Where history and the arts collide.
Small Batch Arts returns to Reynolds Hall this holiday season, December 18-23, with an all-new installment of
A MONTANA RADIO CHRISTMAS 1955
LIVE at Reynolds Music Hall
DIRECTED BY JOEL JAHNKE WRITTEN BY MAGGIE PETERSEN & DOUG MACINTYRE
TICKETS ON SALE BELOW! Thank you for supporting our events, Gallatin Valley!
Performance Dates/Times:
DEC. 18, 19, 20, 22 at 7 PM DEC. 21 at 3 PM & 7 PM DEC. 23 at 3 PM
FOLEY SOUND-MAKING WORKSHOP FOLLOWING PERFORMANCE
Saturday, December 21st after 7pm Show
FREE to Performance Attendees Ages 5-17
In the meantime, tune in by clicking on the image below to hear the most recent broadcast…
Tune into MSU Alumni’s website for a rebroadcast of Small Batch Art’s 2021 radio Christmas installment, “A Montana Radio Christmas 1944”. The Gallatin Gals delight with swinging tunes from the era, and our brilliant cast of beloved local actors have new stories of Montana’s past to share. We are happy to gift our broadcast to the MSU Alumni Foundation to share with their listeners, and thank them for putting Rab Cummings photos of the performance into the stream for your enjoyment.
Happy Holidays Everyone, from the cast and crew of Small Batch Arts!
Coming up…
THe TRAVeling storyteller project
Small Batch Arts presents a new mobile arts series that brings classical literature works to life through a network of traveling storytellers at read-aloud gatherings in elderly residential homes beginning next month. A brainchild of Small Batch Arts’ Executive Director, Aimee Devlin, the Traveling Storyteller Project’s performers will read aloud in-person during two thirty-minute sessions a week until each book is complete. By connecting through the BlueTooth system, residents will have the option to tune in anywhere within the building through their hearing devices if unable to attend the live performance.
The series will launch at Brookdale Spring Meadows next month, with plans to make itself available to other organizations and retirement homes as requests arise.
If you would like to participate in the series, please contact Aimee Devlin at 406-600-1145.
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A copy of our 2019 program below to compliment our rebroadcast of last season’s show:
Below we’ve uploaded a copy of 2021’s show program for you. This season’s show was yet another joyful offering for our community. Thank you for coming out in support of it this holiday season!
Thank you for supporting this year’s installment of our holiday radio show…
A Montana Radio Christmas 1944
We hope to see you next year with yet another show bringing stories of Montana’s past to life in a way that sends you off with a song in your heart and a skip in your step.
Photos by Rab Cummings
Christmases, like tree rings, provide a telling record of the good years, the lean years, the years marked by significant events.
In our 2019 production, “A Bozeman Radio Christmas 1939” we looked back at the year Bozeman got its first commercial radio station. We celebrated with stories of pioneer holidays in the Gallatin Valley and popular holiday swing tunes as sung by the fabulous Gallatin Gals (The GG’s).
This year we move ahead five years to the very significant Christmas of 1944. Only this time we will travel the whole state. But how? It’s 1944, gas is rationed and car tires are impossible to find. No problem, we’re taking the Milwaukee Road’s magnificent passenger train, the Olympian; riding the rails of the Jawbone Line through the heart of Montana. The GG’s will be onboard with more great 40’s swing tunes, and so will our talented troupe of storytellers. We hope you’ll hop aboard too, for “A Montana Radio Christmas 1944”.
Step back in time with A Montana Radio Christmas 1944
A peek at some of our previous performances…
What a beautiful show directed by Sasha Kostyrko! Ferociously witty, lavishly costumed, and delightfully presented by this group of talented performers! Bravo Small Batch Arts Players!!!
Directed by Sasha Kostyrko, Costumes by Michael Dixon, Music by Erik Pearson.
About
Small Batch Arts is an arm of the Children’s Shakespeare Society producing pre-professional and professional art, educational, theatrical, historical, and dance events which harken to a time gone by.
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A Weekend With Dance & Music Historians from Colonial Williamsburg.
PREVIous Projects
In December we offered a peek into the world of creating live radio shows through a workshop with LA-based foley artist Shereen Khan.
Followed by our first annual Live Holiday Radio Show starring many of our favorite local professional actors in an original show written and directed by Bruce Hurlbut.
