Rodeo

Pioneer City PRO Rodeo

WPRA Small Rodeo of the Year 2023

Palestine Illinois

SEPTEMBER, 4- September 7

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Winner of the 2023 WPRA Small Rodeo of the Year!

2026 Rodeo Schedule

Our 2026 Event

FRIDAY, Sep. 4th

1st Performance PRCA Rodeo 7:00PM

Wranglers Kid's Night. 1st 200 kids receive Wrangler hat stickers including the WRPA Ladies Breakaway Roping Jake and Mikayla. Coors Light Beer Tent following rodeo

Saturday, AUG 30th

Chuckwagon Breakfast - Main St 7:00AM

Pancakes, whole hog sausage, free will donation
Terry Fouty Jr. - Pavilion 7:00AM - 9:00AM

Entertainment at Pavilion with Terry Fouty Jr.
Main Street Market Madness 7:00AM-4PM
Antique Gas Engine Exhibit & Swap Meet All day

110 E Grand Prairie
Collector's Belt Buckle Auction 9:30AM

Palestine High School
Miss Rodeo Illinois Pageant @ Pavilion 10AM-11AM
Jr. Pedal Tractor Pull on Main St. 10:00AM

Registration 9-10 AM. Sponsored by Palestine Eagles #3329
"Lunch With The Clowns" 11:30AM - 1:00PM

Main St. Community Bldg. Kids of all ages can have lunch with clowns "Donations accepted but not necessary"
Caleb Francis - Pavilion 12:00PM-2:00PM

Entertainment at the Pavilion with Caleb Francis
Little Labor Day Pageant @ Pavilion 3:00PM
Band Shell @ Mullet Over Band 4:00PM-6:00PM

2nd Performance PRCA Rodeo 7:00PM

Cornfield Mania - Coors light Beer Tent following Rodeo

Sunday, Sep. 6th

Annual Church Service - Band Shell 10:15AM

Band Shell at the Park with Scott Mendenhall
Miss Labor Day Pageant on Main St. 2:00PM

3rd Performance PRCA Rodeo 7:00PM

Tough Enough to Wear Pink? - X-Krush - Coors Light Beer Tent following Rodeo

Monday, Sept. 1st

Pre-Parade Entertainment TBA

Band Shell - Tom Bridgewater
Annual Labor Day Parade 10:00AM

From Main Street to Leaverton Park

Fun Activities

SIGN UP NOW WITH THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Mutton Bustin is open for signups now. Contact the chamber of commerce to book your spots as space is limited!

Live MUSIC AFTER THE RODEO!

Every Night

Each night after the Rodeo our live music starts at 9:30pm until close. Check back for confirmed entertainment.

Food and Treats

30, 31 AUG, 1ST, Sept.

Mini Donuts (Sunday)
Rosie Jean’s Sweet Tea and Jesus (Friday, Sat, Sun & Monday)
House of Brisket (Friday, Sat, Sunday)
Lemon Shake Up (Friday, Sat, Sunday)
Pineapple Whip/Soft Serve Ice Cream (Friday, Sat, Sunday)
The Rolling Dough (Friday, Sat, Sunday)
WE LIKIT Farm Stand Ice Cream (Friday, Sat, Sun & Monday)
Pub N Grub (Friday, Sat, Sun & Monday)
Kickin Queens BBQ (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
SoCool – Bubble Tea Truck (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
Thainamite (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

Bouncy Houses & More

Friday Through Sunday

Food Truck Court

Friday, Sept, 4 2026- 3PM
Saturday, Sept 5, 2026 - 3PM
Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026 - 1PM

INFLATABLES

Friday, Sept 4, 2026 - 3PM - 10PM
Saturday, Sept 5, 2026 - 2PM - 10PM
Sunday, Sept 6, 2026 - 12PM - 10PM

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Special Guests

JOHN HARRISON

John Harrison is a noted rodeo clown and barrelman. He comes by his profession honestly. His late grandfather was rodeo legend, Freckles Brown. (Freckles rode the “Unrideable” bull, Tornado, the subject of Western Music songs, and was a World Champion Bull Rider) John was around rodeo and rodeo people his whole life. John became a member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) in 1999, as a trick and roman rider, and trick roper. He later diversified and added barrelman to his PRCA card.

