Clare Dunn is a true-blue farm girl from southeast Colorado, so she knows about hard work, but also has fond memories of growing up.
“Fourth of July is probably one of the biggest memories for me, because it’s always during harvest time," she recalls in a statement from her label. "And harvest time, being a farmer, is your most important time of the year. It’s always nine-o. It’s always busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, but we always go into town, depending on what field we’re at.
"A lot of my memories are South Grenada, Colorado, we farm just south of that town, and we go into town and get Mexican food, a great Mexican food place called Shorty’s, and we get tostados and enchiladas and we take them back out to the field," she continues. "And everybody stops for a second, and we eat on the hoods or the tailgates of pickups, and we’re just all out there in the field taking a brief moment to eat dinner and then get back to cutting. And if you’re lucky you’ll see some fireworks from town.
"Those are some of my favorite memories growing up because you’re all out there working. You’re together, and it’s just the moment of pride, of getting the harvest in and getting to be with your family.”
This year Clare will be hard at work entertaining the crowd at the Our Country Festival at SilverLakes in Norco on Independence Day.