Things to do: Live music, dance and paintings for spring | Arts & Theatre

A longtime Missoula drummer, Jamie Rogers, is shifting to Helena. Assist ship him off with a lineup of native bands — Junior, Worst Emotions, Cory Fay and the Good Goddamn and Ro Myra, plus DJ Paintbrush, will all assist escort him out in fashion.

Doorways open at 6:30 p.m. The present begins at 7. Cowl is $10.

The dance college students on the College of Montana will take to the Montana Theatre stage for the annual “Dance in Live performance” manufacturing. This 12 months’s efficiency consists of items choreographed by school, college students and visitor artists, together with celebrated creator Ishmael Houston-Jones, who got here to campus earlier this 12 months for a residency.

The present runs from Thursday, March 31, by way of Saturday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m., with a matinee on April 2 at 2 p.m. The performances are within the Montana Theatre within the PAR/TV Middle.

Ticket costs are as much as the patron within the faculty’s “decide what you pay” construction. Go to griztix.com.

The Dana Gallery’s “Spring Fever” exhibition guarantees to match the seasonal temper, with work by its artists (native, Montana and regional) lots of whom are recognized for his or her panorama interpretations.

The present consists of new artwork by Reid Christie, Lance Inexperienced, Lori McNee, David Mensing, Caleb Meyer, Robert Moore, Clay Paper, Kevin Purple Star, Scott Switzer, Shannon Webster, Garth Williams and R. David Wilson. The open home runs from 2-5 p.m.

Missoula’s ever-popular native storytelling occasion is holding its first in-person spherical because the pandemic.

Seven native residents will take to the stage and inform true tales on the theme of “Stone Soup.” Whereas they’ve honed the telling itself, they’re not allowed to make use of notes.

Doorways open at 6 p.m. The present begins at 7. The occasion is all ages however some tales might include grownup themes. Tickets are $15 prematurely at logjampresents.com or $18 on the door. (Be aware that prior occasions regularly bought out.) Masks will not be required however are “strongly inspired.” An ASL interpreter shall be on stage for the deaf group. 

Head to the Previous Put up to listen to a saxophonist who lives in Missoula and travels to play. Loren Stillman has performed with legends comparable to Carla Bley, Paul Motian, Charlie Haden, Tyshawn Sorey, John Abercrombie and extra. His solo work has been praised within the New York Instances, and Downbeat referred to as his components on a tribute to Motian and Haden, “particularly shifting.”

Becoming a member of him are native veterans of their respective stringed devices: David Horgan on guitar and Pete Hand on bass, with Sam McKenzie rounding out the ensemble on drums.

They’ll carry out from 7-9:30 p.m. on the Previous Put up.