Important news for Monday: something to support, or it's gone.

It won't take you long to read this one.

There's something tonight, and it's important you know about it. It's been a weekly L.A. institution for more years than anybody can remember. But tonight might be its swan song. Go. If you're a musician, perform there and compete for prizes. But GO. It's even FREE to get in! And it's an enjoyable event in a fun and quite legendary place. BUT — if the venue doesn't do well tonight, then August will arrive and it will be gone. Details (reprinted from last Monday's edition) are just below.

We said it won't take you long to read this one. That's because, due to a computer that has indigestion, we cannot do final assembly and publish any more of an edition for you today.

See "Ticket Alerts" in Sunday's edition for a nice event tonight at the Grammy Museum. Other'n that? We're feeding bicarbonate of soda to the machine, hoping it burps and releases everything trapped in there. Film at eleven.

But read the important news below, about where you need to be tonight, and why.

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Some important PARTICIPATORY music news, with CASH PRIZES available!
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TONIGHT: GO. PERFORM. COMPETE FOR PRIZES. HAVE FUN. HELP SAVE A LONG-RUNNING SERIES.

Seldom do crisis and opportunity REALLY mean exactly the same thing. For local musicians and Folk-Americana music lovers whose tastes and repertoire tend more toward alt and trad country and honky-tonk, THIS TIME IT DOES.

A rather urgent request has arrived from award-winning musician, bassist and record producer CHAD WATSON, who hosts the long-running weekly “COWBOY PALACE SALOON TALENT NIGHT,” a fine and fun contest with CASH PRIZES.

Chad says, “If you enjoy it, JOIN US these last three Mondays in July, or we are likely to lose this traditional evening. The numbers of performers have been half of what there used to be. So the revenue for the venue is down seriously.

“Sign up by 9:30 pm and YOU ARE IN THE SHOW!”

Go early for the free dance lessons at 7:30 pm, and for Chad’s band’s weekly performance at 8:30 pm.

Chad adds, “No cover charge, so buy a couple drinks.”

Every night, they present LIVE AMERICANA / ALT OR TRAD COUNTRY / HONKY TONK music for listening and dancing – unless they’re closed when Hollywood rents the place to shoot a movie or tv show, and it’s been in hundreds over the years.

The Cowboy Palace is located at 21635 Devonshire St, Chatsworth; 818-341-0166.

This is L.A.’s last real honky-tonk, no cover, full bar, and friendly people who, howdy pardner, all like to dance. Go early for the free dance lessons. There’s live music EVERY night, seven nights a week; sometimes acoustic, sometimes heavy on the pedal steel or the twang, but never that annoying fahke ackscent pop-“country” Nashvulle scene.


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The ACOUSTIC AMERICANA MUSIC GUIDE endeavors to bring you NEWS and views of interest to artists everywhere, more specifically to musicians and the creative community, and music makers and fans of acoustic and Folk-Americana music, both traditional and innovative. We provide a wealth of resources, including a HUGE catalog of acoustic-friendly venues, and schedules of performances in Southern California venues large and small. We cover workshops and other events for artists and folks in the music industry, and all kids o’ things in the world of acoustic and Americana and accessible classical music. From washtub bass to musical spoons to oboe to viola to banjo to squeezebox, from Djangostyle to new-fangled-old-time string band music, from sweet Cajun fiddle to pre-bluegrass Appalachian mountain music to proto blues.
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