JAZZOULA FALL ’22
The ZACC & Rockin’ Rudy’s Present JAZZOULA FALL ’22 Thursday, Friday, & Saturday // November 10, 11, 12 // Doors at 5:30 // Show at 6:30 PM // $20 // $17 Students & Seniors (50+) Thursday’s Line-up:Night Blooming JasmineMilan House TrioJeff Troxel & FriendsSG Modern Jazz ProjectU of M Boyd Combo Jazzoula Fall ’22! Celebrating 20 years of Jazz in the Missoula community – presenting 20 plus jazz combos, big bands, vocalists, and multi-instrumentalists over three days, November 10, 11, and 12. 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 Melody Anderson Vocal Trio, Milan House Trio, Ryan Belski Quartet, Jim Driscoll/Chuck Florence Quartet, U of M Boyd Combo, Canta Brasil, Basement Boys, MJ Williams with Ann Tappan, Skyler Mendel Sextet, Naomi Siegel Quartet, Conor Racicot Trio, Night Blooming Jasmine, Bob Packwood & Tommy Sciple, Katie and the Dewdroppers, and Airmail Special. Enjoy short sets and a fantastic variety of awesome jazz music. See you there. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
King Ropes + Red Onion Purple + 1finite Now
Wednesday, November 30 // Door at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $10 // $15 Tour Supporter Ticket King Ropes are a psychedelic americana band. Or maybe it’s indie desert rock? Whatever you call it, the band’s latest album, Super Natural, leans into their distinctive ability to combine mystical and banal imagery. The single ‘Greedy’, with its deadpan stream-of-consciousness, captures the vibe of an album that is a ramshackle ode to both the grace and difficulty of living in our strange world. As the lyrics to the song say; “Kinda trippy. Kinda dreamy.” Red Onion Purple is an eclectic musical outfit based in Missoula, MT. The group has a rotating cast, with core members Bethany Joyce on cello, Sean Burress on guitar, Cole Grant on bass, and Joshua Chai on drums. From one concert to the next, Red Onion Purple can be heard playing 1930’s jazz standards, creative reworkings of modern covers, and haunting original material. They are accessible yet hard to pin down; at times upbeat and danceable, then mysterious and ambient. 1nfinite Now is music and creative content composed, produced, and performed by LeRoy Menahan and various artists. This will be their live debut on a ZACC bill! For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Hermina Jean + Joseph Running Crane
Friday, November 18 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15 Tour Supporter Blackfeet country does nothing in small measure. Whether it’s the broad, sweeping prairie, the infinite horizons or the monolithic reach of the mountains, Amskapii Piikuni traditional territory refuses to understate itself. So too is the case with Joseph Running Crane’s songwriting. After having spent his formative musical years in second-or-third-hand vans traveling the country playing deafening punk, metal and hardcore, Joseph Running Crane brings similarly confrontational lyrical ideas into his solo work. With a lucid belief in letting the stories tell themselves, Running Crane leaves his songs mostly unadorned, and this austere approach seeks to highlight the interplay between his exhaustively constructed lyrics and the complex and sometimes harsh stories they convey. Imbued with a unique humor and levity, Running Crane’s live show rarely fails to elicit laughter, contemplation, and the dancing spirit, oftentimes from one song to the next. Hermina Jean grew up in Montana and was raised on a diet of Neil Young and The Breeders. She writes songs about failure, dreams, and confusion. She is currently working on a new album with her band Junior, and trying to write songs that make her feel good. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Miss Massive Snowflake + Worm Womb + False Teeth
Sunday, November 20 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15 Tour Supporter Ticket Shane De Leon started Miss Massive Snowflake in 2004 as a solo project. The band plays genre-layering narrative songwriting, indie glam art rock, and stoner noise Americana. De Leon fingerpicks breezy melodies that turn into tumultuous feedback. His words revel in the realness of everyday life. The angst, the small joys, the want. Conner Haman (Hey, ILY) and Isaiah Demontiney will be the rhythm section on this short run of Montana shows. Miss Massive Snowflake has performed over 800 shows in 10 countries and nearly all states, released 6 albums, multiple eps and singles. Kelsey Star is the front woman of Worm Womb. She grew up in Montana playing rock music with