Downtown Missoula brewery/public house with an music, art and special-event booking route and current event programming. Downtown public house with a dedicated published route for musician and special-event bookings. The venue’s live-music mix covers Local live music, singer-songwriter, mixed, providing a useful reference point for bands and solo performers considering the room. Because the space already presents live performers, artists can assess it as an active music destination rather than a general room with no performance history. Cranky Sam Public House is located at 233 W Main St, Missoula, MT 59802. Artists evaluating the space should focus on how closely their show format matches the venue’s existing live-music pattern, since that is the clearest indicator of fit available here. For performers building a routing plan, the venue’s established live-music activity provides a concrete reason to consider it alongside other active rooms in the market. That makes the venue especially relevant for musicians looking for rooms with an existing live-performance audience and a clearly established entertainment format.
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Family-friendly Missoula brewery/taproom and patio hosting live local music multiple times weekly plus monthly jazz. Family-friendly brewery community hub with live local music three times weekly and monthly jazz. Programming spans Jazz, acoustic, local, singer-songwriter, mixed, giving artists a clear picture of the styles already associated with the room. For musicians evaluating a date here, the strongest signal is that live performance is already part of the venue’s established identity, not an incidental add-on. Draught Works Brewery is located at 915 Toole Ave, Missoula, MT 59802. Age access is states family friendly and has a dedicated kids' area. For artists comparing possible dates, the most relevant considerations are the room’s existing music mix, the scale implied by its live-use profile, and whether the act’s format matches the venue’s established presentation style. That makes the venue especially relevant for musicians looking for rooms with an existing live-performance audience and a clearly established entertainment format.
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- Torrance
- Role
- Talent Buyer
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- Capacity
- 200
- Age policy
- All Ages
- Genres
- All Genres
- Sound & production
- No house sound system
- Address
- 915 Toole Avenue, 59802, United States
- Venue phone
- (406) 541-1592
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