The Montana Logging and Ballet Company is an American comedy and political satire group, having performed around the U.S. from 1975 until their retirement in 2013.
The group's four members, Tim Holmes, Steve Garnaas-Holmes, Rusty Harper and Bob FitzGerald,[1] got their start at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana.
[3] Their first album, Take the Barriers Down, 1987, features liner notes by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
[citation needed] Funds from the sale of these albums helped Tutu's transformative work for peaceful political change in South Africa prior to the first free elections in 1994, the focus of the title song.
Their releases Solutions to Our Nations Problems, Take 1, (1999) and Take 2 (2001) featured selections from their regular appearances on National Public Radio's Sunday Weekend Edition, where they were billed as "resident political satirists" during the Clinton years.