Elizabeth Cook and Aaron Lee Tasjan will perform opening night at the New York bar and honky tonk Wild Horses on Tuesday, June 2. Slated to take place at 7pm, the show will be broadcast on SiriusXM Outlaw Country, and Honky Tonkin’ in Queens will provide a vinyl DJ set.

Wild Horses comes from the team behind veteran bar and club Niagara and Lucinda’s, a new, Southern-inspired country-and-blues venue. It has been described as a “new cosmic country & western saloon inspired by its Patron Saint, Gram Parsons, the visionary who brought country music to the California rock scene in the late 1960s and named it ‘Cosmic American Music. Part honky tonk, part desert roadhouse, part Americana fever dream, Wild Horses draws from the Bakersfield and Outlaw Country movements, old Hollywood singing cowboys, the Sunset Strip counterculture, Deadhead Americana and desert mysticism.” The announcement goes on to clarify, “’Wild Horses,’ written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, was originally recorded in 1970 by Parson’s band, the Flying Burrito Brothers.”

Wild Horses will feature live music several nights a week, including live-band and piano karaoke, a Sunday afternoon country-folk jam, Deadhead Sundays and weekly honky tonk and two-step nights. It will also host a late-night kitchen serving Barney’s Beanery-inspired chili, empanadas and Southwestern bar bites and a full cocktail menu “serving cheap drinks, always.” The space will be filled with memorabilia, including a rare, embroidered Nudie suit owned by the Rhinestone Cowboy himself, Glen Campbell. 

“At Wild Horses, country & western is an evolving American folk tradition,” co-founder Kelley Swindall said in a statement. “Where Lucinda’s is a home for the Southern roots of country and blues, Wild Horses follows that continuation westward and celebrates the evolution of country music, with all its sounds and landscapes.”

Wild Horses will be located at 327 Bowery (street level, above Bowery Palace) in Manhattan and open seven days a week from 3pm onward. Jesse Malin recently staged his Silver Manhattan show in the renovated Bowery Palace space.