THE HIGH HAWKS
The High Hawks easily traverse a variety of musical stylings on Mother Nature’s Show- from various rock flavors including Southern, country and psychedelic, as well as honky tonk and even a ballad and a waltz — while maintaining a sonic cohesiveness that claims each style as their own. The final stop on the band’s travelogue is Herman’s “Shine Your Blues,” a happy, bouncy number that musically references Louisiana Cajun music and New Orleans R&B.
THE BAND OF HEATHENS
The Band of Heathens are an Austin-based rock and roll group known for their fiercely independent approach to music-making. Led by dual lead vocalists and songwriters Ed Jurdi and Gordy Quist, the band has been making music together for over 17 years. They have released nine studio albums to date, including their latest releases, Simple Things and its acoustic counterpart, Simpler Things.
RAPIDGRASS
Rapidgrass embodies the notion that nature, and particularly mountains, can bring out the best in their art, and they have dedicated much of their creative energy into bringing that art back to the people of the mountains. Rapidgrass focuses on travel to mountain towns and inspires mountain people and athletes around the globe and their music is motivated by and made for those who find peace in the mountains. Their travels to mountain towns has also given them a great palate of mountain music styles to draw from including styles from North America, France, Italy, Russia, Tibet, Argentina, and Ireland.
SOL DRIVEN TRAIN
Sol Driven Train’s music weaves through genres like images in a Tom Robbins paragraph. The band’s playful sonic schizophrenia absorbs songwriting influences like John Prine and Paul Simon, Afro-caribbean rhythmic explorations, and funky New Orleans-style brass into earnest songs of life, love, loss, and long johns. The versatile 5-piece band, based in Charleston, SC, features rotating lead vocalists, and multi-instrumental talent spread across horns, strings, keyboards, and percussion. Combining rich varieties of American pop and folk music into their own brass-kickin' roots rock sound, Sol Driven Train has carved out a unique musical identity within the Jam and Americana music scene.
THE VINCE HERMAN BAND
Vince Herman is out to have some fun. Thirty-three years after founding Leftover Salmon, Vince is releasing an album of his own and hitting the road to play a batch of songs developed in his new Nashville home. It’s a bit of a departure from the salmon sound as he digs into his idea of what country music is. There’s some bluegrass and Cajun influences and honky tonk ballads all piled atop great players taking the tunes for a ride.
ASHLEIGH FLYNN & THE RIVETERS
Like the Ohio to muddy Ol’ Miss, Ashleigh Flynn follows her troubadour heart. Flynn grew up in Kentucky and cut her teeth on local bluegrass music and Motown. A prolific songwriter and performer blessed with unbridled charisma, she has taken the stage at Bonnaroo and Bumbershoot, Delfest, High Sierra and Vancouver Folk Fest and toured with the likes of Todd Snider and the Wood Brothers.
THE SPILLS
The Spills have been ripping house parties and local haunts here in Missoula for five or six years now. We play an uptempo and dancy blend of country, rock and roll, funk and soul. If you’ve lived in Missoula for any good amount of time, you’ve known us or at least seen us biking around town in little jorts, floating down the Clark Fork on a 95 degree day, sucking in wildfire smoke at sunset outside Flips in August, pounding nails at 8AM on a cool Monday morning, slangin’ sandos and assorted singles downtown, or throwing flies on the Bitteroot pre-runoff. Individually, we’ve each grown up in different worlds, learning our respective instruments since childhood, but we’ve come together in our fleeting middle age as a tight crew who loves to throw a good party. Some of us took guitar lessons, some of us excelled at drums in band class, some of us learned bass in our bedrooms with the door locked and the black lights bumpin’, and some of us picked up a fiddle next to a ghost at a campfire. We’re out here working, camping, jamming, and scraping by with the rest of you, as any good Missoulian should. If you’re into tasty licks, creamy vocals, punchy pop riffs and socioeconomic sarcasm, then you’re a Spills fan.
GIVE IT TO 'EM, FLORABELLE!
Enjoy the sound of the mountains with Give It To ‘Em, FLORABELLE! A soul/funk/blues fusion super band. The band lead, FLORABELLE, (a Montana native) recently moved back home to gather her favorite musicians into one explosive ten member band. FLORABELLE sings and writes all of her original music inspired by jazz roots and the love we all share for Montana. They are known for being quite the entertainers. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you darn well better boogie! Come see GITE,F! to help spread the love and grooviness that lives within us all!
COWBOY ANDY & THE SALAMANDERS
Cowboy Andy and the Salamanders is an award winning nationally recognized children and family friendly rock group that offers that has been delighting families all around the Pacific Northwest for over 10 years! Get ready to dance and sing along to songs you probably don’t know! The Salamanders consist of Mr. Blue Sky Ian Smith, Bones Russ Gay, Banana Man Matthew Bainton, The Indispensable Oscar Hunt, and Cowboy Andy!
