Wednesday through Sunday // February 8, 9, 10, 11, & 12 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $20 General Admission // $15 Students & Seniors

It’s over. This isn’t working. I think we should break up.

No two ways about it -  breakups suck. But breakup songs? Well, they at least help to ease the pain. 

I Think We Should Break Up is a musical cabaret that - using the music of Cher, Amy Winehouse, Bruno Mars, the Beatles, and many more - explores the inevitable ups and downs that come with the end of a relationship. 

Fun, funny, and a little heartfelt, this show is for everyone who’s ever had to contend with a broken heart.

For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.

Wednesday through Sunday // February 8, 9, 10, 11, & 12 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $20 General Admission // $15 Students & Seniors

It’s over. This isn’t working. I think we should break up.

No two ways about it -  breakups suck. But breakup songs? Well, they at least help to ease the pain. 

I Think We Should Break Up is a musical cabaret that - using the music of Cher, Amy Winehouse, Bruno Mars, the Beatles, and many more - explores the inevitable ups and downs that come with the end of a relationship. 

Fun, funny, and a little heartfelt, this show is for everyone who’s ever had to contend with a broken heart.

For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.

Wednesday through Sunday // February 8, 9, 10, 11, & 12 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $20 General Admission // $15 Students & Seniors

It’s over. This isn’t working. I think we should break up.

No two ways about it -  breakups suck. But breakup songs? Well, they at least help to ease the pain. 

I Think We Should Break Up is a musical cabaret that - using the music of Cher, Amy Winehouse, Bruno Mars, the Beatles, and many more - explores the inevitable ups and downs that come with the end of a relationship. 

Fun, funny, and a little heartfelt, this show is for everyone who’s ever had to contend with a broken heart.

For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.

Wednesday through Sunday // February 8, 9, 10, 11, & 12 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $20 General Admission // $15 Students & Seniors

It’s over. This isn’t working. I think we should break up.

No two ways about it -  breakups suck. But breakup songs? Well, they at least help to ease the pain. 

I Think We Should Break Up is a musical cabaret that - using the music of Cher, Amy Winehouse, Bruno Mars, the Beatles, and many more - explores the inevitable ups and downs that come with the end of a relationship. 

Fun, funny, and a little heartfelt, this show is for everyone who’s ever had to contend with a broken heart.

For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.

Wednesday through Sunday // February 8, 9, 10, 11, & 12 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $20 General Admission // $15 Students & Seniors

It’s over. This isn’t working. I think we should break up.

No two ways about it -  breakups suck. But breakup songs? Well, they at least help to ease the pain. 

I Think We Should Break Up is a musical cabaret that - using the music of Cher, Amy Winehouse, Bruno Mars, the Beatles, and many more - explores the inevitable ups and downs that come with the end of a relationship. 

Fun, funny, and a little heartfelt, this show is for everyone who’s ever had to contend with a broken heart.

For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.

Wednesday, February 15 // Door at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter

JAAG is a new band drawing from post-punk and 90s rock to craft a dark and driving sonic journey. The project was initiated by Hank Donovan on guitar (Magpies, Rattlesnake Cable Company) and recent homecomer Jamie Aaron Aux on vocals and guitar (Le Butcherettes, XVIII Eyes), acquaintances with long mutual respect in the Northwest music sphere, both agreeing to test the waters after each taking breaks from band life. With a handful of demos written, the two brought in John Sporman on bass (Wylie & the Wild West, Jupiter Beat, Shahs) and Christopher Baumann on drums (Mass FM, Victory Smokes, Dead Hipster) to kick the rock into high gear. Christopher and Jamie share a long musical history as former bandmates in the early-2000’s Jay’s Upstairs-era emo band, The Pleasure. The group has not yet recorded any material but probably will soon because that’s what bands do. IG: @_j_a_a_g

At Nadir is a three-piece band playing original songs in the indie tradition of no-name chords, weird tunings, and volume minus the bro factor. At Nadir's songs take oblique views of relationships between people and the world and the things people put between themselves and the world. The Helena, MT band formed after a fruitful 2020 spent in isolation, in which guitarist-singer Peter Dudlo spent evenings, "carving chords from refrigerator-sized blocks of salted dark chocolate," to make At Nadir's first few songs. When he crossed paths with former Downer Party bassist Kristy Fortman at the skatepark one day, the two concocted the idea for a band and were fortunate to enlist rookie-of-the-year drummer Emmett Brown.

Monument is the solo project of Jesse Hadden of Worst Feelings. Their recent EP, ‘Fake Flower’, is available on cassette and streaming through Anything Bagel Records.

For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.

