After a two year search, the Great Falls Symphony has a new music director. Robert Kahn accepted the position and kicked into overdrive with symphony staff to finalize programming for the 2006-2027 season. The symphony’s search committee met May 18 to review surveys from the community, musicians and board members and using a deliberative analysis tool, recommended Kahn to the
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At 15, Daniel Black convinced his band director to let him conduct the high school band. Leading his classmates, he never felt more comfortable. “I knew that’s what I wanted to do, and here I am,” he said. The sixth and final candidate for music director/conductor will take the stage to conduct the May 9 concert in the Great Falls
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The National Mural Awards were announced May 2 and the winners include several artists who’ve painted murals in Great Falls. The awards were created in 2023 to “recognize the best examples of mural art all over the nation.” For the national awards, two past ArtsFest participants are among the winners: 1st place: Miles Toland and Joseph Toney (Toney was a
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The Great Falls Theatre Company opens its 10th production tonight, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, at the University of Providence Theatre. The play, first performed in 1944, became one of the most famous plays of the modern theatre with timeless themes of balancing responsibility, longing for more, and family dynamics that are just as relevant to today’s audience as when
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Ian Passmore started conducting when he was 8, about two years before he learned an instrument. He’s at point in his career that he’s looking for “home.” He and is wife look at job opportunities together and only consider places they could see themselves living. “Montana is becoming one of the happening places to be,” for classical music and the
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The night show lineup for the 2026 Montana State Fair has been announced. This year’s fair at Montana Expo Park is July 24-Aug. 1 and this year’s theme is “Red, White and Fair.” Tickets go on sale soon. The fair includes four night shows, four nights of PRCA rodeo, live horse racing, commercial exhibits and vendors, food vendors and the
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On April 6, domestic birds will check out of their winter quarters at the Honker Hilton into Gibson Park. It’s a longstanding annual tradition, as well as the waterfowl roundup in the fall. “Stopping by to watch or feed them has become a tradition in Great Falls. It’s one of those small but enjoyable community things that I think Great
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The city has rescheduled the annual waterfowl release at Gibson Pond to April 6 at 10:30 a.m. due to the forecasted spring snow. The Public Library will be hosting story time at 9:30 a.m. before the duck release. Great Falls Park and Recreation staff takes care of the waterfowl over the winter at the Honker Hilton, their indoor location at
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It’s Western Art Week in Great Falls and there’s thousands of pieces of art to take in with hundreds of artists to meet. The week is a collection of shows and events at locations across town. Visit Great Falls Montana Tourism has compiled a list of the shows and events here. Among the artists returning this year is Liz Park,
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March is Youth Art Month and Great Falls Public Schools students are celebrating music, art and theater with a packed schedule of events. Dusty Molyneaux, GFPS’ fine arts supervisor, told the school board during their Feb. 23 meeting that the district has a robust arts curriculum and full theaters with stagecraft programs. That’s not the case in all districts statewide,
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