Goth Ball
w/ DJs Gingerbat & Sister Midnight & a LIVE Performance by Negative Gain Recording Artist ‘Order of The Static Temple’Saturday, October 21 // 8 PM to Midnight // $10 It’s time for the Montana Goth Ball! Release the bats Saturday, October 21 at the ZACC! DJs GingerBat and Sister Midnight will bring you the spookiest tunes along with a LIVE performance by Negative Gain recording artist Order of The Static Temple. DJs will rotate throughout the night, so be ready to DANCE! This is your excuse to dress up and party! Gothic, leather, punk, Victorian, latex, lace (if in doubt, wear black). Dress to DEPRESS! For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Ro Myra w/ Opener Dylan Running Crane
Friday, September 29 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter Ticket // $40 Ticket & ‘Nowhere, Nebraska’ Signed Vinyl Album Purchase // $25 Ticket & ‘Nowhere, Nebraska’ Signed CD Purchase Ro Myra’s debut album Nowhere, Nebraska, is a complex reckoning with the past, a nuanced, literate reexamination of small-town life in the shadow of heartbreak, self-destruction, and second chances … a warm embrace of an album all about memory and forgiveness, growth and pain, freedom and fate, a collection that calls to mind everything from Lucinda Williams to Bruce Springsteen to Lori McKenna to Brandi Carlile to Sheryl Crow as it makes peace with the past in order to more fully inhabit the present. This show will be stripped-down and intimate, featuring never-before-heard songs from Myra’s unreleased sophomore album. 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 For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Darsombra w/ Night Witch & Swamp Ritual
Thursday, September 28 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter Ticket Darsombra is a trans-apocalyptic galaxy rock duo from Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Known internationally for walking the line between glam-prog-psych-stoner metal and site-specific installation performance art, their hallucinogenic live audio-visual shows are often met with the following responses: “I didn’t know what to expect, but that was awesome”, “I’ve never seen anything like that before”, and “it was like tripping on acid, without the acid.” The band has a committed DIY cottage industry ethic, self-producing their music and videos and booking their own tours globally. They bring a stadium show in a cargo van or a handful of suitcases, and have performed in 48 states and 20 countries worldwide since their inception in 2005. Nightwitch will be dropping heavy bombs like veteran anti-fascist pilots fighting Nazis when they shred searing twin-jet guitars, thunderous rhythms and piercing screams to the ZACC! Swamp Ritual is drum and bass stoner / doom metal, formed in 2010 in the Missoula mountains. With Dustin Fugere on bass and vocals, and Sid LaTray on drums and vocals. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Jazz Night at the ZACC / Patti Nolan & The Undeniables + Mitchell Bailey’s Quiet Ruckus Octet
Wednesday, September 27 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $15 Patti Nolan & The Undeniables perform their unique and spirited blend of jazz classics and standards, with Patti on vocals, Ben Schuberg on piano, Pete Hand on bass, Graeme Pletscher on saxophone, and Ed Stalling on drums. The Quiet Ruckus Octet is a jazz ensemble led by Trombonist, Composer, and former Missoulian Mitchell Bailey. The band primarily plays original music and arrangements by the members of the ensemble, drawing from a number of influences including post bop, free music, and modern rock. With 5 horns, the group’s unique format aims to capture the energy and orchestration of a big band, while maintaining the mobility and spontaneity of a small ensemble. The band is: Nick Barr on the trumpet, Mitchell Bailey on the trombone, Lhanna Writesel on the alto sax, Aidan Robinson on the tenor sax, Michelle Sweeney on bass clarinet, Sam Purvis on drums, Owen Cleary on bass, and Connor Racicot on piano. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Wildlands & Mender
Wednesday, September 20 // Door at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter Ticket Wildlands is an aspiring three piece indie pop band based out of Missoula. They create and perform electrifying pop music for all to enjoy, so please enjoy it. Listening to Mender you’ll hear poignant notes of bittersweet life, falling in, and falling out of love, the lows of loneliness, the highs of connection, and what it is to move on. A fusion of Folk/Americana – if Head and the Heart met Glen Hansard. Mender is here to put life and definition to the seasons, emotions, and chapters of our lives that deserve to be honored. Their music is a journey of vulnerability and growth, and they have a passion to engage with listeners by validating shared experiences in lifes’ highs and lows. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Naomi Moon Siegel & Lee Rizzo
