Trail Listening Post

David O'Dell, NEW Executive Director of the Missoula Symphony visits with Mike Smith about the season finale concert. The inaugural Broadway concert was such a success in 2022, The Missoula Symphony has made it an annual tradition! 

This year, Missoula Symphony will partner with Montana native Curt Olds and his creative talents and show-stopping tunes known as Black Tie Broadway. The orchestra will again be joined on stage by talented stars from the Broadway stage as well as local artists guaranteed to knock your socks off.

PROGRAM:
Overture to CANDIDE
Another Openin’, Another Show from KISS ME, KATE
Some People from GYPSY
Tradition from FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Younger Than Springtime from SOUTH PACIFIC
What Do I Need with Love? from THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
If He Walked Into My Life from MAME
Bad Idea from WAITRESS
Sunset Boulevard from SUNSET BOULEVARD
With One Look from SUNSET BOULEVARD
You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow from FOLLIES
and More
ENCORE: There’s No Business, Like Show Business

Concert will take place at The Dennison Theater on The University of Montana Campus on Saturday 5/20(7:30pm) and Sunday 5/21 (3pm)

 
Tickets and details at missoulasymphony.org 

After exactly a year, Mike Smith and Udo Fluck are doing it again for the May podcast! Turning the Tables and Switching the Microphones. Mike is talking to Udo in this special episode, about the GROW - Global Respect of Others in the World Outreach Program in K-12 schools. GROW has expanded consistently, over the years, and nearly doubled its seminar delivery in four local school districts in the 2022-2023 academic year, teaching 580 seminars in the 3rd, 7th and 11th grade curriculum. GROW’s unique pedagogical approach, age-appropriateness, and engaging content, creates a fun learning atmosphere, and, to our knowledge, makes it the only educational K-12 outreach program, of its kind, in the United States. GROW offers very unique learning opportunities that can transform students to not only be “global-ready” but to be “future-ready”. This is part two of a two-part series.

Becca Syltie-Riggers, 2022 winner of SPOTLIGHT  drops by the studio to play LIVE on Trail1033. SPOTLIGHT is an annual teen singing competition hosted by Arts Missoula during the annual New Years Eve celebration, Missoula on Main.

A Big Sky High School Senior, Syltie Riggers began her journey as a musician at the age of 5, learning the violin Over the years she's participated in the Big Sky Aeserian Choir and the Sky Blues Choir Ensemble. 

Syltie Riggers beat out 6 other  amazingly talented high school students in SPOTLIGHT on December 31, 2022.

More details about SPOTLIGHT and Arts Missoula at artsmissoula.org

Long-time dear friend of Trail 1033 Gary Gillett, Band Director of Missoula City Band drops into the LUNCHBOX with Mike Smith to chat about Missoula Gives 2023.
Missoula Gives & Bitterroot Gives, an initiative of the Missoula Community Foundation, is a 26-hour celebration of the Missoula and Ravalli communities. It is a day to celebrate and support the role nonprofits and donors play in making our Missoula & Ravalli communities great.  

For well over 100 years the Missoula City Band has been bringing free concerts to the community of Missoula. Their Missoula Gives campaign is a major component of their operating budget! Funds go directly to making music in the park, music purchasing, musicians, & sound! Donations received during Missoula Gives will enable the Missoula City Band to continue to  provide FREE concerts EVERY  Wednesday Eve during the summer at The Bonner Park Band Shell

Donations can be made  May 4-5 at missoulagives.org

New Executive Director of Soil Cycle, Elisabeth Davidson, stops by the Trail studio to chat about her organization's participation in Missoula Gives 2023. Missoula Gives & Bitterroot Gives, an initiative of the Missoula Community Foundation, is a 26-hour celebration of the Missoula and Ravalli communities. It is a day to celebrate and support the role nonprofits and donors play in making our Missoula & Ravalli communities great.  
Soil Cycle's mission is to promote the natural food cycle by providing environmentally sustainable compost services and education. Soil Cycle strives to simplify sustainable living and encourage citizens and businesses to reduce food waste.  Once processed, cured compost will be returned to subscribers providing them a tool to grow their own food, connect with the land and ultimately complete the cycle!

Funds raised during Missoula Gives will go toward expanding drop-off hubs around town and providing demonstration projects as educational tools for our community. 

