JOHN CHANDLER

Friday, August 2nd

7:30 PM – Entertainment Center

The Los Angeles Daily News dubbed Colorado’s 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.” The 2023 International Western Music Association Male Performer of the Year, Jon was previously chosen Best Living Western Musician by True West Magazine, which also named his Westerns “best Western CD.” He was awarded the Western Writers of America’s prestigious Spur Award for Best Song two times, the first for Linwood, a fictional look at the last hours of the notorious gunman Doc Holliday’s life, and the second for Morning Star Moon, his observation of Wyoming’s iconic Hole in the Wall country. He is the recipient of the Western Folklife Center’s Yellowstone-Teton Songwriting Award for his song, The Road That Leads to Yellowstone. A prominent western writer, he won the WWA Spur Award for his novel, The Spanish Peaks, and his novel Wyo- ming Wind was a Colorado Book Award finalist. A new recording, Ghost Smoke, is slated for release in Spring 2024.