Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival 2013 At Melody Ranch Is A Wrap Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. By Stephen K. Peeples The 20th annual Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival, hosted on Saturday and Sunday by the world-famous Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio in Newhall’s rustic Placerita Canyon and sponsored by Logix, is a wrap. ...

By Stephen K. Peeples “Last year was pretty good, and this one’s been a good one so far,” said Renaud Veluzat, co-owner of the world-famous Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio, a setting for Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” in 2012 and thousands of classic and obscure Western and action films and TV shows going back to Hollywood’s golden age. A man ...