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Wearing a cowboy hat and brandishing a guitar from a Texas church, Mae McCoy struts through the spacey indigo glare that’s beaming down from the stage lights. She brings her lips to the silvered glint of a vintage microphone. There’s a full house tonight at HopMonk Tavern in Sebastopol. Kevin Russell, a well-known songwriter and radio personality, introduces McCoy and her Neon Stars to the audience pouring in. McCoy motions to her drummer, Aaron Smith, to click-off the opening song.
Smith’s sticks do the trick — and in an instant her ensemble is conjuring the satiny sway of a number that rodeo crooner Gene Autry first debuted in 1939.
From the stage, McCoy sees dancers cutting it up across the ranch-styled brewery.