Blue Dream + Erin Szalda-Petree + Wailing Aaron Jennings
Friday, April 21 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter Ticket Blue Dream is Ann Szalda-Petree and Clark Grant. The duo met through community radio and have been playing together since 2009. They have released two records: Blue Dream and Timeless Time. Their unique sound combines elements of dreamy pop and indie rock, using layers of acoustic delay and reverb to sculpt original songs about sleep, self-loathing, and the nature of friendship. Their music is surprising, powerful, at times funny, and emotional. Erin Szalda-Petree is a musician from Missoula, MT. Frequently, she can be seen playing around town in local bands, Bluest and ESP. Her songs are a collection of moments from her personal life, exploring themes of embarrassment, confliction, and familial relationships. A third-generation Montanan who had the good luck or bad timing to be born in Texas, Wailing Aaron Jennings is a singer and songwriter living in Missoula. Inspired by a book of songs and poetry written by his great-grandfather, a singing cowboy in the 1920’s, and the words “Yodel Here”, this young punk unplugged his guitar and started hooting and hollering in the mountains, valleys, and tunnels. Jennings’s songs champion the traditions of Honky Tonk and Western Swing while giving a knowing wink and a nod to the modern world. Every song is a story whether it’s a rambling waltzing exposition, a dance tune punctuated with acrobatic yodels, or a rockin boogie woogie – the ghosts of the past are jumping, shouting and dancing right along with Wailing Aaron Jennings (and YOU!). For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
420! w/ R’Know + Catnyp + Crooked Looks + The Pettifoggers
Thursday, April 20 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter Ticket R’Know has been writing and performing hip hop music since 2010. Taking inspiration from artists such as J. Cole, Tech N9ne, Eminem, and many more, he prides himself on making songs packed with clever wordplay, diverse flows, and catchy hooks. Catnyp has drawn recent comparison to Pixies, Daniel Ash, David Bowie, and even Led Zeppelin — largely based on the fearless vocal experimentation frontman Henderson K Shatner (HKS) employs on Catnyp IIII, channeling his favorite vocalists for different tracks. Melodic, agile bass parts invoke Beatles-era McCartney while surf guitar and clean overdriven tones provide a nod to California punk and Britpop. Formed by lead vocalist/lead guitarist Sage Collette, Crooked Looks is a hard stoner-rock band that rides the wave of fierce, fuzzy sounds made popular by Queens of the Stone Age and fellow Pacific Northwest band Soundgarden. Light melodies and firm riffs paired with lyrics that emanate a youthful but ever-knowing and ever-partying spirit stream from this group’s musical subconscious, and in a short span of time Crooked Looks has proven themselves worthy of a spot on the charts. The Pettifoggers are sticking it to the man. Part folk, part punk, with a dash of grunge, this super-group of poets and farmers puts the SEX in sextet. Led by singer-songwriter Daniela Garvue, Foggies tunes are impassioned examinations of the heart, the Earth, and cannabis. Although they’ve taken their sweet time in releasing their highly-anticipated debut album, “Small Claims” (to be released this Spring), this band is not slowing down. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Jazzoula Spring 2023
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, & Saturday // April 26, 27, 28, & 29 // Doors at 5:30 // Show at 6:30 PM // $20 // $17 Students & Seniors (50+) It’s Jazzoula Spring ‘23! Celebrating 21 years of Jazz in the Missoula community – presenting 20 plus jazz combos, big bands, vocalists, and multi-instrumentalists over four days, April 26, 27, 28, and 29. Providing a complete variety of the only original form of American music: jazz. Jazzoula gives the listener a chance to experience Missoula’s eclectic jazz performers showcasing their individual talents with their groups, and as soloists. With combo jazz, trios, big band, vocalists, student groups, and various musical incarnations. Acts include All City Jazz, Margi Cates, Salsa Loca, Joan Zen Quintet, Night Blooming Jasmine, Finn Carroll Trio, Basement Boyz, Ryan Belski Quartet, Missoula Jazz Collective, Patti Nolan