The first weekend of June brings glorious weather (with the slight exception of a bit of rain in the forecast Saturday) – and continued loosening of COVID restrictions with Phase 2 that took over at the first of the month. Missoula remains more conservative than the surrounding areas, but there are plenty of happenings this weekend. More events and things to do are also beginning to appear – get outside and support local business!
For a complete current listing of Missoula area weekend events, check out The Missoula Underground Events / powered by MissoulaEvents.net .
Here are our Weekend Picks from The MUG.
Thursday, June 4
Thursday, June 4
Missoula Art Museum – New Opening Hours
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
335 North Pattee
Missoula MT 59802
Phone: (406) 728-0447
We are ready to welcome you back to the galleries and the Art Park at the Missoula Art Museum! MAM will re-open Thursday, June 4, with limited group size and increased sanitation procedures. Now from Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm, we will admit 25 visitors to the galleries at a time.
MAM staff have been hard at work installing new exhibitions, sifting through the collection archives, and re-painting areas all around the museum. We look forward to seeing you soon and sharing the contemplative and healing power of art. Learn more about the exhibitions on view and how to sign up for summer camps!
All Ages
http://www.missoulaartmuseum.org
Thursday, June 4
Caps & Cars Grad Parade
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Southgate Mall
Class of 2020, join us for our first ever Caps & Cars Grad Parade on June 4! We realize it’s been an interesting and often challenging school year, so we feel an extra special celebration is in order for our graduates.
Graduates and families are encouraged to decorate their cars to show school spirit and Missoula pride. The parade will start in the Southgate Mall parking lot adjacent to Brooks Street and make a loop around the property. During the parade there will be a special spot where friends, family, and classmates can snap a photo or video or just celebrate in a small group their special moment in time.
There is no fee to participate. Please arrive a little early so you are ready to go when the parade starts at 4 PM. Let’s have fun!
Not a graduate? Come out and cheer along the parade route in support.
Thursday, June 4
Thursday Night Music Series
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Ranch Club Missoula
8501 Ranch Club Rd
Missoula Montana 59808
The live music series is back!
Join us every Thursday for great tunes, delicious food, and impeccable cocktails. While we continue to be under restrictions seating will be limited, reservations are strongly suggested!
This week we have a Ranch Club regular, Larry Hirshberg!
Give us a call at 406-532-1019 to hold your table (remember no parties over 6 at the same table in Phase 1)
Thursday, June 4
7pm – 8:30pm
Bowling is Back!
Bud Light Doubles League
Westside Lanes & Fun Center/Bowl Dog Lounge
1615 Wyoming
Missoula, MT 59801
406/721-5263
The Bud Light Doubles League was postponed due to COVID-19.
But, we are back at the newly remodeled Westside Lanes.
Because of the late start, we will now start June 4th and go to August 6th.
We have a plan in place!
New Rules – Same Family Fun
Due to COVID-19, we are social distancing, requiring socks for rental shoes, must use hand sanitizer before looking for house ball, no more than 10 in a group, when done, all house balls and rental shoes must be left in bowling area for staff to disinfect before putting away.
Sign your team up now! June 4th – August 6th for 7pm Bowling
Info: www.missoulabowling.com
Thursday, June 4
Big Sky Drive – Live Virtual Concert
8:30pm
Zootown Arts Community Center
Live on Facebook!
https://www.facebook.com/bigskydrive/
Tips are welcome and appreciated.
paypal.me/amusitainment
Friday, June 5
Friday, June 5
Wolf and The Moons
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Cabinet Mountain Brewing Company
206 Mineral Ave
Libby Montana
Missoula-based band Wolf and the Moons will be playing their first show in THREE months and it’s coming to the fabulous Cabinet Mountain Brewing Company in Libby. Get ready for your favorite WATM tunes (including the brief return of Douglas on the bass), and enjoy outstanding beer and food.
Friday, June 5
Virtual First Friday
5:00 pm
Hosted by ARTS Missoula
Phone: 406-541-0860
June is here and along with it some beautiful sunshine and lots of beautiful blossoms! We are so ready to be outside enjoying our beautiful home!
Some places downtown are starting to open up, but we’re offering some virtual art for you to experience this June 5 if you’re not ready to head downtown!
