Dave Yoder and Linda Knight have hooked-up to for the duo, "Desert Knights." They will perform a new mix of music beginning at 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2 at the K-7 Lounge on Hafen Ranch Road. Advertisement

Dave Yoder and Linda Knight have been a part of the Pahrump music scene for at least 10 years. Recently the two have joined voices and instruments to create something new.

They have known each other and worked together before when they performed in a Thursday night jam session titled Alien Knights that aired live on Channel 41.

Yoder did a lengthy stint with Rick Scanlon in another duo called "County Line" and still does on occasion, but Yoder said, "Rick is off doing other things and wants to play the better paying gigs. I want to continue playing music and having fun so Linda and I got together as a duo and have started performing around town."

Yoder is concerned over the music business in Pahrump. He says it's getting harder and harder to make any money playing music here. It's all economics. If the bands make money then the bar has to cover their overhead and make money too. If a bar is paying, say, $100 per musician and the band has four members, that's a good chunk of change to pay and quite a few drinks to sell at $2 or $3 each in order to break even.

Yoder's idea is to synthesize the background music via computer, add a couple of live instruments to give the performance a "live" feel and voice the vocals. It cuts down on the cost of having live music for the public and breaking even isn't as difficult for the bar owner.

His fear is no more live music at the bars because they simply can't afford it.

Both are experience musicians. Yoder has been singing since he started in the church choir at 11 and Knight has been singing the blues since she performed as a regular with a barber hop quartet on the Regis Philbin Show when she was 13.

Knight said she's had some voice training as well, which worked out fine until her voice coach (she was being coached in opera) found out she was singing rock and roll at night and "dropped" her.

Knight is a serious blues singer and Yoder loves country music.

"We're like 'Donny and Marie' (Osmond)," said Knight. "He's a little bit country and I'm a little bit rock and roll."

The duo performs a little bit of everything but Yoder says the focus is to get the audience involved. "We like to do fun music from the 60s and 70s," he said. "It's the kind of music you used to sing along with growing up."

He's referring to songs from Creedence Clearwater Revival, 3-Dog Night, Wilson Pickett and so on.

They still perform some country music for the line-dancers and swingers in the crowd.

The two will perform beginning at 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2 at K-7 Lounge, Hafen

Ranch Road at Thousandaire. Call 727-9070 for more information.