New This Year: Top Three Bands will Play Targhee Music Festival Based on the success of the first Targhee Music Festival Battle of the Bands Competition last summer, Grand Targhee Resort again invites local and regional bands to compete for an opportunity to play the main stage at the 7th Annual Targhee Music Festival July [...]

With Targhee Fest 2010 still fresh in everyone’s mind up here, we’d like to recap for those who missed out…and boy did they miss out (we’re sorry to rub it in…)! The weekend started well with the winners of the 2010 Targhee Fest Battle of the Bands Competition Mandatory Air taking the stage just after [...]

I’ll confess, I’m glad I didn’t get to vote. My role in the vote count at Saturdays Battle of the Band Showdown prohibited me from using a wooden nickel to determine who would open this year’s Targhee Music Festival.  And with each band bringing their a-game to the concert at the Spud, the choice was [...]

GRAND TARGHEE BATTLE OF THE BANDS COMPETITION MOVES TO FINAL ROUND Targhee Fest Opening Band will be Decided During Concert at Spud Drive-In After a month of online voting that saw over 5,000 individual votes, the top five bands in the first Grand Targhee Battle of the Bands competition will take to the stage at [...]

Thanks to all of you who have supported original music in this competition! We have a new album coming out called “Brown Chicken Brown Cow”, all original, all instrumental funk and bluegrass written right here in the tetons. You can check out some rough tracks at www.myspace.com/funkgrassunit. Thanks again for all the local and long [...]

Having lots of fun in the competition! Way cool to get all these votes and input from all the different Music Lovers and Bands. Rock On!

After an internal discussion, and reaching out to the participating bands, we are going to move forward without additional controls (like requiring your email address) on the voting process.  We will continue to monitor the voting on the back end to ban illegitimate voters and remove their votes from the total count. So if the [...]

Yep, we noticed. In the quest to keep the voting process simple we didn’t close all of the back-end loopholes before launching the vote.  We’ve been tracking IP addresses to keep an eye on any suspicious voting activity and, based on the current vote status, will sit down on Monday to determine how to proceed. [...]

Grand Targhee is going to be hosting a Battle of the Bands competition. Starting today, you can submit a video of your band’s performance. If you’re selected your video will be posted on the site for the world to vote on! Twenty bands will be selected and displayed, and the top five bands will move [...]