and the Undeniables, Skyler Mendell Sextet, Chuck Florence Birthday Bash – Featuring Chuck Florence and His Motor City Five, Owen Ross Trio, An Absent Wilson Conspiracy, U of M Boyd Combo, Melody Anderson Vocal Trio, Loren Stillman, Kyle Curtis Trio, and SG Modern Jazz Project. Enjoy short sets and a fantastic variety of awesome jazz music. See you there. Wednesday, April 26 Line-up:All City JazzMargi CatesSalsa LocaJoan Zen QuintetConnor Racicot Trio Thursday, April 27 Line-up:Night Blooming JasmineFinn Carroll TrioBasement BoyzRyan Belski QuartetMissoula Jazz Collective Friday, April 28 Line-up:Patti Nolan and the UndeniablesSkyler Mendell SextetChuck Florence Birthday Bash – Featuring Chuck Florence and His Motor City FiveOwen Ross TrioAn Absent Wilson Conspiracy Saturday, April 29 Line-up:U of M Boyd ComboMelody Anderson Vocal TrioLoren StillmanKyle Curtis TrioSG Modern Jazz Project For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Jazzoula Spring 2023
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, & Saturday // April 26, 27, 28, & 29 // Doors at 5:30 // Show at 6:30 PM // $20 // $17 Students & Seniors (50+) It’s Jazzoula Spring ‘23! Celebrating 21 years of Jazz in the Missoula community – presenting 20 plus jazz combos, big bands, vocalists, and multi-instrumentalists over four days, April 26, 27, 28, and 29. Providing a complete variety of the only original form of American music: jazz. Jazzoula gives the listener a chance to experience Missoula’s eclectic jazz performers showcasing their individual talents with their groups, and as soloists. With combo jazz, trios, big band, vocalists, student groups, and various musical incarnations. Acts include All City Jazz, Margi Cates, Salsa Loca, Joan Zen Quintet, Night Blooming Jasmine, Finn Carroll Trio, Basement Boyz, Ryan Belski Quartet, Missoula Jazz Collective, Patti Nolan and the Undeniables, Skyler Mendell Sextet, Chuck Florence Birthday Bash – Featuring Chuck Florence and His Motor City Five, Owen Ross Trio, An Absent Wilson Conspiracy, U of M Boyd Combo, Melody Anderson Vocal Trio, Loren Stillman, Kyle Curtis Trio, and SG Modern Jazz Project. Enjoy short sets and a fantastic variety of awesome jazz music. See you there. Wednesday, April 26 Line-up:All City JazzMargi CatesSalsa LocaJoan Zen QuintetConnor Racicot Trio Thursday, April 27 Line-up:Night Blooming JasmineFinn Carroll TrioBasement BoyzRyan Belski QuartetMissoula Jazz Collective Friday, April 28 Line-up:Patti Nolan and the UndeniablesSkyler Mendell SextetChuck Florence Birthday Bash – Featuring Chuck Florence and His Motor City FiveOwen Ross TrioAn Absent Wilson Conspiracy Saturday, April 29 Line-up:U of M Boyd ComboMelody Anderson Vocal TrioLoren StillmanKyle Curtis TrioSG Modern Jazz Project For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Jazzoula Spring 2023
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, & Saturday // April 26, 27, 28, & 29 // Doors at 5:30 // Show at 6:30 PM // $20 // $17 Students & Seniors (50+) It’s Jazzoula Spring ‘23! Celebrating 21 years of Jazz in the Missoula community – presenting 20 plus jazz combos, big bands, vocalists, and multi-instrumentalists over four days, April 26, 27, 28, and 29. Providing a complete variety of the only original form of American music: jazz. Jazzoula gives the listener a chance to experience Missoula’s eclectic jazz performers showcasing their individual talents with their groups, and as soloists. With combo jazz, trios, big band, vocalists, student groups, and various musical incarnations. Acts include All City Jazz, Margi Cates, Salsa Loca, Joan Zen Quintet, Night Blooming Jasmine, Finn Carroll Trio, Basement Boyz, Ryan Belski Quartet, Missoula Jazz Collective, Patti Nolan and the Undeniables, Skyler Mendell Sextet, Chuck Florence Birthday Bash – Featuring Chuck Florence and His Motor City Five, Owen Ross Trio, An Absent Wilson Conspiracy, U of M Boyd Combo, Melody Anderson Vocal Trio, Loren Stillman, Kyle Curtis Trio, and SG Modern Jazz Project. Enjoy short sets and a fantastic variety of awesome jazz music. See you there. Wednesday, April 26 Line-up:All City JazzMargi CatesSalsa LocaJoan Zen QuintetConnor Racicot Trio Thursday, April 27 Line-up:Night Blooming JasmineFinn Carroll TrioBasement BoyzRyan Belski QuartetMissoula Jazz Collective Friday, April 28 Line-up:Patti Nolan and the UndeniablesSkyler Mendell SextetChuck Florence Birthday Bash – Featuring Chuck Florence and His Motor City FiveOwen Ross TrioAn Absent Wilson Conspiracy Saturday, April 29 Line-up:U of M Boyd ComboMelody Anderson Vocal TrioLoren StillmanKyle Curtis TrioSG Modern Jazz Project For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Jazzoula Spring 2023
