The BFS Concert Series

The Bozeman Folklore Society is proud to support live music, particularly acoustic music. We regularly present concerts featuring a variety of musical genres, including bluegrass, old-time, folk, country, and jazz, by both local and national artists.

The BFS Concert Series started way back in 1988. There as a hiatus from 1993 to 2002, but we have presented several concerts a year from 2002 to the present. We have presented these concerts in several different venues over the years; we are now presenting shows in the concert series in the Sanctuary at Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ. You might have attended one of our concerts in the Chris Boyd room at Pilgrim – they hosted us for many years! The Sanctuary has a nice sound system and is a nice setting for music. We also occasionally do a show at the Gallatin Labor Temple at 422 E. Mendenall in Bozeman. Previously, we had a partnership with the City of Bozeman’s Parks and Recreation Department to present concerts as part of their Pickin’ in the Parks series at the historic Story Mansion in Bozeman.

We invite you to join and become involved with our effort to continue to present live music and promote dancing in our community. Volunteers are needed, as well as your support to continue to share our love for all the richness in the folk traditions. For more information about concerts, contact Bob Wall at (406) 579-5169 or email him.

Upcoming Concerts

Bruce Molsky

Bruce Molsky is coming to Bozeman for a BFS performance! The show is on Fri., June 14 at Pilgrim Church – Bozeman duo Salty Gravy will open up the show with some acoustic tunes. More details and tickets on the event page.

Future Concerts

Looking ahead in the BFS Concert Series calendar, we have tentatively scheduled the following performances:

Concerts Past

The following artists have performed for The Bozeman Folklore Society Concert Series (listed in alphabetical order). At the end of 2015, we presented over 230 concerts since 2000!

Bluegrass and Old-Time

23 String Band, Darol Anger & Emy Phelps, Barley & Sage, The Bill Hilly Band, Greg Blake & the Big Sky Bluegrass Boys, The Bridger Creek Boys, Chris Coole & Ivan Rosenberg, The Dirt Farmers, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Julie Elkins & Friends, Finders & Youngberg, Foghorn Stringband, Front Range, Beppe Gambetta, Alice Gerrard & Brad Leftwich, Growling Old Men, Hard Road Trio (Steve Smith, Chris Saunders, Anne Luca), Hazel Hue, Hit & Run Bluegrass, Sierra Hull & Highway 111, Chelsea Hunt & Jim Averitt, Jim Hurst Band, Joy Kills Sorrow, Kathy Kallick Band, Kane’s River, Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum, Keith Little, Lonesome Ace Stringband, Loose Ties, Masontown, Tim May, Tim May & Steve Smith, Monroe Crossing, Cahalen Morrison & Eli West, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, The Natalie Padilla Band, Nu-Blu, Open Road, Pete’s Posse, The Quarks, Andy Reiner, John Reischman & The Jaybirds, The Reeltime Travellers, The Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally Band, Roe Family Singers, Sassafras Stomp, Pete & Anne Sibley, Special Consensus, Spring Creek Bluegrass, Swiftcurrent, True North Duo, Two Bit Franks, Calvin Vollrath, Pete & Joan Wernick, Robin & Linda Williams & Their Fine Group, Wood Belly.

Folk, Country, World

Bruce Anfinson, Jay Armeding, Jim Averitt, Dick & Lisa Barrett, Mike Beck, Birds of Play, Black Market Trust, Roy Book Binder, Claude Bourbon, Bob Bovee, Bryan Bowers, Ben Bullington (with Tom Murphy & Joanne Gardner), The Cantrells (Al & Emily), Kathy Chorover, Chirgilchin (throat singers from Tuva),Craicmore, Collapsing Stars, Chris Cunningham & Friends, Stephanie Davis Band, Mike Dowling, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Jackson Emmer, Mark Erelli, Farewell Drifters, Four Shillings Short, Alasdair Fraser, Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas, Genghis Mongol (Mongolia), Genticorum (Montreal, Quebec), Jack Gladstone, Good Wood (with Christian Johnson & Steve Riddle), Sara Grey & Kieron Means, Sara Grey solo, Meridian Green, Tim Grimm, Dick Hensold, High Country Cowboys, Hot Club of Cowtown, Alan Jabbour, Johnsmith, Hot Club of Cowtown, Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms, Tim Kliphuis & Sam Miltich, Kyrgi Band (from Kyrgistan), Bill LaCroix & Tom Robison, Lisa Lynn & Aryeh Frankfurter, Dana Lyons, Tim MacDonald and Jeremy Ward, Drew McDowell, Calum McKinnon, Tom May, Simon Mayor & Hillary James, Mary McCaslin, John McCutcheon, Dave McGraw & Mandy Fer, Bill Mize, Montana Manouche, Murray & Magill, Peter Ostroushko, Ovando, Aaron Parrett & Ivan Rosenberg & Nan Alleman, Pearl Django, Utah Phillips, Chris Proctor, Chuck Pyle, Garnet Rogers, Martha Scanlan & Jon Neufeld, Darrell Scott, Cosy Sheridan, Rosalie Sorrels, Michael Smith, Bill Staines, Still On the Hill, Dennis Stroughmatt & L’Espirit Creole, Chuck Suchy, Andy Sydow, Eric Taylor, Tyva Kyzy (“daughers of Tuva”), Kray Van Kirk, The Wanderers, Weatherwood, Stuart Weber, West My Friend, Woods Tea Company, www.twang, Wylie & The Wild West, Jubal Young, Steve Young.

Thank you all for coming to the shows…and for helping make them each be so much fun!
— Bob