The Pearl Theater is pleased to welcome Almeda Bradshaw for a special Kootenai River Days performance on Friday, July 8, 2016. As one of Montana’s most talented Western singer/songwriters, Almeda expresses her love and appreciation for the western way of life through heartfelt songs that give voice to cowboys, cowgirls, ranchers, and farmers.

“I had to move EAST to find the WEST. Though raised a town girl on the Oregon coast, all I wanted was to be a cowgirl.

“I spent hours riding the range of my imagination in a swing set saddle and when tall enough, I threw a leg up on my family’s trusty propane tank and rode off into many a sunset.”

Almeda has written poetry, journals and songs about the west since her teen years, and she has performed at cowboy gatherings throughout the west for nearly two decades. At the age of thirteen, she taught herself to play the guitar, and later explored the mandolin and various other stringed instruments.

Her music has been called haunting: “It touches something inside of me that’s hard to explain…like seeing a painting that really speaks to you.”

Almeda’s lifetime of writing and playing stringed instruments places her work above the ordinary.

A multi-instumentalist, she studied classical cello and piano through college, where she earned a BA in Elementary Education. Although her early years included covers of popular musicians such as Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Fleetwood Mac, Almeda later returned to the heart of her musical soul in Western Americana/Roots Music, an eclectic mix of cowboy, bluegrass, old-time, folk and spirituals. There she remains.

Clear vocals, compelling stage presence, and accomplished musicianship have assured her position as an award-winning audience favorite over the past decade.

Tickets for the show are $15/advance, $18/door, and $12 for students, available at Mountain Mike’s and Bonner’s Books.

Please call (208)610-2846 or email [email protected].