Sunday, March 12 (rescheduled from Saturday, December 10) // Doors at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter Ticket

New Old Future is a four piece garage pop, alt rock, grunge band that has been playing in Missoula for ten years. The members are Logan Heindl on lead guitar, Kyle Campbell on bass, Zach Froehlich on drums, and Bry Froehlich on vox and rhythm guitar. ‘Birds’ is their third studio album. Follow New Old Future @newoldfuture on Instagram or visit newoldfuture.com.

Selling for Free is a two piece independent band based in Missoula. Fronted by guitarist and singer Robert Hylbom, and backed up by Caleb Tutty on drums. The band combines elements of post-punk, folk, and pop, into songs that are carefree and danceable, with witty observational lyrics and cultural commentary.

ESP is an indie-rock band from Missoula, comprised of Erin Szalda-Petree, Noelle Huser, Duncan Szalda-Petree, Christopher Baumann, and Joe Kirk. ESP released their debut album ‘Backyard’ in December 2020. Erin Szalda-Petree’s songs are a collection of personal moments from her life, exploring themes of embarrassment, everyday life, and familial relationships.

For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.

Opener TBA
Tuesday, March 14 // Door at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $15

The Appleseed Cast is a band from Lawrence, KS. They formed in 1997, and released the first album in 1998. They have since released seven albums, including Illumination Ritual in April of 2013. The band was founded in the early days of emo by singer-guitarist Christopher Crisci and drummer Louie Ruiz. The Appleseed Cast has steadily evolved over the release of eight full-length albums with Crisci as the main songwriter.Currently the band's lineup includes Christopher Crisci, Ben Kimball, Nick Fredrickson and Sean Bergman.

Major acclaim first came in the early 2000s that earned them a 9.0 from Pitchfork for their album set Low Level Owl Vol I and Vol II. The band have enjoyed continued high praise for their work on Two Conversations, Peregrine, Illumination Ritual, and others.

For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.

Saturday, March 18 // Door at 7 PM // Rock Lotto begins at 8 PM // $20

TICKETS AVAILABLE on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 at 10 AM.

Big Brother is watching. Seven bands will perform music from 1984 in a one-night-only night of unforgettable unforgettableness. Proceeds benefit Missoula Community Radio (501c3) and the ZACC. Advance tickets are highly recommended as this event is likely to sell out, and if you don't have an advance ticket ... the only way to get in is to be in line when a ticket holder leaves the venue. Follow the Missoula Rock Lotto Facebook page for updates. OBEY EVERY RULE!

For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about.

Saturday, April 22 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $12 Advance // $15 Day of Show
Support TBA

A well is a stone-encircled place of depth, keeping an abundance of water for survival. “Well” is also a phrase for pause, for transition in language. Our tears can well up and bubble over. To define ourselves as “well” is the most basic term of goodness.

What’s on the other side of the well? Inside the tunnel of change, or this life, we can either feel intimidated by the darkness of uncertainty, or excited by the possibility of nourishment. Songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist Jess Shoman wonders, “what the hell,” why don’t we go for the excess of love we deserve? Tenci’s album A Swollen River, A Well Overflowing becomes a gathering and collection of well-like vessels – cups, puddles, fists – to hold tight to this love, newfound joy.

A Swollen River, A Well Overflowing is Tenci’s second album, coming after their 2020 debut My Heart Is An Open Field, which introduced Jess Shoman’s experimentations to the world. With guidance of the push and pull of intuitive guitar and vocal edges, Tenci is a band that plays with time. Shoman admits that their first album dealt with letting go of painful life experiences, resulting in emptiness. In this recent collection of wiser years and distance from that former grief zone, Tenci carries an opposite feeling, a celebration of self-rejuvenation. A Swollen River, A Well Overflowing shows Shoman steering their inventive folk style further and wilder, spilling over with 12 fable-like songs. In a combination of milk, coins, glass, contained water, and light, each song forms a spell to “fill my heart back up,” Shoman says, “by reframing complex feelings by turning my head sideways and seeing them in a different way.” 

From the close-knit Chicago scene, Shoman is joined by Curtis Oren on saxophone and guitar (Curt Oren), Izzy Reidy on bass (Izzy True), and Joseph Farago on drums (Joey Nebulous). In the past couple years, they’ve been playing shows together at home in Chicago, on their tours around the country, and recording this album with Abby Black, adding fuller instrumentation and natural harmony of friends. While the themes of Tenci shuffle around a serious pool of thought and trying to understand life’s wrongings, their live set often interludes with goofy light-heartedness. Anyone who knows the band members of Tenci knows they are the funniest people on earth. And their playful coordination and dynamics of loose drums and bass, huffing sax, and vocal waterfalls leaves us warmer than before. The songs on A Swollen River, A Well Overflowing bundle together like weavings of twigs to create that fire, a burning message to keep going and going.

For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.