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Pearl Jam ticket contest!

Jack FM Missoula is celebrating the arrival of the warm weather season with ticket giveaways to one of the most anticipated events of the summer!

Tune in starting Tuesday, May 1st, and when you hear the Eddie Vedder wail text “JACK” to 848-1059 and you’ll automatically be registered to win. We’ll collect names all through the month and give away a pair of tickets every Friday through June 1st.

That’s five different chances to win a pair of tickets to see Pearl Jam perform LIVE at Washington-Grizzly Stadium on Monday, August. 13th!

Whether you win tickets or not, be sure to join Jack at the pre-concert blast – we’ll be set up at Caras Park with all your favorite food and drink vendors, live entertainment and more!

Good luck, and happy sunshine from your friends at 105.9 Jack FM Missoula.

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Country star Chris Young is playing the Adams Center in Missoula this spring, and Jack’s got a FREE pair of tickets to give away!

In November, the 2006 “Nashville Star” winner dropped his fifth studio album, I’m Comin’ Over, just a few months after being inducted into the Grand Ole Opry.

Young’s Losing Sleep World Tour hits Missoula on Wednesday, May 16th, with special guests Kane Brown and Morgan Evans set to open.

Tickets go on sale at 10 am TODAY at GrizTix.com.

But if you feel like fancying your luck, just follow THIS LINK to register for our free ticket giveaway.

We’ll also be taking registrations at Cabela’s for their big blockbuster event on Saturday. So stop by, say hey to Tommy, pick up some station schwag and drop your name into the box.

Good luck – and again, here’s the link to register for your free tickets!

Win concert tickets!
Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo and Melissa Etheridge to play Missoula!

Logjam Presents & Jack FM Missoula welcome four-time Grammy Award winner Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo / Melissa Etheridge to the new KettleHouse Amphitheater on Saturday, August 12, 2017!

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TICKETING INFORMATION:

Pre-Sale: April 13, 10a-10p…online only HERE 

General: April 14 at 10am at  The Top Hatonline or by phone at 877-987-6487.

VIP Packages: Details HERE

 

Join the Facebook event page HERE

 

Stay tune to 105.9 Jack FM Missoula for contests, details & more!

 

Yep, you read that right – we’re giving away ticket to see the legendary rockers light up the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse with special guest ASIA on Tuesday, March 21st!

unnamedWe’ve got two four-packs of tickets to give away to a local Jack FM Missoula listener. And that’s not all! Our LOCAL Missoula winner will also get a free gas card to help them get to and from Bozeman for the show!

So … besides not stopping believing … how exactly do you win?

Easy freakin’ peasy – click HERE and fill out the registration form. No unnecessary essay-writing, hoop-jumping or money-spending required. Just let us know you’re interested, and we’ll pick a new winner each Friday through March 10!

Check out all the show details HERE.

And here again is our link to the ticket giveaway.

Good luck, and be sure to like Jack FM Missoula’s Facebook page to stay abreast of all our great giveaways!

 

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At the Intersection of Grace

At its center is two clasping hands – one black, one white; grasping at one another as though Michelangelo had chosen a concert rather than Creation as his Sistine inspiration.

Two women from very different backgrounds finding common healing in the rhythms and sounds of funk and soul.

On the left, the entertainer Sharon Jones: Sparkly-dressed, microphone in hand – she 15390944_10207730607091137_1912761181392023761_nwho would succumb to pancreatic cancer just 10 weeks later.

And on the right, another fighter: Missoula’s Susan Blair, who, deep into the throes of her own battle with cancer, showed up at The Wilma that September night to express admiration for a newfound hero.

It happened spontaneously, and it only lasted a split second – yet that’s all a photographer needs to preserve a profound moment for the ages.

“It was a spray-and-pray, I guess we call it – just shoot a bunch. It wasn’t really until I got home that I realized what I got.”

That’s Jeffrey Neubauer, staff photographer for The Wilma.

He’s been shooting live performances for years now. But this one, he said, was something different.

“A lot of times the pictures mostly showcase the party of the show, but this one really is a standalone picture that encompasses what Sharon Jones dedicated her life to – especially towards the end of her life,” he said. “Easily the best photo I’ve ever taken.”


You don’t have to know much about Sharon Jones to understand the significance of Neubauer’s image. Her drive to push through recovery and back onto the stage was documented hauntingly in 2015’s “Miss Sharon Jones!”

