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Genre: Concerts

Fastener w/ Spirit Hotel (solo), Pilots we’ve known, & RedAction

Wednesday, September 30 // Doors at 7:00 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $12 GA // $15-$20 Big Supporter     Fastener is close rhymes and guitar lines from Olympia, WA.   Bandcamp     Nataanii Cornelius wants you to know Spirit Hotel is a haunted heart. Blending country, punk, shoegaze, and anything that tumbles in her thoughts- she sings the blues about love and loss in a way that checks in,  checks out, and ensures every cowpoke and cowpunk is gonna feel it.   Bandcamp   Pilots We’ve Known is a post-punk/post-hardcore band from Missoula, Mt. purpose-built in early 2017 as an emotional outlet against the noises of our time. They use elaborate arrangements, angular chords and riffs and dynamic vocals to produce an emotional cacophony as the backdrop to  attention-grabbing lyrics. After a three year hiatus Pilots We’ve Known are back at it with a crushing-loud vengeance.   Bandcamp   RedAction is a new Missoula, Montana band from some of the dorks from Pilots We’ve Known, Deathcare Inc., The Naked Limbs, and Perfect Blue.   Instagram

Threshold Live!

Tuesday, October 27 // Doors at 6:30 PM // Show at 7:00 PM // $15     Threshold Live is a sonic exploration of the more-than-human world. The live show, an immersive blend of music, story, and sound, takes audiences across the planet—the Australian outback, an Arctic lake, the Kenyan savannah—and asks pressing questions about what happens when we tune into the life all around us.   Based on the eponymous Peabody Award-winning podcast, Threshold Live is the product of on-the-ground reporting by host and executive producer Amy Martin, who set out to explore the wondrous chorus of life on Earth and learn from the scientists at the heart of a listening renaissance. Grammy-winning composer and musician Todd Sickafoose live-scores the journey alongside multi-instrumentalist Jonny Rodgers and audio engineer Sam Moore. The result is a collective acoustic journey: a chance to share the experience of listening to what other beings are saying, and to consider what it might mean.     Learn more at www.thresholdpodcast.org

Moon Owls Mages, Red Caroline, Floating Witches Head, & Almost Ghosts

Thursday, September 10 // Doors at 7:00 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $12 GA // $15-$20 Artist Supporter   Moon Owl’s Mages is a 5 piece psych rock band from Boise, Idaho. Forming from playing in other bands and knowing each other in the local scene, the group came together with a challenge; to make a full LP in two weeks. Written, recorded, mixed and released two weeks later was ‘Skelly Bones Jones’, a concept record about a skeleton protagonist. Proof that creative boundaries, pressure, and friendship improves creativity and truth. COVID passed, things got crazy, the lineup added a new member, and in 2022 the mages were back swinging with a new record ‘Kill The Crackle’, featuring a more detail-oriented and realized band.After two years full of shows, tours and some personal items, the mages are back in the stu. Cooking up some things the world has never before seen. Something full-on crankin…   Red Caroline is a psychedelic fish blues rock n’ roll band. After forming in a storage unit in Boise, ID, circa late-2023 they have gone nonstop, writing, touring, recording, and making a name for themselves in the local scene. Now, their debut album is a culmination of those dedicated years. “Dune’s Day”, produced by Joshua Lewis and Grant Meister, takes the fuzzy and jammy remnants of their first EP “Coastal Blues” and morphs them into a trippy, environmental message about the dangers of Apathy and the need for community. Inspired by early , , and , the whole of it is a garage-psych record that is high-energy as it is impactful. “Dune’s Day” is something the band believes the world needs to hear. Red Caroline is Layla Booth, Kaleb Muilenburg, Aiden Elliott, Jack Vanus, and Ayden “Goose” Booth, and they will continue to rock ’till the end of time. Floating Witch’s Head is a Boise-based project concocted by Travis Ward (guitars & vocals) with Michael Mitchell (drums), Eric Gilbert (keyboards). RIYL: garage, psych, swamp, proto-punk, acid rock, beards, hot peppers, pickles, parties, nice people.   Almost Ghosts is an indie/folk/blues/pop five-member project from Missoula, Montana. Starting with a chance encounter at the Zootown Arts and Community Center’s fabled Adult Rock Camps, the band began practicing in lead guitarist Robbie G’s basement, learning lead vocalist Ann S-P’s strange, heartfelt, political, and sometimes insight-producing songs. Drummer Graham C leads the rhythm with wild yet concentrated abandon; Lindsay M’s bass riffs add structure; and keyboardist Beverly D’s ivory tinkling and vocal harmonies round out the sound with molecular grace. We have at least one song everyone will like, and we are just beginning…  

