Real Country Montana

10/04/2025

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It's officially fall, y'all! With fall comes the potential for precipitation and cold temperatures. Now's the time to check your emergency travel kit and make sure it's ready for whatever you might encounter on the road.

09/23/2025

People all around the world 🌎 know where to find Real Country music; it comes from the heart of Montana in the beautiful United States of America! 🇺🇸

09/20/2025

Hats off to our Rustlers!

We love our students, and we are proud when community members get to see them being great humans. We are even more grateful when people take the time to tell us. Thank you grandpa Gary. Your email made our day.

Hi- I took my grandson, a fourth grader, to basketball practice at your school yesterday, September 17 at about 5 30 pm. Practice was in the practice gym, and I was unfamiliar with it. As we were entering, your girls' volleyball team and other students were walking out. They held the door open for me. When I was inside, I was looking around and another student asked me if she could help—I said I was looking for a chair to sit on since I recently had hip surgery. She said I know where they are and will get you one... she ran to a storage room and came out with a folding chair for me.... it may seem like a small thing, but your students were smiling, said hello, held the door open and asked if they could help. Perhaps a simple act of kindness, but too important to not tell you about it. What a great impression they made.

09/08/2025

What a fantastic story on Dianna Olson and The Cowboys Bar & Museum. Thank you Di for all you do for MCA and for your support of Real Country Montana!

Dianna Olson, Cowboy’s Bar
Looking back on her childhood in Black Eagle, Montana, Dianna Olson remembers the small town as the “coolest place ever” to be a kid. “We didn’t have much money but our dad, who was a machinist, made sure we had fun—building us go karts and sleds,” she says. “My mom was a ‘stay-at-home’ mom who baked and sewed all our clothes, and the school we went to, Collins School, was small with only 100 or so students total and one class per grade. We knew everybody.”
It was a bit of a shock when she advanced to C.M. Russell High School in Great Falls, just a few miles away from Black Eagle. “It seemed gigantic,” Dianna says. “I became a bookworm, withdrawn and quiet. Being around all those people kind of freaked me out!”
In high school, her first job was as a carhop at the A&W. It taught her a valuable lesson in how to overcome shyness. “It changed me a lot. I found that the best way to become more outgoing is to get out there and interact with people.”
As a bartender at the Black Eagle County Club and the adjoining Wally’s World bar for 30 years, Dianna had ample time to expand those people skills. For the past 13 years, she has been the manager of the legendary Cowboys Bar and Museum in Great Falls.
“I fell in love with this place—the history of it and the people who come in here are just amazing,” said Dianna, “It’s sort of like Cheers, where everybody knows your name.”
Owned by the Montana Cowboys Association, the authentic log cabin has more than 500 displays of artifacts that reflect the historical importance of Montana’s Western heritage. Relics of that vibrant past include a gun collection and authentic tools used by cowboys and cowgirls, stockmen and pioneers.
Dianna, who still resides in Black Eagle, is especially fond of one of the museum’s displays.
“Using wood lathe and metal work, my dad created a replica of a covered wagon and when he died, it was donated to the museum. Looking at it reminds me of what a great childhood I had.”

09/05/2025

Congratulations to another locally owned media company on 20 years, proud to work with Treasure State Lifestyles Montana!

Holiday 2020 Kim Reese, Brad Reynolds, Hope Good, Joanne Sanford By Suzanne Waring Have you been reading the magazine, Treasure State Lifestyles Montana for twenty years? That’s entirely possible. The magazine is celebrating two decades of publication under the same management and ownership. Publi...

08/07/2025

Obviously the Canadians love us, but Peru? Who knew we were so popular in South America! We have the Rockies they have the Andes, it’s all Real Country! ❤️🤠🎶

07/20/2025

Thank you Great Falls Turf Club for another great weekend at the races! Don’t forget next weekend is the final weekend of racing at Montana ExpoPark along with opening weekend of Montana State Fair. 🐎🐎🐎

06/06/2025

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It's going to be a weekend full of exciting promotions at Voyagers Stadium! 💚
Starting with TONIGHT, it's a Koozie Giveaway presented by Ferrin's Furniture PLUS Great Falls College MSU River Otters Night! 🩵⚾ Gates open at 6pm and first pitch is at 7pm.
Tomorrow, it's Jeremiah Johnson Brewing Co. Night! We'll have $5 Jeremiah Johnson Brewing Co. Drafts all night at the ballpark 🍻Gates open at 6pm and first pitch is at 7pm.
Sunday, it's Kids Eat Free courtesy of Pepsi AND Baseball and Brunch presented by Suntide!⚾🤩Gates open at 11am and first pitch is at 11:30am.
Get your tickets for this weekend here 🎟: bit.ly/2025SingleGameTickets
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05/22/2025

Clint Black fans: thanks for listening, here's your exclusive discount for tickets to the show in Helena, June 1st at the Helena Civic Center. I saw him the last time he came to Helena and it was fantastic, he even did a few songs with Lisa and his daughter. Stop "Killin' Time" and get those tickets before they're gone!

04/18/2025

Lots of cool history surrounding this great building downtown and the home of Real Country Montana!

This photograph, taken in 1963, shows the Barber-Lydiard building in downtown Great Falls, Montana. This building with its iconic curved corner was built in 1951, designed by George H. Shanley & Sons. The contractors who worked on the modern building published newspaper ads congratulating the building and advertising their services. Sletten Construction Co. was the general contractor for the "finest business block constructed in Montana for many years" - 100% fireproof, air conditioned, automatic elevators, and complete sprinkler system. Harold L. Hiebert of Somers, Montana published an ad that his finest plaster work was done on the building.

R. J. Barber had begun business in 1916 with a piano store in the back of the Rainbow theater. His company would grow to become Barbers Inc, a furniture, appliance, and music store.

[Robert Mitchell Collection, 2001.037.0053]

04/01/2025

Let’s go play!

03/27/2025

It’s like we hand picked the lineup or something, we play all but two of the artists coming to the fair this summer! Gonna be a fantastic night show series this year! 🤩 🤠

The 2025 Montana State Fair Night Show welcomes 6 Artists in 9 Days!

July 27, Jo Dee Messina
July 28, Tucker Wetmore
July 29, The Oak Ridge Boys
July 31, Smash Mouth
August 1, Scotty McCreery
August 2, Lecrae with special guest Gio

TICKETS ON SALE THURSDAY, APRIL 10 @ 8:00AM
Online ~ www.goexpopark.com
Call ~ (406) 727-1481
Visit us at the Pacific Steel & Recycling Arena Box Office between 8am - 5pm, Monday - Friday