For 46 years, the Sweet Pea Festival has been a beloved tradition in Bozeman, bringing together people from all walks of life for a weekend of music, dance, and theater performances in Lindley Park, located on East Main Street.

This year’s lineup of live bands promises to be exceptional, with performances by Galactic, Bozeman’s Choice Solo Artist Jacob Roundtree, the Monophonics, Corb Lund, and many others.

The Stone Foxes (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, August 4 • 6:00pm • The Bowl

Kicking off this year’s Sweet Pea Festival are The Stone Foxes. Brothers, Shannon and Spence Koehler along with their band create a soundscape built through heartaches and hardships yet connected by love; brotherly love and the unbridled love of rock music. They exude this love during their unmissable live shows boosted by what NPR calls “thunderous electric guitar riffs” and a sound that is “irresistible” from USA Today. They have been featured in numerous movies, TV Shows and commercials and have shared the stage with acts such as The Black Keys, Cage the Elephant and ZZ Top. The band continues its journey into the great void of the future. A little older and a little wiser, they’re pioneers searching for a new world. But along the way, the path is filled with fruit and fire.

www.thestonefoxes.com

 

Galactic (New Orleans, LA)
Friday, August 4 • 8:00pm • The Bowl

Galactic draws on 25 years together in order to progress with each live performance and after 10 albums, over 2,000 gigs, and tens of millions of streams, this proud quintet continue tearing up stages with their blazing funk influenced recently with more pop, rock and soul. During 2015, Into The Deep marked their debut in the Top 25 of the Billboard Top 200 and second straight #1 bow on the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums Chart. Along the way, they performed alongside the likes of Dave Matthews Band, The Roots, Jack Johnson, Talib Kweli, the Allman Brothers Band, Widespread Panic, B.B. King, Counting Crows, James Brown, and many more. In the end, Galactic keep moving forward as they add more chapters to their rich and incredible music history.

www.galacticfunk.com

 

Jacob Rountree & The Somethings
Saturday, August 5 • 12:00pm • The Bowl

Passionate, Hypnotic, Multi-Dimensional, Poetic, Diverse. When you combine an artistic, contemplative soul with endless energy and an adventurous spirit, you discover Bozeman’s own Jacob Rountree, an alternative-folk/indie-rock musician. Listeners are always surprised at the fullness of his sound created with many digital effects, loops, percussive guitar playing, intricate fingerpicking, delicately placed percussions and haunting harmonies. If his audience isn’t captivated by his introspective lyrics, dynamic rhythms and diverse moods, they are guaranteed to be mesmerized by the bands multi-dimensional performance with beautiful harmonies that soothe, textural guitar that breaks out into tasteful blues rock, and irresistible tribal rhythms to make you move. Jacob and his band create a rare musical experience with a fresh take on timeless music styles. They truly are an act to see.

www.jacobrountree.com

 

One Leaf (Bozeman, MT)
Saturday, August 5 • 2:00pm • The Bowl

The One Leaf sound is a unique fusion of funk, rock, hip hop, and reggae music, inspired by the rhythms and melodies of the streets and top 40. The sound is a combination of hard-hitting beats, soulful guitar riffs, and a powerful four-string bass that together create a sound that is both captivating and energizing. The lyrics of One Leaf songs express both love and joy, as well as moments of heartache, delivered in harmony, with a laugh and a wink to the old masters from which all music is born. Having shared the stage with many local, regional and National acts, Bozeman’s own One Leaf is sure to take you on a special musical journey.

 

Margo Cilker (Enterprise, OR)
Saturday, August 5 • 4:00pm • The Bowl

Margo Cilker sings with a sparse beauty that can only be heard to appreciate. Far from mainstream country her unique sound harkens to the early days of Lucinda Williams along with the songwriting prowess of Woody Guthrie. On her sophomore album, Valley of Heart’s Delight, refers to a place she can’t return: California’s Santa Clara Valley, as it was known before the orchards were paved over and became more famous for Silicon than apricots. This 11-song collection intertwines family and nature at once precious and endangered, beautiful and exhausting. Her debut album Pohorylle, was nominated for UK Americana Album of The Year alongside Brandi Carlile and Robert Plant, and earned Cilker a slew of festival performances and tours supporting American Aquarium, Hayes Carll, and Drive-By Truckers.

www.margocilkermusic.com

 

Dwayne Dopsie & The Zydeco Hellraisers (Lafayette, LA)
Saturday, August 5 • 6:00pm • The Bowl

