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Aber Day Kegger part of Summerfest in Polson

By MICK HOILEN for Corridor

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he frolic that was the annual Missoula Aber Day Kegger of the ‘80s probably never can be repeated — or even reborn — but a reunion on the banks of the Flathead River aims to be as close as possible.

Montana’s own Mission Mountain Wood Band will be joined by Sam Riddle (whose father, Steve, was one of the founders of the Mission Mountain Wood Band) and Andrea Harsell with Luna Roja at the Regatta Shoreline Amphitheater in Polson on Saturday, Aug. 12, from 3 to 9 p.m.

Gates open at noon.

Harsell, from western Montana will open the show. Mission Mountain Wood Band, who played more than 300 shows nationwide during the ‘70s but routinely returned to the rodeo grounds up Miller Creek and often stole the original Aber Day shows from higher profile but not guaranteed high-energy groups, will take the stage next. The band currently plays gigs around the state, both private and public. Sam Riddle, who played basketball for the University of Montana, regularly performs in Las Vegas.

The Riddles have never been on the same bill.

“I can’t wait. I am so excited,” said the younger Riddle, who spent summers in Polson and traditionally wowed the crowds during the slam dunk contest as part of the Three-on-Three

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Flathead Lake Brewing Co. will debut its Aber Day Ale, sold only on site.

The Aber Day Kegger is part of Summerfest on Flathead Lake, with an art show, car show and Friday night entertainment outside at the Red Lion Ridgewater.

This is a family-friendly event with vendors and souvenirs. Food and beverages will be available on site. Folding chairs, blankets and umbrellas are encouraged, but coolers and pets won’t be allowed on the grounds.

Tickets cost $35 in advance, $40 at the gate, and can be found at grizalum.com and at local shops across western Montana. Children 6 and younger get in free, while tickets for those between the ages of 7-12 are $15. Proceeds from the show will be distributed to local nonprofits by the Anderson Broadcasting Charitable Foundation. Free parking for both cars and RVs is available at the Polson Fairgrounds, with additional hotels and camping within minutes of the venue.

The Aber Day Kegger is co-sponsored by the UM Alumni Association and Missoula Liquid Assets LLC.

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t’s an end-of-summer rite of passage.

The fried and sticky-sweet food: Vikings. Lemondairy. Tater pigs.

The dust kicked up from buckin’ broncos. The mud splattering from the demolition derbies. The squeals of terror and pleasure elicited from kiddos who are tempting fate on rides.

It’s fair and rodeo season here in western Montana, and we’re here to give you the lowdown.

I’ve always loved the fair — where I grew up in Minnesota, the State Fair reigns supreme, but my heart belonged to the county fairs, one of which was in my hometown.

It’s pretty similar to the Western Montana Fair here at the Missoula County Fairgrounds, but instead of DockDogs we had pig racing.

It seems like Montana’s local fairs have plenty of their own flavor.

In Kalispell, the Northwest Montana Fair and Rodeo will celebrate its 115th year come mid-August, where it will boast old favorites like Indian relay racing as well as new hits, like a concert by country singer Dustin Lynch.

At the Sanders County Fair in Plains at the end of August, Fair Manager Chris Williams says the rodeo can’t be missed because the stock contractors “always bring their A-team.”

And we’re sure the Ravalli County Fair’s theme this year, “Country Pride, County Wide,” means there will be plenty for which to hoot and holler when we send out August and ring in September.

We couldn’t forget the other fairs and rodeos in our area either, so we’ve got notes

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inside on everything from Hamilton through up to Eureka. Find someplace that calls to you, and get in there for that dog days of summer action.

If the fair isn’t appealing to you, we’ve got more information on a few other things happening in and around Missoula for the next month or so.

Head north and you’ll find the Crown of the Continent Guitar Festival in Bigfork, or the Aber Day Kegger and Flathead Lake Blues Festival in Polson. Head into the Bitterroot Valley and you’ll find the Creamery Picnic in Stevensville and the Bitterroot Celtic Games & Gathering in Hamilton.

Have you been to a concert at Big Sky Brewing’s re-vamped Amphitheater yet? Or what about the KettleHouse’s 4,000-people venue? Writer Brian D’Ambrosio talks with artists The Decemberists (Big Sky) and Pat Benatar (KettleHouse) about their upcoming shows and what drives them to their music.

Missoula still has a few other downtown events up its sleeve this summer. The last Saturday in July will be a celebration of all things Celtic, with the annual festival again gracing Caras Park. During the last weekend in August, downtown Missoula will play host the annual River City Roots Festival, with art, music and food for people of all ages.

We hope you enjoyed our summer issues of Corridor. There’s so much going on in our area, it’s hard to cover it all. We’re taking a break for the rest of the year, but make sure to follow the Missoulian’s Entertainer section every Friday for the latest on what’s happening in and around western Montana.

And if you can, take in some of these end-of-summer rites of passage.

Ashley Klein, Editor

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Flathead Lake Blues Festival back for seventh year in a new venue Corridor Contributor

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ummer 2017 brings needed changes to the seventh annual Flathead Lake Blues Festival.

“After every show I am involved in, I do a report card to rate what went right and what needs attention for next year,” said Steve Pickel, event coordinator. “We have always had great shows from extremely talented musicians, but fell down on camping and parking.

“This year, I found the solution to be moving the show to the Polson Fairgrounds. ... Anderson Broadcasting is building a 40-by-60 foot stage on the Flathead River for the entire community to use and enjoy at the Polson Fairgrounds.”

Pickel said the idea came from a whim.

“Dennis Anderson came up with the name of the site as the Regatta Shoreline Amphitheater, then he came to me and said, ‘I got this wacky idea, let’s build a permanent stage out of antenna tower pieces.’ PFI and the county loved the idea, the city got involved and now we are having an old-fashioned barn raising with a community all pitching together to make something happen,” he said.

The weekend opens Friday at 4 p.m. with 10 local bands from Whitefish to Missoula. The bands include Andre Floyd and the Mood Iguana, Mike Murray Band, Halladay Quist, Ticket Sauce, Off in the Woods, Kenny James Miller Band, Big Daddy and the Blue Notes, Jameson and the Sordid Seeds, Mudslide Charley and Grand Jam. “It’s time we show the world the talent that lives in our western Montana communities,” Pickel said.

On Saturday gates open at 2 p.m. and Pickel said, “we do a ‘Ladies of the Blues’ bands,” which will include Andrea Harsell and the Luna Rosa, the Michell Taylor Band, Estelle and the Atomic Jive and Polly O’Keary and the Rythm Method.

Food and beverages will be available, and no food and beverage coolers will be allowed on the festival site (except small ones for baby formula and/or insulin and medicine); no outside alcohol will be permitted. Lawn chairs and umbrellas are permitted. Also, please leave your dogs at home, as they won’t be allowed into the venue.

Tickets cost $40 for both days at the gate or $25 for one day only. Tickets are on sale at flatheadlakebluesfestival.com.

Camping is available for $10 for one night or $15 for two nights. You may choose from Friday and Saturday, or both nights. Camping will be dry camping and will not have facilities.

“My plan is to have volunteers from the Anderson Broadcasting Independence Weekend Show at Sacajawea Park gain experience for the Aber Day show, then take those parking and camping skills to the (Flathead Lake Blues Festival) the following weekend of Aug. 18-19,” Pickel said.

Contact Heather Holms for sponsorship opportunity and go to Polson’s Sandpiper Gallery on Main Street, or the UPS Store in Polson for tickets. Call 406-616-2096 with questions.

“It’s going to be an exciting weekend of musical talent and with parking and camping; this is a recipe for success,” Pickel said.

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Bigfork festival shows community’s artistic side DONNA LAWSON and GRETCHEN GATES for Corridor

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igfork has a national reputation as one of the nation’s best towns for the arts. The 39th Bigfork Festival of the Arts, set for Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 5-6, proves the community knows how to celebrate its artistic side.

More than 160 booths will line Electric and Grand avenues where the art and craft booths will offer pottery, paintings, furniture, jewelry, woodworking, clothing, metal art and much more. Food vendors will have an array of mouth-watering treats, and live entertainment from local musicians will be scheduled through the weekend.

The Festival of the Arts was started by three downtown Bigfork business people and is run by the Bigfork Marketing Association. It has been handled by the Bigfork Area Chamber of Commerce for the past 16 years, plus many volunteers who help out.

One of the oldest art festivals in Montana, this juried event raises funds to support the advertising and marketing of Bigfork. Festival attendance is estimated to be more than 6,000 people.

Festival hours for both Saturday and Sunday are 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Because downtown will be closed to vehicle traffic, parking will be available at various locations throughout Bigfork, with a free shuttle service running continually during the festival. First come, first serve parking will be available at the Bethany Lutheran Church on Montana Highway 35 and at Potoczny Field just west of the stoplight that marks the intersection of Highway 35 and Holt Drive.

Known as one of the “100 Best Small Art Towns in America,” the “village” of Bigfork is situated on Bigfork Bay where the Swan River flows into Flathead Lake.

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2017 Crown Guitar Festival is big and bold in beautiful Bigfork

By MARTI EBBERT KURTH for Corridor

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t’s big, it’s bold and it’s in the eighth amazing year. The Crown Guitar Workshop and Festival will take over Bigfork from Aug. 27-Sept. 2.

It’s all about music, guitar and mentoring the next generation of musicians, and it’s held at a rustic luxury dude ranch situated along Flathead Lake in Northwest Montana, the Flathead Lake Lodge.

This year, five festival concerts will showcase nine artists in residence, along with the dozen master teachers who come together for an unparalleled week of teaching, collaborating and sharing a love of making music with a guitar. Each night new artists will perform, backed by a full rhythm section.

Headlining the opening night concert on Tuesday, Aug. 29, is Jerry Douglas, the foremost master of the Dobro resonator guitar. This world-renowned 14-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Country Music Award Musician of the Year is considered to be the finest Dobro player on the planet.

He regularly tours with Alison Krauss and Union Station, but his own band, The Earls of Leicester, won the 2015 Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album.

He’ll be joined on stage by Nashville’s lead session guitarist, Brent Mason, back for his second Crown Festival, himself a 14-time Country Music Award winner. Over his 30-year career, primarily working as a session guitarist, Mason’s playing can be heard on countless film/TV sound tracks and commercials. He can swing from country to rock to blues in a flash.

The eclectic David Lindley, a rock, blues and bluegrass wizard, will perform Wednesday, Aug. 30, with funk/folk singer-songwriter Emily Elbert. Lindley is known for his many years as the featured accompanist for Jackson Browne and for his later collaborations with Ry Cooder and many others.

