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ChickenJam West has the show you’re looking for this month in Bozeman.
Boulder, Colorado-based Cosmic Americana band Grant Farm has entertained a growing fan base on the nation’s club and festival scene since its founding in 2009 by vocalist and National Flatpicking Guitar Champion Tyler Grant. The band’s latest release, Kiss the Ground, represents its first full-length concept album and its third album of original music. Speaking to the struggles we all face as working people, Kiss the Ground sends a positive message while acknowledging real hardship in a society that expects far too much. “We think of this as our ode to the working people,” says Grant, whose song, “Get in Line,” discusses the high price we pay for things we want in life. Kiss the Ground explores real and mythological connections to the human struggle and pays homage to the “Working Class Hero,” an archetype famously described by John Lennon. Like a “traveling Gypsy family,” Grant Farm enjoys their life of touring, writing and adventuring together as they share their music up and down the North American roots music line. Von Stomper will perform with local help from Laney Lou & the Bird Dogs on Saturday, June 11th at the Filling Station at 10pm. Tickets to this 21+ show are just $7 at the door. Doors at 9pm.
Inspired by the lonely, the downtrodden, and the insane–the voices of Von Stomper, a Colorado based five piece, reach into the expansive lexicon of American roots music and make it howl. Their high energy live show, a whiskey driven frenzy, has left boots tattered and dance floors torn time and time again. Since August of 2013, Von Stomper has played over one hundred shows in thirteen states and counting, sharing the stage with acts such as The Dirty River Boys, Roadkill Ghost Choir, Swear & Shake, Uncle Lucious, Wood & Wire, The Yawpers, Local H and many more. With their self-titled debut studio album-recorded at UI Soundstudios, they continue to pave their way through America’s countrysides and city skylines. The Blackberry Bushes Stringband will take the stage with help from C-Love and Run on Wednesday, June 15th at the Filling Station at 9pm. Tickets to this 21+ show are just $7 at the door. Doors at 8pm.
The Blackberry Bushes are an acoustic Americana and bluegrass band whose sound falls somewhere between Gillian Welch and The Infamous Stringdusters. Their songs evoke the natural world, with themes of imperfection and impermanence. The instrumentation is precise and improvisational, reminiscent of the virtuosic bluegrass greats. The Bushes have that rare magic that allows them to fuse voices from many genres into an acoustic instrumentation that retains distinct threads of sonic color. Elements of jazz, classical, pop, old-time and bluegrass saturate this modern string band sound that is buoyant, bold, and like their thorny namesake, rooted and growing, growing, growing. For more information about these and other shows, visit chickenjamwest.com/. •
