It’s Make it Missoula Monday. Each week, Trail 103.3 DJ, Craig Johnson shares his picks of the week for Missoula happenings. You can hear him discuss them on-air each Monday at 9:00 am. Here’s what’s happening this week:
Monday 6/22
Big Sky Film Series: The DAMNED Documentary (ROCK), at the Top Hat Lounge
8PM
All Ages
Description: The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Presents: The Big Sky Film Series screening of THE DAMNED: DON’T YOU WISH THAT WE WERE DEAD.
From “Lemmy” filmmaker Wes Orshoski comes the story of the long-ignored pioneers of punk: The Damned, the first U.K. punks on wax and the first to cross the Atlantic. “THE DAMNED: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead” includes appearances from Chrissie Hynde, Mick Jones (The Clash), Lemmy and members of Pink Floyd, Black Flag, GNR, the Sex Pistols, Blondie, Buzzcocks, and more. Shot around the globe over three years, the film charts the band’s complex history and infighting, as it celebrated its 35th anniversary and found its estranged former members striking out on their own anniversary tour, while still others battle cancer.
All Ages
134 W Front St.
The Craicers play Irish Traditional Music 6/23; 6PM at Imagine Nation Brewery
Tuesday 6/23
The Craicers: Irish Traditional Music (ACOUSTIC) at Imagine Nation Brewery
6PM
All Ages
1151 W Broadway
Jacco Gardner Calvin Love Juan Wauters (ROCK) at Stage 112
9PM
18+
Tickets: $6 Adv; $8 DOS
112 N Pattee St.
Wednesday 6/24
The Ed Norton Big Band (JAZZ) at Caras Park
11 AM
FREE
All Ages
Downtown Missoula
The Ed Norton Big Band Plays Out to Lunch on 6/24 at Caras Park – 11 am
Missoula City Band Summer Concert Series (MISC) at the Bonner Park Band Shell
8PM
All Ages
University area, at the corner of Ronald & Hastings St.
Pierre & Wanderer (MPLS) with Buddy Jackson (ROCK/EDUCATION) at Zootown Arts Community Center
8PM-11PM
Description: Two bands from the Twin Cities (how apropos!) stop off at ZACC Below for a demonstration in their weirding ways of western medicine.
All Ages
Tickets: $5 at the door
235 North 1st St.
Jazz Night: Kimberle Carlson (JAZZ) at the Top Hat Lounge
7PM
All Ages
134 W Front St.
Heathers (LA) Rooster Sauce is Okay Paris Mingus (ROCK) at Stage 112
9PM
Tickets: Doors at 8PM // Show at 9PM
Tickets: $5
18+
1122 N Pattee St.
Thursday 6/25
Mary Place and Blue Moon (BLUES) at the Union Club
5:30PM
All Ages
208 E. Main St.
Nate Hegyi and Friends of Wartime Blues (FOLK) at Draught Works Brewery
6PM
All Ages
915 Toole Ave.
Vessels Castaway Arctodus (ROCK) at The Real Lounge
8PM (Doors) Show at 9PM
18+
Tickets: $5
112 N Pattee St.
Wartime Blues & Anna Tivel (ROCK) at the Top Hat Lounge
9:30PM
Description: Wartime Blues is an experimental americana outfit based in the small, mountainous town of Missoula, Montana. Their sound has been compared to “Nebraska”-era Bruce Springsteen, Wilco and the more acoustic aspects of Yo La Tengo. Anna Tivel is folk-americana artist from Portland, OR.
FREE
21+
134 W Front St.
Local Yokel (BLUEGRASS) at the Top Hat Lounge
10PM
Description: Winner of the 2015 Zoo Music Awards, Local Yokel are just some easy goin’ folks from good ol Missoula Montana bringing you those bluegrass(ish) vibes that are good for the soul. Music starts at 10pm, Free Show, must be 21 or older.
21+
134 W Front St.
Friday 6/26
Traditional Irish Music (FOLK) at the Union Club
6PM
FREE
21+
208 E Main St.
The Marshall McLean Band (ROCK) at The Palace
9PM
Description: This four piece Spokane based band is merging elements of thoughtful songwriting in folk and the melodic picking, strumming, and shouting of Americana creating a genre unlike anything heard before – a kind of Northwest West Americana Rock. The Marshall McLean Band will be joined by Portlandian Jeffrey Martin and Missoula locals Black Mountain Moan.
21+
147 W Broadway
The John Adam Smith Band (ROCK) at the Top Hat Lounge
10PM
Description: This sturdy North American world roots trio is built on the original writings and acoustic compositions of multi-instrumentalist John Adam Smith. The John Adam Smith Band bears the strength of togetherness in their roots driven, world inspired, acoustic funk-rock innovations. From the percussive teachings of West Africa, to the steel driven tones of the lapsteel guitar, The J.A.S. Band combines the love of groove with a taste for edge in their genuine and effective live performance.
21+
134 W Front St.