A quintessential musical explorer, his ‘80s-era world music band El Rayo-X integrated blues, rock American roots and world music with reggae. Lindley skillfully brings an incredible array of stringed instruments into his performances, ranging from the Hawaiian Kona, Turkish saz, Middle Eastern oud and Irish bazouki to name just a few.

Emily Elbert first came to the Crown Workshop as a fellowship student in 2011. Since then, she has done world tours with Esperanza Spaulding and opened shows for Leon Russell, Victor Wooten, G. Love & Special Sauce, Richie Havens, Emily King, Robben Ford, Raul Midon, Kaki King, Nneka, Jorge Drexler, and Tuck & Patti, and has collaborated with artists ranging from Ben Taylor to Dweezil Zappa.

Opening the show will be Laura Jean Anderson, an emerging artist and a newly named fellowship student in the Workshop.

Mike Stern and Jason Vieaux take over the Crown Festival stage on Thursday, Aug. 31. As one of the most esteemed electric guitarists of his generation, Stern has distinguished himself over a four-decade career that has encompassed musical partnerships with Blood, Sweat & Tears, Miles Davis, Billy Cobham, Jaco Pastorius, the Brecker Brothers and Joe Henderson, as well as 16 recordings as a band leader, six of which were nominated for Grammys.

Gramophone magazine says Vieaux takes the classical guitar beyond classical and NPR describes him as, “perhaps the most precise and soulful classical guitarist of his generation.” His most recent solo album, Play, won a 2015 Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Solo, earning him kudos for his expressiveness and virtuosity.

Adding to the fun will be a cameo appearance by the incredible Canadian duo The Command Sisters, who will open the Thursday show.

Rising Stars and Master Mentors on Friday, Sept. 1, is bonus night; admission is free (with a donation appreciated). You will enjoy hours of music offered by both the Crown Workshop students, many of whom are professionals themselves, and their All Star teaching staff. A complete rhythm section and Jam Band will keep the acts movin’ and groovin’.

Sonny Landreth was named 2015 Bluesman of the Year by the Blues Foundation. The electric slide guitar master headlines the 4-Hours of Slide-a-licious Fun that begins at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept.

2. Landreth is a southwest Louisiana-based guitarist, songwriter and singer. His blues slide guitar playing sound is distinctive and exciting. His unorthodox style comes from the manner in which he simultaneously plays slide and makes fingering movements on the fretboard.

Also performing will be British guitarist and rockabilly legend, Albert Lee. Lee spent the mid-’60s as a top R&B guitarist, but moved on to country, pioneering the rock-a-billy style and later became a session player for such bands as the Everly Brothers and Eric Clapton. As a two-time Grammy winner, he is considered to be a ‘virtuoso’s virtuoso.’

Joining them will be Leni Stern, a jazz guitarist who was awarded Gibson Guitar’s Female Jazz Guitarist of the Year Award for five consecutive years, and her husband Mike Stern along with David Lindley, Brent Mason, Emily Elbert and a host of former AIR’s, faculty all stars with some surprise guests. As always, an amazing rhythm band will back up the performers each night.

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Missoula festival aims to be a celebration of Celtic culture

By LUCY TOMPKINS for Corridor

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n Saturday, July 29, Caras Park will host the seventh annual Celtic Festival Missoula — this year for the first year as a day-long celebration of Celtic culture with bagpipes, craft beer, pasties, Irish rock and Irish dance.

The festival first came about when Shannon and Bob Lukes, owners of Missoula Brewing Company, held an event to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Highlander Beer, their signature brew, in 2010. Because of the beer’s Scottish roots, the event became a celebration of Celtic culture.

“I’m Scottish, my husband’s Irish,” Lukes said. “We’ve been to Scotland and we love it, so we absolutely love to bring that culture here.”

In past years, between 8,000 and 10,000 people have gathered in Caras Park for Celtic Festival Missoula, where food trucks and merchandise vendors sell Celtic-themed goods, and performers come from across the country to share Celtic traditions. This year, the Young Dubliners, an LA-based Irish rock band, are headlining, and will take the main stage at 9 p.m.

Nicknamed the “Young Dubs,” the band uses traditional Irish instruments to play Irish folk songs and original compositions with a modern rock twist.

The Stout Pounders, a Seattle-based Celtic Folk band, will come on at 7 p.m. with “comedic twists to time tested Scottish and Irish folk music,” according to their website.

“Dancing and jigging is highly encouraged and we certainly won’t stop you from tipping back a drink or two along the way.”

The Gothard Sisters, a trio of three sisters — Willow, Solana and Greta — will come from Washington to perform Celtic music and choreographed traditional Irish dances. The sisters have competed in Irish dance championships, and can play a plethora of instruments, though they all first learned the violin.

There are nine shows throughout the day, beginning at noon. Local groups like the Missoula Irish Dancers and the Celtic Dragon Pipe Band will kickoff the celebrations.

The festival is free, organized by volunteers, and all proceeds after expenses go to charity.

Lukes created a nonprofit organization called the Montana Diva Foundation, which donates the festival’s proceeds to a local nonprofit. This year, the proceeds will go to CASA of Missoula, which provides advocates to help children within the judicial system who are at risk or have experienced abuse or neglect.

Advocates work with children until they live in a safe and permanent home.

After some major sponsors withdrew their support, Bob Ward’s Sports and Outdoors stepped up to become a primary sponsor for 2017. This year, Bob Ward’s celebrates its 100th anniversary, Lukes said.

“It’s local people stepping up to support a local festival to end up supporting a local nonprofit,” Lukes said. “It’s really cool how everyone comes together. We have a really cool community that supports each other, so that’s pretty amazing.”

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River City Roots Festival aims for inclusive in its 12th year

By LUCY TOMPKINS for Corridor

Christina Scruggs wears a fish head as she entertains the crowd with Casey Schaefer, left, and other members of the Whizpops. The popular kid’s group will play at the River City Roots Festival this year. photo by Tom Bauer

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issoula’s premier summer event, the two-day River City Roots Festival, combines art, music, food, exercise and children’s activities to celebrate Missoula’s spirit and welcome new and returning students to town.

The Missoula Downtown Association, a nonprofit that works with local businesses to support and maintain downtown, puts on the festival each year. The 12th annual River City Roots Festival is set for Friday and Saturday, Aug. 25-26 this year, and every year it’s a little different. The festival is free and appeals to all ages, often drawing around 15,000 people to downtown Missoula.

“Really, it’s just about celebrating what’s going on in the community, and we like to keep it free because we want to make sure it’s inclusive for everybody in the community,” said Kristen Sackett, marketing and events director at the MDA. “We don’t want anyone to feel excluded due to financial circumstances. We want people to be able to enjoy it together, as a whole.”

The festival is centered in Caras Park, but it also extends into Ryman and Main streets, which close for food vendors and street bars to set up shop while concerts play throughout the day. Local favorites like Five on Black, Big Dipper and the Noodle Wagon will sell their signature dishes.

There also will be Russian food, Thai food, Norwegian meatballs, barbecue and lemonade, because it’s bound to be hot.

The Family Fun Festival kicks off at 11 a.m. Friday in Caras Park. Booths with face painting and hands-on activities will entertain kids while the Tangled Tones Kids Band and the ZACC Rock Camp Bands perform. The goal is for kids to learn at the booths while experimenting and having fun.

“It might be things from learning about the local nature, to learning how to build something, to learning about health sciences in the body, to just something as fun as face painting,” Sackett said.

The art show, which also begins at 11 a.m., stretches through Main Street, showcasing artists from Montana and nearby states. This year’s art show is the biggest in River City Roots Festival history, with at least 35 artists. There’s oil painting, jewelry, wood instruments, ceramics, photography, textile arts and more.

In the past, the art show has focused primarily on fine arts, but this year there’s more locallymade, affordable art, to highlight the creative, entrepreneurial Missoula spirit, Sackett said.

“We wanted to expand that, and have not only the fine art to pay homage to the art galleries,” Sackett said, “but the more accessible art by local artisans that is pretty common and popular in the area.”

The Main Street stage will host concerts after the kids bands, from 2:20 to 10:20 p.m. Local Rotgut Whines play at the festival for the first time, and the duo promises to bring their unique style: Fingerpickin’ soul and roll.

Taj Weekes and Adowa, a roots reggae act with Caribbean-born Taj Weekes on lead vocals and guitar, will bring a “dynamic reggae” sound to Main Street. Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand, a rock/bluegrass hybrid group based in Utah, will follow.

Friday’s headliners, the John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band, take the stage at 8:30. Jorgenson has recorded or toured with Elton John, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. He won the Academy of Country Music’s “Guitarist of the Year” award two years in a row.

While the Main Street stage hosts concerts, the Boys and Girls Club will hold a “family concert” in Caras Park from 6:30-9:30 p.m., featuring local band Letter B, a folk/rock band that prides itself on its danceability.

For early risers, Saturday’s festival is preceded by the usual farmers’ and peoples’ markets in downtown Missoula. At 8:30 a.m., the River City Roots Fest Four-Mile Run will begin at East Main Street. This year’s run route is new, but it still ends in Caras Park.

All the same activities are available Saturday, but with different concerts on the Main Stage.

Local children’s group, the Whizpops, will play at 12:30 with their signature songs about animals, nature, sneezing and other kid-friendly singalongs.

Malcolm Holcombe, a guitarist and songwriter from North Carolina, brings a deep voice and Southern drawl to the stage at 2:30. His presence, one music writer said, is “spooky and timeless.”

Maine’s self-acclaimed “holler folk band,” the Ghost of Paul Revere, follow with energetic, nontraditional American folk. The quartet has shared the stage with the Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show.

Austin, Texas’ Band of Heathens are an American Rock and Roll band, and just finished recording their fifth studio album, “Duende,” last year.

Headliner Anders Osborne, a New Orleans singer and songwriter who was born in Sweden, is known for his R&B-blues style, takes the stage at 8:30. He has released 15 albums, and is nearly alway on tour. His performance is certain to be full of emotional, soulful vocals and expert guitar work.

Though the River City Roots Fest ends Saturday night, there will be a “Roots Hangover Sale” Sunday for those who didn’t quite finish shopping.

“We really work hard to make sure it’s a full weekend for closing out summer, welcoming the students back, and giving people a full experience, which is what Missoula’s all about,” Sackett said. “It’s about experiencing the local community and getting out and being together in all these different aspects.”

Mikal Chaussee dances to the music of the Whizpops at the River City Roots Festival in Missoula in 2016.

