Inside Honky Tonkin' in Queens, the hot new country music dance party held monthly at a German beer hall in Queens.
“Y’all gotta come dance with us, goddammit!” she implored the capacity crowd at New York’s Gottscheer Hall.
The brainchild of Charles Watlington and Jonny Nichols — known, respectively, as DJ Moonshine and DJ Prison Rodeo — Honky Tonkin’ in Queens is an event tailor-made for this moment in country music.
The Virginia-born Watlington and the Massachusetts native Nichols, who speaks with a heavy Boston accent, took separate paths to New York, but struck up a friendship when each began drawing crowds on their own for their country DJ sets. Today, they are likelier to DJ as a duo than separately, selecting music exclusively from a stack of vinyl records they cart around behind them.
DJs Moonshine and Prison Rodeo had the prescience to see it coming, even if the artists themselves did not. Word of mouth and a basic social media push started a buzz that snowballed quickly. The second version of Honky Tonkin’ in Queens was held two months later — with Nashville songwriter Joshua Quimby headlining — and sold out in a matter of days.
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