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Montana's Summer 2019 Pop Concert Roundup

Jorge Alverez. CC-BY-NC-2.0
Pemberton Music Festival crowd

John Floridis hosts an hour-long roundup of pop music bands who'll be playing the concert stages of Western, Central and Southwest Montana this summer.  In this Monday Music Special, John highlights just a few of the bands presented by The Red Ants Pants Festival, Logjam Presents, The Moonlight Festival, The Under the Big Sky Fest, The Bob Marshall Music Festival, and The Big Sky Brewing Series.

Musicians featured include: Tony Furtado, Nathaniel Rateliff, The Wood Brothers, War and Treaty, Patty Griffin, Amanda Shires, Jackson Browne, Dustbowl Revival, Tommy Emmanuel, Robert Plant, Ani DiFranco, The Waifs, Bon Iver, Robert Cray, Shemekia Copeland and Mike Murray.

(Broadcast: 6/24/19, as the Monday Music Special.)

Listen to "Musician's Spotlight" on the radio Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., or via podcast.

Beth Anne Austein has been spinning tunes on the air (The Folk Show, Dancing With Tradition, Freeforms), as well as recording, editing and mixing audio for Montana Public Radio and Montana PBS, since the Clinton Administration. She’s jockeyed faders or "fixed it in post” for The Plant Detective; Listeners Bookstall; Fieldnotes; Musicians Spotlight; The Write Question; Storycorps; Selected Shorts; Bill Raoul’s music series; orchestral and chamber concerts; lecture series; news interviews; and outside producers’ programs about topics ranging from philosophy to ticks.
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