Slovie’s Love on stage tonight in Orphan Girl Underground Music Series

Tonight will be the 5th performance in the World Museum of Mining's Underground Music Series and a great chance to not only check out a great new Butte band but to literally walk through history to get to the stage where Slovie's Love will perform at 6pm.

Photo: Facebook-Dennis Samples

The stage is at the 100-foot level of the Orphan Girl Mine and to say that there is no other stage like it in the world would be an understatement.  What it lacks in size and flashiness it more than makes up for in ambiance.  Everyone must wear a hardhat, house rules.  The lights on the hardhats make up a good portion of the overall lighting.  You are, after all, 100 feet underground.  To get to the stage area?  It's an adventure in itself.

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You start about a quarter-mile behind the Orphan Girl headframe, entering a building that looks like a fallout shelter from a dystopian sci-fi movie.  The building leads directly into the Orphan Girl mine and by directly, I mean almost directly down.  From there it levels off a bit as you weave your way past the various drifts and cutoffs, all while still going downhill.  It is as foreign an environment as you can imagine, although for our forefathers it was a place like home.

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The band tonight is equally as impressive.  Slovie's Love brings a mix of country, rock, folk and originals to the stage and are made up of C.D. Holter and Pete Heidt on guitars, Jami Fabatz on vocals, Dennis Samples on bass and Jim Brown on the drums.  They are a high-energy band whose interactive style is quickly gaining a big Butte following.

Get more information on tonight's show and the rest of the series here.