Here’s a quick guide to some upcoming arts and cultural events happening around Missoula in the week ahead.
Mount Eerie matinee
An icon of Northwest alternative folk, Phil Elverum has helmed projects under various names, from the Microphones to his new project, Mount Eerie.
His 2001 Microphones album, “The Glow, Pt. 2,” was an underground classic of its kind, approaching folk and indie rock in freeing, homemade fashion, not unlike Modest Mouse or Grizzly Bear, where a heartfelt outlook bridged his experiments across sounds and genres. As Mount Eerie, he’s released music inspired by the sudden death of his wife and collaborator, Genevieve Castree, from cancer in 2016. The records were celebrated for his openness about his grief.
According to his Substack newsletter, he’s completed a new record. You might be able to hear some of it at an afternoon show here in Missoula, along with music by two thoughtful local acts, Sung Mountains and Dylan Running Crane.
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Details: ZACC Show Room, 1 p.m. doors, 2 p.m. show, $20 in advance, $23 day of.
Summer Made Fair
The city’s non-traditional arts and crafts fair returns to Caras Park yet again.
Nonprofit Handmade Montana’s juried selection of artists includes more than 190 this year, with an eye toward creative takes on media of all types, from two-dimensional arts to crafts such as handmade jewelry and even 3D topographic maps carved into hardwood.
Details: 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Caras Park, all ages, free entry.
Vampire Weekend matinee in Bonner
As of this writing, there are still tickets available for this Sunday matinee show at KettleHouse Amphitheater for the now-veteran indie-rock band, who are touring for a new record, “Only God Was Above Us.” Saturday evening’s show, meanwhile, is sold out.
Missoulians who caught the band’s first wave may have seen them at a different venue: The Badlander, in 2007 and 2008, just after they’d become famous quite suddenly thanks to illegal downloading, no-budget music blogs and sites such as Pitchfork.
Details: Check for tickets at logjampresents.com, noon doors, 2 p.m. show.
Film critic Kenneth Turan
The longtime movie critic for the Los Angeles Times and NPR is stopping in Missoula again to talk cinema. He’s written several books, including “Not to Be Missed: Fifty-Four Favorites from a Lifetime…
