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We will be featured performers at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, NV in February 2007. We're honored that we've been invited to return. We performed there in 2005, also. It is a great gathering of poets and musicians, artists and speakers, and it was a real pleasure to meet so many people - performers and audiences - who share many of the same passions we have. It is sponsored by the Western Folklife Center and they are doing a great job helping to keep western traditions alive. Visit their website www.westernfolklife.org and if you have a chance, visit the Gathering some January.
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Land
of the Columbine
Review from cdreviews.com
"Dawn and Michael's intertwined voices are sweet of tone and pure of heart... the Moon's sound is soul-felt and authentic...
"Spiritual joy also lifts many of Michael Moon's lyrics... Moon's willingness to see beyond the mundane and express the magnificence of life within songs about natural beauty elevates his composition beyond that of the everyday singer-songwriter and into the realm of true poetry."
Cindy Hill
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Land
of the Columbine
Review in March 2005 Issue of Cowboys
and Indians Magazine:
“When
I came to the Colorado High Country in 1989, I had no
idea what a profound effect that landscape would have
on my life and my songwriting,” says Michael Moon.
“The songs on Land of the Columbine are largely
inspired by our lives in that beautiful place.”
Moon
met his wife and singing partner, Dawn, while they had
summer jobs at a guest ranch in Colorado, and they’ve
spent the last decade working, raising their family
and performing in the region. Life on the ranch –
Michael currently works on the 60,000-acre Matador Ranch
in Northern Montana – has given the pair an intimate
connection with the cowboys and wide open spaces and
changes of the seasons that they sing about. Michael
wrote all but two of the songs on the album, from the
title track (“Aspen grove a half a mile wide,
slip on your boots let’s go for a ride. When the
leaves start to turn it can come any time, high in the
land of the columbine.”) to the final “Horse
Sweat and Saddle Leather” (“But nobody’s
makin’ me stay here, I’m living’ the
life that I please. You can see it in the eyes of those
with whom I ride, we don’t settle for just dreamin’
dreams.”)
Fans
of Moon’s Live at the Murphy-Larson Place will
feel right at home in Land of the Columbine.
Ben Minton
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Here's a bit about our latest album from Michael: |
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Live at the Murphy Larson Place
Review in September 2003 Cowboys
and Indians Magazine:
"Michael
Moon Recorded his first CD "in my living room at
the Murphy-Larson Place, the ranch on which I lived
and worked at the time in the Upper Elk River Valley
of Northwest Colorado," he says. "The house
had been occupied by ranchers and ranch hands for over
one hundred years. It is my hope that their spirit and
ranching tradition are reflected in the recording." Indeed,
with songs of cowboys, family ties, and long and lonesome
highways, the album brings the Western spirit to life.
Moon grew up riding horses and after college went to
work as a wrangler and has lived on ranches ever since.
He and his wife Dawn were newlyweds when the CD was
released, with Michael on lead vocals and guitar and
Dawn singing backup and playing keyboard. Nine years,
three kids and many tunes later, the couple is preparing
to release their second CD later this year. Moon is
now the foreman on the 60,000 acre Matador Ranch in
Northern Montana, and his day job of tending cattle
gives him plenty of fodder for lyrics. Over the years,
Dawn has gone from backup vocals to his full-fledged
duet partner, singing lead on half the songs they perform.
After listening to Live at the Murphy Larson Place,
you’ll no doubt be eager for the next release."
Matthew Mason |
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