Society Hall is thrilled to welcome back Colorado Western singer Jon Chandler, with his trio, for a Christmas and Holiday themed show Wednesday, December 18th at 7:00 pm. The concert will also benefit the San Luis Valley Cancer Relief Fund. Tickets are $20 and are available at the Green Spot at 711 State Ave in Alamosa, or at the link below. The concert will also stream live on the Society Hall Facebook page and You-Tube channel. Appearing with Jon will be the well known Denver multi-instrumentalist Ernie Martinez as part of his trio. Jon will be presenting a mix of his well-loved western songs, together with some Holiday favorites.
Jon Chandler is a three-time winner of the prestigious Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. Linwood, his moody examination of Doc Holliday’s life won the Spur for Best Song in 2009, while his tribute to Wyoming’s Hole in the Wall country, Morning Star Moon, received the award in 2012. His novel The Spanish Peaks received the WWA’s Medicine Pipe Bearer Award (Spur Award) for Best First Novel, and he was named True West Magazine’s Best Western Musician. Wyoming Wind, A Novel of Tom Horn, was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. A seventh-generation Coloradan, Jon’s music and stories reflect his heritage, and his eight CDs, two novels, two non-fiction works, and myriad short stories and nonfiction articles are collected by western lifestyle aficionados worldwide. He hosts the iconic monthly concert series America’s Soul Live at the Olde Town Pickin’ Parlor in Arvada, Colorado. Homage, his new recording of cover songs that have influenced his writing and singing, was released in Summer 2019 to exceptional reviews. Jon is currently celebrating the release of his anthology “Ghost Smoke”, a retrospective collection that also features three new songs.
The Los Angeles Daily News dubbed Denver native Jon Chandler the “...best western songsmith since Ian Tyson,” while Texas’s Country Line Magazine exclaimed, “Thank God for Chandler and his gang of musicians.” A review of Jon Chandler’s iconic CD WESTERNS includes the phrase, “Chandler’s music is literate and literary.” That about covers it. There’s not an ounce of stereotypical Gene ‘n Roy retro-cowpoke, Lazy Z Chuckwagon faux-western schtick in his music, voice or prose. Chandler writes and sings of the historic and contemporary West - not particularly cowboy songs and stories, although they tend to show up with frequency. His songs owe more to Larry McMurtry, Elmer Kelton, Robert Service and Mark Twain than they do to anyone in a band that ends with Wranglers or Ramblers. Simply put, his music and his writing are reflections of his heritage. A seventh-generation Coloradan, his novels, songs and poems serve to keep the West’s frontier ethic alive.
"Jon Chandler is part Wallace Stegner, part Jack Schaefer. He’s part Bruce Springsteen, and part Rambling Jack Elliott. He’s part William F. Cody, and part Cole Younger. Yet he’s distinctively original, a poet laureate of the American West of past, present and future."
- Johnny D. Boggs
The board of Society Hall, your local non-profit performance space and event venue invite you to join them Wednesday,December 18th at 7:00 pm for a wonderful evening of Christmas and Holiday-themed entertainment with award-winning singer/songwriter/author Jon Chandler and his trio at Society Hall, 400 Ross Avenue in Alamosa. Proceeds benefit the San Luis Valley Cancer Relief Fund. Tickets are available at the Green Spot or at the link below, and the concert will also stream live on the Society Hall Facebook page and You-Tube channel. Society Hall – where community celebrates!
