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The Session podcast team took some time at the inaugural Montana Free Press Fest, held in Missoula Sept. 6-8, to sit down and discuss what we can see about next year’s legislative session from here in front of a live audience.

Electronic music composer, producer and songwriter Scott Hansen, also known as Tycho joins host John Floridis for this episode. The Grammy nominated musician discusses his early inspiration into music which came more from a knowledge of computers than from mastering a musical instrument.

On this episode of ‘Front Row Center,’ host Lauren Korn sits down with Jay Kettering and Gwen McKenna to talk about their brand new musical, ‘The Girl with the Ivory Ankle,’ staged at the Orphan Girl Children’s Theatre, located in the basement of the Mother Lode Theatre in Butte.

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Rising Appalachia joins host John Floridis on this Musician's Spotlight. Led by multi-instrumentalist sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith. Known for their seamless harmonies, songcatching and storytelling, they’ve released 10 albums performing everywhere from Telluride to Red Rocks to NPR’s Tiny Desk, cultivating a devoted grassroots following traveling to communities by train, horseback, bio-diesel bus and sailboat.

Front Row Center Host Keely Larson sits down with Westside Theater and Bare Bait Dance Executive Director Joy French, along with dancer and choreographer Caroline McCauley, to talk about 40 Over 40—a production that includes over 80 dancers ages 40 and up, from "dance curious" participants to those with extensive experience in the artform.

‘Front Row Center’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Alissa Tucker, the founder and director of Last Best Cabaret, a new entertainment company with two spring performances in March and April.

Host John Floridis welcomes back to Musician's Spotlight John Gorka, one of the most respected and beloved contemporary folk singer songwriters of his generation.Gorka relates the process of writing and recording his 17th and most recent album “unentitled” as well as the inspirations behind the songs including “A Light Exists in the Spring” which uses an Emily Dickinson poem and “Particle and Wave” which came to him from the Parkland Students March For Our Lives. John Also answers questions from listeners, goes into more depth about his New Jersey roots and explains the concept of knowing how songs are supposed to feel versus how they are supposed to sound.

Acclaimed singer and composer Falu Shah returns to Musician's Spotlight. Falu, a GRAMMY Award winner and a four-time GRAMMY Award nominee and the first Indian-born singer/songwriter to win that GRAMMY Award, occupies a unique station in the ever-rich domain of world music.

Host John Floridis visits with percussionist Matt Zimbel of Manteca, the unique Pan fusion collective also described as “Jazz adjacent, heavy metal, hoe down rock band…"