Music News

No doubt about it...Monday's the first day of October & it really won't be long until Christmas. I'm already excited! There's so much to enjoy & do here in the Golden Triangle as we all enjoy this special time of the year. There will be sidewalk strolls, Christmas concerts & programs, & sugar plum fairies dancing in our heads this coming holiday season. Conrad is gett...

The Andy Hackbarth Band is hacking it's way into North Central Montana this week with a performance of a mix of flamingo & Spanish guitar & contemporary folk music. They'll be down in Fort Benton this Wednesday at the Fort Benton Elementary School auditorium with music kicking off at 7. Ticket...

She's Monica Lewis, the diminutive, dimpled singer & actress. Stylish she was! Monica was the wife of one of Hollywood's legendary studio chiefs-the late Jennings Lang. In her book (available from Cable Publishing, www.cablepublishing.com), "Hollywood Through My Eyes-The Lives & Loves of a Golden Age Siren", she writes about everyone from A to Z in her career...like ...

If you dig jazz, you'll dig "Joined At The Hip". This fascinating read by Jay Goetting keeps the beat from beginning to finish. From the early days through Prohibition & the swing era, then to bebop & beyond, Jay's tome is the story of jazz music, musicians, & venues in Minneapolis & St...

Alexis Wineman of Cut Bank was recently crowned Miss Montana 2012. There are many rewards for being Miss Montana, but the post comes with a great deal of expense as well. Alexis' platform for her year as Miss Montana is "Normal is just a dryer setting...

This afternoon (Monday) on my "Puffman Musical Trivia", I'll be giving away a Montana author's book to the first caller with the correct answer to a "MONTANA" musical trivia question. I interviewed this author some months back (he's Jeff Noonan from St...

Bluegrass On The Bay returns for the 10th year in a row this Saturday night down in Great Falls and the infamous Suzy Bogguss is headlining the affair. It's a blast every year and besides Suzy, special guest performers include Sierra Hull and the Farewell Drifters...

Former Penn State Coach Jerry Sandusky was found guilty of 45 child sex abuse charges on Friday, the jury reaching a verdict after a two-week trial.

The Cut Bank Instrumental Music Department will be hosting their FINAL concert of the year this Monday evening in the Cut Bank High School Auditorium. The concert begins at 7 and there will, indeed, be "music in the air". The grades 5 through 12 band students will be performing such numbers as the old Beach Boys' classic, "Surfin' USA" and there will be some tunes from the Pira

Libraries are something that we are all blessed with as Americans, and here in Shelby, we are most fortunate to have the services of the Toole County Library. Sometimes I like to say that the library building is "the building with the most stories in town"...

No, it's not that old Charley Pride tune, it's a "snake report" that I received this morning (Thursday) here at the Puffman Blog desk. Tony, the infamous Snake Man and his wife were out at the dens last Sunday on the Gollehon place east of Brady, out there on Hell's Gulch Road...

The 18th Annual Montana Storytelling Roundup kicks off next Friday (April 27th) in Cut Bank and the entertainment slate this year looks better than ever. As I blogged earlier this week, on Monday, I'll be talking with the monastic composer/song writer Aleka...