![]() Ashleigh Flynn & the Riveters, Laney Lou & the Bird Dogs, and Amy Helm round out the Friday schedule. Friday is unique this year as each band is female-fronted, featuring Amanda Shaw as the first night’s headliner Shaw previously played Roots Fest in 20. This year is no exception with music from kids’ rock bands, thanks to Tangled Tones and the Zootown Arts Community Center (ZACC), and Cowboy Andy & the Salamanders kicks off Saturday. It has become a tradition to open Main Stage at 12:30pm both days with music by and for Missoula’s youth. This year’s lineup features a wide variety of local and national roots music artists with five bands playing each day. Music on Main – Sponsored by ATG Cognizant, Big Sky Brewing, Blackfoot Communications, and Dick Anderson Construction – music commences at 12:30 pm both days. If you haven’t been to Roots Fest, it’s going to be the perfect year to experience a weekend in Downtown Missoula.” Each year we bring something unique to the streets of Downtown, and it’s something that everyone can enjoy thanks to our admission-free model. “This festival personifies who we are as a community: an artistic and musical city. “Roots Fest is truly all about Missoula,” said Ellen Buchanan, Chair of the Roots Fest Committee and member of the Missoula Downtown Association Board of Directors. Supported in part by title sponsors First Interstate Bank and Bob Ward’s Sports & Outdoors, Missoula’s Signature event is admission-free and features live music, an art show, the Family Roots Fest, the 4-Mile Roots Run, and local food vendors. This annual event celebrates everything that makes Missoula, Missoula. ![]() ![]() All the ingredients that make up the Missoula Downtown Association’s River City Roots Festival returns to the streets of Downtown Friday and Saturday August 26-27. ![]()
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