MCAT will be streaming Virtual First Friday June starting at 5 PM on Friday, June 5.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/mcatchannel7
Age Group: All Ages
Friday, June 5
MAM Exhibitions:
Jay Laber: Reborn Rez Wrecks
5:00 PM
Missoula Art Museum – Art Park
335 North Pattee
Missoula MT 59802
Phone (406) 728-0447
Three years after artist Jay Laber (Amskapi Pikuni/Blackfeet, 1961–2019) was born, his family lost everything. The devastating flooding across the Blackfeet Reservation in June of 1964 has been called Montana’s worst natural disaster, resulting in 31 deaths. Laber’s family, now homeless, relocated to New Hampshire and it was decades before Laber returned to Montana.
Laber passed away last year after a long battle with cancer. He left a strong legacy of public artwork. When he returned to Montana in the late 1990s, he enrolled at Salish Kootenai College (SKC) in Pablo to study forestry. After taking art classes on the side, he began making sculptures of warriors, dancers, and wildlife out of reused car parts. Laber’s innovative sculptures depict traditional Native culture using found and salvaged metal. Laber said, “It’s a new twist on an old tradition…to make things out of whatever was handy, and that was handy.”
Laber has numerous public works sited across Montana and abroad, notably on SKC’s campus, the University of Montana, the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, and in private collections. Early in his career, Laber won the 1999 “People’s Choice” award at the American Indian Higher Education Consortium’s annual conference in Billings with a sculpture of a bison that was later accessioned by the Westphalian State Museum of Natural History in Münster, Germany. Later that year, the Blackfeet tribe and the Montana Arts Council commissioned a set of four sentries to oversee the North, West, South, and East entrances of the Blackfeet Reservation. Laber made them using rusted out cars destroyed in the 1964 flood. This exhibit includes one of Laber’s first sentry pieces, made in one of Corwin Clairmont’s classes.
Laber eventually settled on Post Creek outside of St. Ignatius and launched the ‘Reborn Rez Wrecks’ studio, complete with a yard filled with car parts for materials. A precise craftsman, Laber built large scale sculpture that weighed hundreds of pounds with tight tolerances. He would meticulously sift through hundreds of parts before selecting and inserting exactly the right piece to suggest or describe an essential detail. An expert at considering all the angles that sculpture might be viewed, he made his works appear active, kinetic, and full of energy.
Thank you to the following exhibition sponsors: Dick Anderson Construction, Caras Nursery, Rocky Mountain Moving & Storage, and City of Missoula.
Friday, June 5
Dan Dubuque at Monk’s Bar
8:00 pm
221 Ryman St
Missoula Montana 59802
Join Dan Dubuque live as he slays his Weissenborn, an acoustic lap slide guitar made in Germany. Dubuque’s cover of Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name” went viral recently on YouTube with over 900k views. Check it out – then go see him slay it in person.
Saturday, June 6
Saturday, June 6
Old Schoolhouse Rock Car Show
7:00 am – 4:00 pm
Hosted by OSR Car Show
150 River St.
Superior Montana 59872
Winter is gone, time to take the car cover off and start cleaning your ride. Car Show season is starting this weekend. The 21st annual Old Schoolhouse Rock Car Show will be happening Saturday in beautiful downtown Superior, Montana.
Saturday, June 6
Buttercup Trail Day
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Hosted by Bitterroot Backcountry Cyclists
Meetup at Red Barn Bicycles
399 McCarthy Loop, Hamilton, Montana 59840
We will start out the year’s trail work on Buttercup with work on the bottom switchbacks. We will split into groups to prune the sagebrush and work on the trail where horses have knocked off the outer edge of the bench. We will provide pulaskis and McCleods. If you have lopers or hand saws bring them.
We will be walking up from the bottom, so you won’t need a bike. However if you haven’t ridden there in awhile. parking at the trailhead is now limited to 5 or 6 vehicles. So if you want to ride from either Red Barn or the Sleeping Child / Little Sleeping Child intersection come by around 8:30 and drop off any tools or work clothes you want to bring and we will haul it up for you.
Doubtful masks will be needed on the trail, but if there is a need to carpool, there is a possibility of sharing space in vehicles. With windows down and masks we can minimize the risk.
Clark Fork River Market
8:00AM to 12PM
The Clark Fork River Market is open!
The following Phase 1 COVID-19 response practices will be in place:
Agricultural Producers Only
Capacity Limited to 250 People Total (including vendors and employees)
One customer per household
One Entrance and Exit on Pattee Street
One-Way Traffic Flow
Masks Required
6′ Social Distance Observed
You can also order products online to pick up at the market!
(Online Order Deadline = Thursday 6/4 at 7:00pm)
Visit the link here for more placing online orders:
https://clarkforkrivermarket.localfoodmarketplace.com/Products
The Clark Fork River Market is located in the Riverside Parking Lot, just east of Caras Park in Downtown Missoula. There is FREE parking adjacent to the market at the Front St. Parking Structure and on the upper and lower levels of the Bank Street Parking Structure.
