Please join the Arts Council for another show in the 2023 Music in the Mountains free summer concert season! This week we are proud to present an evening with AJ Lee and Blue Summit. The show takes place in Len Hill Park in the Big Sky Town Center and is family friendly and free! Food and beverage vendors will be available, and please remember that NO DOGS are allowed into the park during the concerts. Park opens at 6 p.m., with music starting with Missoula string band Timber Rattlers. AJ Lee will take the stage at 8 p.m.
AJ Lee and Blue Summit made their first appearance in Santa Cruz in 2015. Led by singer, songwriter, and mandolinist, AJ Lee, the bluegrass band has performed all over the world, but finds home in California’s Bay Area. In 2019, they released their debut album, Like I Used To. Their second full length project, I’ll Come Back, came out August 2021 - with national touring in support of the record ongoing. Although falling loosely under the bluegrass label, AJLBS generally plays sans banjo, with Sullivan Tuttle and Scott Gates on steel stringed acoustic guitars, AJ on mandolin, Jan Purat on fiddle, and Chad Bowen on upright bass - a configuration effectively used to create unique space and texture in the arrangements not as commonly found in the music of their peers. Drawing from influences such as country, soul, swing, rock, and jam music, the band uses the lens of bluegrass as a vessel through which to express and explore the thread that binds and unifies all great music.
The Timber Rattlers are an energetic bluegrass band from Missoula, Montana. They pull inspiration from their traditional roots, but continue to push their boundaries in the realm of acoustic music.
Tonight's show is sponsored by First Security Bank.
