Christy Hays, BoZambique live during Bridger’s Music & Mussels
Bridger Brewing is home to the very best Montana craft beers and artisan pizzas available. In addition to its fantastic menu items, the family-friendly brewer also hosts Music & Mussels every Wednesday, {Pints with Purpose} every Monday, and scintillating outdoor concerts during the summer months. Here’s a look at some of the upcoming acts and nonprofits.
In collaboration with ChickenJam, Bridger will host another edition of its popular outdoor music concert series featuring Lake Street Dive on Monday, September 10th at 7pm. Tickets for this all-ages event are $36 and available at Cactus Records, or the door, depending on availability. Note: every online ticket purchase for the show includes a copy of the band’s new album, Free Yourself Up. The record is influenced by late sixties-early seventies R&B, AM pop, and FM rock while the lyrics are informed more by contemporary events. Read The BoZone’s interview with Lake Street’s Rachael Price on Page 4C.
Wednesday nights from 5–8pm, Bridger Brewing hosts Music & Mussels! Come enjoy some live music and a half pound of succulent, steamed mussels with house-made sweet Italian sausage, tomatoes, garlic, and chili flakes, topped with parsley and tomato salsa.
Christy Hays and Tony Polecastro team up for an evening of tunes on Wednesday, September 5th.
“Like Lucinda Williams in a Carhartt jacket, Christy Hays works rugged metaphors into emotionally charged country folk,” wrote a reviewer for The Austin Chronicle. Hays’ music has folk and country tinges, thoughtfully penned stories and a full band sound that’s both driving alt country and moody folk rock.
Compared to Brandi Carlile, Lucinda Williams, Rhett Miller, Kathleen Edwards and Patty Griffin, Hays has a sound uniquely her own. She has shared the stage with Hayes Carll, Sturgil Simpson, Bruce Robison, Kelly Willis and Jeffery Foucault to name a few. River Swimmer, Hays’ third full-length and fifth release overall, brings the culmination of her influences and experiences traveling the world. The album is available now.
Polecastro is a YouTube Guitar Geek, instructor, and lover of all things strings. The local artist plays original material spanning from American Primitive guitar-influenced instrumentals a la John Fahey and Daniel Bachman, to more modern fingerstyle flights of fancy. To round out the sonic pie, he also sings his originals and covers out of the traditional and folk catalog. Often teamed up with singer/songwriters such as Shelly Bessler and Christy Hays, Polecastro rarely has a microphone in front of him, but his solo shows turn all that inside out. Expect multiple guitars, dobro, and even some old time banjo to blend with his elegant croaking – ahem – singing.
Latin fusion group BoZambique will entertain brewery patrons on Wednesday, September 12th. The band performs percussive-centric melodies driven by world-infused rhythm and blues. They are a five-member band inspired by Afropop, Highlife, as well as Cuban and Brazilian song and dance. BoZambique is comprised of Loren Block (uke bass), Aaron Banfield (guitar), Matt Sloan (saxophone), Jelani Mahiri (percussion), and Doug Wales (congas).
Bridger Creek Boys will showcase their talents on Wednesday, September 19th. The Boys are an acoustic bluegrass quartet steeped in old-time tradition, while also pushing the genre with newgrass. The band blends originals with covers of traditional bluegrass and more contemporary artists. Their style is confident, complex, and full of improvisation that will draw you in and get you shaking all over with bluegrass joy.
Bridger Brewing not only takes pride in its stellar menu items, but also in the community it serves. The brewery hosts {Pints with Purpose} every Monday evening from 5–8pm where $1 of every pint sold will be donated to a featured local nonprofit. Here’s a look at some of the nonprofits on the calendar in the coming weeks. Come enjoy a house-brewed pint and be charitable in the process!
Have a brew and help raise dollars for the WWAMI Spanish Healthcare Interest Group on Monday, September 3rd. The first-year medical students are committed to serving rural and underserved Latino communities. A service trip to Leon, Nicaragua, has been organized for the students to work with a local non-profit. Their focus will be on nutrition and developing a relationship with the community. Learn more at www.montana.edu/wwami.
Proceeds from Monday, September 10th will benefit Bozeman Film Society. Established in 1978, the local outfit seeks out and presents independent films which engage, entertain, and foster an understanding of the world community around us. Learn more at www.bozemanfilmsociety.org.
