Agnes Denes: Wheatfield—An Inspiration. The seed is in the ground.

The Lay of the Land: James Castle, Layli Long Soldier, Lucy Raven, Stephen Shore, and Robbie Wing. Artist-in-residence Wills Brewer.

June 15, 6–9pm

Join us for an opening celebration of Tinworks Art's 2024 season. Music by Dave Hollier of King Ropes. Beverages generously donated by Mountains Walking and Bozeman Brewing Company. Food for purchase by Taco Montes. Entry is free to all. We hope to see you there!

About Dave Hollier:

Dave Hollier will play a solo set of songs he’s written for his band King Ropes.

Dave Hollier fronts the Montana-based band King Ropes. Whether you’d call it ramshackle Americana, psychedelic desert rock, maybe country noise pop?, King Ropes’ music is a reflection of the western experience, where the mythology of the West meets the much more nuanced and ragged reality. 

Their latest album, Super Natural, is at once King Ropes’ most ambitious and intimate work. Expanding the parameters of the band’s desert rock and ragged americana sound, it is buoyed by the directness of Hollier’s songwriting.  Hollier has a gift for writing about tragedy and pain with wry humor and conversational bluntness. Long-simmering family trauma, visions of animal reincarnation, mysterious respiratory ailments—all are worthy songwriting prompts as the record vacillates from the pounding rhythms of “Hello Sun” and thick, stoner-rock roar of “Drunk Donny” to the tenderness of “Sure,” a sorrowful, synth-driven ode to regret, and the disarmingly plainspoken “Breathing,” which starts as the  story of a mysterious breathing ailment set to a twangy, understated groove, and gradually widens its focus into a sprawling inventory of pain and suffering. It is a quietly stunning song, sculpted out of empathy and the wisdom that life is a series of battles we never saw ourselves fighting.