Bozeman Magazine

Live music while you soak! Featuring the Seattle-based jam rock group “The Whags" Though they officially formed in 2017, the quintet’s roots go back to childhoods spent in the greater Seattle area, where keyboardist Jordan Tan once laid down bluegrass tunes with guitarist Chris Porter. After linking up with fellow guitarist Liam Tevlin, drummer Can Hancock, and bassist Charles Wicklander, the group set about fashioning a style of music at the vertices of their mutual interests: roots rock, tight musicianship, and the intimacy that comes from jamming for hours on end. Since then, The Whags have built a dedicated following in thrall with their live presence — you’ll find them regularly holding court at the Nectar Lounge, laying down two identical sets in a row in honor of Groundhog’s Day, or playing at outdoor festivals where they stretch their songs into fifteen-minute odysseys as the grass changes color around them. Wherever they choose to travel, there’s a refreshing unseriousness to their gait, an unwillingness to profess that their music is anything more than it actually is — musician friends synced up in the moment and recorded to tape.