HUGME Day w/ P.E.S.T., Shiver Brains, Senterline, Big Mosquito & Calamity Cowboy

Saturday, September 19 // Doors at 2 PM // $20 ADV // $25 DOS Do you love the ZACC Show Room? Do you love someone who loves the ZACC Show Room? Then come hug it out and join us in making it even better!  Collaborating with over a dozen community partner organizations, the Show Room hosts over 16,000 community members 200+ events a year in the venue space, using equipment that is nearly all either borrowed or actively failing. That’s where we need your help. Join us for HUGME Day (Help Us Get Music Equipment), where all proceeds go to sound, lighting, and other upgrades to the Show Room at the ZACC! The best part? You’re not just helping us, you’re helping everyone and every organization that depends on an accessible venue space for the arts in Missoula. Organizations like Daisychain Presents, Drag Wrestling, A Quantum Dream, Misscast Productions and many more Missoula based community arts organizations use the Show Room and rely on the equipment in the space, so working lights and better audio make an impact far beyond the walls of our building.  So what’s the deal with HUGME Day, you ask? Well…a heck of a lot!   Come dig through some records provided by Ear Candy or test your mettle as part of the wing eating contest sponsored by our neighbors at M80 Chicken. Maybe head into the gallery to check out the music gear swap or, better yet, rent a table and finally ditch that spare amp that’s been collecting dust for another piece of gear (that will totally get used all the time, right?). Head into the back alley to enter the cornhole tournament, venture upstairs to print some of your own band merch, or even enter for a chance to go home with an awesome prize, to be announced, donated by our friends over at the Gibson Guitar plant over in Bozeman.   Or, just kick back, buy a beverage from the bar, and enjoy some absolutely rad local music from our friends: P.E.S.T. Shiver Brains (Big Sandy) Senterline Big Mosquito  &  Calamity Cowboy!  This event is for everyone and anyone of all ages, whether you’re here for shows once a week or you just got talked into going to a show here by your friends that one time and it actually turned out to be pretty cool so you’ve been meaning to check our calendar but you keep getting roped into those evening crocheting collabs with your neighbor Dan even though he just keeps going on and on about work and never asks how your day was and then he always says ‘I’ll fly, you buy’ when it comes time to order delivery and laughs at his own joke that didn’t make sense and then still doesn’t respond to your Venmo request later because you bought the food and he kept the leftovers so you swear you’re done hanging with Dan but then he texts you about how nice it is to have someone to talk to since the breakup so you think maybe one more crochet sesh couldn’t hurt even though you already have enough hats or… you know…something else comes up and you can’t make it to the show. Anyway, please stop by and take part in building community through accessible arts experiences for all!  Sign up for the corn hole competition here.    