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August 2017 tHE mAtCHstICK CAstLE

By KEIR gRAFF

What could be worse than spending the summer in Boring, Illinois? That is where Brian is sent to spend the summer with his aunt, uncle and cousin Nora. One day Brian and his cousin Nora have a fight, get lost and discover a huge, wooden house in the forest. With balconies, turrets and windows seemingly stuck on at random, it looks ready to fall over in the next stiff breeze. But to the madcap, eccentric family that lives inside, it’s not just a home — it’s a castle.

Suddenly, summer gets a lot more exciting. With their new friends, Brian and Nora tangle with giant wasps, sharp-tusked wild boars and a crazed bureaucrat intent on bringing the dilapidated old house down with a wrecking ball.

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By JAKE HALPREN

Thousands of miles south of the island of Bliss, day and night last for 72 hours. One of the natural wonders of this world is a whirlpool 30 miles wide and 100 miles around. This is the Drain. Anything sucked into its frothing, turbulent waters is never seen again.

On the nearby island of Edgeland, people bring their dead to be blessed and prepared for the afterlife. Then the dead are loaded into boats with treasure and sent off to enter the Drain. Wren dreams of escaping Edgeland, and her chance finally comes when traders from the Polar north arrive with their dead who will be laden with valuable sunstones. But all plans to escape change when she and her friend Alec get sucked into the whirlpool.

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August reads: MPL’s annual Youth Book Festival set for Aug. 25-26

By BARBARA THEROUX the missoula Public Library’s third annual youth Book Festival will be held Aug. 25-26. Interactive workshops and presentations are designed to engage and entertain two age levels: children 4- to 12-years-old and teens 13- to 19-yearsold. Books by some of the featured authors include:

Only a few dozen vertebrate animals have evolved true gliding abilities, but they include an astonishing variety of mammals, reptiles and amphibians. Catching Air takes us around the world to meet these animals, learn why so many gliders live in Southeast Asia, and find out why this gravity-defying ability has evolved in Draco lizards, snakes and frogs as well as mammals. Why do gliders stop short of flying and how did bats make that final leap?

CHARmED CHILDREN oF RooKsKILL CAstLE

By JANEt FoX

Twelve-year-old Kat Bateson likes to have a logical explanation for everything. But even she can’t make sense of the strange goings-on at Rookskill Castle, the drafty old Scottish castle-turned-school where she and her siblings have been sent to escape the London Blitz. What’s making those terrifying sounds at night? Why do the castle’s walls seem to have a mind of their own? And why do people keep mysteriously appearing and disappearing? Kat thinks she knows the answer: Lady Eleanor, who rules Rookskill Castle, is harboring a Nazi spy. But when her classmates begin to vanish, one by one, Kat must face the truth about what the castle actually harbors — and what Lady Eleanor is — before it’s too late.

RIDDLE IN RuBy

By KENt DAVIs

Ruby Teach, daughter of a smuggler and pirate, has been learning how to swindle and steal and pick the most complex locks for as long as she can remember. But a collision with aristocratic young Lord Athen sends her spinning into chaos. Little has she known that her whole life has been spent in hiding from secret societies and the Royal Navy — who are both now on her tail.

Set in the alternate version of colonial America, this fantasy-adventure trilogy’s final book will be previewed by author Kent Davis.

All events will be held in the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main. For more information, contact Dana or Pam at 406-258-3861.

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Still hitting it with her best shot:

A life of Pat Benatar

By BRIAN D’AMBROSIO for Corridor

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at Benatar’s life philosophy is simple: If you find a trail with no barriers, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.

Indeed, the rock ‘n’ roll rebel and four-time Grammy winner remains a self-assured, constructive artist. Not many inhabit the full range of the American popular-song repertoire like Benatar, and precious few possess her versatility, style and charm.

Benatar, a classically trained mezzo-soprano, dominated the 1980s pop charts with songs such as “Hit Me With Your Best Shot,” “Love Is a Battlefield,” “We Belong,” and “Invincible.” One of MTV’s earliest, and most frequently played artists, she delivered exactly what she was supposed to: a memorable glitz fest that was a pure pleasure to hear. Behind the impression of flicker and flare, the Brooklyn-born Patricia Andrzejewski widened a passageway for other female rockers.

Thanks to Benatar and others, the obligation to preface her introduction with the word female seems obsolete.

“I actually don’t mind having the word female put in front of my name or the words female artist when they are put together,” said Benatar, 64. “It doesn’t bother me. But that’s just as long as it is not in a gender limiting or a derogatory way. But it’s a label that just isn’t used anymore, where now we are just musicians, or players, or thinkers.”

Benatar started singing in elementary school and worked on her craft throughout her teenage years spent on Long Island. Her love of music began in imitation and ended in innovation.

“Growing up in New York, I was exposed to many different kinds of music,” said Benatar. “I listened to a lot of Led Zeppelin, to the Beatles, and Motown, and everything had an influence. The Four Tops, John Lennon and there were lots of great songs that wove together (my influences).”

At 19, she dropped out of college to marry her high school sweetheart, Dennis Benatar (the couple divorced in 1979). In 1973, she quit her job as a bank teller to pursue a singing career after being inspired by a Liza Minnelli concert she watched in Richmond, Virginia.

“I remember sitting there and she came out and she started to sing and dance,” recalled Benatar. “I remember thinking, I can do this!” I started singing and that was

the beginning of that path. I joined Coxon’s Army (a Richmond-based lounge band) and we were popular regionally, and, at the height of 1974, I was making $1,000 a week, which was a lot for a 22-year-old person.”

Benatar realized that a key ingredient in her self-invention would rely on her willingness to challenge authority, break rules and embrace her feelings of disruption. In 1975, she packed everything she owned into her Honda Civic and returned to New York City, alone, with approximately $2,500 stuffed in her belongings.

“In Richmond, we were at the pinnacle of the band, and we began to become successful, though I felt as if I needed to go to New York,” said Benatar. “People in Richmond said, ‘you are crazy’ and ‘you’ll be back.’ But that never happened.”

Subsequently, Benatar auditioned at an open mic night at Catch a Rising Star, a chain of entertainment clubs founded in New York City. She was number 27 and entered the stage at around 2 a.m. Benatar’s spirited rendition of Judy Garland’s “Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody” was a hit. When the band finished, the owner, Rick Newman, asked her if he could become her first manager.

Benatar’s stylish spandex-clad stage persona became a visual and cultural sensation — and her signature look.

In spring 1979, Benatar met guitarist Neil Giraldo in a rehearsal room at SIR studios in New York City; their private and professional bonds were instantaneous.

(The couple wed in 1982.)

“We have two daughters,” said Benatar. “The older one is 32 and the little one is 23. YouTube has been an endless stream of torture for both of us (Neil and I). I hear things like, ‘Mom you wore that!’ It provides an endless stream of fun for them, and torture for us.”

The 1980 Grammy winning album, “Crimes of Passion,” included Benatar’s first Top 10 inclusion “Hit Me With Your Best Shot,” which reached quintuple platinum.

Of the 10 Grammy Award ceremonies in the 1980s, Benatar was nominated nine times, even winning four consecutive awards for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.

“Looking back, it’s amazing considering that Neil was willing to go down that path with me,” said Benatar. “He was 22 and he was a brilliantly talented man

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continued from page 16 who chose to partner with a strong female as his equal, and he decided that he wanted to be in a band together. He was a young boy and he had no ego or any qualms about a strong female as his partner, and he didn’t care that I was not a dude.

“I was so emboldened at that time by where the country was with the women’s movement and I was something of a militantly crazy feminist. I didn’t want to be a girl who was in the audience looking at these guys, the first one off to the backstage with them. I did not want to be the lone girl singing in the band. I wanted to be the band. I wanted to be Mick Jagger. I wanted to be Robert Plant. Neil said, ‘You’ll be Mick and I’ll be Keith,’ and it worked.”

In 1999, Benatar and Giraldo opened the vaults and compiled an extensive three-CD collection and, in August 2003, Benatar released Go, her most recent album of new songs. Benatar released her long-awaited autobiography, “Between a Heart and a Rock Place,” in 2010.

Passion for music and commitment to their uniquely intertwined chemistry imbues meaning to Benatar’s and Giraldo’s lives. They share a nearly 40-year-long vow to one another and to their collective musical expression.

“It’s lovely to reminiscence and to talk about what has been the really rich tapestry of my past life and to also see the changes that that past life has brought. It is wonderful to go back and look, because it really has influenced everything that has come after, leading to now.”

While Benatar conceded that it is a complicated tightrope to balance performance, family and individuality, she has a hard time attributing credit to the enduringly successful nature of each.

Moreover there is something special about her longevity with Giraldo that beckons a constant line of questioning.

“That’s the 65 million dollar question that people ask me every day,” said Benatar. “Yes, Neil and I’s marriage is an anomaly in some ways. But professional people exist just like us. I think that if you are busy having this kind of (committed) life, then you are busy having it. That means that if you are busy keeping it together, then you don’t make much noise. The noisy ones perhaps aren’t so busy keeping things together.

“We’ve worked our professional lives into our family lives, and we are extremely diligent to keep good control, meaning that family and personal relationships come first. We never let music or our professional lives step in front of our family life — and you have to be extremely dedicated (to that choice). It doesn’t matter what your gig is, because there are people across the world that make this same choice every day. You have challenges, and you make decisions, like choosing between something that will advance your career or attending a soccer game.”

Benatar said she tries to tightly attune herself to both the harmonic and the physical aspects of her profession.

“There is a physical element to singing, which for the singer is similar to the guitar player’s hands and fingers and all of the occupational stuff that happens to them.

“Singing is a lot like being athletic, like running, and we all go through changes physiologically.

But I feel lucky and blessed, possibly it’s genetics too, and I’ve taken the training, and I protect myself always,” she continued. “The universe gave me a good instrument, and, sure, there are some physical limitations and changes going into age 65 — you get a little more tired. I’ve gone from four shows in a row to three, but now it is two in a row and then a day off. With singing, your breathing and your core gets tired, it’s like running for 90 minutes or for two hours, and it’s a physical marathon. But the biggest change now for me is the recovery time. I think it helps that I’m a homeopathic girl, no drinking, and no smoking.”

Ultimately, one cannot halt the insidiousness of creeping time. But one can stay true to their voice, their work, their purpose and their own dignity and desires.

“My voice is still the same,” said Benatar. “My voice is still comfortable with most of the songs, and I can still sing comfortably in almost all of the original recording keys. With the songs that my voice is not as comfortable, we can lower the keys a half step.”

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Singer’s Montana link begets the Decemberists’ inaugural festival

By BRIAN D’AMBROSIO for Corridor

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olin Meloy discovered early on that music can offset the mundane aspects of life.

