Big Music Comes to Big Sky Country

The culture of music in Montana comes from one-of-a-kind relationship between the community’s rugged craftsmanship and the state’s grand landscapes.  With a rich heritage and some of the last unspoiled wild places in the country, Montana is not only an inspiration for music but also the perfect venue to enjoy it.  With summer just getting underway, we thought that it was a perfect time to check in on the Big Sky State and see what’s cooking up this year.

Red Ants Pants Festival, White Sulphur Springs

Red Ants Pants Festival, White Sulphur Springs. Ph: VisitMT

Montana’s Massive Music Fests

Here’s a quick list of must see music-fests around Montana to see this summer:

  • Magic City Blues, Montana’s Urban Music Festival in Billings, brings a decidedly urban music festival to the rural state with it’s hospitality, unique setting, fabulous lineups, and the appeal of “The Last Best Place.”
  • The Red Ants Pants Festival in White Sulphur Springs was founded in 2011 to bring people together and is a program of the 501(c)(3) Red Ants Pants Foundation – a non-profit  dedicated to women’s leadership, working family farms and ranches, and rural communities.
  • Rockin’ the Rivers in Three Forks: a classic-rock concert held at ‘The Bridge’ each August where you can expect to see the Doobie Brothers, George Thorogood, Collective Soul, Pat Benatar, Third Eye Blind, Alice Cooper, Peter Frampton and other top name rock bands from the 60’s to the present
  • New this year: the inaugural Moonlight Music Fest in Big Sky, which will take place at the Madison Village, below Moonlight Basin at the base of Big Sky, Montana’s captivating Lone Peak.
  • Traveler’s Rest will bring an all-star lineup to Missoula including the Decemberists, Death Cab For Cutie, Jeff Tweedy, and much more.
Music in Montana with Travelers Rest in Missoula

Travelers Rest in Missoula, MT

More Music in Montana Favorites

Going to a concert in Montana combines incredible performance experiences in even more incredible locations.  While Montana’s indoor venues, like the Top Hat in Missoula, offer music lovers intimate club experience with an ongoing cast of national favorites, it’s arguably Montana’s outdoor venues that are truly hardest to beat.  Places like the Kettlehouse Amphitheater in Bonner, a recent addition to Montana’s music scene, is a new place where listeners can enjoy stunning mountain and riverside views during performances (including the Dirty Heads). And then there’s Tippet Rise Art Center in Fishtail.  Tippet Rise is a large format, landscape sized outdoor art campus which hosts classical music performances each summer to celebrate the interconnection of art, music and nature against the breathtakingly majestic Beartooth Mountains.

Big Sky Resort, Yellowstone Country.

Big Sky Resort, Yellowstone Country. ph:VisitMT