friends and participating in live theatre. She loves performing live, and believes music is medicine for the soul. Kelsey is currently learning music engineering and just released her first (partially self produced) album out of Pyrymyd Music Studios, with the help of another musician and mixing extraordinaire, Angel of Discord. Stream Worm Womb’s album Desert Honey on Spotify NOW and find out more about Kelsey on Instagram @kelseystarart – many thanks, many blessings! Since 2010 False Teeth has been the pseudonym of audio collage, beats, visual projection, and performance art creative Nora Justice. Exploring themes of nature, death, surrealism, jazz, history, and pop ephemera, False Teeth as a project grows in scope with each release. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Shady Cove + Junior + Izaak Opatz
Sunday, October 30 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15 Tour Supporter Ticket Four hours south of Portland, Oregon, the Rogue River flows right through the center of a small municipality called Shady Cove. This is where songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Sarah Rose and Sarah Nienaber, formerly of Candace, recorded the track that would become the name of their new project; this is where, in an unassuming cabin, the two seasoned collaborators began exploring desire’s revolutionary potential and the nomadic impulses borne of creative restlessness and the claustrophobia of city life. “We were not writing these songs with the idea of a band in mind,” says Sarah Rose, describing how the album came together. “It felt like these songs wanted to belong to something new, rather than the continuation of a previous project.” “We’re always searching for the right place, the good place, the landing place, the final resting place,” Nienaber reflects, implying that the only thing that will satisfy desire is more desire. “In these songs, I think there is a self-conscious acknowledgement that I, or you, or we, will never get there … Shady Cove is a celebration of that unshakeable longing, the forever search.” At the junction of sparse folk, pop, and cosmic country you’ll find Junior, helmed by three Missoula, MT-based songwriters. Listeners might have heard members of Junior play in groups including: Butter, Stellarondo, Burlesco, Broken Valley Roadshow, Shahs, Hermina Jean, The Cigarette Girls, Caroline Keys, Worst Feelings, Danny’s Dilemma, Travis Sehorn and the Pebble Light, The Best Westerns, and Patsy Grime. Each member of Junior packs a quiver of instrumental skills and is constantly acquiring more to add to the group. Junior has been compared to Sibylle Baier, Karen Dalton, and The Roches. Like many of his favorite songwriters (John Hartford, Lucinda Williams, Jeff Tweedy), Izaak Opatz is an ungulate in life’s winter pasture, chewing on and metabolizing disappointment, heartbreak, and the other tough stuff into enjoyable musical carbohydrates. A compulsive metaphorager (and inveterate wordplayboy), Opatz breaks it all down with enzymes of wry humor, thoughtful simile and close observation – a therapeutic process of narrativizing his own life that, almost as a byproduct, turns out savory nuggets of literate, confessional pop. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Hard Hugs + Goosetooth + Soft x Moth
Sunday, October 23 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15 Tour Supporter Ticket Hard Hugs is a synth-heavy, punk-rock-disco outfit from Helena, Montana. Drawing on their long history of songwriting and musicianship and wide variety of sonic influences, the band has created a sound that is at once focused, surprising, and original. With an aggressive groove and electronic textures, HH aims to create an experience that invites audiences to dance and shout along in communal catharsis. HH was recently featured on the Myrna Soundstage, the Myrna Loy Theater’s live music YouTube series, and are eager to perform live and in person around Montana and the Northwest. Goosetooth is a musical project created by Billings born and based debutant Ty Herman. The songs featured on the debut album ‘Goosetooth’ contain smooth and soothing chord progressions guided by a sweet, clean and shimmering electric guitar, accompanied with Herman’s raspy and confidently struggle filled voice wading through melancholy lyrical content. In the recording process of the first Goosetooth album, no performances were “over-dubbed”, in order to showcase the artist’s ability to loop and play over their own parts, transition in and out of songs seamlessly, and constantly maintain a melodic presence in a live setting. Soft x Moth is the solo music project of Sawyer Braig. A classically trained bassist and pianist, they have collated their past two decades of sonic exploration into their debut album and tour, Catch Me. This soundscape performance consists of electronic tonal percussion, acoustic strings, and melismatic vocals – all performed simultaneously by Sawyer. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Goth Ball