So then perhaps it is no bombshell that the Helena native and frontman of the Decemberists’ cleaves to an interest in Montana that is genuinely personal. Indeed, when Meloy presents and headlines the first ever Travelers’ Rest Festival on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 12-13, he has two ambitions: produce a satisfying affair and introduce unusual musical alternatives to Montanans, especially youth.

Heavily established in Portland, Oregon, the Decemberists’ beginnings are wrapped up and enfolded in — and indebted to — the remarkably odd and furiously energetic music scene of the late 1990s in Missoula.

“I attended the University of Montana between 1996 and 1999,” said Meloy.

“So, it’s the place where I started playing at open mics at coffee shops around town, and we put together (the indie-rock band) Tarkio and we played at Jay’s Upstairs (currently The Loft of Missoula) and the Top Hat and the Old Post, and the musical scene then was super vibrant, and the punk scene incredible. There was the Sputniks, the Volume Men, Oblio Jones and others. We were playing some stuff that was different — sadder music, I think. Then, (the psychedelicpunk band) Fireballs of Freedom went to Portland and you could just feel the exodus of music out of Missoula in the summer of 1999. ” Meloy is the son of Claudia Montagne and Mike Meloy and grew up in Helena. His grandfather Pete was a potter, who joined arts patron Archie Bray in launching the Archie Bray Foundation. Pete’s brother, Hank, was a painter who taught art at Columbia University in New York.

“There was always an emphasis put in the home on following your bliss,” said Meloy. “That emphasis shot through me. Although, I think my parents wanted us to do it (the pursuit of art) as a hobby and not as a main goal. After all, my great uncle died impoverished in New York becoming an artist. But my older sister (author Malie Meloy) and I definitely proved them wrong.”

Hence, the blissful sounds of music served as flashy, funny, inspiring baubles.

The first two records he ever owned came from Henry J’s: the eponymous Chicago 16 and Cargo by Men at Work, a birthday present from his mother.

“There was Henry J’s for the older crowd out on (the west side of town) on Euclid and Pegasus Music at the mall,” said Meloy, 42. “Pegasus had the major label releases and an import section of CDs. Before the internet, I had an uncle who lived in Eugene, Oregon, who would send mixed tapes in the mail. For years, Cactus Records, in Bozeman, and Rockin’ Rudy’s, in Missoula, provided a lifeline. Growing up, Helena was interesting because even though it was the capital, it felt like the kind of a community that you wouldn’t associate with as a town in Montana of its size. It had a progressive scene and art scene.”

Meloy’s mother was active in Second Story Cinema, an artistic collaborative in Helena in the mid-’70s that included alternative theater, poetry, satirical revues, multimedia and musical events. (Second Story Cinema in time developed into the Myrna Loy Center.)

“Apparently, I appear in an early fundraising pitch for the Myrna Loy,” recalled Meloy. “I worked there at the Myrna Loy and I played my first show there in the high school band, and it is hallowed ground in my mind.”

Music was both an allure and an escape for Meloy, and, at the time, Helena offered several places to escape to (though, no record store exists there today).

The guitar’s voice was capable of expressing opinions and feelings in ways that words neglected. It dazzled and empathized; it calmed, excited and explained; it

moved him.

Experimenting with the guitar had been the entry ticket into the world of wonder. Better yet, the guitar had the ability to make his life by and large better.

“Music fit the kid who I was,” said Meloy. “When I hit my early teens, I didn’t fit in with the interests of my peers, or interests elsewhere. I was not into sports or that world and I loved writing. I grew up in a progressive household that was good and supportive. I loved music that felt weird in the context of local Helena radio and weird in the context of what other kids were listening to. In junior high school, I discovered and I threw myself into music that was a little more obscure than what was available at Pegasus Records at the mall. I started searching out and treasure hunting and finding this music.

“I liked listening to the Smiths, the Replacements, Morrissey and Paul Westerberg. It was all of the music that had the feeling of being kind of off the mainstream, on the margins. I had a lot of feelings of being out of place and feeling like I didn’t fit in, and that stuff was a real haven for me, and allowed me to get through the harder times during my teenage years.”

Subsequently, Meloy cultivated a vocal style of grandeur, sensuous richness and emotional exuberance, paying homage to a worldly wise perspective.

“I guess it is kind of worldly,” said Meloy. “Maybe similar to how Robyn Hitchcock looked to Ireland, and the Rolling Stones were aping American rhythm and blues, I was looking in the other direction, to other countries.”

Meloy peers back to Montana with the hope of delivering a recurring music festival that introduces alternative acts generally unavailable or unseen in lineups in the state. Meloy said approximately 15 acts will appear at the two-day event, including national touring acts such as Scottish indie-folk group Belle and Sebastian and other regional bands accruing fan bases like the Head and the Heart, Sylvan Esso, Shakey Graves, Real Estate, Julien Baker, and Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires.

“It drove me crazy how many national touring bands skipped Montana altogether. I’m glad we can do our small part to bring more music to the area.

Helena and Missoula were the hubs of the state, but growing up it was slim pickings and wishful thinking as far as live music. I.R.S. (record label acts), Robyn Hitchcock, Camper Van Beethoven, they never played Montana. When I went to the University, I saw Firehouse and the Violent Femmes, and Suzanne Vega in Bozeman once. But your favorite band wasn’t guaranteed to play here by any stretch. If you are a touring band on a shoe-string budget, think about heading over I-90 in a gas-guzzling money sucker. That route doesn’t get taken unless you make an effort to make it happen. Every tour cycle I play at least once here — much to my booking agent’s chagrin.”

Engaging in the music-making experience gave Meloy entry into a world of whimsy, where he could safely say what he wanted to say, safely be who he wanted to be, and wrestle with what ailed him with creativity and playful irreverence. Meloy said he is humbled when people can make sense of what he creates and that the festival is his way of making the musical and cultural landscape in Montana less limited and more at liberty. Indeed, the artist who slowly discovered his talents here soon will be ready to fully employ them.

“We investigated the idea of bringing a festival to Portland, but Portland had no ideal location, and Montana seemed perfect,” said Meloy. “The beauty is that artists do want to play in Montana, and it does feel like we have the chance to curate and host something really special. Half of the people purchasing tickets are coming from out of state, and this is their introduction to Missoula.”

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Changes to Western Montana Fair don’t stop with free admission

By RACHEL CRISP PHILIPS for Corridor

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Stevensville steer wrestler Bridger Chambers leaves his horse to make a catch in 2016 on the last day of the PRCA Rodeo at the Western Montana Fair. photo by Kurt Wilson

he Western Montana Fair has been a staple of Missoula summers since it began over 100 years ago.

With carnival rides, fun fair food, live music, community art and rodeos, the family-friendly event has something for visitors of all ages and tastes. While the classic attractions and features remain, this year’s fair brings several new changes.

“The biggest change this summer is that we are going free-admission, which we believe will enrich the experience for fairgoers,” said Emily Bentley, director of fairgrounds development. “An accessible fair means that more people can come together and enjoy the community connection that is so important to our mission and such a cherished Montana value, cultivating a welcoming atmosphere and increasing folks’ sense of ownership and nostalgia for the fairgrounds.”

The free admission will enable visitors to plan multiple outings to the fairgrounds throughout the event without having to pay for entry each time. Organizers hope that this open-access will help attract and maintain investment in fairgrounds redevelopment.

“We will be suggesting a $6 per person donation in lieu of a gate fee that will go towards building a new Livestock Center to support local agriculture and youth development by helping 4-H and FFA have a home of their own during the fair, and a space for hands-on learning throughout the year,” Bentley said.

Other changes for 2017 include a new stage at a new venue in the paddock area near the rodeo arena.

With upgrades to sound, stage and lighting, the space also serves as a second beer garden.

Both beer gardens are being re-worked with a friendlier vibe that’s more enticing to families. With smoking prohibited and all-ages allowed, families can enjoy fair food and drinks together on the grass in the shade. Fifty percent of proceeds from signature Western Montana Fair cocktails will go toward fairgrounds redevelopment.

Although the music lineup changes every year, quality entertainment remains a cornerstone of the fair’s appeal. Musical acts this year include Shakewell, Sho down, Cold Hard Cash, Ryan Chrys & the Rough Cuts, The High Country Cowboys, and Miller Campbell.

Aside from all-day music, there are plenty of other acts to delight and entertain. There will be a magic show twice a day, laser tag, acrobats, stilt walkers and extreme bull riding. All the old favorites will make an appearance as well, such as the carnival rides, Demolition Derby, the Missoula Stampede Rodeo, DockDogs and 4-H livestock exhibits.

As part of the nationwide RAM Rodeo Series, the Missoula Stampede Rodeo dates back to 1915. With both men’s and women’s divisions, the riders compete for points that may earn them a shot in the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. Competitions such as bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, bull riding, steer wrestling, team roping and tie down roping bring exciting action every night.

Local art is present as always, but this year the photography and fine arts departments have been split into their own, separate spaces in order to better accommodate visitors. Last year, there were almost 2,000 individual entries across the two departments.

“Our fine arts and photography exhibits are by far our most popular exhibits at the fair; they’re huge,” said events manager Tom Aldrich. “The exhibits were so big we gave them each their own building this year, so it should be a lot less crowded in there as well.”

To accommodate the increased space for the art venues, the fair’s history exhibit has been moved into the fair office with an all-new display of historic photos. With help from the Art Attic for the framing, and historian Stan Cohen for the curation, the history exhibit becomes a visual timeline of the fairgrounds from start to present.

The art exhibits come from people of many different skills, ages and interests. A panel of judges is assembled by the exhibit superintendent, and blue ribbons are awarded to the winner in each category. With no fees required to enter the art exhibits, these local competitions are a great experience for aspiring artists of all ages.

“We have professional and amateur divisions, kids, adults; really anyone can find a category in the fair and there’s an appeal for everyone too. The professional sees the appeal in having their work curated and

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Kaylianna Jones,1, feeds her grandmother Melinda Collins a spoon full of ice cream at the Missoula County Fair on in 2016. photo by Tommy Martino

displayed, the amateur might just get a kick out of seeing their picture on the wall or showing their parents — there’s a reason and there’s a division for everyone,” Aldrich said.

Aside from photography and fine arts, there are many other art forms present at the fair. The Home Arts Division displays quilts and other homemade items while the new Home Resource Creative Re-Use Division features works of art made from old, repurposed materials.

“There’s all kinds of art here,” Aldrich said. “The thing I like to note with these exhibits is they’re all free, they’re part of the free admission package.

