Montana Logging and Ballet Co.

The Montana Logging and Ballet Company is an American comedy and political satire group, having performed around the U.S. from 1975 until their retirement in 2013. The four members of the Montana Logging and Ballet Company, Tim Holmes, Steve Garnaas-Holmes, Rusty Harper and Bob FitzGerald,[1] got their start at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana. Holmes and Garnaas-Holmes are brothers.[2]

They recorded several albums and broadcast many short radio sketches.[3] Their first album, Take the Barriers Down, 1987, features liner notes by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Funds from the sale of these albums helped Tutu's transformative work for peaceful political change in South Africa prior to the first free elections in 1994, the focus of the title song. Like their first album, the second album,We Don't Get It, 1992, was arranged and produced by jazz guitar great Mundell Lowe. Also appearing on the album is Tommy Tedesco, often billed as 'the most recorded guitarist in history'. Their releases Solutions to Our Nations Problems, Take 1, (1999) and Take 2 (2001) featured selections from their regular appearances on National Public Radio's Sunday Weekend Edition.[4] Billed as NPR's 'resident political satirists' during the Clinton years, the Montana Logging and Ballet Co. provided a series of short political satire sketches on the political issues of the day, including their stage hit "The Millennium Wrap, 1000 Years of History in Six Minutes".[5][6]

After 37 years performing together the quartet called it quits with a final concert tour of their home state of Montana, preserved in a documentary film, "Love is the Journey: The Montana Logging and Ballet Co.", which aired on Montana PBS in 2012.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Love is the Journey: The Montana Logging and Ballet Company". PBS Video. October 13, 2012. Retrieved 2015-10-21.
  2. ↑ Asta Brown (November 9, 1988), "Presenting... the Montana Logging and Ballet Company", The Christian Science Monitor
  3. ↑ "NPR: MLBC segments index". NPR. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  4. ↑ "Mlbc". NPR.org. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
  5. ↑ "Journal E: Millenium". www.musarium.com. Retrieved 2015-10-21.

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