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, & Saturday // April 26, 27, 28, & 29 // Doors at 5:30 // Show at 6:30 PM // $20 // $17 Students & Seniors (50+) It’s Jazzoula Spring ‘23! Celebrating 21 years of Jazz in the Missoula community – presenting 20 plus jazz combos, big bands, vocalists, and multi-instrumentalists over four days, April 26, 27, 28, and 29. Providing a complete variety of the only original form of American music: jazz. Jazzoula gives the listener a chance to experience Missoula’s eclectic jazz performers showcasing their individual talents with their groups, and as soloists. With combo jazz, trios, big band, vocalists, student groups, and various musical incarnations. Acts include All City Jazz, Margi Cates, Salsa Loca, Joan Zen Quintet, Night Blooming Jasmine, Finn Carroll Trio, Basement Boyz, Ryan Belski Quartet, Missoula Jazz Collective, Patti Nolan and the Undeniables, Skyler Mendell Sextet, Chuck Florence Birthday Bash – Featuring Chuck Florence and His Motor City Five, Owen Ross Trio, An Absent Wilson Conspiracy, U of M Boyd Combo, Melody Anderson Vocal Trio, Loren Stillman, Kyle Curtis Trio, and SG Modern Jazz Project. Enjoy short sets and a fantastic variety of awesome jazz music. See you there. Wednesday, April 26 Line-up:All City JazzMargi CatesSalsa LocaJoan Zen QuintetConnor Racicot Trio Thursday, April 27 Line-up:Night Blooming JasmineFinn Carroll TrioBasement BoyzRyan Belski QuartetMissoula Jazz Collective Friday, April 28 Line-up:Patti Nolan and the UndeniablesSkyler Mendell SextetChuck Florence Birthday Bash – Featuring Chuck Florence and His Motor City FiveOwen Ross TrioAn Absent Wilson Conspiracy Saturday, April 29 Line-up:U of M Boyd ComboMelody Anderson Vocal TrioLoren StillmanKyle Curtis TrioSG Modern Jazz Project For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Austin Britton + Gabrielle Tusberg + Renee Ross
Wednesday, April 5 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter Ticket Austin Britton is all about writing a good song. He has opened for the likes of Mason Jennings, Simon Joyner, and Jake Bellows. He resides in Missoula and keeps writing songs with mystical lyricism and searching melodies. Gabrielle Tusberg is a singer songwriter from Portland, OR. Her inspiration comes from female songwriters like Lucinda Williams, Fiona Apple, and Sara Jarosz. Gabrielle’s songs tell a story about her life experiences, relationships, love lost, love gained, and a changed perspective – all with wit, sadness, and charm. Her songs will make you cry and laugh with her deepest thoughts and unleashed secrets. Renee Ross has been a lover of all things “pizzaz” from a young age. Her passion for the performing arts originated at the piano, and scribbling in her first of many songbooks at age 5. She went on to receive a BFA in Musical Theater, and has since enjoyed dancing on the Wilma Stage as Janet in Rocky Horror Picture Show 2022, and AM Theatrical’s Next to Normal as Natalie Goodman. She has been fortunate enough to bring queer representation with Pips in Hearth: A Yuletide Tale with the Montana Repertory Theater and most recently as Lulu in Stumptown Stage’s Cabaret in Portland, Oregon. She is so excited to be back performing at the ZACC to sing original music that is honest, deeply personal, and not usually shared. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Gilda House w/ Queenager & Jesse The Ocelot