“Someone comes to the fair, they can spend hours in our exhibits and not have to pay a penny. We really love that we can give that to the community because people are entering this stuff and they want people to see it, but people can also enjoy it for free. Bringing people together like that I think is really important. Missoula’s a very artistic community, we’re also a very community-oriented community and I think the fair embodies the spirit of both of those for everybody.”

In a further connection to the artistic community, all of the illustrations and graphics for the fair’s promotional materials were designed by local artist Josh Quick. Keeping the tradition of having a local artist commissioned for the fair is important to the new fair committee, and will be continued over the years.

“I’m really excited about the fair art this year,” said Aldrich, “Josh really captures the spirit of Missoula well, and so we thought he’d be a great fit.”

As the fair moves into the future, there are big plans on the horizon for further development. There will be a development booth at the fair where visitors can see for themselves exactly what changes are in store for the fairgrounds. Construction on the improvements is slated to begin next year, and will be in progress over the next five years.

“We’re going from 5 acres of open space to 19 acres of open space and Missoula residents really treasure and revere their open spaces,” Bentley said. “We’re also adding 6,000 feet of trail connections.

“So, for people that live in the neighborhood and that are traveling through, I think the fairgrounds will be a place that transports them using the landscape to tell the story of our agricultural history and our mountain farming community. And I think it’s pretty exciting, it’s a way to bring together the urban residents and rural residents in a way that is meaningful and promotes community expansion.”

The Western Montana Fair runs from Aug. 8-13, and is located at the Missoula County Fairgrounds. For more information, please visit missoulafairgrounds.com/western-montana-fair.

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Rodeo, games and a picnic keep Bitterroot busy through the summer

By MICHELLE MCCONNAHA for Corridor

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ummer is going out with a kick in the Bitterroot Valley, with annual events, fairs and rodeos.

The annual Stevensville Creamery Picnic began over a century ago when the original creamery was rebuilt after burning down. It is celebrated the first weekend of each August, and is coordinated by the Stevensville Civic Club. This year, the 105th annual event, honors “Hometown Heroes,” Friday and Saturday, Aug. 4-5.

The weekend kicks off Friday with the 16th annual Montana State BBQ Championship. The weekend also includes parades, live music, historic tours, a fun run, a pancake breakfast, a brew fest, dances and free ice cream.

Charla Bauman & Lawrence Hammond, Shane Clouse and Stomping Ground, The Sandbox, Bitterroot Community Band, Lolo Creek Band, Tom Cats and 406 are on the docket to play sets during the weekend.

For a full schedule visit online, creamerypicnic.com.

The Bitterroot Celtic Games & Gathering is a cultural and educational festival with highland games, drums and pipes, the gathering of the clans, dancing and everything Celtic. This year it’s set for Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 19-20, at the Daly Mansion in Hamilton.

The family-friendly event has activities and contests for all ages.

Food booths, parades, kids’ activities, highland games, scotch and mead tastings, exhibitors, vendors, music, dancing, herding dog demonstrations and arts and crafts usually draw in about 3,500 people to enjoy the festival.

Cheryl Tenold, president, said the event is an exciting opportunity to learn about the Celtic arts.

“Our event is education and cultural as well as being a lot of fun,” Tenold said. “Part of our goal

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The entrance to the Ravalli County Fairgrounds. photo by Michelle McConnaha

is to pass on the heritage. There are opportunities to learn dancing, musket shooting and piping. If anyone is even slightly interested in learning piping they should contact us, it seems to be a dying art.”

The gathering of the clans for celebration and competitions is what originally started the festival.

The 2017 Honored Clan is Clan Cunningham.

“The games are based on the Scottish tradition of people gathering by clans and competing athletically,” Tenold said. “Each day at 1 p.m. we have a grand parade, the clans march in with banners, mottoes, pipers and athletes.”

Tenold said there is a focus on family heritage and research assistants can help you discover your clan.

The mead and scotch tasting are an additional cost and are hosted by a master to explain the creation, craft and traditions.

The opening ceremonies at 1 p.m. each day have a Lament — a remembrance of those who passed away during the recent year.

Performers this year include Angus of Brother from Oregon, Swagger from Utah, The Craic’ers, Top House and Tom Robinson.

The Ceilidh, a traditional “open mic” social gathering, is 7 p.m. Saturday.

“Everyone can participate and people can learn a dance or someone tells a story or sings a song,” Tenold said. “It used to be that clans from rural areas met and their young people dated at a Ceilidh.”

The 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band will be live on the mansion grounds re-enacting the time of King George and will give musket demonstrations.

Sunday events include learning to highland dance and contests of clan tug of war, Skillet Toss, Beards and Braids and Bonnie Knees.

The admission is $5/day for kids and $10/day for adults. On Sunday, admission is $8 for adults, and a two-day pass is $15. There is free parking at Hamilton High School with free shuttle buses to the Daly Mansion every 15 minutes from 8:30 a.m. to 10:45 p.m. Saturday and from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Sunday. Parking at the mansion is available for $10.

Tenold said listening to the bag pipers is a big draw and the event is a great family weekend full of heritage and culture.

For the complete schedule of the Bitterroot Celtic Games & Gathering, go online to bcgg.org.

The 2017 Ravalli County Fair & Rockin’ RC Rodeo, Aug. 30- Sept. 2, has a theme of “Country Pride, County Wide” with traditional exhibits and 4-H, FFA and community entries.

Displays of art, china painting, quilts, photography and agriculture draw more than 20,000 people.

“Shadows” are the special topic for photographs.

“An adult coloring contest and a new junior arts superintendent give the community the opportunity to display their unique creativity,” said Bethany Perkins, a fairgrounds employee.

Credit cards are accepted at all gates and food vendors. There will be watermelon and pie eating contests, a photo booth, pedal tractor pulls, floral displays, poetry contest reading, stick horse rodeo, a hungry hippo game, a dog show, cheese demonstrations, Bitterroot Mountettes, Miss Ravalli County Rodeo Queen, FFA and 4-H demonstrations, a carnival and much more.

The main attractions in the rodeo arena are a Horse and Mule Show, noon, and a Ranch Rodeo, 7 p.m., on Aug. 30; Bull-A-Rama and Cowboy Bronc Riding, 7 p.m., Aug. 31; National Rodeo Association Rodeo, 7 p.m. on Sept. 1; National Rodeo Association Finals Rodeo, 7 p.m. on Sept. 2.

Livestock provided by Red Eye Rodeo.

Children 5 and younger can get in for free; adults pay $9 daily or can get a four-day pass for $25; students, military and 60-plus seniors will pay $7 daily or can get a four-day pass for $18. Carnival rides are additional.

For a full schedule visit online, rcfair.org.

To learn more about events in the Bitterroot Valley visit, bitterrootevents.net and bitterrootchamber.com/events.

The Darby Rodeo Association is hosting a Good Ol’ Fashioned Ranch Rodeo on Saturday, Aug. 5, and a fundraising dinner and concert with Dave Stamey on Monday, Aug. 17. For the details visit online, darbyrodeoassociation.com.

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County fairs offer lots of options in northwestern Montana

By PERRY BACKUS for Corridor

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hether it is Indian relay racing, kids showing sheep or top notch all-around rodeo action you’re after, fairs in northwest Montana offer something for everyone in August.

The largest happens Aug. 16-20 in Kalispell when the Northwest Montana Fair and Rodeo offers thousands a chance to experience good music, fast-paced rodeo action, a demolition derby and exciting Indian relay races.

In between those main events, fairgoers can check out the more than 8,000 exhibit entries that range from everything agriculture to over 900 photographs and even a few scarecrows.

“I think it’s the personal pride that’s on display in the pride and talents of this community that make our fair the best,” said Northwest Fair and Rodeo Manager Mark Campbell.

The Kalispell fair will celebrate its 115th anniversary this year and the century mark for the first 4-H club in Flathead County.

The fair’s roots can be traced to 1902 when some locals came together to start a community event during the month of October. A bit over a decade later, the fair operation was turned over to Flathead County and continues to this day.

Campbell said the fair will again feature a night of top-notch music with Broken Bow Records’ Dustin Lynch with a special guest performance by up-and-coming western artist Bailey Bryan.

Flathead’s Got Talent winner Jael Johnson also will take a turn on the stage on Wednesday, Aug. 16.

That’s followed by three nights of PRCA Rodeo action, including Indian relay races that have been a tradition for nearly 30 years.

“I call it a demolition derby on horseback,” Campbell said. “When you put six teams made up of 24 people and 18 horses in the arena all at the same time, there will be (a) wreck.”

“The skills they display are something you need to see to believe,” he said.

For a full schedule, go to nwmtfair.com.

For those focused on rodeo, the Sanders County Fair in Plains is a good place to be over the Labor Day weekend, Aug. 31-Sept. 3.

The cowboys who travel the circuit ranked the Sanders County Fair rodeo 11 out of 400 held throughout the country, said fair manager Chris Williams.

Last year, the rodeo featured 15 of the top 20 rodeo performers in the country. It features Cowboy Hall of Fame announcer Bobby Tallman. And, to make sure the action is top notch, the stock contractors, Powder River DNH Cattle Company, bring their best bucking stock to the small town.

“They always bring their A-team,” Williams said. “The bulls that you’ll see buck here are the same ones you’ll see on television when you watch the NFR finals.”

In the past 16 years, the small town’s arena has been nominated for the “best footing award” 12 times by barrel racers. It has received top billing eight times and runner-up the other four.

This year rodeo fans will get a chance to see why barrel racers like the area so much on Thursday night when they’ll perform under the lights in between the bulls, broncs and young mutton busters.

“We’re calling it ‘Bucking, Busting, and Barrels’,” Williams said.

Something else that Williams is hoping will be new this year is a big screen TV that will give fans another view of the action happening in the arena.

“I’m working on that,” he said. “I think if we can get that, it will put us over the top and get us into the top 10.”

The entries for the fair portion of the four-day-long event are up a little year and 26 food vendors will be on hand to offer plenty of variety when it comes time to eat. There is no fee to get into the fair.

The fair has been a part of William’s life for as long as he can remember. He’ll turn 52 at this year’s event. He’s celebrated his birthday at the fair every year except one when he was off at college.

“I just love it,” he said. “I guess it’s in my blood.”

For more information, go to sanderscountyfair.com.

In Lake County, the fair focuses on community and agriculture.

The fair runs between Aug. 24-29, at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Ronan. It features a ranch rodeo and an arena dance. Fair Manager Tim Marchant said the most popular event is the Market Livestock Sale that’s held on Thursday, Aug. 27.

“By that time, all the market animals have been judged,” Marchant said. “People show up from all

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up and down the valley. They are very supportive of the community’s youth.”

