Gardiner Brewgrass Festival brings live music & family fun to Arch Park
The North Yellowstone Education Foundation will present its annual Gardiner Brewgrass Festival on Saturday, July 21st in Arch Park from 3–10pm.
The event will feature Montana breweries and wineries, as well as a kids village with family-friendly activities, games, and keg root beer. Live music will keep the good times rolling courtesy of Canyon Collected, Pickin’ Pear, and Bridger Creek Boys. Event entry is $25 at the gate which includes beer glass and free samples all night. Discounted advance tickets are also available for $20 at Tumbleweed Bookstore & Café through July 20th.
Colorado’s Canyon Collected is a grass band whiskey bent on blurring genre lines and creating new music rooted in an all American cross-country experience. Each member features a unique style influenced by a multitude of genres, artists, places and time. They write love songs, drinking tunes, pop hits, murder ballads, and they like to take time and improv a jam, take chances and push their limits. Canyon Collected play a heavy dose of original music, the occasional obscure cover song, and tunes any crowd will enjoy. Their album, In the Woods, is available now.
Both Canyon Collected members, Tia Martini and Leon Elam have branched out to create the folk n’ roll duo of Pickin’ Pear. They combine their non-traditional stylings to their traditional instruments and create an original mix of modern American music. Together the Pear take the banjo and ukulele down the road of folk, rock, and bluegrass. Sometimes the ukulele will even launch you straight to outer space. A blend of top-notch songwriting and improvisational jamming makes each one of their songs sound unique.
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.
ALL event proceeds will directly benefit Northern Yellowstone Education Foundation whose mission is to provide sustainable support and enhance innovative educational opportunities for students, teachers and community members in partnership with Gardiner Public Schools. Learn more at www.gardinernyef.org. Find them on Facebook for updated event information and future announcements, @GardinerNYEF. •