MISSOULA - There's some authentic music making happening at Western Cider’s Old Time Jam in Missoula. An event people can bring their instruments and play music with others.
“A little bit of history is that this music has been played all over the United States, especially on the East Coast in the 17, 18 hundreds, and into the 19 hundreds. And it’s been passed down [from] generation to generation,” explained old-time musician Kyler Stanley. In town from Moscow, ID, Stanley shared with MTN that he was in Missoula for a training, searched for old time music, and happened to find this old time jam session. He said, "I love old time music and I love finding new people to play it with... I want to come back and play [at the jam] again."
Music is the soundtrack to life. “And it’s kind of a common language that we all speak. And we can sit down, no matter where we come from, our background, it is really, the music is the common language we all speak,” Stanley said.
Bill LaCroix, a jam session attendee who has been playing the banjo for 40 years, told MTN that he has met some of his best friends over the years through old time music.
Western Cider’s Old Time Jam is keeping the traditions of old-time music alive one song at a time.
The jam takes place from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday of each month at 501 North California Street in Missoula.
