Experience the thriving music scene Montana has this summer and plan your upcoming trip to catch one of these iconic festivals:
Red Lodge Songwriter Festival (Red Lodge, MT): Celebrating 10 years this June, the Red Lodge Songwriter Festival is a three-day event for songwriters across the country to showcase their music. Held June 18-20, the festival will feature 26 songwriters performing over 50 shows in cafes and theaters and even on the streets of Red Lodge.
Headwaters Country Jam (Three Forks, MT): Headwaters is a three-day country music festival held July 23-25, featuring 20+ bands on two stages, surrounded by Montana’s awe-inspiring landscape.
Red Ants Pants Festival (White Sulphur Springs, MT): This festival is a program of the 501(c)(3) Red Ants Pants Foundation, which develops and expands leadership roles for women while preserving and supporting working family farms and ranches and enriching and promoting rural communities. The festival, held on July 23-26, uses proceeds to fund community grants and programs.
Zootown Festival (Missoula, MT): Returning for its second year on June 19-20, Zootown Festival is a two-day outdoor music festival at the Missoula Fairgrounds. The festival features national acts like The Lumineers and the Chicks, and offers local food vendors and outdoor recreational activities where the mountains meet the Clark Fork River.
Under the Big Sky (Whitefish, MT): This annual three-day music and arts festival is held on Big Mountain Ranch in Whitefish on July 17-19. Under the Big Sky features Americana, country, folk and rock artists along with rough stock rodeo, local vendors and incredible views of the Whitefish Mountain Range.
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