Patti Nolan & The Undeniables

Wednesday, October 7 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $12 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Patti Nolan, born in Seattle, WA, and raised in Missoula MT, called New York City her home for most of her adult life. She also spent 4 years in San Francisco, CA, 2 years in Monterey, CA and 1 year in Catania, Sicily. Before leaving Missoula, she could be seen doing hootenannies around town accompanying herself on the guitar. During the early years in New York, Patti sang at clubs, including The Bushes and Catch a Rising Star, while working under the musical direction and tutelage of Danny Holgate. In addition, she was one of the founding members of the jazz fusion group, Afra Venture, which performed original material. Patti’s musical education credits include studies at the San Francisco and Brooklyn Conservatories of Music, and the Borough of Manhattan Community College. While living in the Monterey Bay area, Patti appeared regularly at the Café Monterey in the Grand Hyatt Regency, working with Eddie Mendenhall, Bobby Phillips, Lee Durley and the late Ace Hill. Patti, also, appeared at the Monterey Café, Morgan’s, with Don Pendergrast. After her stay in California, she returned to New York City and reestablished her position in the New York City Music Community. She appeared at Charlie O’s, on 45th St and 8th Ave in Manhattan. She was accompanied by the well-known and respected Donald Smith and his trio. She also performed at Café Creole, 118th St. and 2nd Ave in Manhattan, with the Alan Rosenthal Trio. Patti worked at perfecting her craft performing at open mikes at Cleopatra’s Needle and Porters in Manhattan. She could also be seen sitting in with the great Harry Whitaker at Arturo’s in the Village. Since returning to Missoula to live, Patti sat in with the Big Sky Mudflaps at Plonk and appeared at the Jodi Marshall Tribute in St Anthony’s Parrish, Aug 9th, 2017. Patti had previously worked with Jodi on a jazz demo. In March of 2019 she performed a jazz show at the Downtown Dance Collective to a sold-out crowd with the Jim Driscoll trio. The show was recorded and a live demo was created. Now that she is back in Missoula, Patti appeared many times at the Top Hat for their Jazz Wednesdays and has established a strong following. She is continuing to work with other musicians. Patti’s goal is to keep the jazz classics and standards alive and vibrant, and not ever forget the forefathers of this genre In September of 2022 Patti met pianist and arranger Ben Schuberg. Ben’s experience in a variety of genre’s supported and enhanced Patti’s vision of a jazz fusion group. They have performed primarily at the ZACC, a fabulous showroom for music and entertainment on Main Street in downtown Missoula, MT. Even though jazz is Patti’s preferred genre to perform, the musical influences in her life are varied and have their impact on her performance choices. It became obvious that Patti had to find musicians who could play many types of music so when Patti was introduced to Ben Schuberg, a fine pianist who plays in several groups of different genres, her vision became a reality. Then Ben brought in a saxphonist, Graeme Pletscher. Pete Hand on bass and Ed Stallings on drums, joined the group. Patti had worked with Ed and Pete since 2019. Patti Nolan and the Undeniables came into existence. They were part of a very successful fundraiser for KUFM of NPR and have done many other gigs in and out of Missoula, private and public. Patti Nolan and the Undeniables will continue to play new and innovative music around Missoula and beyond. The most recent demo can be heard at pattinolan.bandcamp.com.

