Every six months or so, indie rapper Tech N9NE returns to the Wilma. Every six months or so, the show sells out. It depresses me every time, but I guess I never claimed to understand everyone’s tastes. So, for those who care, here’s the press release for the next appearance, just announced. [Read More...]
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Concerts are once again on tap at the Big Sky Brewing Company. Earlier this week, Knitting Factory Entertainment of Boise, Idaho, announced the first in what’s expected to be a series of concerts this summer on the back lot of the Missoula brewery. The concert, which will feature Ray LaMontagne and the Pariah Dogs, Brandi Carlile, and the Secret Sisters, will take place June 20. Tickets go on sale Friday, March 4, at 10 a.m. The announcement means that Big Sky Brewing Company, which hosted several major concerts during the summers of 2004 and 2005, is back in the concert business – and this time, it’s hopefully for good, said Big Sky Brewing Company president Neal Leathers. [Read More...] Advertisement
Strange as that may sound for a band that has headlined the River City Roots Festival in front of thousands of people, the shows should offer an intimate experience not recently matched around here. Here’s the announcement I received about it: [Read More...]
In the concert hall, that might seem a tough row to hoe. Over the past 100 years, contemporary classical music has developed an increasingly bad reputation among audiences. Starting, ironically, at the very point in history when orchestral, operatic, and chamber music had reached its zenith of public popularity – at a time when the daily doings of the local symphony was considered relevant news for the masses by newspapers; and when the names of notable conductors, singers, and composers had become household names in much of the Western world – composers such as Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern and others began to experiment in new forms of music that at times induced passionate public outcry and even, in some instances, riots. Yet the types of music in question here – those works that break with traditional notions about rhythm, melody, harmony, and texture – are hardly unfamiliar to modern ears. [Read More...]
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Given their complimentary creative focus, it’s only fitting that the two groups eventually found reason to collaborate. And it’s even more fitting that they found that reason via a musician from the small West African country of Mali. [Read More...] The New York Times ran a fine obit about playwright Jim McLure this week; for those who knew him and even those who didn’t, it’s worth a read to remember what he contributed to the theatre world (including ours here in Missoula). Share on Facebook Standing in the lobby of the University Theatre during intermission of Sunday’s concert by the Missoula Symphony Orchestra, these are the comments I overheard from people waiting in the concessions line:
Walking to my truck after the end of the concert, these are the comments I overheard from people leaving the theatre:
Those comments said much about the overarching flow of Sunday’s concert, which featured two of the cornerstone works in the classical music repertoire: Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto, and Pyotr Tchaikowsky’s Sixth Symphony. The Concerto, with guest pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi, took up the first half of the program; the Symphony the second. [Read More...] I received a note when I arrived at the office today that actor and playwright James McLure passed away yesterday after a protracted illness. Though he didn’t live here fulltime, McLure was a giant in the local theatre scene, due largely through his sustained involvement in the Colony, the annual gathering of theatre-folk at the University of Montana. Over the years, McLure was involved in several noteworthy productions in Missoula. I won’t ever forget his show-stealing turn in Ron Fitzgerald’s “Boomtown” last year — which ran at the Crystal Theatre in a two-week rotation with McLure’s own, brilliantly witty play, “Used Cars.” I only meet McLure once, while reporting a fun story about last summer’s river-float by participants in the Colony. I can still picture him standing waist-deep in the water, talking to me about this “magical place” he so loved. Here’s a short ode to McLure, written by Greg Johnson, artistic director of Montana Rep. [Read More...] |
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The Gourds, the Austin, Tx.-based band that has become something of a Missoula darling over the years, announced a return engagement…at the Top Hat.
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