Michael Moon

Alice Garbarini Hurley | You and your wife, Dawn Moon, met working at The Home Ranch, right? And now, after 23 years of marriage, you collaborated on music for the Robert Redford/Jane Fonda Netflix movie “Our Souls at Night,” released in September. What a long and lucky ride.

Michael Moon | Yes. In the beginning, I was a wrangler/horseshoer/musician at The Home Ranch in Clark, Colorado and Dawn worked in childcare and in the dining room. We left the ranch for 18 years to work on cattle ranches in Colorado, Montana and New Mexico and came back 2½ years ago. We have four children now – three boys and one girl, ages 12 to 20.

And you and Dawn perform together at the property?

We play as a duo one night a week for cocktail hour before dinner. We play mostly original songs, western folk music that reflects our