This year’s Concert for a Cause, an annual benefit festival featuring local and regional bands, raised a little more than $2,000 in ticket sales and donated bar proceeds, according to event organizer Eric Grider. Bands from Billings, Missoula, and Rapid City, S.D. came together to raise money for two local organizations, the Meadowlark House and Art Without Boundaries.
Seattle’s Minus the Bear kicks off a six-week headlining tour April 19, and makes a stop in Billings the following day.
At 54, folk musician and “hardcore troubadour” Steve Earle is just two years older than his mentor, teacher and 70s counterculture icon, Townes Van Zandt was when he died. To a sold-out audience in Sheridan, Wyo., on Saturday, Earle recalled tales of his past, conjuring up the image of Van Zandt through tales of their experiences, which began in the 1970s.
Spokane-based indie rock band Paper Mache launched its first tour of 2009 and is on the road drumming up excitement for…
Montana native Hana Pestle has been added to the Montana leg of Secondhand Serenade’s tour and will be opening…
Sera Cahoone headlined a reunion of sorts last night with hometown sensation Betsy Olson. The two women, who are…
The Magic City Blues music festival lineup for 2010 has been announced, featuring the husband and wife duo Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi as the headliners on Friday evening and the rock/reggae/funk fusion band Michael Franti & Spearhead capping the festival on Saturday.
