Wednesday 6 July Food, frozen lactose and fun converge downtown at Missoula’s Caras Park for Out to Lunch, which runs from 11 AM to 2 PM and features music this week by Cash for Junkers. Free. Visit missoula downtown.com. Thursday 7 July Those in Kalispell get down in
Montucky gets an artistic shout out when the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St., presents an opening reception for the exhibit Expressing Montana—featuring social, political and environmental commentary from artists like Drummond’s Bill Ohrmann—from 5 to 8 PM. The reception also includes a talk, plus music by Ray Jacobs and others. Free.
tunes from Secret Powers. Festivities begin at 5:30. Free. Visit missouladowntown.com. Hold onto your bloody ears, Missoula Osprey f a n s , because tonight kicks off a two-game series against the Helena Brewers at 7:05 nightly. Call 543-3300. Wear some headgear and prepare to rock during a night of metal and other heavy music styles with
Montana Folk Festival in Butte—a locally produced continuance of the National Folk Festival that occurred in the city for the past three years. The event features music, performances and demos from over 250 artists. Free. Visit montanafolkfestival.com for a complete schedule. Cowboy art, birdhouses and stuffed animals abound dur-
Fingers will fall from the sky when Slightly Stoopid’s Seedless Summer Tour takes a smoke break at Big Sky Brewery Thursday, July 21. Rebelution and Shwayze & Cisco Adler open. $32.50–$37. Tickets at ticketfly.com.
downtown during Thursday! Fest, which features food, a beer and wine garden, farmers’ market, arts and crafts, kids activities and music this week from Missoula’s favorite roots rockers Tom Catmull and The Clerics, from 5 to 8 PM on Third St. East, between Main St. and First Ave. E. Free. Visit downtownkalispell.com. 64
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C a l l 728 - 0 4 47 o r v i s i t missoulaartmuseum.org. You know you’ve been waiting all year for this night: It’s the Missoula Independent’s Best of Missoula party during Downtown ToNight at Caras Park. This year’s winners will be celebrated in an atmosphere full of food, drinks and Explorer 2011
Washing ton’s Burning Twilight, along with Idols, Boldly Stride the Damned and Lb!, at 9 PM at the Palace. Cost TBA. Friday 8 July
Bust out your folksiest dance moves in front of other folks for three days during the
ing the Artists and Craftsmen of the Flathead Summer Outdoor Show, which offers an array of locally produced arts and crafts to gawk at, and takes place each day through Sun., July 10, next to the courthouse in Kalispell. Call 881-4288.