The Missoula Osprey and Play Ball Missoula, in conjunction with the Knitting Factory, announced today that Willie Nelson and Lyle Lovett and His Large Band will perform live in concert at Ogren Park Allegiance Field on Tuesday, August 2 at 7 p.m. Tickets for the show will go on sale beginning Friday, June 3 at 10 a.m.
The event is entirely General Admission and tickets are $49.50. This price does not include ticket surcharges that will apply. Tickets will be for sale at the new MSO Hub box office located at 140 N Higgins, by phone at (406) 543-3300, and online at MissoulaOsprey.com. [Read More...]
It’s one of the largest, most diverse and most eye-popping art shows of the year so far. And, as of press time, most of the items in this year’s On Deck skate-deck art auction hadn’t broken the $100 mark.
That’s not to say that everyone who attends this Saturday’s final auction event at [...]
Like other matters of the spirit, intuition doesn’t get much credence in American culture today. Heidi Junkersfeld knows this quite well. So when the Missoula artist speaks of the inspiration – indeed, urgency – behind the upcoming production by the performance-art troupe Open Field Artists, she chooses her words carefully.
“It really feels obvious to me that this is the time for this to happen,” she says. “I can tell you stuff about prophesies or visions; but in our culture, a lot of people view those subjects as sort of out-there. If you put those things into art that evokes rather than tells, you feel it and the audience will undoubtedly feel it, and it’s somehow safer or more acceptable to address that way.
“The arts are powerful in that way,” she continues. “That’s why I believe we need the arts – art that moves our stuff.”
If that seems rather vague, what’s clear is that plenty of stuff moves in “First Breath,” a collaborative multi-media performance that opened Thursday night at the Missoula Community Co-Op. [Read More...]
For most people in my adopted town of Bloomington, Ind., it was probably just another sunny Sunday morning. I don’t recall the date, though given where I was on that day, it must have been the spring of 1993. As had become something of a weekend tradition, my roommate’s girlfriend Christy was making her awesome vegetarian sausage-and-biscuits in our dingy apartment kitchen with the slanted floor.
Eric and Rachel showed up, and then Kelley and Terry. We mixed up some mimosas in a cheap plastic pitcher, and shot some footage for our weekly cable-access TV show, which had recently gone viral in our little town, spawning newspaper articles and even drawing a little bit of financial support from fans.
Rachel had her Mamiya medium-format camera, and we all climbed out the kitchen window onto the roof, where Rachel shot some goofy faux-rockstar photos of us. The whole time, Eric was chattering in his 50-mile-a-minute way about his idea for a video production company. Ween’s “Push the Little Daisies” came blasting from my stereo, and we all agreed that Daisybrain would make a fine name for the company. Eric would find the space, and we would help fill it with equipment, and it would become a local hub of grassroots media and art-video culture.
It’s quite possible that none of those folks remember that day like I do. I imagine that part of the reason I recall it so vividly was because, somewhere along the way, while dancing to the music in my bedroom, my knee inexplicably buckled under me, dislocated for a moment, and left me writhing on the floor until my knee popped back in place. [Read More...]
It’s been almost two years since Missoula last had a date with the Clumsy Lovers. Back in the early years of the last decade, the Vancouver, British Columbia-based band was a favored regular in town, swinging through town for frequent gigs at the Ritz on Ryman. In 2008, the band played one of the prime slots at the River City Roots Festival, followed by a set at Downtown ToNight in 2009. Since then, nada.
But fear not, ye lovers of the Lovers: they’re back next Thursday, May 19, for a gig at the Top Hat. [Read More...]
In the middle of summer, 2009, the Seattle Weekly published a long-form story that traced the meteoric rise of local hip-hop quartet Mad Rad. At the time, the band was the talk of the Crescent City – not only because they’d managed to build an enormous local following in that notoriously fickle and subdivided scene; but also because, in doing so, they’d managed to get themselves banned from performing at virtually every notable live-music club in the Capitol Hill district.
“They rose to fame, seemingly at warp speed, within certain pockets of the local music scene for their blatant who-gives-a-(explitive) attitude and their reputation for playing shows that felt more like hair-metal house parties on the Sunset Strip than official gigs,” wrote journalist Jonathan Cunningham. “As the city’s hipsters fell in love with their eclectic brew of synthed-out electro production and outrageously crass rhymes, Mad Rad had the feel of a group that was of the people rather than above them…By the time they dropped their debut LP, “White Gold,” near the end of (2008), it seemed like the crew could do no wrong.” [Read More...]
It’s not exactly local-local, but the Billings Gazette has put out a call for submissions to a kind of battle-of-the-bands they’ll be running this summer. Here’s the info about it; it’s open to any Montana or Wyoming rock, blues, country or pop band. [Read More...]
By any measure, the program of music performed by the Missoula Symphony Orchestra on Saturday and Sunday was unusual. For the season-ending pair of concerts, the ensemble lurched from a foreboding overture, to a nostalgic concerto, to a single movement from a much longer symphony, and finally to a highlight-reel of instrumental numbers from an opera. During much of the program, the orchestra itself was cut to a portion of its normal forces, only to bring on extra firepower for the finish. Even the featured soloist, Ana Vidovic, arrived on stage toting an instrument rarely seen in the context of orchestral music: an acoustic guitar.
Yet by any measure, this was one of the most consistently fine performances put on by our local orchestra in modern memory. In this musical mish-mosh, magic was made. [Read More...]
In times like these, America needs Red Green. The Canadian comedian and star of the long-running PBS series, “The Red Green Show,” Green has won over scores of us south-of-the-northern-border yokels with his patchwork brand of homespun advice (“If life gives you lemons, throw ‘em into a quart of vodka”), pithy philosophies (“Men are like gas, they take up the space available”), and most of all, fix-it tutorials.
In his new book, “How to Do Everything,” Green explores plenty of the latter, offering do-it-yourself ideas for how to fix a draughty window using mice, how to fix squeaky floorboards with a whoopee cushion, and how to lift the engine out of a car using just a nine volt cordless drill, clothesline pulleys and his famously favored fix-all, duct tape.
On Saturday, Green will appear at the Montana Theatre on the UM campus as part of his current “Wit and Wisdom” tour. I caught up with him by phone earlier this week to talk about the life experiences that brought him to where he is today, and the winding road that brings him here this weekend. [Read More...]
Missoula Symphony Orchestra conductor Darko Butorac says that he always begins with a simple principle in mind whenever he sits down to program a concert for the orchestra: diversity.
“I really like contrasts,” says Butorac. “I don’t ever like to serve the same type of food for my guests at dinner.”
But, in the case of this weekend’s season-ending pair of concerts, Butorac says that the “music-geek” in him couldn’t help but be attracted to subtle parallels between the two main courses on the menu, Richard Strauss’ “Rosenkavalier Suite” and Joaquin Rodrigo’s “Concierto de Aranjuez.” [Read More...]
In the middle of summer, 2009, the Seattle Weekly published a 
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