This year, Marchant expects to see 100 swine, 80 sheep and probably 100 steers entered in the fair. That doesn’t include all the goats, llamas, rabbits and poultry that will be entered.

“If someone wants to see real animals, this is the place to be,” Marchant said. “There’s no gate charge. Everything is free. It’s very agricultural and youth orientated. It’s really an old time kind of fair.”

Since 1909, the Lincoln County Fair in Eureka has been the place where old friends gather and new friendships are forged. Every year, hundreds hope to bring home a blue ribbon for their efforts in raising critters, plants and flowers or for their craftsmanship and good eye through a camera viewfinder.

This year’s Lincoln County Fair will be held Aug. 24-27.

Fair manager Lois Sciligo said this year fair will help the county celebrate the fact the Capitol Christmas Tree will come from the nearby woods on the Kootenai National Forest.

“We are going to have a special division devoted to Christmas tree ornaments that people have designed for both the large and 70 other small trees that will find their way to Washington, D.C., this year,” she said.

The fair has a couple other new twists with a competition for the best scarecrow and an addition to the photo contest that includes photographs taken by game cams.

“The game cam photos won’t be judged like the rest of the photographs,” Sciligo said. “It will be people’s choice kind of competition.”

“The Lincoln County Fair is a true county fair,” she said. “There are no large carnivals or anything quite like that. We like to keep it mellow.”

But that doesn’t mean there isn’t some excitement thrown in.

For the past 15 years or so, some of the best bull riders in the country have made it a point to come to Eureka to participate in The Bull Thing on Saturday night.

And Friday night, the kids gather in the arena to take part in a host of old fashioned fun-filled events like sack races, tug of war and the action packed chicken scramble that sends youngsters racing in attempt to capture specially marked chickens.

“That’s a lot of fun to watch,” Sciligo said.

To learn more, go to lcfairmontana.com.

The Mineral County Fair, sponsored in part by Blackfoot Communications, kicks off Thursday, Aug. 3, and runs through Saturday, Aug. 5, in Superior. Fair entry is free, as are all events except for the rodeo performances Friday and Saturday night.

Food booths open at 10 a.m. each day, but for early risers there is a pancake breakfast provided by the Methodist Men from 7 to 11 a.m.

Thursday events include exhibit judging, live music, a dog show and bingo, and that evening features family night in the arena with a chicken scramble and pig chase, as well as music on the green until 11:30 p.m.

The Cabin Fever Quilt Show runs both Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Music will go on throughout the day, both before and after the Superior Lions Club “Go for the Gold” Rodeo at 8 p.m. in the arena.

On Saturday, the “Flat Broke Fair” parade will lead people through Superior to the fairgrounds starting at 11 a.m. The 4-H Livestock Auction starts at 4 p.m., and again there will be music provided

by Kelly Hughes before and after the “Go for the Gold” Rodeo at 8 p.m.

Rodeo tickets are on sale at the Superior Auto Parts store and Westgate True Value, as well as at the Lions beer booth during the fair. Call 406-822-3302 for more information.

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he first weekend in August is going to be a busy one for people in northwestern Montana who enjoy watching rodeo.

The Kootenai River Stampede in Libby and Ronan’s Pioneer Days share the weekend of Aug. 4-6.

You don’t have to like rodeo to find something to do during the three-day event in Ronan that starts Friday, Aug. 4.

Beyond the bulls and bronc riding that kicks off the action at the rodeo grounds that first day and the two days of open rodeo that follows, Pioneer Days is filled with other activities that include 3-on-3 basketball, softball and volleyball tournaments, a car show, a golf scramble and a kiddie slicker event that puts both young and young at heart through a farmer’s Olympics relay-like race.

And just when you think you’ve seen it all, the event ends Sunday with six lucky people taking a ride on a wild bison across the arena.

“My husband said it’s kind of like riding a 2x4,” said Justine Welker, one of the organizers. “Bison have a narrow back. Some like to run. Some like to run and buck. You never know what you’re going to get.”

The three action-packed days are made possible by a group of dedicated volunteers.

“We are very busy getting this put together,” Welker said. “It takes a lot of community to pull this one off.”

Welker couldn’t say just how long this event has been happening in Ronan.

“I’m 37 and I have attended it 37 times,” Welker said. “I would like to say it’s been happening for 50 or 60 years, but that might not be long enough. I do know it’s the craziest three-day weekend that I have ever experienced.”

The weekend is one that’s circled on the calendar every year for those who live in the valley.

“It’s a family tradition for many of the people who live around here,” Welker said. “The kids I grew up with now have kids that are competing against my kids. It’s just awesome.”

You can learn more about the event on Facebook by typing in Ronan Pioneer Days 2017.

It’s all about community in Libby when it comes time for the annual Kootenai River Stampede to kick off Aug. 4-5 at J Neils Memorial Park.

Trisha Davis-Stacy has been rodeo secretary for the event since the rodeo started in 2004.

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“It’s near and dear to my heart,” she said. “When it first started, the chamber was its driving force.”

The PRCA sanctioned rodeo brings in cowboys and cowgirls from both the Montana and Columbia River circuits. It features all the events that fans of rodeo come to see, including bull and bronc riding, roping and barrel racing.

This year, the rodeo also will feature a troupe of trick ropers named the McMillan Riders. The riders range in age from 8 to 17.

“I’ve seen them numerous times at other rodeos,” Davis-Stacy said. “They are really fun to watch.”

The last rodeo not attached to a county fair coming to northwestern Montana will be held in Polson from Aug. 24-26.

This year’s Flathead River Rodeo will feature a new event called a ranch rodeo that offers local cowboys to show off the skills they’ve perfected over the years out on the range.

The fast-paced competition includes events like team doctoring, team steer mugging and trailer loading. Just to keep it western, there also will be a saddle bronc riding event thrown in.

“We wanted to add an event that will get more local participation and keep the three-day event format for our fans and sponsors,” said Pete White, the owner of Pistol Creek Rodeo and organizer of the Flathead River Rodeo. “We wanted to show our fans other Western lifestyle events that help preserve working ranch cowboy’s way of life.”

The two-day Indian Nationals Finals Rodeo that follows will feature some of the top Native American and First Nations cowboys and cowgirls from across the country and Canada.

Since its inception in 2012, White said the Polson rodeo has become a favorite for those who climb on the back of a horse or a bull before springing into the arena.

“It was voted as the most exciting one to go to by the cowboys and cowgirls,” White said. “It’s an up tempo rodeo that’s right there by Flathead Lake. We’ve really tried hard to create an exciting atmosphere and it appears to have worked.”

The rodeo draws somewhere between 380 to 500 contestants every year.

“It’s been a good event for the town,” White said. “Summer is starting to wind down. It gives an extra boost going into fall.”

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August 4

– Kids Fishing Derby at Ronan City Park 11 am – with Pioneer Days

August 10-27 – “Death by Golf” comedy farce at Port Polson Theatre; portpolsonplayers.com

August 4

– Bulls & Broncs at Ronan Pioneer Days 7:30 pm

August 11

– Pre-Car Show with Live Music Polson Red Lion 6 pm

August 4 & 5

– Street Dances starting 9 pm at Valley Club, 325 Bar & Second Chance Saloon for Pioneer Days in Ronan.

August 11

– Dee Fleming at Vine & Tap in downtown Polson 7-9 pm with jazz and contemporary guitar music

August 5

– VW Pancake Breakfast for Pioneer Days in Ronan 7 am to noon

August 12

– 46th Annual Sandpiper Art Festival on the Lake County Courthouse lawn 10 am to 5 pm; sandpiperartgallery.com or 883-5956

August 5

– 3 on 3 Jamboree at Middle School Basketball Courts Ronan, MT 8 am with Pioneer Days

August 12

– Polson Rotary Festival for Youth Chili Cook-off at Riverside Park 11 am – 2 pm; 883-1842

August 5

– Polson Bay Water Daze

August 12

– Summerfest Car Show starts at 8 a.m. in downtown Polson

August 6

– Big Parade on Main Street for Ronan Pioneer Days 12:30 pm

August 12

– Aber Day Reunion Concert at the Regatta Shoreline Amphitheater at the Polson Fairgrounds 3-9 pm with Mission Mountain Wood Band, Sam Riddle & Band and Andrea Harsell. Food and beverage vendors, no coolers; Tickets go on sale May 1 at Grizalum.org A benefit for the Anderson Broadcasting Charitable Foundation, Inc. assisting local charities with partners UM Alumni Association and Liquid Assets Corp, LLC

August 15

– Barton & Caselli at East Shore Smokehouse 6 pm; Hwy 35 Polson

polsonchamber.com or (406)-883-5969

August 6

– Northwestern Accordian Jam at Polson Elks 2 pm

August 8

– “What About Bob Karaoke” at East Shore Smokehouse 6 pm; Hwy 35 Polson

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August 10

– SOB’s at East Shore Smokehouse 6 pm; Hwy 35 Polson

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Kiddie Slicker Rodeo Sign-ups

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Middle School Basketball Courts 37th Annual Mission Mountain at Glacier Bank - Ronan Co-Ed Softball Tourney at Softball Fields on Mink Lane

Mission Mountain Golf Course

August 18-19 – 8th Annual Flathead Lake Blues Festival on the shores of Flathead Lake; flatheadlakebluesfestival.com August 19

– Small Town Girl Market at Polson Fairgrounds 9-4 pm; smalltowngirlmarket@gmail.com

August 19

– Polson Triathlon in Polson, MT; Matt 871-0216

August 22

– “What About Bob Karaoke” at East Shore Smokehouse 6 pm; Hwy 35 Polson

August 24

– SOB’s at East Shore Smokehouse 6 pm; Hwy 35 Polson

August 25

– Dee Fleming at Vine & Tap in downtown Polson 7-9 pm with jazz and contemporary guitar music.

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August 2017 The Artists’ Shop 127 N. Higgins Ave., 406-543-6393, missoulaartistsshop.com Aug. 4: Artist’s reception, 5-8 p.m. Featuring “Wilde Soul,” black and white photography by Hannah Hernandez.

Big Sky Brewing Company 5417 Trumpeter Way July 27: Lee Brice, 5:30 p.m. doors, 7 p.m. show, tickets $35-$40, available at Big Sky Brewing, Rockin’ Rudy’s, 866-468-7624, ticketweb.com, knittingfactory.com.

Bonner Park 1600 Ronald Ave., missoulacityband.org.

Aug. 2: Missoula City Band Concert featuring “The Beatles Forever,” 8 p.m.

Aug. 12: Missoula City Band Concert featuring Caitlin & Jesse, 8 p.m.