If you haven’t seen it, cancel your weekend plans.static1-squarespace

On the surface, “Miss Sharon Jones!” is the tale of a Jones’ emotional and physical struggles through invasive surgery and chemotherapy and the awkward balance of healthy self-care and meeting the demands of band mates, family and fans who count on her for financial stability.

But also, and perhaps more poignantly, it’s the story of the frontwoman’s lifelong struggles against poverty, segregation and a cutthroat industry – an industry that would eventually accept her into its folds just in time for her to assume a new, more deadly, foe.

As viewers, we get to witness the tender balance between Jones’ glowing charisma and tender pains on and off the stage – and the many lives she touched and inspired as she opted against wigs, self-pity and isolation in the face of what would ultimately be her demise.d


Enter now the 74-year-old Blair, who knew nothing of Sharon Jones until she saw the movie screening at the Roxy Theater last August.

Blair, who lives in a quiet home near the top of the Rattlesnake with her dog, Dora, and her 15-year-old cat, was diagnosed with lymphoma in February and had just completed the final of eight chemotherapy sessions in June.

This was her second battle with cancer; she had her spleen removed during an initial diagnosis 13 years prior.

After the movie, a theater employee told Blair of Jones’ upcoming Missoula show – the first of several people who made this moment between the two fighters come to fruition.

She calls them her “angels.”

“I wrote a note to her the day before the concert – I wanted to let her know how much I appreciated the movie, how I thought she’d been so inspirational,” she said. “It takes some bravery, you know. You either do it or you die, and sometimes you do it and you still die.”

Blair showed up that night with note in one pocket, standing-room-only ticket in the other. And there she stood, alone and exhausted in the back of the room, until she decided it was time.

“At least three people helped me get from the back of the theater to the stage,” she said – again, angels. “She reached out, and I was like, ‘Really?’ and I reached out to her – she was staring right at me,” Blair said. “I can’t tell you what a thrill it was to me. I just have so much gratitude; she didn’t have to do that to me.”


The first time we saw this iconic photo was in November, well after the show and just a week or so after Jones had passed.

Neubauer had posted it to his Facebook page looking for support in an online contest.

15391014_10207730602891032_516815209566835893_nIt seemed pretty clear to us what was going on, or so we thought: Blair was reaching out to Jones from the front of the stage seeking strength and solidarity in what was surely the fight of her life.

It wasn’t until we met with Blair in early December that the twist was revealed. It was Jones who was extending her hand, not the other way around.

Was she offering hope and support? If you know Jones’ story, that’s an easy hypothesis to believe.

Or perhaps she reached out seeking hope and support herself? For a strong woman determined to live out her dying days on the stage, that, too, wouldn’t be surprising.

More likely, just like Michaelangelo’s famous Sistene portrait depicts the intersection of deity and humanity, with no definitive flow from one body to the other, this photo simply captured the intersection of one woman’s grace with another’s.

“Maybe she had a need to reach out to somebody,” Blair said. “I just wanted to cheer her on because she is such a wonderful role model. And she had such a hard life, really.”


Beth Eldridge didn’t witness the two women embracing that night, but it doesn’t surprise her that such an emotional display unfolded at what was already an extremely heavy show.

Jones had already announced publicly the return of her cancer, and it was clear her days were numbered.e

Eldridge, who works as a registered nurse in the oncology unit at Saint Patrick Hospital in Missoula, said the type of connection those two experienced in that moment was perhaps as healing as any drug.

“You can get sort of isolated an lonely in a disease like that – everybody wants to help, everybody wants to do something, but nobody’s really in your shoes or knows what it’s like,” she said. “Just seeing the picture is pretty powerful.”

Aside from her two pets, Blair doesn’t have any family in Missoula. She made quite a few friends during a two-decades-plus stint as a volunteer at the Humane Society of Western Montana. But her closest family – her son, her granddaughter – live elsewhere.

Jones, too, was alone except for a few good friends and her musical partners.

But the funny thing? Because of their grace – that grace that intersected for a moment in September – neither have carried the burdens of disease and recovery all alone.

Doctors, nutritionists, band mates and fans; neighbors, friends, fellow concert-goers – even a movie theater employee and a photographer: The angels were there all along, just waiting to be called.

“It’s one of the gifts of cancer, I guess,” said Blair. “I really think it’s an angelic kind of thing. And if there is a heaven, she’s singing right there along with them.”

-story by Zeke Campfield; photos by Alanya Wissink