Trail Listening Post

Jon Sand from Missoula in Motion dropped by The Trail to talk about "Walk & Roll Week" in Missoula. This week is the 28th annual celebration encouraging Missoulians to walk, bike, or ride the bus around town. 

Executive Director Katie Deuel from Home Resource stopped by to talk about Spontaneous Construction 2019 on Saturday, September 14th.

What is Spontaneous Construction, you ask?

"SponCon" has become an annual Missoula tradition that gives contestants seven hours to use their choice of Home ReSource materials to build the most beautiful, functional, and creative pieces they can dream up.

Jay Parade - Jimmy

Soft Streak - Wallow

Dirty Mae - Hollow

Echo Hill Band - Some New Story 

Josh Mcnz - Cambridge 

Mark Ian Project - Make It Better

Ballroom Thieves - Tenebrist

Life The Hunter - All I Want To Do

David Tyler Fox - Echos From A Distant Moon

Lamp Post Delight - The Janitor's AM

This edition of the New Show aired live on September 10th, 2019 on The Trail 1033-FM. 

Author Kelley Provost came by to tell us about We Leave the Flowers Where They Are, a new collection of memoirs written by contemporary Montana women. For each book sold, The Zootown Arts Community Center and Humanities Montana will each receive one dollar.

The public is invited to a launch gala with the authors on Friday, September 13, at the Downtown Dance Collective, and they can join them for a panel discussion at the Montana Book Festival, September 12-15. Both of these events are in Missoula.

Laura Millin is the Missoula Art Museum Executive Director, and she popped by to talk about the ongoing exhibit, Bury the Hatchet. Artist John Hitchcock's exhibit is based on the American Frontier and plays off the theme of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. He will be in town on Saturday, September 14th at 1 PM for a special presentation "Indian Country Conversations."

SPARK! is a community-wide partnership working to expand arts programming in Missoula County Public Schools. SPARK! Executive Director Sienna Solberg provides details about Special Arts related events that will be happening in downtown Missoula on September 14th to get kids involved in hands-on art projects.

Michael Legg is in his first season as Artistic Director of Montana Repertory Theatre. He sat down with The Trail's Mike Smith to discuss their season opener Go. Please. Go.

Global and Cultural Affairs of Arts Missoula and The Roxy Theater present Worldview: Cultures on Display. Director of Global and Cultural Affairs, Dr. Udo Fluck, provides a preview of the first film Basquiat on September 9th sponsored by IRC. 

Kris Holmes, the community development manager for the American Cancer Society Montana, stopped by to talk about their upcoming Monopoly Ball.

From the Trail 1033 archives, an unedited live broadcast as part of our Trail Live Session series from December of 2017 with Jeff Austin Band. The interview and performance, hosted by then midday host Alanya, took place at the Logjam Presents Venue, Top Hat Lounge in downtown Missoula.

Conversation and performance from Jeff Austin including a cover of a Todd Snider tune.