Showman & Coole concert

Name: Showman & Coole concert
Start: 2025-10-28T19:30:00-06:00
Location: Gallatin Labor Temple

Schedule

Tue, 28 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Gallatin Labor Temple | Bozeman, MT

We’re excited to welcome John Showman and Chris Coole back to Bozeman for a show! They played here previously in the trio Lonesome Ace Stringband, and Chris Coole played a BFS show with Ivan Rosenberg. This time, they’re bringing a duo show to the Gallatin Labor Temple on Tuesday, Oct. 28.
Through twenty years and a couple of thousand shows together in bands such as The Foggy Hogtown Boys and The Lonesome Ace Stringband, John Showman and Chris Coole have developed a deep and instinctual musical bond. Their music lurks in a truly unique space that is somewhere on the outskirts of old-time, bluegrass, and folk. The songs of John Hartford, Hank Williams, Dock Boggs, and The Band share space with the fiddle tunes of Eck Robertson and Ed Haley. The duo’s original songs and tunes take in all these vistas and paint something both personal and timely.
They have performed across North America and Europe at festivals such as Merlefest, Rockygrass, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Mariposa, Wintergrass, The Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival, and The Bluegrass Hall of Fame and Museum. In 2022, the duo released two albums; “ Afield” a collection of old-time fiddle tunes, and “Much Further Out than Inevitable – A Tribute to Some Music of John Hartford.”
They’ll be at the Gallatin Labor Temple, 422 E. Mendenhall in Bozeman, on Tuesday, Oct. 28. Doors open at 7:00, show starts at 7:30. Tickets can be purchased at https://bozemanfolklore.org/concert-showman-coole/ for $20 each – children 12 and under admitted free. Any additional tickets can be purchased at the door the night of the show.