Venue: Clark Fork River Market
Address: 225 S Pattee St
Missoula, MT 59802
Phone: 406-880-9648
https://www.clarkforkmarket.com/
Welcome to the Missoula Farmers’ Market! – 48th Season Now Open
8:30am to 12:30pm
Our COVID-19 / Phase 1 Safety Procedures:
– Market Vendors currently limited to agricultural producers only: Produce, plant starts, frozen packaged meat, honey, mushrooms.
– Capacity 175 people total (including vendors and employees) at any time
– 6′ physical distance maintained
– One-way traffic flow; Entrance on Higgins Ave.; Exit on Pattee St.
– Please wear a mask
– Hand washing stations & sanitizer provided- Please send one person per household to shop; First hour (8am-9am) for high-risk customers only. Shop quickly and efficiently.
– Make a list before coming to the market, and exit the area when done shopping.
About the Missoula Farmers’ Market
A gathering of food and friends since 1972. Local and loving it in downtown Missoula. Located at the north end of Higgins Avenue (by the XXXXs)– and online!
Welcome to our online marketplace of locally grown and produced food. Find your favorite farmers, ranchers and food producers here.
https://missoulafarmersmarket.localfoodmarketplace.com/Products
Pre-Order between Monday 12 Noon through Thursday at 7pm for Saturday Market pickup.
Our local farmers are working together to meet the growing demand for local, sustainable food in the Missoula community. By shopping here, you are supporting your neighbors and their small businesses, while tasting the best of what Western Montana has to offer.
We are committed to bringing you fresh, healthy, locally grown and produced food in a cost-effective manner on a weekly basis during our growing season.
Thank you for ordering from the Missoula Farmers’ Market!
Saturday, June 6
Shoot Like A Girl
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Cabela’s in Missoula
3650 Brooks Street
Missoula Montana 59801
Hosted by Cabela’s and Shoot Like A Girl – SLG2
It’s FREE! It’s SAFE! It’s FUN! Ladies, stop by Shoot Like A Girl – SLG2’s mobile range Saturday, June 6th from 9a-5p and Sunday, June 7th from 9a-3p at Cabela’s in Missoula, MT and shoot a pistol, rifle and bow! If you’re new to shooting or have experience, this is a great opportunity to visit with and get instruction from some of the best female certified instructors and archery coaches in the country, and compare the latest equipment on the market! Younger girls are welcome to attend, but they must be over 16 to participate.
Saturday, June 6
7:00pm
Evaro Bar and Casino
Summer Kickoff Party!
17025 US Hwy 93 North
Missoula, MT 59808
The Bar on the Hill is hosting their annual Summer Kickoff Party – featuring a Beer Pong Tournament, Firefight Keg ($10 cups), and Smoked Brisket plates for grub.
Info: https://www.evarobarandcasino.com
406-726-3040
Saturday, June 6
Saturday Night Cruise
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Reserve Street
We will be back to our normal plan, meet and roll out of Rosauers by 7:10ish. make at least the initial curbside parade, share the spectators love. Keep to the curbside as much as possible, keeps the inside lane open for the normal traffic and emergency vehicles. Cruise more than park. And HAVE FUN!
Saturday, June 6
Smith/McKay All Day
8:30 pm – 11:30 pm
Monk’s Bar
221 Ryman Street
Missoula Montana
Smith/McKay All Day coming at you live music (not actually “all day!” – but starts 8:30pm)
21+ Free
Sunday, June 7
Sunday, June 7
Shoot Like A Girl
9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Cabela’s in Missoula
3650 Brooks Street
Missoula Montana 59801
Hosted by Cabela’s and Shoot Like A Girl – SLG2
It’s FREE! It’s SAFE! It’s FUN! Ladies, stop by Shoot Like A Girl – SLG2’s mobile range Saturday, June 6th from 9a-5p and Sunday, June 7th from 9a-3p at Cabela’s in Missoula, MT and shoot a pistol, rifle and bow! If you’re new to shooting or have experience, this is a great opportunity to visit with and get instruction from some of the best female certified instructors and archery coaches in the country, and compare the latest equipment on the market! Younger girls are welcome to attend, but they must be over 16 to participate.
For complete event listings, links and details visit The Missoula Underground / Calendar of Events (powered by MissoulaEvents.net)
https://missoulaunderground.com/events-2/
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