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Jul
18
2024

Please join the Arts Council for another incredible show in the 2024 Music in the Mountains free summer concert season! This week we are excited to welcome The Wood Brothers! 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 Big Sky’s own Buffalo Burrows at 6:30 p.m. Elias Hix will then perform from 7:15-8:00. The Wood Brothers take the stage at 8:30 p.m.

Tonight’s Headlining Band
The Wood Brothers

The Wood Brothers have learned to trust their hearts. For the better part of two decades, they've cemented their reputation as freethinking songwriters, road warriors, and community builders, creating a catalog of diverse music and a loyal audience who’ve grown alongside them through the years.

That evolution continues with Heart is the Hero, the band's eighth studio album. Recorded analog to 16-track tape, this latest effort finds its three creators embracing the chemistry of their acclaimed live shows by capturing their performances in real-time direct from the studio floor with nary a computer in sight. An acoustic-driven album that electrifies, Heart is the Hero is stocked with songs that target not only the heart, but the head and hips, too.

"We love records that come from the era of less tracks and more care," explains co-founder Oliver Wood. "When you use a computer during the tracking process, you have an infinite number of tracks at your disposal, which implies that nothing is permanent, and everything can be fixed. Tape gives you limitations that force you to be creative and intentional. You don't look at the music on a screen; you listen to it, and you learn to focus on the feeling of the performance."

Elias Hix

“I’m Elias Hix. I grew up on a cattle farm in South Carolina. I’m shaped by the south's summers of thick heat and hazy air that are soon followed by the cold of harsh and dry winters that leave the sky empty and hollow. Days from those seasons are trapped in my head, with places I will not go anymore, and names that will not leave my lips.

When I was 15, I wrote a song called “Thinner” — two years later I wrote and produced an album with that song as its title. This album and the projects that followed are the products of the things I do not speak of anymore and the things I’ve grown too scared to say. So I write them in music, disguised within the imagery and metaphors of the place I grew up in. This is the honest truth of my music and I hope it can help you the way it is helping me. Thank you.”

Tonight’s Emerging Artist
Buffalo Burrows

In the high reaches of southern Montana is where Buffalo Burrows makes his claim, with a beat up old guitar and a suitcase for a drum. Many times bitten, and many times mad, Buffalo Burrows’ truth in storytelling and post-western music styling will ride with you wherever the trail may turn.

This show is presented by Lone Mountain Land Company and Outlaw Partners. We appreciate your support!