Due to its migration patterns and place in the American West, Montana has a heritage of pioneer folk music and cowboy songs and poetry.
[citation needed] Montana country musicians include Rob Quist, formerly of the Mission Mountain Wood Band.
Another well known band includes Helena and Missoula's The Skoidats, who recorded on New York City's Moon Ska label in the late 1990s.
[citation needed] John Mayer visited and fell in love with Livingston, where he bought a house and re-settled in the spring of 2012.
[citation needed] The largest, indoor concert venue in Montana is the MetraPark Arena, which opened in 1975 in Billings.
[citation needed] In the Flathead Valley, some of the more popular acts are Marshall Catch (country tinged-rock),[8] Luke Dowler (rock/singer-songwriter),[9] God Fearing Women, and The Rockaholics.