Dwayne Dopsie, grew up teaching himself how to play accordion watching videos of his father and Clifton Chenier and recording himself and playing over and over for hours until it was right. The knowledge of Dwayne’s musical ability along with Zydeco Hellraisers band members are combined to have over 100 years of experience playing Zydeco music and it shows in every performance. The energy, true talent, and exuberance that Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers emit from stage makes it obvious that there is no competition for this band. They also add a bit of rhythm and blues, funk, rock and roll, reggae and pop to their performances. Not only has Dwayne’s band mastered zydeco music but he’s won multiple awards like a Grammy in 2022 winner for Jazz Fest a New Orleans story and Grammy Nominees in 2012 and 2018. Dwayne doesn’t confine himself to the stage; he interacts with the crowd, blurring the barrier between performer and audience so definitely don’t miss this one of a kind performance!

www.dwaynedopsie.com

Monophonics (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, August 5 • 8:00pm • The Bowl

The world’s premier psychedelic soul band, Monophonics, cordially invites you to attend the grand re-opening of the once thriving, once vibrant establishment, the legendary Sage Motel. What started as a quaint motor lodge and a common pitstop for travelers and truckers in the 1940s morphed into a bohemian’s hang by the 1960s and 1970s. Sage Motel, Monophonics’ fifth studio album since 2012, tells its story. Once again produced by brilliant bandleader Kelly Finnigan, the album captures a timeless sound that blends heavy soul with psych-rock. With their previous album, It’s Only Us, selling over 10,000 physical units and garnering over 20 million streams, Monophonics have built a reputation over the past decade as one of the most impactful bands in the country. If these walls of the Sage Motel could talk, this is what they’d say. So join us as we examine where the stories are told and experiences unfold…..and sink into a soft pillow of soulful psychedelia…..down at the Sage Motel

www.monophonics.com

 

Matt Wallin & His Nervous Breakdown
Sunday, August 6 • 12:00pm • The Bowl

Matt Wallin tells stories about the trials and hardships of rural farm life and oil boomtowns to starting a family and following your own path. His songs paint pictures with writing that reflect the character of Mike Cooley, Corb Lund, Waylon Jennings and Vic Chestnut. Songs you can see when you hear them. His recent album Ravens hit on ethereal parts of human life. Love, connections, regret, death and the future are all themes interwoven into Matt’s songs. Fans have taken notice with numerous first place results in 2022’s Bozeman’s Choice Readers Poll.

Sunny War (Venice Beach, CA)
Sunday, August 6 • 2:00pm • The Bowl

It’s no secret that great art comes from the margins. From those who are either pushed to create from inner forces, or who create to show they deserve to be recognized. Los Angeles-based street singer, guitarist, and roots music revolutionary Sunny War has always been an outsider, always felt the drive to define her place in the world through music and songwriting. Her restless spirit, a byproduct of growing up semi-nomadic with a single mother, led her to Venice Beach, California, where she’s been grinding the pavement for some years now, making a name for her prodigious guitar work and incisive songwriting, which touches on everything from police violence to alcoholism to love found and lost. Her new single No Reason has garnered nearly a million plays in a few short months and is featured on Sirus Radio. This song has vaulted her into one of music’s best up and coming artists of the year and has found her on numerous late night and early morning national television broadcasts.

www.sunnywar.com

 

Corb Lund & The Hurtin’ Albertans (Taber, Alberta, Canada)
Sunday, August 6 • 3:30pm • The Bowl

Corb Lund has received multiple CCMA, Juno, and international award nominations and wins. Agricultural Tragic, his first album of original material in five years came out in June of 2021. Met with acclaim, No Depression states, “Eloquent and plainspoken, the excellent Agricultural Tragic finds the affable country rocker exploring his roots as a rancher and rodeo rider while striving to adapt this traditional identity to the challenging modern world… Corb Lund radiates authenticity from first note to last.” American Songwriter says, “The songs on Agricultural Tragic sparkle with a kind of authenticity that only someone who lives that life can project”. Agricultural Tragic is a highlight in Lund’s long and successful career. His 7th album Cabin Fever, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Canadian Charts in 2012; three of his records have been certified Gold, and his 2015 studio album, Things That Can’t Be Undone, cemented his status as one of the best contemporary country singer/songwriters working today. Last Fall, Corb released Cover Your Tracks, 8-song collection of unexpected cover songs previously recorded by AC/DC, Nancy Sinatra, Billy Joel, Marty Robbins, Bob Dylan, The Eagles, Willie Nelson & Ray Charles, and Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show. With a long family lineage of ranchers and rodeo people, Lund is as authentic as they come. Embracing both his Western heritage and his indie rock past through his music, Lund is known to filter a range of cowboy themes past and present through his unique lens – from rough-and-tumble tales of lawless frontier saloons, to the somber realities of running a modern family ranch.

www.corblund.com