Old Timey Tuesdays hosted by The Melancholy Babies
Old Timey Tuesdays comes to The Copper Room with The Melancholy Babies as hosts. The billed California high-desert band leads an evening built around its old-timey repertoire, drawing on Western swing, New Orleans jazz and popular music from the golden age of American song. No additional performers or guest lineup are listed for this date.
The Melancholy Babies perform in California’s high desert and beyond, and describe their music as “Western Swing, New Orleans jazz, and popular music from the golden age of American Song.” At the Copper Room, the group’s book is similarly characterized as Western swing, New Orleans jazz and golden-age standards. The available information does not identify the band’s lineup, collaborations or press coverage, but it does place this recurring Tuesday session firmly in the group’s stated musical territory: songs and styles associated with earlier American popular music, approached through its own high-desert band context.
The Copper Room’s defining feature is its history as a 1950s airport dinner house, revived beside Yucca Valley Airport after years closed. Its restored dining room combines wood paneling, stonework and copper details, with broad windows facing the runway and high desert beyond. It is a restaurant and cocktail lounge as well as a place for live music, so an evening can include dinner or a martini alongside a set, with the occasional small plane landing outside. The calendar lists recurring jazz and blues evenings, old-timey music and DJ nights; many shows begin around 6 p.m. and run for three hours. The venue says events are free unless otherwise specified. You’ll find it at the airport in Yucca Valley, a High Desert town near Joshua Tree.