Mike Smith, host of the Acoustic Brunch, catches up with Amy Ray (of Amy Ray Band and Indigo Girls) to talk about the new album, touring, songwriting, Grammys, Brandi Carlile, and the state of Country and Americana Music. 

A tour group of old age pensioners explore a picturesque English village, unaware that Europe’s largest immigration detention centre sits on its outskirts.

Thursday, Feb 21st @ 5:00 pm –Elks Lodge - Buy Tickets Here! 

Listen as Tommy goes through new music from Wild Belle, Sego, Nada Adjoa, Grayshot, Field Medic & Hajk. 

For almost 91 years, John Hoiland has lived at ‘The Home Place,’ a modest house situated on over 900 acres of land in Montana. He’s watched the world change as he clung to the only way of life he knows.

Thursday, Feb 21st @ 3:30 pm –Wilma - Buy Tickets Here! Sunday, Feb 24th @ 3:30 pm –Wilma - Buy Tickets Here! 

Ghost Fleet follows a small group of activists who risk their lives on remote Indonesian islands to find justice and freedom for the enslaved fishermen who feed the world’s insatiable appetite for seafood. Bangkok-based Patima Tungpuchayakul, a Thai abolitionist, has committed her life to helping these “lost” men return home. Facing illness, death threats, corruption, and complacency, Patima’s fearless determination for justice inspires her nation and the world.

Arts Missoula is kicking off their spring film series, Cultures In Harmony, on Monday, February 25th at the Roxy. The film is the legendary Buena Vista Social Club. Arts Missoula's Director of Global & Cultural Affairs joins me to talk about the film and the film series. All the films are free and open to the public.

Filmmaker Denali Tiller joins Alanya on the Trail Lunchbox to discuss the Montana premier of the film Tre Maison Dasan, screening as part of the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Tre Maison Dasan is an intimate portrait of three young boys growing up in Rhode Island, each with a parent in prison. You can learn more about the film here

Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker Eric Becker stopped by the Morning Trail for a ten minute interview that both of us hijacked at various times to cover everything from this evening's showing of Return To Mount Kennedy (Wednesday 6 p.m. at MCT) to Eddie Vedder's involvement to Eric's claim he can't complete a single pull-up. A raucous good time. 

In 1997, Mr. Wash was given a mandatory life sentence for a non-violent drug offense, and in 2016 was freed by President Barack Obama. While incarcerated he taught himself how to paint, detailing the stories around him. “Mr. Wash” follows his return home, making the case for creativity as an optimistic force against the backdrop of America’s broken criminal justice system.

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Assembled from over 10 years of footage, Markie in Milwaukee tells the story of a midwestern transgender woman as she struggles with the prospect of de-transitioning under the pressures of her fundamentalist church, family and community.

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