Writers in the Round
Wednesday, June 10 // 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, featuring Andrea Harsell, Andre Floyd, Chris Pumphrey, and Lee Rizzo. 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. Andrea Harsell Andrea Harsell is a Montana singer-songwriter rooted in folk, blues, country, bluegrass, and jazz. Born and raised in Missoula, she has spent decades performing original music across the United States, with appearances in Canada, Hawaii, and Japan. Known for her powerful voice and emotionally honest songwriting, Andrea brings warmth, spontaneity, and deep audience connection to every performance. Her songs are shaped by story, place, resilience, and lived experience. Her work is also featured in the documentary film A Place (Sort Of): The Ultimate Missoula Movie. Learn more at andreaharsell.com. Andre Floyd Andre Floyd is a singer-songwriter originally from Great Falls and a longtime respected member of the Montana music community. His 1998 release Lapis, released on his Tapas Records label, remains the only local release to receive regular commercial airplay on Missoula’s premier rock station, Z-100. A songwriter for more than five decades, Floyd has written over 200 songs and released four studio albums, with a fifth currently in progress. He also helped pioneer Missoula’s recording scene through Tapas Recording Studio, the city’s first commercial computer-based recording studio. Chris Pumphrey Chris Pumphrey grew up surrounded by music and received his first guitar at age ten. He began writing and performing original music in his twenties and has been part of the Missoula music community for more than twenty years. Over the past year, Chris has studied with Grammy-winning songwriters while continuing to deepen his craft. He currently performs with the Chris Pumphrey Band and is preparing to release a collaborative album featuring original songs and contributions from more than two dozen Montana musicians and singers. Lee Rizzo Lee Rizzo is a humanist folk artist, poet, songwriter, and movement performer. Raised in Missoula’s arts community, she spent her youth appearing at open mics and downtown pubs, often sitting in with her dad’s band, Treated and Released. After earning a BA in dance from the University of Montana, Lee performed in a wide range of theatrical and musical productions and released her debut solo album, Moon Light Moon. Her music and lyrics reflect her inner world and illuminate the love present all around. Learn more at leerizzo.com and hear Moon Light Moon on Bandcamp.
Hudson Power Company
Monday, July 27 // Doors at 7:00 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $12 ADV // $15 DOS Hudson Powder Company’s music is about synesthesia – where a person perceives certain sounds as having distinct colors or tastes. I have a mild case of it – whenever I hear a univibe pedal I get the feeling that the sound it is making is somehow purple. In my view, every band that’s worth anything does a kind of painting with synesthetic associations. A single sound might have a color, but the great bands and artists are the ones who knew how to make the right colors play together in some way. I don’t know of anyone ever trying to “paint” Idaho and the Inland Northwest in this way – trying to uproot this kind of mood that’s implicit in our landscapes. That mood was already in nature, wanting out. Our group is trying to let it out, in one way. But I do believe that the Lexicon LXP-1 Digital Reverb “sounds” like a blue sagebrush, the bass guitar “sounds” like volcanic basalt somehow. The lyrics to the songs are what they are, they just say what they mean like any other lyric. But they’re supposed to be set against a kind of backdrop – the high desert that most people fly over or drive through and never pay much mind to. There’s something there though, some kind of a landscape of sounds that has been mostly ignored… like a fossil. Thanks for reading. Spotify
Edging w/ Bull Market
Friday, July 10 // Doors at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $15 Edging is music to liberate the freaks and weirdos. From Chicago to a city near you. Bull Market is an investment firm based out of Billings, MT.
