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 10/19
Blues Monday (BLUES/R & B) at the Bandlander
9PM
21+
208 Ryman St.
Tuesday 10/20
Irish Traditional Music with the Craicers (FOLK) at Imagine Nation Brewing Co.
6PM
All Ages
1151 W Broadway
Wild Child Plays the Top Hat Lounge 10/20 @ 8PM
Wild Child (FOLK) at the Top Hat Lounge
8PM
All Ages
Description: Wild Child’s third album Fools (out via Dualtone Records) is an ambitious collection of lush pop that takes sad stories and transforms them into an ebullient love letter to the power of music and the art of living with yourself. All tickets are general admission standing room only with limited bench seating available on a fist come first served basis. All ages are welcome.
Tickets: $12 Advance; $15 DOS
134 W Front St.
Turkuaz The Quick & Easy Boys Plays Stage 112 on 10/20 at 9PM
Turquaz The Quick & Easy Boys (ROCK/FUNK) at Stage 112
9PM
18+
Tickets: $8 or $5 w/ student ID
112 N Pattee St.
He Whose Ox is Gored (ROCK) at Zootown Arts Community Center
8PM
All Ages
235 N 1st St.
Wednesday 10/21
Joan Zen (JAZZ) at the Top Hat Lounge
7PM
All Ages
Tickets: $16 Advance; $20 DOS
134 W Front St.
Straight No Chaser: The New Old Fashioned Tour (MISC) at University of Montana – Dennison Theater
7:30PM
Tickets: $32.50 Advance; $38 DOS
Dennison Theater on UM Campus
Sidewalk Chalk Milky Way TBA (HIP HOP/JAM) at Stage 112
10PM
18+
112 N Pattee St.
Thursday 10/22
Caroline Keys and Jeff Turman (FOLK) at Draught Works Brewery
6PM
All Ages
915 Toole Ave.
Sweeney Todd (THEATRE) at MCT Center for the Performing Arts
7:30PM
Description: October’s darker days and cold weather will put you in the mood for SWEENEY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET at the Missoula Community Theatre. This Tony award-winning musical by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler kicks off the season with dark and macabre themes, yet howlingly-funny moments of laughter. Audiences will find themselves laughing hysterically one moment and gasping in surprise the next. Some people may decide to never eat a ‘meat pie’ again. (Sweeney Todd is recommended for mature audiences.) Tickets are $18-$25.
200 N Adams St.
Ted Ness & the Rusty Nails plays the Top Hat Lounge; 10/22 at 9:30 PM
Ted Ness & the Rusty Nails (BLUEGRASS) at the Top Hat Lounge
9:30PM
Description: Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails has been performing their own special blend of Montana-grass since 2011. Known for their fiery instrumentals and warm vocal harmonies, Ted Ness distills a sound as intoxicating and exhilarating as the great Rocky Mountains. Consisting of 4 folks, 40 fingers, and 22 strings, they have been firein’ up whiskey-soaked hootenannies and shindiggers all over the Pacific Northwest.
134 W Front St.
Crawford Bros. Band (COUNTRY) at the Sunrise Saloon
9PM
21+
1100 Block of Strand
Friday 10/23
A Chorus Line (THEATER) at the University of Montana
7:30PM
18+
Montana Theatre, PARTV Center
UM Jazz Bands Tribute to Woody Herman (JAZZ) at the University of Montana
7:30PM
All Ages
University of Montana
UM Recital Hall
Voodoo Horseshoes (ROCK/COUNTRY) at Stage 112
10PM
21+ (FREE); $3 18-20
112 N Pattee St.
