Carnival Returns To Stampede
Marn To Announce Wild Horse Stampede Carnival Returns To Stampede
Jeff Marn will serve as the announcer at this year’s Wolf Point Wild Horse Stampede.
As a former contestant, Marn is the new generation of western sports announcers. Jeff and Cassidy live in Belt with their two beautiful children, Jett and Presley.
Marn was born and raised in Belt, He started riding bulls at a young age, and had a very successful career in the rodeo arena. He qualified for the Montana Circuit Finals multiple times, and was a Northern Rodeo Association Finals and Year End Champion.
After retiring from bull riding, Jeff picked up the microphone, and has been active on the production side of western sports events ever since. He has announced the Professional Badlands Finals, Northern Rodeo Association Finals and Elite Professional Bull Riders Finals many times. He has been named the Elite Professional Bull Riders Announcer of the Year many times.
Marn has announced throughout the Pacific Northwest and Canada, including ranch rodeos, Tough Enough to Wear Pink events, Professional Bull Riders Touring Pro Division and PRCA rodeos. He has also had the opportunity to do voice-over and television work with Mid Rivers Communications, SWX and Altitude Sports Network.
He is currently in the studio weekly with Lyons Productions working on the Montana Rodeo Series broadcasts, and was recently hired as the floor man for the Montana Pro Rodeo Circuit Finals. Nemont is sponsoring him as the announcer for the Stam- pede.
Carnival fun will be back at the Wolf Point Wild Horse Stampede. Dreamland Carnival Company will provide the carnival starting at 5 p.m. on July 8-10.
Dreamland Carnival is a sister carnival to North Star Amusements. Riley and Vickie Cooke have been in the carnival business since 1983 in one form or another.
After traveling with shows such as Royal American, Hames, Thomas and many others as independent ride owners, they started Mountain Ferris Wheels in Montana. Now, they own sister shows North Star Amusements and Dreamland Carnival Company. They travel through Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Washington, Colorado and Arizona.
Dreamland has a safety operations manager who is on site at every event. The manager is NAARSO certified and trained. In 2018, they sent 18 of their employees to Carnival Ride school where they learned how to safely put up and take down every carnival ride. They also learned how to operate each ride safely and correctly within the ride manufacturers’ specifications and to recognize any mechanical or safety issue.
