From out of the dingy smoke filled barrooms of Bakersfield in the 60’s…to the beloved Visual Arts Collective “Country-fied” in the Live-Work-Create District, come the sounds of Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. Steel guitar, Fender telecaster based honky-tonk without the chicken wire stage protector or three hundred pound bouncers at the door. Not much of this music is around anymore, played by musicians who love it and grew up on that electric country western twang, and wooden dance floors filled with swing dancers on weekend neon nights. Bring your dancing shoes and let's have another Melons party! ?