Please join the Arts Council for another fantastic concert in the 2024 Music in the Mountains free summer concert season! This week we welcome the talented Texas Blues singer and guitarist, Carolyn Wonderland. The concert 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. Please remember that NO DOGS, NO GLASS CONTAINERS, and most importantly, NO PERSONAL FIREWORKS are allowed in the park. The Park opens at 6 p.m., with music starting with Belgrade's own duo Emma and the Ledge at 6:30 p.m. Carolyn Wonderland takes the stage at 8 p.m.
"The more guitar you play, the more you sing, the better you get," says award-winning Texas guitar slinger, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Carolyn Wonderland. Since performing her first professional gig at age 15, she’s never stopped singing and making music. Her music includes a bold mix of timeless original songs and reinventions of some of her favorites, ranging from blistering electric blues to deep, heartfelt ballads to cosmic country to soulful Tex-Mex. Every song is fueled by Wonderland’s forceful yet melodic Texas-flavored guitar work and her full-throated, heart-on-her-sleeve vocals. She’s recorded ten previous albums under her own name, including four produced by famed musician Ray Benson, founder of multiple Grammy-winning band Asleep At The Wheel. Wonderland, who spent the last three years as lead guitarist in John Mayall’s Blues Breakers, now joins the Alligator Records family as the first female guitar hero in the label’s storied 50-year history. Her spine-chilling, soul-deep singing matches her guitar prowess note for note. And she has a knack for writing songs that sound like instant classics. Her Alligator Records debut, the Dave Alvin-produced Tempting Fate, is the next chapter in Wonderland’s remarkable story, one that is already overflowing with countless and colorful once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
Emma and The Ledge are a guitar slinging, blues singing, sister duo from the Gallatin Valley who were recently voted the 2024 Best Blues Band and Best New Local Band in the greater Bozeman area.
Inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Beth Hart, and various alternative and rock greats from the 70’s to 90’s, the pair brings an eclectic set of originals and covers with a re-imagined twist.
They won the 2023 title of The Beast of Bozeman, were featured in KGVM 95.9 FM Radio Local Musicians' Spotlight with Lokken Productions, and have had the honor of being supporting acts for national and regional touring bands such as Scott Pemberton O Theory (SPOT), The Jennifer Hartswick Band, and The Red NOT Chili Peppers. Aside from popular restaurants and establishments, past venues in Montana include Music in the Mountains (Big Sky), Sweet Pea Festival (Bozeman), SLAM (Bozeman), Pine Creek Lodge (Livingston), Townsend Fall Fest (Townsend), Bridger Bowl Ski Resort (Bozeman); and in Powell Wyoming, Plaza @ 5 and Paint the Town Red.
Emma and The Ledge are rising musicians that bring a blues experience you won't want to miss!
This concert is sponsored by Christie’s PureWest Realty. Thank you! Your support is much appreciated.