Aug. 12: University neighborhood reunion, noon-9:30 p.m. For those who grew up in the university area from the Clark Fork River to South Avenue and east of Higgins Avenue, or attended Paxson school in the 1950s and 1960s. Bring your own beverage and food affair (permit includes only beer and wine). Contact Bill Schwanke, 406-546-8478, bill.schwanke@ gmail.com.

Aug. 16: Missoula City Band Concert featuring a a Thomas Meagher celebration with The Shamrockers, 8 p.m.

Caras Park Out to Lunch, Wednesdays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

406-543-4238, missouladowntown.com Aug. 2: Music by Stacey Jones Band and activities by Zootown Arts Community Center Aug. 9: Music by Mudslide Charley and activities by Championship Training Aug. 16: Music by Moneypenny and activities

by Travelers’ Rest Aug. 23: Music by Mary Place & Blue Moon and activities by Animal Wonders Aug. 30: Music by Jameson & The Sordid Seeds and activities by Girl Scouts Downtown Tonight, Thursdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Aug. 3: Music by Rotgut Whines and activities by Mismo Gymnastics Aug. 10: Music by Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts and activities by Zootown Arts Community Center Aug. 17: Music by Letter B and activities by Championship Training Aug. 24: Music by 406 and activities by the

Great Griz Encounter Aug. 30: Music by The ghost Peppers and activities by Travelers’ Rest

Downtown Missoula West Main Street Aug. 25-26: River City Roots Festival, rivercityrootsfestival.com.

Double Arrow Lodge Seeley Lake Aug. 24: Shakespeare in the Parks presents “You Never Can Tell,” 6 p.m. shakespeareintheparks.org.

Dragon Hollow Caras Park July 29: Ninth annual Fairy Tale and Super Hero Festival, 10 a.m.-noon. Kids are invited to make crafts, meet real life super hoers including law enforcement officers and fire fighters, get their faces or nails painted plus visit booths.

406-549-8382.

Eagles Lodge 2420 South Ave. W. July 28-20: Dusk, 8 p.m.-1:30 a.m.

Aug. 4-5: Nashville 406, 8 p.m.-1:30 a.m.

Aug. 11-12: Northern Lights, 8 p.m.-1:30 a.m.

Aug. 18-19: Country Boogie Boys, 8 p.m.-1:30 a.m.

Aug. 25-26: Dusk, 8 p.m.-1:30 a.m.

KettleHouse Amphitheater 605 Cold Smoke Lane, Bonner; logjampresents.com or 877-987-6487 Aug. 2: Wheels of Soul: 2017 Summer Tour with the Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Wood Brothers and Hot Tuna, 5:30 p.m. doors, 7 p.m. show, tickets $55-$65, available at Top Hat Box Office, online or by phone.

Aug. 11: Primus & Clutch, 5:30 p.m. doors, 7 p.m. show, tickets $39.50-$47.50, available at Top Hat Box Office, online or by phone.

Aug. 12: Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo with Melissa Etheridge, 5:30 p.m. doors, 7 p.m. show, tickets $39.50-$49.50, available at Top Hat Box Office, online or by phone.

Aug. 17: Slayer with special guests Lamb of God and Behemoth, 5:30 p.m. doors, 7 p.m. show, tickets $44.50-$54.50, available at Top Hat Box Office, online or by phone.

Mineral County Fairgrounds Superior Aug. 16: Shakespeare in the Parks presents “You Never Can Tell,” 6 p.m. shakespeareintheparks.org.

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Missoula Outdoor Cinema Headstart Playground, 1001 Worden Ave., Nmcdc.org July 28: “Sixteen Candles,” approximately 9:12 p.m.

July 29: “Up,” approximately 9:11 p.m.

Aug. 4: “Princess Bride,” approximately 9:03 p.m.

Aug. 5: “Little Miss Sunshine,” approximately 9:01 p.m.

Aug. 11: “Never Ending Story,” approximately 8:52 p.m.

Aug. 12: “Young Frankenstein,” approximately 8:50 p.m.

Aug. 18: “O Brother Where Art Thou,” approximately 8:40 p.m.

Aug. 19: “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” approximately 8:38 p.m.

Aug. 25: “E.T.,” approximately 8:28 p.m.

Aug. 26: “The Big Lebowski,” approximately 8:26 p.m.

Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. Aug. 10: Contra dance, 7-10 p.m., potluck dinner, 6-7 p.m. $5 donation; all age and levels. missoualfolk.org.

Fact & Fiction 220 N. Higgins Ave., factandfictionbooks.com Aug. 1: David Abrams publication party, reading and signing of “Brave Deeds,” 7 p.m.

Free Cycles 721 S. First St. W. Aug. 4: First Friday, 7 p.m. featuring work by artist Lena Olson and live music provided

by Charlie Apple of PartyGoers, Fantasy Suite and others. There will be live performance, choreographed by Logan Prichard, as well as work from local artists: Erin Langley, Joshua Masias, John Christenson, Megan Escene, Jordan Chesnut, Jon Green, Daphne Sweet, Nick Kakavas, Christina Harrelson, Lena Olson and Padyn Humble.

Frenchtown Pond 18401 Frenchtown Frontage Rd. Aug. 1, 8, 15: Junior Ranger Program, 1011:30 a.m. Free and open to age 5-12. 925-3240571.

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Aug. 20: Montana Old Time Fiddlers, 1-5 p.m.

5646 W. Harrier Drive Aug. 4: The Claudettes, 8 p.m., $12 in advance, $15 day of show, all ages.

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The Red Bird 111 N. Higgins Ave. July 24: Coffee Can Stash with Anna Millburn and Alex Lee, 7-10 p.m.

July 31: Larry Hirshberg, 7-10 p.m.

Aug. 7: Tom Catmull, 7-10 p.m.

Aug. 14: Russ Nasset, 7-10 p.m.

Aug. 21: The John Floridis Trio with John Sporman and Ed Stalling, 7-10 p.m.

Aug. 28: Blue Moon with Mary Place and Latin Jazz, 7-10 p.m.

Shakespeare & Co. 103 S. Third St. W., 549-9010, shakespeareandco.com Aug. 3: Crazy Horse family members Floyd Clown and Doug War Eagle along with author William Matson discuss and sign their book “Crazy Horse: The Lakota Warrior’s Life and Legacy,” 7 p.m.

Sunrise Saloon

130 W. Pine St. Aug. 10: The Wailers, 5:30 p.m. doors, 7 p.m. show, tickets $28, available at Thomas Meagher Bar, 111presents.com, Rockin’ Rudy’s or 877987-6487.

Top Hat 134 W. Front St., tophatlounge.com July 28: Parker Millsap, 9:30 p.m., tickets $15.

July 29: Alt-country singer-songwriter James McMurtry, 9 p.m. doors, 10 p.m. show, tickets $17 in advance, $20 day of show.

Aug. 18: Texas-based country/rock band Reckless Kelly, 8:30 p.m. doors, 9 p.m. show, tickets, $22 in advance, $25 day of show.

Aug. 19: Brass-funk ensemble the New Breed Brass Band, 9 p.m. doors, 10 p.m. show, $10, all ages.

Aug. 20: Arkansas based doom metal band Pallbearer, 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show, $15 in advance, $17 day of show.

Aug. 23: Jo Pug, 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show, $15, all ages.

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The Wilma thewilma.com July 28: Blues Travelers, 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show, tickets $30-$40.

Aug. 3-4: Last Best Conference featuring national speakers, workshops led by local business leaders and live music and film packages. Lastbestconference.com.

Aug. 4: American country rock stalwarts Blackberry Smoke, Like An Arrow Tour, 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show, tickets $22.50 in advance, $29.50 day of show.

Aug. 14: Funk, rock and jazz of Trombone Short & Orleans Avenue, 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show, tickets $32.50-$37.50.

Aug. 22: Lake Street Dive, 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show, tickets $29.50-$35.

Aug. 31: Texas based country music artist Cody Jinks, 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show, $27, all ages.

Zootown Arts Community Center Wednesday, Aug. 9: 6-8 p.m. Glass Fusing Orientation Class: This introductory class will cover all of the basics: from how the kilning process works to designing, slumping, fusing, mold-making and glass aftercare. Class size is limited. $20/$15 for members, plus cost of

glass.

Friday, Aug. 11: 5:30-8:30 p.m. Digital Organics Gallery Opening: Michael Greytak’s show “Digital Organics” will be on display in the ZACC’s main gallery all of August. Intimate Landscapes Hallway Gallery Opening: a. elliot’s show, “Intimate Landscapes” will be on display in the ZACC’s hallway gallery all month.

Friday, Aug. 11: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free SilkScreening Demonstration: Looking for a unique gift idea? Have a light-colored shirt, scarf, or tote bag that needs a little dressing up? Bring it down to the ZACC during our silkscreen demonstration, choose one of the selected designs, and one of our artists will silkscreen it for free. Please note that this isn’t a class, but an opportunity for you to score some free silkscreen designs courtesy of ZACC artists and Missoula businesses.

Wednesday, Aug. 23: 6-8 p.m. Bob Ross Night: Create your very own Bob Ross-styled masterpiece. Students can expect to enjoy a relaxing evening guided by the soothing voice of Bob Ross as they watch and complete a painting of their own. We’ll have an instructor on hand to answer questions and all materials are provided – including canvas, paints, brushes and a glass of wine. A bonus glass of wine will

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Thursday, Aug. 24: 6-8 p.m. Ladies Pottery Painting Night: All ages and experience levels are welcome to participate. No reservations are necessary.

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Aug 5: Round up at Riverside, 5:30 p.m.

Aug. 10: Mansion Music Series “Marshall Catch”. Picnicking at 5 p.m., concert at 6 p.m.

Aug. 19-20: Celtic Games & Gathering. 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.

Scottish and Irish dancing, adult Highland athletic competitions, pipe & drum bands, the Gathering of the Clans (tent village and parades), Scotch and Irish whiskey tastings, dog herding demos, Celtic crafts, food and drink vendors and live music. bcgg.org.

River Street Dance Theater 421 N. Second St., Hamilton, 406-363-1203 Aug. 14-18: Summer workshops for young dancers ages 12 and older, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Workshop will offer daily classes in modern dance, ballet, jazz and improvisation, as well as

501 N. 10th St., Hamilton, 406-363-2800 Aug. 15: Shakespeare in the Parks presents “Macbeth,” 6 p.m. shakespeareintheparks.org.

Stevensville Playhouse 319 Main St. Stevensville, 406-777-2722 July 31-Aug. 4: Musical Theater and Dance Workshop, “It’s A Hard Knock Life.”

