Rob Quist and Jack Gladstone, two of (the West’s most celebrated entertainers and songwriters, have united in an unforgettable new show, Odyssey West, commemorating Lewis and Clark’s epic journey West.
Gladstone and Quist literally bring the West to life with the rich historical content of their original songs and narratives presented with dramatic live footage as well as haunting photographic and artistic images of the Old and New West.
Odyssey West is sponsored by the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Rob and Jack were commissioned to write the song, Pass It On, which was made into a video currently being used by the Trail Heritage Foundation and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation as a tool to promote the preservation of habitat and historical sites throughout the West. The song and video , Pass It On, is included in their Odyssey West Enhanced CD as well as their live production.
Rob and Jack have been selected to perform Odyssey West at numerous Bi-centennial National Signature Events including Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s estate in Virginia ; the annual convention of the National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial in Great Falls, Mt; A Journey Fourth in Atchison, KS; the Missouri Historical Museum in St. Louis, MO; Great Falls of the Missouri in Montana; as well as the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.
The stories and legends of the American West are woven from the fabric of many people’s dreams. Odyssey West tells the stories of the first white Americans to document the West as well as the the Native Americans who lived in the vast untamed land that became America. Special tribute is paid to Sacagawea, and to York, the black man who accompanied the Corps of Discovery.
Jack, an American Indian from the Blackfeet Tribe, and Rob, a Montana rancher’s son, take their audience on a powerful journey through the divergent paths traveled by the Indian and White Man, yet the message is one of hope as the paths converge with a vision for all Americans in their final song, Pass It On:
It’s the dawning of a new day here in America,A nation born of many people’s dreams.
We’re the stewards of the stories of those who came before
The keepers of the mountains and the streams.Pass it on . . . . Pass it on . . Honor the spirit of this land they walked upon.Hear the wild land’s healing song,
Heed the gift that we’ve been given, Pass it on.