Donations can be made  May 4-5 at missoulagives.org

Udo Fluck, Director of Arts Missoula Global joins Mike Smith during the LUNCHBOX  on Trail1033. The FINAL movie in the World View Film Spring Series is Monday May 8th 7pm at the Roxy Theater. This screening is FREE and open to the public

Bride & Prejudice (India 2004) is a modern adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, that features the lives of four unmarried daughters in an Indian family. This film is the final in a 4 part series on Cultures in Love

Details about Arts Missoula Global can be found at: Artsmissoula.org

The World View Film Series will return  in the Fall of 2023

Emily Englund and Danielle Dimmick stop by the Trail studio to chat about Dubbers Care Foundation, one of 190+ nonprofits participating in Missoula Gives 2023.
Missoula Gives & Bitterroot Gives, an initiative of the Missoula Community Foundation, is a 26-hour celebration of the Missoula and Ravalli communities. It is a day to celebrate and support the role nonprofits and donors play in making our Missoula & Ravalli communities great. 

The Dubbers Care Foundation provides emergency housing assistance to Montana families experiencing crisis or hardship. Dubbers Care was founded in 2017 by a group of Keller Williams Real Estate Agents looking to give back to their beloved community. Knowing first-hand the importance of having a roof over a families head, together they built a 501(c)3 to get emergency funds to folks experiencing crisis to keep them housed. Today the foundation has expanded beyond the walls of Keller Williams to include a diverse group of community members devoted to the cause.

Donate Thursday 5/4 & Friday 5/5 at missoulagives.org

Mike Smith visits with Marcy Allen, Executive Director of Missoula Community Foundation. Missoula Gives & Bitterroot Gives, an initiative of the Missoula Community Foundation, is a 26-hour celebration of the Missoula and Ravalli communities. It is a day to celebrate and support our nonprofits. The event kicks off 5pm Thursday 5/4 end Friday 5/5  6pm with online giving at MissoulaGives.org

With over 190 nonprofits  participating, the 2023 goal is to raise $1.5 million in support of the good work that they do to make our community great. 

Be the change giving stations ar also avaibuelto the public:

May 4th - Plonk (5-8pm)-Free drink with min. $10 donation

May 5th - Wren Hotel (9am-2pm)-Black Coffee & snacks.  Enter to win a staycation valued at $400

May 5th - Blood Drive at Holiday Inn Downtown (10am-3pm)

May 5th - Big Dipper (3:30pm-5:30pm) Free ice cream with $20 donation

May 5th - Finale Celebration at Headwaters Confluence Center on Main Street(5pm-7:30pm)

Donate Thursday 5/4 & Friday 5/5 at missoulagives.org

Carrie Richer, Director of IWFF, stops by the Trail studio to chat with Mike Smith about the upcoming festival.
This year, IWFF explores the theme of Fight or Flight. This year’s theme is Fight or Flight: referring to the physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat. The 2023 selections celebrate stories illustrative of all that it takes to survive; flying toward safety, freezing, fleeing, or perhaps a collective reaction to fight for the survival of an animal, on a more abstract level.

Special events include:

• April 22- Wild Walk & Wild Fest (kick off of festival): celebrate your connection to the WILD! Dress up as your favorite flora or fauna and WALK, HOP, or CRAWL down Higgins Ave towards the XXXX's! Parade lineup begins at First Interstate Bank on Higgins Ave at 11am.
• IWFF Opening Film: BIOCÊNTRICOS, Saturday April22nd &;30pm  at the Roxy
• 2023 Awards Ceremony, Sunday April 23rd 

Tickets and film info at :wildlifefilms.org

Udo Fluck, Director of Arts Missoula Global drops by the lunchbox to chat with Mike Smith about the World View Film Series kicking off Monday 2/13 7pm at The Roxy Theater.   Like Water for Chocolate(1992 Mexico) will be screened FREE to the public, the first of four films in the series themed "Cultures in Love".

Like Water For Chocolate is a romantic drama based on the debut novel of the same name published in 1989 by Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel.  When tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking.

This film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and became the highest-grossing foreign-language film ever released in the United States at the time. 

For full details on the World View Film Series go to artsmissoula.org/events/world-view-film-series