RODEO ANNOUNCER SCOTT GROVER

Scott Grover, born and raised in the little town of Morrowville, KS now resides just outside of Kansas City with wife Becky, son Statler, and daughters Lano and Clemmie. Scott first picked up a microphone at the age of 19. Since that day Scott’s career has grown beyond his wildest dreams. Scott calls the action at The National Western in Denver, the Days of 47 in Salt Lake City, and the Will Rogers Stampede in Claremore, OK just to name a few.

Miss TEEN RODEO Illinois 2026

Kennedy Gibson of Ozark graduated from Vienna High School and continued her education at Southeastern Illinois College and Murray State University. Kennedy plans to become a high school agriculture teacher to help students better understand and appreciate the agriculture industry. Kennedy competes in barrel racing and chuckwagon racing, and she owns and drives her own chuckwagon team.

She was the 2025 Seven Springs Lodge Reserve Champion in the 46″ Mule Division and received the Horsemanship Award at the 2024 Miss Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo Pageant. She later earned the title of Miss Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo 2024-25. Outside of rodeo, Kennedy enjoys singing, photography, hiking, and painting.

She pursued the title of Miss Rodeo Illinois to represent the sport she loves and to advocate for both rodeo and agriculture across the state. As Miss Rodeo Illinois, she will travel across the state, the country, and Canada promoting the western way of life, agriculture, and rodeo. She will then go on to compete for the coveted title of Miss Rodeo America crown, held in conjunction with the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo this December.

3 PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCES WITH A PRIZE PURSE OF OVER $46,000!

paxton Rodriguez

Paxton Rodriguez, better known, by his handle on TikTok (Boy_With_Rope). A friend convinced Rodriguez to put a video of himself performing some rope tricks on TikTok, and now he has 260,000 followers and counting. The 26-year-old hails from Clayton, Mighigan and is the fourth generation of his family to be involved with rodeo. While still taking part in the roping events, Paxton has begun performing trick roping. As a child, he saw a trick roper performing at a rodeo and asked his father to show him a few tricks. His dad taught him a couple of simple tricks, and Paxton has been adding to his repertoire ever since. He began performing at the age of 15 and has preformed his act at rodeos all around Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, South Carolina, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Oklahoma and Georgia. He plans on adding more states to that current list and was voted the MSRA (Mid-States Rodeo Association) Specialty Act of the year for 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.

MARK EVANS

Growing up on a ranch his granddad worked, Mark was always interested in horses, cattle, and rodeo. All through school that’s all he wanted to do. At a very young age he was horseback helping his granddad. Once in school he started learning cowboy poetry where he was asked to perform at several organizations, benefits, and banquets. So he’s always had the gift of the gab. Once he was old enough to start rodeoing he wanted to ride bulls. He didn’t do very well at being a bull rider so he started trying to be a bullfighter. Then one day he realized he would be much better off using his God-given talent and started being a dound engineer and playing music. He quickly found out he could last a lot longer and get paid for it too. He quickly started to succeed at this trade and in 2009 he joined the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, where he has worked at PRCA Rodeos for several years. In 2011 he was selected to work as the music director for the International Finals Rodeo where he has wored that event for 15 years consecutively. In 2016 he was chosen to work the Prairie Circuit Finals Rodeo as music director, 2018 Columbia River Circuit Finals Rodeo, 2023 Mark was selected to be the Music Director for the Wrangler National Finals Steer Roping. Mark says he owes all his success to his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and he wouldn’t be where he is today if it wasn’t for him!