GorillaT (16+)
Thursday, February 26 // 8:00 PM // (16+) Liquid Bass Productions Presents: GORILLAT W/ Support From TBD Tickets available here: https://posh.vip/e/gorillat-at-the-zacc
Marie Smith Jazz Group
Saturday, January 24 // Doors at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $20-$30 Sliding Scale // $17 Student One Stage. All Corners of Montana Meet. Pure Jazz Brilliance. This exceptional performance brings together a curated ensemble of premier jazz musicians from across the state. A bold, beautiful fusion of styles and shared passion, delivering a one-night-only experience of world-class artistry. Marie Smith, vocals Scott Jeppesen, tenor saxophoneCraig Hall, guitar Rob Tapper, trombone Tommy Sciple, bassRoxanne Jeppesen, drums
Western Union
Sunday, January 18 // Door at 6:30 PM // Show at 7 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Louie and Kimberlee are founding members of Montana’s hottest Texas swing band Western Union, with bandmates David Horgan and Beth Lo from one of Montana’s most renowned jazz and R&B bands-the Big Sky Mudflaps. They have the distinction of being the only Montana band to play at the Montana Folk Festival (July 2016) in addition to opening for Marty Stewart (Sept 2015) and Colorado’s renowned Hot Rize (July 2015). Where jazz meets country, Western Union is Montana’s favorite “countrypolitan” western swing band, specializing in classic Texas Swing & Honky Tonk music. With electric and acoustic guitars, standup bass, pedal steel guitar, and drums – plus sharp-as-a-tack lead vocals and vocal harmonies — Western Union delivers the true-blue sound of grassroots America. All tickets are general admission. Artist Supporter Tickets are a way for patrons to provide more financial support to performers. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Golden Mean w/ Look Busy
Saturday, January 3rd // Door at 7:00 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10-$20 Artist Supporter Golden Mean features original compositions by Bill Kautz inspired by questions, conversations, harmony, discord and the search for authenticity. The music features thoroughly composed melodies while integrating improvisation in various structures. Golden Mean is Bill Kautz, trumpet and cornet; Steve Kalling, double bass; Aria Peters, violin; Hannah Ransom, percussion and Jake Ransom, vibraphone. Shuffled and reshuffled from an endless stack of blank paper, scribbled with a thousand thoughtless notes, and emerging from a dramatic cloud of chalk dust, Missoula’s LOOK BUSY (Ken Grinde, Matt Riley, Johannah Kohorst, Drew Fetherolf) meld driving pop and lofty ballads to achieve new dimensions of appearing businesslike and occupied.
Soft Landing Benefit Show w/ Pilots We’ve Known, Deathcare Industries, Perfect Blue, and Stuck Up
Thursday January 15 // 7:00 Doors // 7:30 Show // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter 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. Deathcare Industries is a Missoula-based band that mixes the energy of metal with the rhymic and lyrical style of Hip Hop. They’ve been described as “New Nü metal”. They are loud, just how you like it. Perfect Blue is a genre-bending, instrumental post-rock quartet from Missoula, Montana. Their music blends elements of post-punk, psych, shoegaze, folk and black metal for an eclectic spectrum of sounds moving between somber, intricate passages to dark, heavy soundscapes. The band’s debut album, “Empress,” is now available everywhere. Stuck Up is old-school punk served up scalding hot and hairy by ex-members of [any three bands].
Flask w/ Candygram
Wednesday, January 7 // Doors at 7:00 // Show at 7:30 // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter One Week In and You Already Regret Your Resolutions – A rock show featuring catchy progressive punk pranksters Candygram and FLASK, a new project by Andrew Hunt, Mathew Bainton, Oscar Hunt and Cannon Pearson. Absolutely guaranteed to be a show that has guitars, amps, drums and people singing words and things. Oh and bass too. And keyboards. Come abandon your resolutions or learn to live with them.
.repetend, Doctor Fly, & Evening Redness Out West
Saturday, January 10 // Doors at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter .repetend utilizes extended range tunings, driving bass and guitar riffs, complex meters, dynamic tonalities and progressive, driving percussion for a total math rock experience. Brush up on your algebra and see if you can count along. https://repetendband.bandcamp.com/album/permutations Doctor Fly is an electronic musician who haunts Missoula, MT. Harnessing a brood of mysterious music machines, he enkindles an interdimensional space; all who enter shall be imperceptibly yet undeniably changed. Doctor Fly performs improvisational compositions on the guitar, keyboard, recorder, theremin, kazoo, and drum machine. For more information visit www.seansong.org. Evening Redness Out West is a band of brothers hailing from Garnet Montana – Wess, Red, and Sweet Keaton Evening. https://eveningrednessoutwest.bandcamp.com/
Open Mic
Wednesday, January 21st // Door & Sign-up at 7 PM // Free & Open to the Public! Come join us! All talents welcome.
Sunday Swing! w/ Ed Norton Big Band
Sunday, January 11 // Door & Lessons at 6:30 PM // Show at 7 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter **Dance lessons with Lindy Hop begin at 6:30** Get your dancing shoes on and spend a Sunday with hits from Ed Norton Big Band in The Show Room at the ZACC! The Ed Norton Big Band was founded around 1987 after trombonists Tom Wogsland and Scot Ray performed in the pit Orchestra for Missoula Children’s Theatre’s first production of The 1940’s Radio Hour – and didn’t want to stop. Since then the 18 piece band, made up of Missoula musicians from multiple generations, has been a staple of traditional and modern big band music throughout western Montana. Ed Norton Big Band has a long history of entertaining audiences of all ages from birthday parties, fundraisers, Out to Lunch, Second Sunday Jazz, and First Night. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Dylan Bautista & Loren Stillman
Thursday, January 8 // Doors at 7:00 // Show at 7:30 // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Saxophonist Loren Stillman and pianist Dylan Bautista team up for an evening of inventive interplay and spirited improvisation, blending their original music with select jazz standards.