Livingston Songwriter Festival

The Third annual Livingston Songwriter Festival will fill the streets of historic downtown Livingston with music for two full days and three nights in early October. The festival debuted in 2024 with a single day of music featuring Troubadour songwriters during the day in many locations downtown and two shows of Hit Songwriters in the evening.
They have expanded the amount of daytime venues this year with events happening throughout downtown. There will be music everywhere you go on October 2nd and 3rd with events open to the public starting on Oct. 1st.
Venues for the Troubadour showcases during the day include the Livingston Elks Lodge, Perk on Park, the Livingston Depot and Howl Montana. This year the box office and all artist and festival merch will be located inside the Livingston Center for Arts and Culture.
Featured Hit songwriters who will be performing include Gretchen Peters, Matraca Berg, Jim Photoglo, Will Kimbrough, Kim Richey, and Radney Foster. Concerts featuring these writers in various configurations will take place each evening in two different venues. The daytime schedule of Troubadour songwriters includes Abbie Gardner, Goldpine, Jeff Plankenhorn (J Plank), Marcedes Carroll, Erik Stucky, Sarah Pierce, David Starr, Eric Ramsey, Susan Gibson, Erik Koskinen, Katrina Cain, Whitney Mongé, Anthony Garcia, and Jackson Emmer.