TIME FOR THREE

Hamilton Performing Arts Center

View artist website Bonded by an uncommon blend of instruments and vocals, Charles Yang (violin), Nick Kendall (violin), and Ranaan Meyer (double bass), have found a unique voice of expression. To experience Time For Three live is to hear the various eras, styles, and traditions...

JON CLEARY and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen

Hamilton Performing Arts Center

View artist website Jon Cleary’s love and affinity for New Orleans music goes back to the rural British village of Cranbrook, Kent, where he was raised in a musical family. In 1981 Cleary flew to New Orleans and took a cab straight from the airport...

OTTMAR LIEBERT & LUNA NEGRA

Hamilton Performing Arts Center

View artist website Ottmar Liebert has said that “flamenco is a music both romantic and dangerous; it is an attitude as much as it is a musical genre.” The guitarist is renowned for harnessing the emotional fire and mournful tonalities of traditional flamenco music, updating...

MICK MOLONEY AND THE GREEN FIELDS OF AMERICA

Mary Stuart Rogers Performing Arts Center at Victor School 425 4th Avenue, Victor, Montana

View artist website The Green Fields of America was formed in 1978 by Mick Moloney to present and tour some of Irish America’s finest musicians and dancers. The Green Fields of America was the first group on either side of the Atlantic to bring together Irish vocal,...

ORQUESTA AKOKÁN

Hamilton Performing Arts Center

View artist website Straight out of Havana, Cuba comes a blazing ensemble of deeply soulful mambo reminiscent of Benny Moré, Pérez Prado, and banda gigante of the 1940’s and 50’s.  The album boasts all original songs recorded at the historic state-run Estudios Areito with Cuba’s finest players, young...

AOIFE O’DONOVAN

Hamilton Performing Arts Center

View artist website Aoife O’Donovan is an Irish-American singer and Grammy award-winning songwriter and musician. She is one of the most sought-after singers and songwriters of her generation. She is best known as the lead singer and co-founder for the band Crooked Still and has...

Recurring Event Special Performance (non-season)

“MARK O’CONNOR DUO” WITH MAGGIE O’CONNOR

Hamilton Performing Arts Center

View artist website “Mark O’Connor Duo” with Maggie O’Connor: American Classics identifies the cornerstones of repertoire, style and wonderful diversity of A New American School of String Playing. Mining a huge body of repertoire that has made its impact on American music, the selected tunes and...

Recurring Event Special Performance (non-season)

IONA FYFE

Mary Stuart Rogers Performing Arts Center at Victor School 425 4th Avenue, Victor, Montana

Aberdeenshire folksinger, Iona Fyfe, has become one of Scotland’s finest singers, rooted deeply in the singing traditions of the North East of Scotland. In 2021, she became the first singer to win the coveted title of Musician of the Year at the MG ALBA Scots...

Recurring Event 2022-2023 Season

Steve March-Tormé

Hamilton Performing Arts Center

Steve March-Tormé has an extraordinary talent for moving audiences with his stirring vocals and dazzling them with his technical facility. Drawing from a background steeped in the entertainment industry, Steve performs some of the most enduring, well-crafted songs ever written, beautifully arranged to appeal to...

Recurring Event 2022-2023 Season

Quarteto Nuevo

Hamilton Performing Arts Center

Quarteto Nuevo merges Western classical, Eastern European folk, Latin and jazz with an organic feel that packs a wallop! The ensemble’s razor-sharp precision is enhanced by jazzy interludes, lightly rumbling percussion motifs and mesmerizing rhythms. They effectively meld the music of ancient worlds and faraway...

Recurring Event Special Performance (non-season)

Philip Aaberg

Mary Stuart Rogers Performing Arts Center at Victor School 425 4th Avenue, Victor, Montana

Grammy and Emmy nominated composer Philip Aaberg of Chester, Montana, is known worldwide for his compositions that evoke the spaciousness and beauty of the Western landscape. His musical career is as diverse and expansive as the Montana landscape he calls home. Aaberg first appeared on...