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Maestro John Zoltek. 406-407-7000, gscmusic. org.

Bigfork Art and Cultural Center 525 Electric Ave., bigforkculture.org Through Aug. 18: Lee Proctor solo exhibition.

presents “You Never Can Tell,” 6 p.m. shakespeareintheparks.org.

Hot Springs Symeshotsprings.com July 28-29: Hot Springs Blues Festival with blues, beer, wine camping, vendors and more.

Charlo Palmer Park Aug. 13: Shakespeare in the Parks presents “You Never Can Tell,” 6 p.m. shakespeareintheparks.org.

Downtown Bigfork July 29: Summer Garden & Art Tour, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. 406-837-6927, bigforkculture.org.

Aug. 5-6: 39th annual Bigfork Festival of the Arts, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., downtown Bigfork.

Downtown Polson Aug. 12: Summerfest Car show starts at 8 a.m.

East Shore Smokehouse Highway 35, Polson Aug. 1: Barton & Caselli, 6 p.m.

Aug. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31: Singing Sons of Beaches, 6 p.m.

Aug. 8, 22: “What About Bob” Karaoke, 6 p.m.

Aug. 15: Barton & Caselli, 6 p.m.

KwaTaqNuk Resort Polson Aug. 3: Highway 93 Band Lake County Courthouse lawn Polson, 883-5956, sandpiperartgallery.com Aug. 12: 46th annual Sandpiper Art Festival, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Lake County Fairgrounds Ronan July 29: Ranch Rodeo, 1 p.m.; arena dance, 7:30 p.m.

Libby Elementary Amphitheater Aug. 21: Shakespeare in the Parks presents “You Never Can Tell,” 6 p.m. shakespeareintheparks.org.

Flathead Lake Lodge Bigfork Aug. 27-Sept. 2: Crown of the Continent Guitar Festival. cocguitarfoundation.org, crownguitarfest.org.

The Garden Bar Bigfork July 28-29: Yabba Griffiths and Traxx Aug. 4-5: The 70s Band Aug. 5: Larry Meyers, 6 p.m.

Aug. 11-12: Scott Free Band Aug. 18-19: Eric Fingers Ray Aug. 25-26: The Elements

Historical Village Eureka Aug. 22: Shakespeare in the Parks

The Raven Woods Bay July 30: Rick Breckenridge, 5 p.m.

July 31: Soul Simple, 7:30-10:30 p.m. followed

by DJ Que Aug. 4: Red Roulette, 8:30 p.m.

Aug. 5: Bass Boat Launch, 6 p.m.

Aug. 6: Paul Cataldo, 5 p.m.

Aug. 7: Full moon Party Margarita Monday Snowy Mountain Sisters, 7:30 p.m.; MT Souls, 10:30 p.m.

Aug. 11: Moonshine Mountain, 8:30 p.m.

Aug. 13: Lil’ Red Roulette, 5 p.m.

Aug. 14: Sista Otis, 7:30 p.m.

Aug. 18: Here to Make Friends, 8:30 p.m.

Aug. 20: Old Sap, 5 p.m.

Aug. 21: Woodblind, 7:30 p.m.

Aug. 25: Erin & the Project, 8:30 p.m.

Aug. 27: Andre Floyd, 5 p.m.

Regatta Shoreline Amphiteather Libby Riverfrontbluesfestival.com Aug. 11-12: Eighth annual Libby Riverfront Blues Festival.

Flathead Lake Brewing Woods Bay July 30: Paul Cataldo Aug. 6: Colleen Miller Aug. 16: Mike Murray Aug. 20: Roots Rising Aug. 27: Old Sap

Quinn’s Hot Springs Paradise July 28-Aug. 1, 18-19: Highway 93 Band

Noxon Bigskyblues.com Aug. 5-6: 39th annual Big Sky Rhythm & Blues Music Festival.

O’Shaunessy Center Whitefish Aug. 9: Festival Amadeus chamber concert, 7:30 p.m. Featuring pianist Tanya Gabrielian with the Festival Amadeus orchestra under the baton of Maestro John Zoltek. 406-407-7000, gscmusic.org.

Polson Elks Aug. 2, 16: Ken’s Country Combo dance, 7-10 p.m.

Aug. 6: Northwestern Accordion Jam, 2 p.m.

Polson Fairgrounds July 29: Smokin’ on the River barbecue Battle 2017. 406-250-1983, 406-207-1012.

Aug. 19: Small Town Girl Market, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Aug. 25-26: Flathead River Indian Rodeo, 7 p.m. each night. 406-890-3309.

Flathead River, Polson Aug. 12: Aber Day Reunion concert, 3-9 p.m.

Featuring Mission Mountain Wood Band, Sam Riddle, Andrea Harsell and Luna Roja. Family friendly; food and beverage vendors on site. grizalum.com.

Riverside Park Polson Aug. 12: Polson Rotary Festival for youth chili cook-off, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 883-1842.

Ronan Aug. 4-6: Pioneer Days. Kids Fishing Derby, 11 a.m. Friday; golf scramble, 10 a.m. Friday; Bulls & Broncs, 7:30 p.m. Friday; street dance 9 p.m. both days at Valley Club; VW pancake breakfast, 7 a.m.-noon Saturday; 3-on-3 Jamboree, Saturday; parade, 12:30 p.m. Sunday.

Sacajawea Park Flathead Lake, Polson July 29-30: Third annual Flathead Lake Festival of Art, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. sandpiperartgallery.com.

Sanders County Fairgrounds Plains Aug. 17: Shakespeare in the Parks presents “Macbeth,” 6 p.m. shakespeareintheparks.org.

Sandpiper Art & Gift Gallery Polson, sandpiperartgallery.com July 30-Sept. 1: “Pause and Reflect Show.”

The Sitting Duck Woods Bay July 28, Aug. 4, 18, 25: Karaoke by Brittany, 9 p.m.

July 30: Craig Barton, 5 p.m.

Aug. 5: The Jackie Britton Band, 9 p.m.

Aug. 6: Craig Barton, 5 p.m.

Aug. 11: Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Aug. 12: Miller Campbell on tour, 9 p.m.

Aug. 19: Billy Angel, 9 p.m.

Aug. 20: Craig Barton, 5 p.m.

Aug. 27: Craig Barton, 5 p.m.

Swan River Inn Bigfork July 31 and Aug. 7: Flathead Dinner Theatre Repertory “Murder at Rundown Abbey,” doors open 6:45, show is at 7 p.m. Four course dinner included. Tickets $54.60 in advance, $60 at the door, reservations required, 406-217-6324, flatheadddtr@gmail.com.

Taelman Park St. Ignatius Aug. 12: Shakespeare in the Parks presents “Macbeth,” 6 p.m. shakespeareintheparks.org.

Theatre on Flathead Lake Polson, portpolsonplayers.com Aug. 10-27: “Death by Golf,” a comedy farce. 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. $18 adults, $17 seniors.

Trout Creek Community Park Aug. 11-13: Huckleberry Festival. Over 100 arts and crafts vendors plus parade, 5K run, dancing, children’s activities and more.

Aug. 18: Shakespeare in the Parks presents “You Never Can Tell,” 6 p.m. shakespeareintheparks.org.

Whitefish Center for the Performing Arts Aug. 12-13: Festival Amadeus concert featuring “The Magic Flute,” 7:40 p.m. Featuring cast of professional opera singers including baritone Ricardo Herrera, tenor Kirk Dougherty, sopranos Hanna Brammer-Dillon and Emily Peragine, bass Stephen Morscheck and others.

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DOG PULLS FAWN FROM NY WATER TO SAVE IT FROM DROWNING

PORT JEFFERSON, N.Y. (AP) — A dog that saw a baby deer in danger of drowning in New York jumped in and dragged it to shore.

The daring rescue in Long Island Sound was caught on video by his owner Mark Freeley. He said he was taking the English golden retriever named Storm on a walk when Storm “just plunged into the water and started swimming out to the fawn, grabbed it by the neck, and started swimming to shore.”

Video shows Storm pushing the deer to shore, lying next to the fawn and nudging it with his nose.

Freeley says animal rescuers soon arrived and the deer ran back into the water. They used a rope to pull the fawn back in.

The fawn is recovering at an animal rescue center.

WOMAN GIVES BIRTH IN UBER CAR ON WAY TO LA HOSPITAL

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California mom says that when she prayed her fourth birth would be a fast one, she couldn’t imagine it would happen in an Uber car on the way to the hospital.

Erica Davidovich and her husband, Niv, used the ride-hailing app when she started having contractions in Los Angeles.

She said her previous three children took hours to arrive, so she figured she had time to get to the hospital.

But they didn’t make it far before they asked the driver to pull over in a parking lot.

Erica says her husband delivered a healthy baby boy in the backseat.

The driver, Raymond Telles, says he managed to remain calm. He visited the family at the hospital and presented them with a gift: an Uber onesie.

COCKROACHES SWARM NEIGHBORHOOD IN PHILLY

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Water Department is trying to figure out what caused thousands of cockroaches to emerge from a manhole and swarm a neighborhood.

Pat Wall said the bugs have been invading her Bridesburg neighborhood. She says the bugs were so thick residents couldn’t see the ground.

Water department spokesman John DiGiulio says a sewer inlet might be clogged with food and trash that can attract the bugs, which are also known to multiply in warmer weather.

In the meantime, residents say they’re spraying their homes and stomping the bugs to keep them away.

Mineral Thursday, August 3: Exhibit Judging Dog Show 1pm Family Night - Chicken Scramble & Pig Chase Live Music 8 - 11:30pm

Friday, August 4: Cabin Fever Quilt Show Superior Lions Club, “Go for the Gold” Rodeo 8pm Live Music

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Superior, Montana August 3, 4 & 5, 2017 Saturday, August 5: Fair Parade - starting 11am Talent Show 2-3:30pm 4-H Livestock Auction 4pm Superior Lions Club, “Go For the Gold” Rodeo 8pm Kelly Hughes Band 10pm

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denouement Gallery 709 inside Montana Art and Framing presents a retrospective of the work of Aden Arnold, longtime professor of art at the University of Montana (early 1940s until his retirement in the late 1960s). These oils, watercolors, sculptures and other objects illustrate the remarkable ability of Arnold to work in a wide range of styles and media. From three private collections, these works have not been available for public viewing for almost 50 years. The exhibit runs form Aug. 4-25, with a First Friday opening on Friday, Aug. 4, from 5 to 9 p.m. at 709 Ronan St. in Missoula. Call 406-541-7100 for more information. to submit your art to denouement, contact us at ashley.klein@missoulian.com

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