Eagle Mount to host first Annual Summer Community Concert

A Bozeman-based nonprofit is turning up the tunes and ending the summer on a high note. 

Eagle Mount — a nonprofit organization focused on removing barriers to recreation for people with disabilities and people diagnosed with cancer — will hold its first Annual Summer Concert at its on-campus amphitheater on Sept. 4. 

The amphitheater was built in 2019 with the hope of getting the community more involved with Eagle Mount’s campus, located just south of town. That same year, Eagle Mount hosted a community concert featuring local band Pinky And The Floyd. This Thursday will be the first event held at the amphitheater since the pandemic. 

“We're getting back to the business of inviting the community to the amphitheater to help celebrate everything that makes Bozeman, Bozeman,” Eagle Mount Philanthropy Officer Terrence Gotz told the Exponent on Monday. 

The concert will feature a triple header of local Americana artists — Lost Canyons, The Dead and Down and Madeline Hawthorne — alongside local food and drink vendors, plus activities such as disc golf and demonstrations on adaptive cycling. 

A series of sponsors came together to help put on the event, Gotz said. 

“​​SHINE Beer Sanctuary — [co-owners] Travis and Julie Collins — immediately raised their hands and said, ‘We would love to be a part of this, as it really is what makes Bozeman, Bozeman,’” Gotz said. 

When concert planning began, staff at Eagle Mount held an internal poll to choose performers for the show. 

Hawthorne, a Bozeman-based singer songwriter and MSU graduate, said she feels honored to be part of the show. 

“It feels great to be able to use art to bring people together to support a nonprofit,” she said. “It feels like everybody's supporting each other. I love when I get the opportunity to be a part of something like that with my music.” 

She described her music style as “rocky mountain country soul,” a mix of rock ‘n’ roll and country. Members of Hawthorne’s band will be heading up to Bozeman from Denver, Colorado, to join the show.

“Since it's a full band, we will bring high energy,” she said. “It's going to be a lovely day — and people are going to be hanging in the grass and getting up and dancing. It should be a fun, hot, heavy set.” 

In the spirit of being a largely volunteer-based organization, Eagle Mount is offering free admission to those who volunteer at the show. 

“Eagle Mount wouldn't exist without volunteers,” Gotz said. “It's a great opportunity, particularly because the bar for entry is set pretty low, in the sense that you don't have to have any kind of experience in skiing, any kind of experience in horsemanship. You just have to have an interest in being a part of the community and giving some of your time.” 

For the concert, Eagle Mount has 40 different volunteer slots, ranging from assisting with the disc golf activity to providing security. 

“It's an opportunity to see what Eagle Mount is all about, meet us as a team and just have a really great evening,” Gotz said. 

Tickets are $30 and children under 12 can get in for free.

To learn more about the Summer Concert, visit https://eaglemount.org/event/summer-concert.