Friday, October 28 // Door at 8 PM // $10 The Montana Goth Ball is back! Release the bats Friday, October 28 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, fetish, punk, Victorian, latex, and lace (or if in doubt, wear black). Dress to DEPRESS! For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
MAITA w/ Maddie Alpert & ESP
Sunday, November 6 // Doors at 7 PM // Show at 8 // $12 Advance // $14 Day of ShowOpeners Maddie Alpert & ESP Hot off the heels off MAITA’s 2020 debut, Best Wishes, named one of the “50 Albums that Define Oregon” (Portland Monthly), MAITA’s sophomore LP, I Just Want To Be Wild For You, digs into the crippling oxymoron of modernity: the constant bombardment of communication paired with utter disconnection. Released February 18th via venerable indie label Kill Rock Stars, I Just Want To Be Wild For You grasps passionately for a world that too often seems at a gauzy distance. Of the new record, Bob Boilen (NPR music) says “She just has this sensitivity to her sound that I really really love.” KEXP calls MAITA, “a master storyteller who can turn intimate moments into quippy, catchy indie-rock songs. Splitting time between her mom’s Japanese-speaking home and her father’s English-speaking home, songwriter Maria Maita-Keppeler found an expressive avenue out of her childhood shyness through music. The Portland-based songwriter tapped into that grand yet intimate reverence for MAITA’s sophomore album, from the churning twinkle of “Pastel Concrete” to the riotous give-and-take of “Honey, Have I Lost It All?”. In those moments of disconnect, of confusion, of isolation, I Just Want To Be Wild For You thunders ahead, forging unexpected connections along the way. Named Portland’s “Best New Band by the Willamette Week,” MAITA, has gone on to reach national acclaim, opening for the likes of Mirah, Blind Pilot, Horse Feathers, Typhoon, as well as completing a headlining national album release tour culminating in official showcases at Treefort and SXSW, where they were named one of the 101 Essential Acts (Austin Chronicle). “A clear-eyed look at growing up and holding yourself responsible for actively creating the life you want to live instead of just waiting around for it to happen.” — Cyrena Touros, NPR’s All Songs Considered “I Just Want To Be Wild For You is emotional gold.” — BUST “One of the most impressive and shining acts to come out of Portland in quite some time.” — Portland Mercury “The rarified class of artists with the ability to enthrall the listener right from the jump.” — Spin For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Divide: The Montana Jazz Project
Saturday, October 8 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $12 General Admission // $10 Students & Seniors Supported by the National Endowment of the Arts and the Montana Arts Council, ‘Divide: The Montana Jazz Project’ brings world class jazz to cities and towns throughout Montana. The tour consists of Loren Stillman on saxophones, Bob Bowman on bass, and Mark Ferber on drums. Weaving together melody and improvisation, the three players are internationally-acclaimed musicians who combine jazz tradition with spontaneous arrangement. While jazz can take many forms, there is no substitute for live collaboration. Divide brings original music as live performance to Montanans across the state. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Deconsecration (Seattle) w/ Night Witch and Swamp Ritual
Tuesday, September 27 // Door at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $10 // $15 Tour Supporter Ticket A metal show for the truest fans. Deconsecration is death metal coming at you all the way from Seattle, whose line-up is composed of ex-members of Capitalist Casualties, Catheter, Wilt, and Hideous Creep. If you’re in the mood for death metal cut from particularly foul and disease-ridden cloth, ghastly in the extreme and gruesome in almost every way, then Deconsecration is just what the mad doctor ordered, to make the sick among you even more ill. Stoner-metal 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/.
