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The sound of pounding hooves…
The sight of high action, high intensity performance…
The thrill of the wild west…
The fears, the cheers, and the anticipation…
The excitement of seeing it live, up close and here in Central PA…

The RAWHIDE RODEO is coming to Central Pennsylvania this summer!

The RAWHIDE RODEO company is based in Leicester, NY and performs throughout the USA and Canada bringing high quality, high intensity performances to regional audiences. With a significant $ commitment from business sponsors and St. Matthew School, both International and American Professionals ( IPRA, APRA ) will be invited and awarded to participate.

RODEO is a family, fun-filled event that will attract attendees from Bedford, Blair, Centre, Huntingdon, and Mifflin Counties. During the 3 day performances, plans are in progress to entertain over 7500 adults and children. This is the ONLY RODEO offered to Central PA in recent years, and our hopes are to create an annual regional attraction which will be an exciting part of our area’s summer festivities.

Ticket Sales

Advanced Purchase (Before June 18th)
Adults - $10, Children 12 and Under - $3, Kids under age 3 are free

At the Door
Adults - $15, Children 12 and Under - $5, Kids under age 3 are free


Checks made payable to 'Saint Matthew School'
1105 Cameron Avenue
Tyrone, PA 16686


Ticket Outlets

Reliance Bank - All Branches

Ace Fix-It Hardware - Tyrone, Huntingdon, Duncansville, Dillsburg, and Brookville

Tri-Star - Huntingdon

OR

Download your Ticket Purchase Form HERE

Please contact the school for further information regarding tickets sales or sponsorship information.

About Us
The three-day rodeo event will feature the seven traditional rodeo events: bareback riding, steer wrestling, team roping, saddle bronc riding, tie-down roping, women’s barrel racing, and bull riding. The two sanctioning bodies of the event are the American Professional Rodeo Association (APRA) and the International Professional Rodeo Association (IPRA). This year, we’re expecting to draw more than 200 contestants who will be competing for $7,000 in prize money and to improve their individual standings in each rodeo associations’ standings.

The Rawhide Rodeo Company, Leicester, NY, is producing the rodeo. The rodeo company also supplies livestock for the majority of professional sanctioning rodeo associations. These prorodeo associations include the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA), the Professional Bull Riders (PBR), the American Professional Rodeo Association (APRA), the International Professional Rodeo Association (IPRA), and the National High School Rodeo Association (NHSRA), among many others. Rawhide Rodeo Company produces both national and international rodeos in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Virginia, Maryland, Connecticut, Ontario and Quebec.

They boast 150 head of bucking horses, 50 head of bucking bulls and many herds of calves and steers. Be sure that where Rawhide’s rank and speedy livestock go, the hardened cowboys will follow – the best combination for electrifying action from the chutes to the arena. These rodeos are top-notch in part thanks to their hot-tempered, or “rank”, livestock.

How are we organized?
There are two distinct groups of individuals who make all this action happen.

The rodeo committee is composed of the Rawhide Rodeo Company and local volunteers. The rodeo company produces the event, which offers three rough stock events, four timed events, comedy, entertainment, and audience participation in a 2 ½ hour format. The volunteers do much of the true dirty work in making sure that all the Ts are crossed and Is are dotted when the rodeo rolls into the Huntingdon Fairgrounds.