Dwight Yoakam will headline the eighth annual Red Ants Pants Music Festival this July, it was announced at a block party in White Sulphur Springs Saturday night. (more…) Continue Reading →
Dwight Yoakam to headline 8th annual Red Ants festival
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Red Ants Pants Music Festival
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Prairie Lights: Notable venues put Montana on musical map
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Montana doesn’t have any concert venues with the wide renown of places like the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado or the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington state. But how many states have three venues as cool as the White Sulphur Springs cow pasture that is the home of the Red Ants Pants Music Festival; uptown Butte, with its Montana Folk Festival; and Montana Avenue, site of the Magic City Blues festival? (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Prairie Lights, Almeda Bradshaw, Guthrie Brown, High Country Cowboys, Magic City Blues, Montana Folk Festival, Red Ants Pants Music Festival, Tim Goodridge
Guy Clark: Another good man gone
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First Merle, then Prince and now comes the news that Guy Clark is gone, too. Clark was a songwriter’s songwriter, one of those funny, literate, hardboiled, authentic masters who showed the way to so many others. It didn’t hurt that he was a good guitar player with an affecting, whiskey-soaked voice. I didn’t start listening to Clark until about 15 years ago, and I came at him backward, through listening to Steve Earle and then turning to Clark, who was a mentor to Earle. Clark played at the Texas-heavy 2011 edition of the Red Ants Pants Music Festival in White Sulphur Springs. I can’t remember where I was, but I know I couldn’t make the festival that year. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Last Best Blog, Guy Clark, Red Ants Pants Music Festival, Steve Earle, Texas Monthly, Townes Van Zandt
Prairie Lights: What did we do to deserve all this music?
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Looking back at the summer of 2015, these are the things I’m most likely to remember. There was Sheila Kay Adams, a storyteller and musician from Sodom, N.C., giving a brief history of the past 400 years as told by her Scottish grandmother, whose people have been living in the same corner of North Carolina since 1731. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Prairie Lights, Keb' Mo', Lucinda Williams, Magic City Blues, Montana Folk Festival, Red Ants Pants Music Festival, Sheila Kay Adams, South Park
Red Ants: Pants, philanthropy, music and a whole lot more
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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS—Reflecting on the nine years since she started Red Ants Pants, Sarah Calhoun shook her head and let out a satisfied sigh. “It’s been a whirlwind, that’s for sure,” she said. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Culture, Diversions, Big Timber Meats, Red Ants Pants, Red Ants Pants Foundation, Red Ants Pants Music Festival, Sarah Calhoun, White Sulphur Springs
Op-ed: Carrying Montana’s small-business voice to D.C.
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I started Red Ants Pants out of necessity. I had no interest in being in business; I just needed work pants that fit. It is a huge honor that this entrepreneurial adventure is taking me to the White House for a second time, but I need your help. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Montana, Red Ants Pants, Red Ants Pants Music Festival, Sarah Calhoun, Small Business Majority, White Sulphur Springs
Roberts man’s mustache takes the gold in Portland
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Early in 2013, when he started growing a mustache, John Cordes had no particular plans for the facial extension. “The first of February, I don’t know why, I just decided to see how long I could grow one,” he said. “And then my wife said, ‘It’s going to be gray.’ So I had even more incentive to grow it.” (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Diversions, Heavy Horse Bar, John Cordes, Red Ants Pants Music Festival, Roberts, World Beard and Moustache Championships
A bit of paradise: An insider’s look at Red Ants Pants fest
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Friday, July 25, 1 a.m.
Follow the music. That’s what I tell myself as I look around the campground. I’ve lost my party. It was easy to find them in the daytime. They had plastic palm trees in front of their tents. Continue Reading →
