The Second Saturday Community CoffeeHouse offers up another great night of family entertainment this month with Blue Moon opening up for Jim Jones.

 

Jim Jones is a Western folk artist who tells it like it was, is and will be in the great American West.  Native Texan, student of the West, he lives, sings and writes about cowboys, horses, cattle rustlers and such.  He also knows there's more to the story...how the coming of the train changed the West, how critical water is for survival.  

 

He's performed in honky-tonks and churches, schools and Irish pubs, campfires and high teas.  Jim's singing, songwriting, hot guitar-picking and winning personality keeps him in demand on the Western music circuit, folk music venues and at house concerts, coffeehouses, schools and libraries throughout the country.  

 

The 2012 release of "Borrowed Time," led to a 2013 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Western Song of the Year for his "Texas is Burnin'."  He now has eight Western Folk albums and three Western historical fiction novels under his belt.  

 

His award-winning books, the Jared Delaney trilogy-Rustler's Moon, Colorado Moon andWaning Moon are set in northern New Mexico, "loosely based in fact...basically, a pack of lies I made up."  They have educated, informed and entertained readers around the world.

 

Falling in love late in life inspired Carl Allen and Sandra Kay Vieth to form the duo, Blue Moon, featuring original, folk, blues, country, and swing music. Carl's riveting
instrumentals on guitar and dobro are driven by Sandra's solid rhythm on guitar and bass and haunting vocals.    

Sandra Kay Vieth has been performing throughout the West since 1987 as a singer/songwriter at a variety of venues.  In the nineties, Sandra played bass  and sang lead and harmony vocals in the band, Old Friends, featured at the Santa Fe
Melodrama, the Santa Fe Rodeo and at the Cowgirl Hall of Fame. 

Carl Allen started playing guitar at age 15 and the dobro in the 1970's when he played at  coffeehouses in the Washington, DC area and with bands in Tucson from 1977 to 1984.  Since moving to Albuquerque in 1985, he has performed with Tapestry, Lunch at the  Dump, Cottonwood Trio, and Coyote Crossing. He is currently playing in a five-piece  group, Swingrass.    

Sandra and Carl also perform with the western band, The Buffalo Bill Band.