Bucer’s Coffee House Pub is all the rage as it has shaken the cobwebs off the Palouse blues scene with Thursday night Open Jazz Jams.

“We have really good coffee, food and customer service,” business owner Pat Greenfield shared about the Moscow joint that has been a part of the community since 2000. “And cheese cake,” a nearby customer who was enjoying a plate of the dessert chimed in.

“We’re the only coffee house regionally that roasts our coffee in house” Greenfield trumpeted about her establishment. “We make everything here — we have cigars and tobacco, we have used books.”

Greenfield first dipped her toes in the jazz pool when her family relocated to Moscow from Lewiston, and her daughter became involved in the local festival.

“I didn’t really know anything about jazz at the time and got immersed in it,” Greenfield said. “After the first Jazz Fest, my daughter linked up with [Jazz Fest performer] Dee Daniels, and we began a trek to her house in Vancouver, British Columbia, once a month for three years where she learned to sing.”

Since then, Bucer’s has branched out and hosts all kinds of music — folk, blues, Americana, whatever is in Moscow, she said.

But how is such a progressive, forward-thinking company so successful in a chiefly conservative place like Idaho?

Greenfield explained that the success of her business can be attributed to the community’s focus on art and music because of the influence of local universities.

“The universities are a pipeline of good music,” she said.

The main symbol of the Moscow melting pot is the large wooden community table that rests near the front door of Bucer’s.

“One of the anchors of Bucer’s is the big community table — that table is going to be one hundred years old in a couple years,” Greenfield said. “It’s anchored to the floor so we can’t move it. You will have people with all different beliefs sitting at the same table and strike up conversation.”

Greenfield and her team found the table at an antique shop in Spokane. She explained that table is from a law office conference room in New York City, and has sat in the front room of Bucer’s since the day the pub opened.

It was certainly a diverse crowd at last Thursday’s Open Jazz Jam.

Bucer’s had all different categories of hipsters from snapback-wearing, to Subaru-driving, to James Harden’s beard-replicating, to longboard-riding, to the wire rim glasses-prescribed to indoor sunglasses-donning poker players of the nightlife.

Alas, Bucer’s Coffee House Pub is still a cultural oasis in the stymied desert that is the rest of their state.

“She’s a genius,” proclaimed the cheesecake-devouring customer, representing the general consensus of Bucer’s constituency.

Perception is reality; Pat Greenfield is the Amelia Earhart of Moscow, as she took flight across an ocean of doubt and survived the journey.