Jeffrey Foucault w/ Riddy Arman

Thursday, September 17 // Doors at 7:00 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $25 ADV // $30 DOS     In two decades on the road Jeffrey Foucault has become one of the most distinctive voices in American music, refining a sound instantly recognizable for its simplicity and emotional power. With a string of critically acclaimed studio albums – “Stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest” (The New Yorker), “Beat-up troubadour folk whittled to dolorous perfection” (Uncut), “Songwriting Brilliance,” (Irish Times) – he’s built a brick-and-mortar international touring career and a devoted following, one that includes luminaries like Van Dyke Parks, Greil Marcus, and Don Henley. In September of 2024 Jeffrey Foucault released THE UNIVERSAL FIRE (Fluff & Gravy, 9/6/24), his first album of entirely new material since 2018. A series of high-voltage performances cut live in one room, the album is both a working wake – Foucault lost his best friend and drummer Billy Conway, to cancer in 2021 – and a meditation on the nature of beauty, artifact, and loss. Augmenting Foucault’s all-star band with members of Calexico and Bon Iver (drummer John Convertino and producer/saxophonist Mike Lewis) THE UNIVERSAL FIRE sets Conway’s death against the massive 2008 fire at the Universal Studios lot in California that destroyed the master recordings of some of our bedrock American music, to interrogate ideas about mortality, legacy, meaning, and calling.   Riddy Arman is a Montana-based singer-songwriter whose music is shaped by stark storytelling, solitude, and the emotional weight of life lived on the move. Carried by a voice that feels both weathered and deeply intimate, her songs balance grit with vulnerability, blending stripped down country and folk traditions with unflinching emotional honesty. After gaining widespread attention through her viral Western AF performance, Arman released her debut album through La Honda Records and quickly established herself as one of the most compelling emerging voices in independent country music. Currently touring new material and bringing her deeply intimate live show across the country, Riddy Arman delivers the kind of performance that leaves a room silent in all the right ways.

The Lowest Pair w/ Dylan Running Crane

Thursday, October 8 // Doors at 7:00 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $15 ADV // $18 DOS   The Lowest Pair has questions. The duo, made up of Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee, know that we tend to see duality as a problem. We want life to be linear, working through the dark to finally get to the light. Grief to joy, despair to hope, confusion to clarity––not a jangly cycle we can’t escape. But through their incandescent folk songs, the Lowest Pair often ask: What if we sit with the mess? What if that’s not just more peaceful, but more magical, too?  On their 8th album Always As Young As We’ll Ever Be, the Lowest Pair prove that over the last dozen years together, they’ve become some of modern roots music’s most mesmerizing, thoughtful purveyors. Produced by Tucker Martine (The Decemberists), the 10-track album puts the duo’s stark lyricism, string-driven arrangements, and raw compatibility on brilliant display and as a result, Always As Young As We’ll Ever Be pulses with life. The Lowest Pair’s musicianship is another beautiful testament not just to playing that breathes, but playing that listens. Winter, who grew up in Arkansas but has lived in Washington State for the last two decades, and Lee, a Minnesota native, first gained attention as poetic singer-songwriters on banjos. While their family of strings has expanded, their fundamental approach hasn’t: Respond to sounds and stories the other is making.   Dylan Running Crane is a singer-songwriter from Browning, Montana, a place that remains the subject of most of her work. Her vibe is country meets rez-folk meets tender and silly. Check out her work with Cry Baby – https://crybabymissoula.bandcamp.com/track/missoula

Writers in the Round

Wednesday, September 9 // Doors at 6:30 PM // Show at 7 PM // $12 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter   Montana Songwriters Collective presents Writers in the Round, an intimate evening of original songs and the stories behind the music, hosted by Andrea Harsell. Inspired by the classic songwriter-in-the-round format, the evening brings together four Montana artists for a night of songs, storytelling, and creative connection in an intimate listening-room setting.  

Armed for Apocalypse w/ Zephyria

Monday, September 21 // Doors at 7:30 // Show at 8:00 PM // $15 ADV // $20 DOS   Armed for Apocalypse came from nowhere and nothing. The sludgy five-piece from the small Northern California college town of Chico have worked relentlessly to leave their imprint on metal. Through tours across Europe, around the states and up and down the West Coast, they’ve continued to spread their name in the best way possible: word of mouth. They don’t play dress-up and they don’t turn down. They just play crushing songs that go from slow to slower, from muck to mire, from mosh to circle-pit. And sometimes they’ll make a left turn and end up at epic. Simply put, it’s rock ‘n’ roll music tuned way down and pissed way off. The upcoming full-length, “The Road Will End,” promises to be a complex study in heaviness. One finger chords and single string riffs, complicated by sophisticated voicings and even an occasional solo. No triggers, no wanky “shredding,” no posturing, no cowardice, no frills. http://www.armedforapocalypse.com/  

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