Thursday, May 11 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $15 The Montana-based electronic duo, Gilda House, is out to snare your soul with their new single “Give Me Some”, a synthpop smasher that leans toward the shadow inside. The group is comprised of Tony Morales – guitar/keys/backing vocals/production, and the relentless engine of this machine, Meg Gildehaus – lead vocals/bass synth/writing/ engineering and production. Increasingly known for their energetic live show, Gilda House has been performing across their home state; not an easy task in the expanse of Montana. Playing the mainstage for Missoula’s State Pride Festival and opening for Milky Chance are a taste of the shows they are beginning to stack up, yet no matter the city, Gilda House is notorious. Their shows invite the audience in to be part of the mood, a part of the show. Feel the synths. Feel the bass. Forget where you are. Disappear. Queenager is the combination of glitchy, punchy synth tones mixed with vocoded lyrical beauty that pierces listeners straight to the heart. The project was started in January 2020, and through the pandemic the duo Sarah Frazier and Bryan Kostors hunkered down together on a sexy synth wave mission. With the release of their debut album “Easy” in June 2021, Queenager is on the path to leading crowds to dancing bliss and leading the charge on making Montana a place for letting loose Jesse The Ocelot is a multi-instrumentalist artist from the mountains of Bigfork, Montana. Now a veteran of the Missoula music scene, he plays a variety of genres and incorporates a healthy mix of originals and covers lead by his powerful vocals. He uses guitar, keys, percussion and vocal loops to create atmospheric landscapes that are heavily based on improvisation. Dreamy sounds of reverby, ethereal vocal harmonies and warm guitar melodies combined with jazzy, soulful style. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Big Sky Django Jazz Festival
Featuring Cottonwood Club, Montana Manouche, & Night Blooming JasmineApril 7 at Free Cycles // April 8 at The Show Room at the ZACCDoors at 6:30 PM // Music & Dancing from 7 to 10 PM // $15 Tickets at ZACC available online & at the door // Tickets at Free Cycles available at door only For more information visit: bigskydjangojazz.com The third ever Big Sky Django Jazz Festival will take place on April 7 and 8, 2023, in Missoula, Montana! Started in 2017 by the Rimrock Hot Club of Billings, the BSDJ Festival is Montana’s only music festival dedicated to celebrating the sublime music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapellie’s Quintet of the Hot Club of France. Strings and accordions take the place of horns and drums in this infectious European interpretation of American jazz. This year the festival brings together 15 musicians from across Montana including: Cottonwood Club of Helena, Montana Manouche of Bozeman, and Night Blooming Jasmine of Missoula. Dress your best for two unforgettable nights of swing, and don’t forget your dancing shoes! For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Mudhoney
w/ Special Guest HooveriiiSaturday, October 14 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 8 PM // $25 Advance // $30 DOS The world is filling up with trash. Humanity remains addicted to pollution despite the planet getting hotter by the minute. People are downing horse dewormer because some goober on television told them it cured COVID. Tom Herman of pioneering avant garage band Pere Ubu still doesn’t have his own Wikipedia article. The apocalypse, it seems, is stupider than anyone could’ve predicted. Fortunately, the absurdities of modern life have always been prime subject matter for Seattle-based band Mudhoney. The foursome take aim at all of them with barbed humor and muck-encrusted riffs on Plastic Eternity, their 11th studio album. Mudhoney (vocalist Mark Arm, guitarist Steve Turner, bassist Guy Maddison, and drummer Dan Peters) remain the ur underground group, their gnarly primordial punk stew and Arm’s sharply funny lyrics as potent a combination as they’ve been since the band’s formation in the late 1980s. From taking on climate change from the perspective of the climate if the climate tried to play guitar like Jimi Hendrix (“Cry Me An Atmospheric River”) to a driving rock and roll song about taking drugs meant for livestock (“Here Comes the Flood”) to a classic punk attack on treating humans like livestock (“Human Stock Capital”), Plastic Eternity is a heady run through all the proto-genres of guitar rock with a keen eye on the inanities of the world in the 2020’s. Photo Credit: Emily Rieman Official Mudhoney Website:https://mudhoney.org Official Mudhoney FB page:https://www.facebook.com/MudhoneyOfficial/ Official Mudhoney Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/mudhoney_/ Official Mudhoney Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/artist/7LuYiSXiWs86rwWJjEEgB9 Official Mudhoney Bandcamp:https://mudhoney.bandcamp.com
