laura Musbach Drake, the festival’s executive director. “Our hope is that this national exposure will introduce more people to our wonderful festival and community and get them interested in coming here to experience it for themselves.”
The show airs locally at 11 a.m. on KSAW--Channel 8.
The festival offers lamb dine arounds, a folk festival featuring folk music and dancing, wool classes and cooking classes—all capped by the Big Sheep Parade when 1,500 mutton strut down Ketchum’s Main Street on their way from summer pastures in the mountain to rangeland.
The 24th annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival will be held oct. 7-11, 2020.