Parker County Today November 2015 | Page 60

Thank You Parker County for coming together to raise over $21,000 NOVEMBER 2015 PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY at Parker County Today Magazine’s Sweet Charity & Bachelorettes, to benefit the WPCAS. We could not have done it without you! 58 Continued from page 55 After earning her business degree from the University of Wyoming, Jill Loden turned a part-time summer job into her life’s work. She is the daughter of rodeo owners. Her parents own and operate Powder River Rodeo, LLC. She is professionally known as a sound and music technician, gaining experience first at her parents’ rodeo handling the sound and music during summers. Jill began her own company, Jill’s Sound, in 2002. She provides musical accompaniment and sound equipment for CBR and PRCA events. “I gear the music to what’s going on in the show,” she said. “I like to enhance the show by providing entertaining music, building suspense, getting the crowd involved,” Jill said. Jill’s husband, Brandon, is a professional bullfighter, working on the CBR’s production crew since 2009. Bullfighters were onc e called rodeo clowns, but Brandon and others like him use the term “bullfighter” because he said, “I don’t tell jokes.” The bullfighter’s main job is to protect the cowboys from the bulls when they get thrown. There is a rodeo clown in the ring as well who tells the jokes and keeps the crowds Weatherford Parker County Animal Shelter 403 Hickory Lane Weatherford, TX 76086 817-598-4111 http://facebook.com/WPCAnimal Proudly Brought To You By Brandon Loden Photo by Todd Brewer