Recurring Event Special Performance (non-season)

Philip Aaberg

Mary Stuart Rogers Performing Arts Center at Victor School 425 4th Avenue, Victor, Montana

Grammy and Emmy nominated composer Philip Aaberg of Chester, Montana, is known worldwide for his compositions that evoke the spaciousness and beauty of the Western landscape. His musical career is as diverse and expansive as the Montana landscape he calls home. Aaberg first appeared on...

Recurring Event 2022-2023 Season

Naturally 7

Hamilton Performing Arts Center

“A capella group” so vastly underplays what Naturally 7 creates onstage that they had to coin a phrase – “Vocal Play” – to more accurately depict what they do. Naturally 7 is more than a tightly orchestrated collection of great singers. They transform their voices...

Recurring Event 2022-2023 Season

The Suffers

Hamilton Performing Arts Center

Founded in 2011, The Suffers built a devoted local following in Houston before breaking out internationally with their 2015 debut EP, Make Some Room, which helped land them performances everywhere from Letterman to NPR’s Tiny Desk. The band followed it up in 2016 with a...

Recurring Event 2022-2023 Season

Lúnasa

Hamilton Performing Arts Center

Named for an ancient Celtic harvest festival in honor of the Irish god Lugh, Lúnasa was formed in 1997 from members of some of the greatest Irish groups of the previous decade. An early review from Folk Roots magazine described the band as an “Irish...

Spring For the Arts Gala

Bitterroot River Inn & Conference Center 139 Bitterroot Plaza Dr., Hamilton, MT

Please join us in celebrating our 9th Annual Gala! This wonderful evening in support of your local arts includes: Come celebrate with us as we gear up for our 20th year. Dinner - Wine Pull - Silent, Live & Student Art Auction Live Entertainment - And our...

Recurring Event 2022-2023 Season

SARA GAZAREK

Hamilton Performing Arts Center

Graced with an “impeccable” voice (Winnipeg Free Press), Sara Gazarek has been one of the leading lights of an impressive generation of jazz vocalists since her brilliant emergence at age 20. Gazarek’s experience began in the overcast light of Seattle, where she was originally drawn...

Recurring Event 2023-2024 Season

Don McLean

Hamilton Performing Arts Center

While “American Pie” is probably the first Don McLean song that pops to mind for many, it's worth remembering that this legendary American singer, songwriter, and composer has written and sung a long list of musical successes in his decades-long career. His extensive discography include hits such as "Vincent (Starry Starry Night)," "Castles in the Air," "And I Love You So," and "Cryin’.'' In 2018, McLean released his 19th studio album, Botanical Gardens, to rave reviews.

Recurring Event 2023-2024 Season

Suzy Bogguss

Hamilton Performing Arts Center

During the creative explosion that was country music in the 1990s, Suzy Bogguss sold 4 million records with sparkling radio hits like “Outbound Plane,” “Someday Soon,” “Letting Go,” “Drive South,” and “Hey Cinderella." But you can’t peg Suzy that easily.

In the midst of her country popularity, she took time off to make an album of duets with the legendary Chet Atkins. In 2003 she made an album of modern swing music with Ray Benson of Asleep At The Wheel. An album of original music in 2007 landed Suzy at number 4 on the jazz charts. Her folk music roots showed through in her frequent appearances on public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion, in the Grammy she earned for her work on Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster, and in her critically acclaimed album and book project from 2011, American Folk Songbook. In 2014, she released Lucky, a collection of songs written by Merle Haggard and interpreted through Suzy’s crystal vocals from the female point of view. Her latest offering, Aces Redux, is a re-recording of her platinum selling album Aces, produced by Suzy with fresh arrangements and her signature sparkling vocals. She continues to tour the world, on her own and with fellow country radio divas Terri Clark and Pam Tills as “Chicks With Hits.”

So yes, you can call her a country singer if you want, but really that’s just the beginning.