Joe Kaplow’s Homestead Gold w/ Izaak Opatz
Wednesday, September 2 // Doors at 7 PM // Show at 8 PM // $15 ADV // $18 DOS Before I started my career I had a choice: to take over my parent’s thoroughbred farm in New Jersey or pursue music full time in California and relinquish the farm to sale. I still wonder what life would have looked like had I stayed, but who can resist the gold rush? Besides, I plan to get back there one day on another farm with some other red barn. My music comes from life’s moments — smelling 4 acres of freshly cut grass, watching the steam from a horse’s breath in the early morning, finally holding the neck of my guitar after holding bridles and worn wooden handles all day. 4000 acres of freshly burnt wildfire, watching the steam from the Pacific Ocean’s breath in the early morning, finally holding the neck of my guitar after clutching the worn steering wheel of the tour van all day. Now my reality is in Bonny Doon, CA, where mountains meet the sea. I am in my recording studio, aptly named Hippie Cowboy, every day. Slow and steady; keep it fun, stay engaged. All for the moment when the song finally sounds right. My dad passed away a couple years ago — his bullwhip is on the wall, his Harley is in the driveway. He visits me in dreams, and oh, the moment I wake up! Sometimes I write for him. Sometimes for my mom, who I hope will move out to California soon. Maybe she could volunteer at an equestrian center… A person is made from their moments, like their music is made. I know this is a bio but I shouldn’t have to say much. Listen to the record. If I’ve done my job well, you will know me by the end. Spotify // Bandcamp // Instagram // Facebook
Witch Ripper vs. American Falcon
Saturday, May 30 // Doors at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter On their third full-length, “Through the Hourglass”, WITCH RIPPER unleash the full potential of their stunning ability to deliver captivating melodies, catchy riffs, and merciless hooks in sheer droves. The US metal band perfectly combines melodic heaviness with pinches of progressive, sludge, and other styles with seeming ease. WITCH RIPPER can be generally located within the wider sonic realm that is inhabited by MASTODON, BARONESS, and HIGH ON FIRE, yet they also continue to channel the rock bombast of QUEEN and DAVID BOWIE as well as the modern prog of COHEED AND CAMBRIA and MUSE. WITCH RIPPER are also determined to tour across the United States and hope for a first voyage to Europe in support of “Through the Hourglass”. Metal is anything but dead, and this album is living proof of its vibrant present.
Flask w/ Mild Mannered Janitor & The Naked Limbs
Wednesday, June 3 // Doors at 7:00 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $12 General Admission // $15-$20 Artist Supporter FLASK is 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. The Naked Limbs play music with rocks in it. Now they’re releasing a record with rocks in it. Celebrate the rocks with rocks with them.
Canta Brasil
Friday, May 29 // Doors at 6:30 PM // Show at 7 PM // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter Ticket Canta Brasil is Missoula’s only band specializing in the music of Brazil – from romantic Bossa Novai to Hot Samba, and beyond. The group features the unique vocal abilities of Magda Chaney, who sings expertly in Portuguese and is adept at a wide range of classic Brazilian styles. Utilizing a broad range of rhythms and percussion patterns, the band conveys the magical spirit of Brazilian Carnival! Composers such as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Vinicius Moraes, Edu Lobo, plus many others, are represented in Canta Brasil’s highly danceable repertoire. With Magda Chaney on vocals, David Horgan on guitar, Beth Lo on bass, Graeme Pletscher on saxophone, Naomi Siegel on trombone, Pedro Marques on vocals and percussion, and Ed Stalling on percussion.For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Anthers w/ Flesh Hunks & Girlpit
Saturday, May 16 // Door at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Anthers is a 3-piece noise rock band from Seattle, featuring EJ Tolentino (guitar/vox), Taylor Clark (drums), and Kevin Blanquies (bass). Spotify
Deathro w/ Judy and the Jerks & No Policy
Monday, June 15 // Doors at 7:30 PM // Show at 8:00 PM // $10 ADV // $15 DOS DEATHRO: AKA Kanagawa Japan’s No. 1 rock vocalist! After many years spent playing in several punk and hardcore bands such as ANGEL OD and COSMIC NEUROSE, DEATHRO debuted his solo act back in 2016 with a fresh take on 80s-90s Japanese “beat rock”. The result is incredibly high energy and uplifting rock/punk music that makes life feel worth living! He has played countless shows for 10 years all over Japan, New Zealand, and the US with a rotating backing band. No matter where you catch him, one thing always holds true: he delivers a stellar performance full of sincerity and passion that you can’t help but dance to with a huge smile on your face – Austin Griffith of Judy and the Jerks Judy and the Jerks: Since their humble beginnings in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Judy And The Jerks have cultivated a unique sound and image that combines all the best elements of hardcore, punk, and youth crew, while abandoning the elements that prove corrosive (specifically that of the pessimistic-machismos). Songs that assault your mind with an explosive energy like an electric shock from a live wire all while supporting a message of personal responsibility, self-improvement, and the ultimate truth: the only way out of this hell is together. This group of go-getters has pushed out numerous releases and toured relentlessly while making a name for themselves on the international punk stage- Zach Burton on behalf of Refuse Records
Queer Pride w/ j. graves, The Skurfs, & Goochslam
Wednesday, June 17 / Doors at 7:30 PM // Show at 8:00 PM // $12 + $3 Pride Fee *Please note that an additional $3 Pride Fee will be added to each ticket, and all funds collected from this particular fee will be donated to the Western Montana LGBTQ+ Center in support of all their efforts to organize Missoula Pride.
