Milk River Band headlining streamed concert in Havre

Staff and wire report

A local acting troupe and college radio station are again joining forces on the internet to bring some live music to people during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Last October, KNMC and the Montana Actors' Theatre hosted their first-ever live web-streamed concert featuring a mix of local and nationally recognized musicians on stage at the Montana State University-Northern Little Theatre.

The are joining again to bring a second web-streamed concert Saturday, Feb. 20, at 5 p.m., broadcast live from the Northern campus.

People can watch MAT and KNMC social media to find out where the concert will be streamed.

The event will be headlined by local favorite Milk River Band.

Milk River Band has been playing along the Hi-Line for many years and was a highlight of the side stage at the 2013 Red Ants Pants Music Festival in White Sulphur Springs.

The band plays traditional country music that is influenced by a variety of styles and their own unique twist that each individual band member brings to the mix. Band members are Auddo Flansberg, vocals, lead guitar, steel guitar; Val Barnett, vocals, rhythm guitar; Adrian Tremblay, bass guitar, and Brady Skramstad, drums.

The band plays different venues throughout Montana and also into Canada.

Milk River Band will be joined Feb. 20 by two other local groups. Fresno Yacht Club will play soft rock from the late '70s and early '80s and DICNAR - Rancid spelled backward - will play pop-punk music.

KNMC also is moving forward with plans to host its annual Tribute concert Saturday, May 15, either as a web-stream concert or social-distanced in-person concert strictly adhering to county health department guidelines. 

Tribute is the radio station's spring music event and is KNMC's way of paying tribute to all of the hard-working students, faculty and staff of Northern at the end of the school year, a release about the events said.  Local musicians sign up and form "tribute bands" who then dress up and perform the music of their artist of choice.

Musicians who are interested in participating in Tribute can contact Dave Martens at 390-1238.