For more than a decade, Music in the Mountains has been Montana’s finest free outdoor concert series, featuring the best up-and-coming touring musicians in the country as well as established, well-known artists. Our state-of-the-art venue (Center Stage at Len Hill Park) provides the perfect backdrop for locals and visitors to come together and enjoy incredible live music under the Big Sky. These family-friendly concerts are held every Thursday from late June – early September starting at 6 p.m.including our annual July 4 concert and special Metal in the Mountains concert
Call for food Vendors: Applications are now open for food trucks and vendors for the 2025 season. Mail tamara@bigskyarts.org for details and application.
Application Link: https://www.eventeny.com/events/vendor/?id=30040
Madeline Thunder is working on this year's poster art for Music in the Mountains and Metal in the Mountains. If you liked her art from the past two years, we know you’re going to love her poster design this year! Along with other merchandise, posters will be available throughout the summer at the merch tent during the concerts!
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THANK YOU FOR RESPECTING AND HELPING US KEEP THE PARK AND BIG SKY COMMUNITY in GREAT SHAPE.
June 26, 2025: John 'Papas' Gros (Presenting Sponsor: Lone Mountain Land Company)
July 3, 2025: Yarn (Premier Partner: Bozeman Health)
July 4, 2025: Tiny Band
July 10, 2025: moe. (Premier Partner: Montage)
July 17, 2025: The Brothers Comatose (Premier Partner: Outlaw Partners)
July 24, 2025: Cracker (Premier Partner: Big Sky Sotheby's)
July 31, 2025: The Jamie McLean Band (Premier Partner: Pure West Christie's)
August 7, 2025: The Nude Party (Premier Partner: First Security Bank)
August 14, 2025: Zach Person (Premier Partner: Yellowstone Club)
August 21, 2025: Big Richard (Premier Partner: 3 Rivers Communication)
August 28, 2025: Hot Buttered Rum (Premier Partner: American Bank)
Thanks to the Spanish Peaks Community Foundation for supporting our Emerging Artist Series again this summer! This series showcases local and regional opening bands to the weekly concert audience by featuring the area's best up-and-coming talent!!!
Emerging Artists:
June 26, 2025: Strumbucket
July 3, 2025: Ben Larson
July 4, 2025: DJ Chedda
July 10, 2025: Brian Kassay
July 17, 2025: Cruz Contreras and the Black Lillies
July 24, 2025: The Love Darts
July 31, 2025: Emma and The Ledge
August 7, 2025: Lost Canyons
August 14, 2025: Left on Tenth
August 21, 2025: Honeyholler
August 28, 2025: Scratchin' Gravel
Metal in the Mountains - September 4th: Scavenger
We need volunteers! We have a lot of fun opportunities throughout the summer to volunteer at Music in the Mountains! Head to our Volunteer page to apply and learn more.
2005 ▸ Reggae Cowboys, Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart, Jeni Fleming Acoustic Trio, The Waybacks 2006 ▸ Eightrack Mind, Uncle Earl, Illsauce, Storyhill, Tom Freund, Too Slim and the Taildraggers 2007 ▸ Asylum Street Spankers, Eightrack Mind, Reggae Cowboys, Martha Scanlan, Billy Pilgrims, Ryan Shupe and the Rubberband, Left Ear Trio, Toubab Krewe, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Steam Powered Airplane 2008 *start of free Music in the Mountains Series ▸ Rob Quist and Great Northern, On the One, Flowmotion, Wailin’ Jennys, Jeni Fleming, Spring Creek Bluegrass Band, Feast, Delta Nove, Young Dubliners, Clumsy Lovers, Jawbone Railroad 2009 ▸ Seven Nations, Sam and Ruby, Corb Lund, Micky and the Motorcars, Patrick Sweany, John Reischman and the Jaybirds, Mingo Fishtrap 2010 ▸ Freddy Pink, Infamous Stringdusters, Ian McFeron Band, Young Dubliners, Dusty Rhodes, Lisa Haley and the Zydekats, Brothers of the Baladi, Orgone, Cold Hard Cash Show 2011 ▸ Freddy Pink, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Chuck Mead, Head for the Hills, The Mother Hips, The Black Lillies, Cold Hard Cash Show, Dave Walker Band, Keegan Smith and the Fam 2012 ▸ Freddy Pink, B-Side Players, The Black Lillies, Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers, Morgan Frazier, Clumsy Lovers, The Elders, John Reischman and the Jaybirds, Mike Beck and the Bohemian Saints, Cold Hard Cash Show, Pinky and the Floyd 2013 ▸ Freddy Pink, California Honeydrops, Eilen Jewell, The Deadly Gentlemen, Jeanne Jolly, Mountain Standard Time, Chuck Prophet, Lake Street Dive, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Dead Winter Carpenters 2014 ▸ The Slide Brothers, The Main Squeeze, Red Elvises, Dead Winter Carpenters, Della Mae, Fox Street, Black Lillies, Sweetback Sisters 2015 ▸ The Tiny Band, Sons of Bill, Incendio, The Suffers, The Whiskey Gentry, Corb Lund, Royal Southern Brotherhood, The Brothers Comatose, Euforquestra 2016 ▸ Black Lillies, Blitzen Trapper, Band of Heathens, Jamie McLean Band, Todo Mundo, Lukas Nelson, The Iguanas, Amy Helm, DeadPhish Orchestra, Fruition, Cure for the Common, The Tiny Band 2017 ▸ The Lil Smokies, New Orleans Suspects, The Quebe Sisters, Assembly of Dust, Dirty Revival, Turnpike Troubadours, The Last Revel, Deadphish Orchestra, Andy Frasco and the U.N., The Ghost of Paul Revere, Con Brio 2018 ▸ Kitchen Dwellers, Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal, Mandolin Orange, Joe Pug, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Polyrhythmics, Shovels and Rope, Cordovas, The Elders, Jeff Austin Band, Dustbowl Revival, Pinky and the Floyd 2019 ▸ Futurebirds, Halden Wofford and the Hi-Beams, The Commonheart, Orgone, Hayes Carll, Marcia Ball, Town Mountain, Mt. Joy, Honey Island Swamp Band, Ron Artis and the Truth, Pinky and the Floyd 2021 ▸ Steep Canyon Rangers, The Dusty Pockets, Sneaky Pete and the Secret Weapons, Magnolia Boulevard, Toubab Krewe, John Roberts y Pan Blanco, Dammit Lauren!, Laney Lou & the Bird Dogs, Erica Falls, The Waiting, Pinky and the Floyd 2022 ▸ Satsang, Fireside Collective, Jeffrey Foucault, The Tiny Band, New Orleans Suspects, Chancey Williams, Will Hoge, Southern Avenue, Tommy Castro and the Painkillers, Caitlin Krisko and the Broadcast, The Nth Power, The Last Revel, Pinky and the Floyd 2023 ▸ Midnight North, Joslyn and the Sweet Compression, The Tiny Band, Paco Versailles, Jennifer Hartswick Band, Madeline Hawthorne, Funk You, TK and the Holy Know-Nothings, Matt Nathanson, Freddy Jones Band, AJ Lee and Blue Summit, Futurebirds, Jesse Daniel, Pinky and the Floyd 2024 ▸ Jeff Crosby Band, Cool Cool Cool, The Tiny Band, El Laberinto del Coco, The Wood Brothers, Mikaela Davis, Carolyn Wonderland, Doom Flamingo, Erika Falls and Vintage Soul, Fruition, The Lil Smokies, Pinky and the Floyd, Blistered Earth
