Put on your denim jeans, cowboy boots, and leopard clutch and head to Nashville for a night of two-stepping to steel guitars and fiddles.
Or mosey on over to Ridgewood.
Gottscheer Hall presents monthly Honky Tonkin’ in Queens hoe-downs. The next one features Pat Reedy and the Low Water Bridge Band on Friday, Feb. 21. (Doors open at 7:30 pm. Party goes until the cows come home.)
Reedy mixes twang with blue collar songwriting and working class pride. He wrote the lyrics for his album That’s All There Is (and there ain’t no more) on paper scraps and discarded pieces of wood during breaks from his construction jobs.
Low Water’s sound derives from firelight picking under the moon’s glow by the Shenandoah River in their native Virigina. Searing melodies and vocal harmonies combine with banjo swirls and sparks of fiddle and steel guitar.
Admission is $30. Can’t make it? Go next month! Click here for the subsequent shows.
These Urban Cowboy fests are the brainchild of Charles Watlington and Jonny Nichols, who work under the respective stage names DJ Moonshine and DJ Prison Rodeo. Already on the scene in hipster Williamsburg, they took their act to Gottscheer Hall, where party people can enjoy Schnitzel, Bratwurst, and Three Cheese Baked Spätzle when they aren’t line-dancing.
Founded by immigrants from a German community in what’s now Slovenia in 1924, Gottscheer Hall serves as a social club, restaurant, and event space at 657 Fairview Ave. The ballroom has a huge dance floor with a stage for bands and disc jockeys. Several crystal chandeliers hang from the ceiling.
Images: DJ Moonshine