Saturday, September 16 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10-$30 Sliding Scale Tickets “The impression given by Naomi Moon Siegel is that she is serenading the constellations. There’s an imagery inherent to her music that is greater than the calculus of the notes, much in the same way a certain collection of stars become meaningful in the context of their astronomical shape and name and story.” – Dave Sumner, Best of 2019 Jazz on Bandcamp The Naomi Moon Siegel Quartet is a genre-bending, experiential adventure weaving instrumental landscapes from deep grooves, soaring melodies, visceral textures, creative interplay, and improvisation. Featuring Lhanna Writesel on saxophone, Tommy Sciple on bass, Ed Stalling on drums and Siegel on trombone, this collaboration plays original compositions that take new life with each performance. Join us for the journey. Trombonist, composer and educator Naomi Moon Siegel has “crafted a truly unique aesthetic, combining elements of straightahead, fusion and modern jazz with world-music flavors in a way that sounds entirely of the 21st century” (JAZZIZ). A recipient of the Montana Arts Council Artist Innovation Award, Chamber Music America Performance Plus Grant, Jazz Journalist Association Jazz Hero Award and Earshot Jazz Golden Ear Award, she has released two albums as a bandleader to critical acclaim. Lee Rizzo is a humanist folk artist based in Missoula, MT. She released her debut solo album Moon Light Moon, June 2022. She shares the stage with long time accompaniment Jordan Demander. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Hallows w/ DJ Sister Midnight
Monday, October 2 // Doors at 7 PM // Show starts at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15 Tour Supporter Ticket The Montana Goth Ball and the ZACC present Los Angeles darkwave/post-punk band HALLOWS Monday, October 2! Start the spookiest month off right and dance the night away to synthy sounds – also featuring local DJ Sister Midnight. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
The Waiting / Celebrating the Music of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Saturday, September 23 // Door at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $15 Advance // $20 Day of Show // 21+ The Waiting is one of America’s most electrifying roadhouse rock-and roll bands. And, as the name might suggest, their specialty is celebrating the music of Tom Petty, including songs from the Heartbreakers repertoire, Petty’s solo work, and songs from the supergroup The Traveling Wilburys. Since 2013, the band has thrilled diehard Petty fans and new converts alike throughout the American West. Whether they’re playing one of Tom Petty’s 38 songs to hit Billboard’s Rock Chart, a treasured deep cut, or a song from his work under the moniker, “Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr.” As one reviewer put it, “The Waiting plays the music that everybody knows and everybody loves with a fiery energy that electrifies crowds with their outstanding musicianship and a single-minded devotion to showing every person in the crowd a damn good time.” “For example, if we’re performing, ‘Breakdown,’ we might enter into a session where we create space to pass solos around to different performers in the band,” says bassist Doc Wiley. “But after the solos that always seem to get the audience into high-energy dancing, we go back into the chorus; we’ll bring you back to the material.” Wiley traces the origins of The Waiting to a Manhattan apartment across the street from famed punk/new wave club CBGB. “I got an opportunity to hang out with Will Lee (bassist for the band on the Late Show with David Letterman) in late ’90s. Will had recently started to assemble some of New York’s top studio musicians to form a Beatles cover band,” Wiley says. “His concept was not to create a tribute band. Rather, he wanted world-class musicians to approach music they love in a unique way.” Talking with Lee that day, led Wiley to epiphany: He knew that someday he would take the same approach to form a Tom Petty cover band that eventually would bear the name of Petty’s first song to reach No. 1 on Billboard’s Rock Chart: The Waiting. Wiley moved to Bozeman, Montana, in 2009. He had been working most recently with David Lee Roth for several years in Miami, Florida. “David is one of the best rock showmen of all time,” Wiley says. “His philosophy was to create a cool sandbox and invite people into it. I lifted that from him when forming The Waiting. We create moments from the stage and our audience gravitates into it. We have a great energy, and that’s contagious.” But Wiley can’t take sole credit for that energy. He and his bandmates are partners in The Waiting’s sandbox. The band on the whole is the sizzling hot secret sauce that reliably sells out shows wherever they appear. www.thewaitingmontana.com For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Strange Ranger w/ Bluest (solo) & s_nya
