El Cid turns into Honky Tonk Hacienda on Thursdays with bands, songwriters and musical instigators tearing it up in Outlaw Country, Roots, Old Time and Americana territory. In this special Wednesday night edition of Thursday’s Honky Tonk Hacienda, El Cid hosts a Pre-Thanksgiving Roots Community Hoedown with Triple Chicken Foot and a cavalcade of special guests. Honoring the tradition of roots music as a community-based experience - playing and singing for each other – the roots community will come together the night before Thanksgiving. Expect many special guests including Alias Means, Joey Butler and (a few) Stardust Ramblers, Walter Spencer, Bliss Bowen, Ted Russell Kamp, Ron Melancon, among many others on Wednesday, November 27, starting at 7:30 pm at the historic El Cid in Silver Lake.

Admission is free before 8:30 p.m.; $5 thereafter. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. and music starts at 7:30 p.m. El Cid is located at 4212 West Sunset Blvd., Silver Lake 90029. There is ample street parking and valet parking is available. For more information please visit www.ElCidLA.com, or call 323.668.0318.

Triple Chicken Foot is an Old Time trio playing fiddle and banjo tunes and songs throughout Los Angeles with Ben Guzmán on fiddle/mandolin, Mike Heinle on banjo and Kelly Marie Martin on guitar. At many a late night jam, they've soaked up fiddle tunes and gospel songs, and have found their voice with foot stomping dance tunes, beautiful duets and intense three part harmony of a cappella ballads. In 2011, Triple Chicken Foot was voted “Best Folk Band in LA” by LA Weekly, and in 2012, they had a full-length feature article in the Los Angeles Times and a studio session for Roz Lurman’s FolkScene radio show on KPFK. They've performed at the Autry National Center, LACMA, The Watkins Family Hour, NPR, and have been featured at local and regional festivals, including Goleta Fiddlers Convention, Topanga Banjo and Fiddle Contest, the New Los Angeles Folk Festival, the Portland Old Time Gathering, the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention, and on the Palomino stage of the Stagecoach Festival. The band tries to honor the tradition of the roots of this music as an oral and community-based experience by hosting monthly jams, square dances with caller, Susan Michaels and in producing the annual Los Angeles Old Time Social.