Honky Tonkin' in Queens in person with Colby Acuff and Neon Moons

Honky Tonkin' in Queens with Colby Acuff and Neon Moons

Come join us for a night of honky tonkin' at Gottscheer Hall in Queens! Get ready to kick up your boots and enjoy live performances by Colby Acuff and Neon Moons. It's going to be a night filled with great music, good vibes, and dancing. Don't miss out on this awesome event!

Colby Acuff A fifth-generation Idahoan, Acuff grew up watching his hometown Coeur d’Alene transform before his eyes. One by one, the lumber mills closed down as a blue-collar town turned into a ritzy resort escape for elites from around the country. Acuff’s childhood was full of music — Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, bluegrass — that situated all the changes he witnessed in a long lineage of working-class American struggle, and soundtracked the nostalgia felt by watching a way of life become bygone. By the time Acuff released his 2020 debut Life Of A Rolling Stone, his perspective and concerns as an artist were already fully-formed. He’d make two more albums while living in Idaho, 2021’s If I Were The Devil and 2022’s Honky Tonk Heaven before moving to Nashville to record 2023’s Western White Pines and 2024’s American Son with producer Eddie Spear.

After the release of American Son, Acuff sat down with his right-hand man, producer Eddie Spear, and they puzzled over a new approach to the next project. They decided to go out and talk to people, take the temperature, see what listeners wanted to hear. The resulting work still boasts the thoughtful reflections on American life that Acuff has made his name on, but refuses to simply stare into the void. Following the release of "Average American," new single "Love Was Just A Feeling" has a nostalgic summer feel, inspired by young love in Idaho channeling the recklessness of youth.

Neon Moons are not your grandfather’s country band. Since forming loosely in 2018, they’ve helped ignite a honky tonk dance scene across the region. Their sound fuses ’90s country songwriting with jam-band improvisation and groove-forward arrangements — think Hank Williams meets Phish. Their shows are sweaty, celebratory, and built for movement.

Miller, the band’s lead singer and songwriter, grew up outside San Diego in a town “twenty minutes inland where it’s full-on cowboy country.” Rodeos, two-stepping, and his mother’s shared birthday with Willie Nelson were early influences. After moving to New York to work on a farm, Miller stumbled into music almost by accident.

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