Sunday, September 17 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter Ticket In one of the few recorded interviews with the elusive Burial, the producer admitted to spending much of his time walking city streets alone, sometimes in pursuit of an obvious objective, other times because he had nothing else to do. “Being on your own listening to headphones is not a million miles away from being in a club surrounded by people,” he said. “Sometimes you get that feeling like a ghost touched your heart, like someone walks with you.” It’s a disarmingly earnest sentiment, one that has stuck with Strange Ranger’s Isaac Eiger since he first read it years ago, when the band was just getting started playing house show circuits in and around the mountain West. We are taught to believe that life is made up of a series of arrivals, but it is in the liminal spaces where we most often experience the sublime. Strange Ranger’s transcendent fourth album, Pure Music, was made to be heard in private moments between where you’ve been and where you’re going. Though that Burial quote resonates, these songs have a pulse so strong they’re practically breathing; not touching your heart, but gripping it. Recorded at a cabin in upstate New York as a blizzard raged outside, Pure Music elucidates the promise of No Light in Heaven, a mixtape that hinted the band was cocooned in a state of near total transformation. Pure Music emerged from the same sessions, and while No Light in Heaven resembles, in places, bygone iterations of Strange Ranger’s sound, Pure Music is easily their most exciting and ambitious work to date because it was made with so little concern for what anyone might expect of them, as if they were a band without history. It’s an album that feels out of this time, one that lives in a dimension running parallel to ours. Bluest is orchestrated by the diary-scrawled lyrical hauntings of Noelle Huser, paying homage to 90s/00s angst pop and country influences, sifting through dreams and nightmares, emboldened with a hunger to return from dissociation back into the body. Huser finds her head in the clouds, heart on her sleeve and feet on the ground running into the unknown in her debut album Cold Sweat released in spring of 2023 through Anything Bagel. Drummer, producer, and DJ, Cole Bronson (s_nya) has been one of Missoula’s more prolific musical artists in the last few years. Creating under the moniker ‘s_nya’ (sunya) Bronson’s catalog of eclectic, afro-centric, sample-based recordings ranges from hip-hop, to free-jazz, to ambient, and all things in between. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Enterprise Earth w/ Crown Magnetar & Walking Corpse Syndrome
Monday, October 16 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 8 PM // $20 Advance // $25 Day of Show Enterprise Earth is a deathcore band from Spokane Washington, USA. Founded by former members Dan Watson (ex-Infant Annihilator) and BJ Sampson (ex-Takeover) and currently signed to MNRK Heavy, the band name was Watson’s idea, which was inspired by his research into Illuminati and conspiracy theories. In 2017, Gabe Mangold (Delusions of Grandeur / The Harvest Colour) joined, and would eventually take over all guitar duties following BJ Sampson’s departure in 2019. On June 19, 2020, the band surprise-released the Foundation of Bones EP. On September 10, 2021, the band announced their fourth album, The Chosen, would be due in January 2022, and also released its lead single “Where Dreams Are Broken”. Shortly after, it was announced that frontman Dan Watson would be sitting out of the band’s upcoming tours and would be replaced with live vocalist Travis Worland of The Willow and Aethere . On April 12, 2022, Watson announced he had departed the band and on June 2 2022, touring vocalist Travis Worland was announced as the band’s new permanent vocalist. Video / Enterprise Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeekED8EAV4 Crown Magnetar is a 4-piece technical deathcore band based in Colorado, USA. Forming in 2017, Crown independently released their debut EP and album, The Prophet of Disgust (2018) and The Codex of Flesh (2020) before signing with Unique Leader Records in 2021. Alone in Death (2021), their third display of technical aggression was released upon signing with ULR. Video / Crown Magnetar: https://youtu.be/Gvqk1XWTVtM Walking Corpse Syndrome is a five-piece progressive deathcore band from Missoula, Montana in 2006. Known for having two drummers and an intense live show with huge sound, Walking Corpse Syndrome is Leif Winterrowd (vocals), Matthew Bile (guitar), Tana Starkey (guitar), Nocktis (drums), and Mr. Grimm (drums). Video / Walking Corpse Syndrome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZONXqmAqVs For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
