For a lot of us here in the Gallatin Valley, Sweet Pea Festival and SLAM are cornerstones of our summers. This year, things are obviously a little different. Although there won’t be live performances in Lindley and Bogert Parks, KGVM is going to help create a “virtual SLAM” festival for you on Aug. 8 and 9, playing a lot of local music throughout the weekend. We will work in some interviews with local musicians and artists as well. We are all about local arts and artists, and we are happy to do what we can to help support them in these trying times.

A virtual tater pig or a virtual frosty beverage from the SLAM beer tent aren’t going to cut it, but we suggest you check out the SLAM and Sweet Pea Festival events that will take place the weekend of Aug. 7-9. We even spied mention of drive-through tater pigs!!

If you are a local musician, drop us an email at info@kgvm.org. We’d love to play your music – let us know if there are any particular cuts you would like us to play. We have a fair collection of local musicians’ work, but if we are missing yours, we’d love to make sure you are in the mix. Live recordings would be awesome! And don’t forget the virtual tip jar – send us your Paypal and/or Venmo info and we’ll get that out 3there for people too!

While you are supporting local musicians and artists, we hope you might be able to support your home-town community radio station as well!