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The 22nd annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is taking place in Missoula, Montana, February 14-23, 2025 (and virtually February 17-27). Lauren Korn discusses this year’s festival with Director of Programming, Ryan Weibush.

Jamie McKeogh, guitarist, singer and songwriter for the iGrass band JigJam joins host John Floridis for a conversation about the band's origins in Durrow, County Offalay in central Ireland to its most current recording "Across the Pond."

Lady Strings, Fran Grace one of the leading voices in Sacred Steel music joins host John Floridis.

Larry Bellorín and Joe Troop, Larry and Joe, are multi instrumentalists and singer songwriters. As a duo they perform a fusion of Venezuelan and Appalachian folk music on harp, banjo, cuatro, fiddle, maracas, guitar, upright bass, and whatever else they decide to throw in the van. The program they offer features a distinct blend of their musical inheritances and traditions as well as storytelling about the ways that music and social movements coalesce.

Adam Ajala and Dave Johnston of the Yonder Mountain String Band, the American progressive bluegrass group from Nederland, Colorado visit with host John Floridis. Composed of Dave Johnston, Ben Kaufmann, Adam Aijala, Nick Piccininni, and Coleman Smith the band has released eleven studio albums and six live records to date.

Program Director Michael Marsolek speaks with John Ludin—Executive Director of Montana TheatreWorks, which owns and operates the Ellen Theater in Bozeman—about the theater’s history and about upcoming shows and performances.

The 69th Legislature is starting Week 11 today. Republican Senate President Matt Regier joins the podcast.

The 69th legislature is starting Week 11. Today, Democratic House Minority Leader Katie Sullivan joins the podcast to share her thoughts on the first half of the session, the policy advancing through the statehouse and what she expects in the second half.

Host Shaylee Ragar sits down with Mara Silvers and Eric Dietrich of the Montana Free Press to get into the latest flareup of drama in the Senate, abortion policy after CI-128 and a new tool to track legislation from MTFP.

Program Director Michael Marsolek sits down with Greg and June Siple to talk about their bicycle tour from Anchorage, Alaska, to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, which took place from 1972 to 1975 and totaled 18,272 miles. A long-form documentary will air on Montana Public Radio later this year.