2026 VENDOR LINEUP

HUGE THANKS to Big Sky BrewingCardinal Distributing, 2 Basset Brewery, Western Cider, and The OBC Wine Project by Odell Brewing Co., for sponsoring the Red Ants Pants Music Festival!

2026 BEVERAGE LINEUP

Draft: Big Sky Country Pilsner, Big Sky IPA, Huck IT, Summer Honey Seasonal Ale, Super Easy IPA, 2 Basset Brewery Rotator

Canned Beer: Big Sky Country Pilsner, Big Sky IPA, Budweiser, Bud Lite, Michelob Ultra, Moose Drool Brown Ale, Summer Honey Seasonal Ale, Super Easy IPA

Canned Hard Ciders: Western Cider’s Poor Farmer & Fat Robin Flathead Cherry 

Canned Wine: The OBC Wine Project by Odell Brewing Co. Red Blend, White Pinot Gris Blend, & Rosé with Bubbles

Canned Seltzers: Big Sky Huckleberry Lemonade & POG Spiked Seltzers

Non-Alcoholic: Michelob Ultra Zero and Big Sky Virga Huckleberry and Citrus Sparkling Waters

Proceeds from our beverage sales go to the Red Ants Pants Foundation. So, buying our beverages helps us book top-notch musical talent and supports a great cause. Cheers, and as always, thanks for your support!

FOOD VENDORS

A) Heleburger (Helena, MT): Burgers with a flair! Gourmet smoked burgers, handcut french fries, hotdogs, brats and smoky hot wings. From a delicious classic cheeseburger to a bougie brie and bacon with onion jam to make your tastebuds explode!!

B) Goloso Gourmet Soft Serve (Helena, MT): Come enjoy our irresistible sweet treats! Indulge in gourmet soft serve gelato made with all-natural flavors and colors from real fruits and vegetables, never artificial ingredients. Cones, sundaes, floats, organic frozen drinks, and new creamy milkshakes await. Come treat yourself!

C) Golden Wok (Missoula, MT): We provide fast Asian dishes including fried rice, stir fried noodles, chicken teriyaki, sweet & sour chicken, egg rolls, water and soft drinks ranging from $10-$15. 

D) O’Houli’s Kettlecorn (Kellogg, ID): O’Houli’s Kettlecorn is back again! We have 8 different flavors and fresh squeezed lemonade made to order all at $5 each!

E) Jawbone Group LLC (White Sulphur Springs, MT): Bar 47’s legendary pulled pork nachos: slow-smoked pulled pork piled high on crispy chips, drizzled with house barbecue sauce, smothered in queso, topped with fresh pico, and packed with bold, crave-worthy flavor.

F) The Copper Cliff Cafe (Potomac, MT): Organic Thai Green Curry with Chicken, Chana Masala,(vegan), Caesar Salad, and Homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches to top it off. Everything is GF at our trailer! The portions are big the personalities are big, the Ice cream Sandwiches are like no other you’ve ever had! No wait times.

G) Livingston Mountain Berry Bowls (Livingston, MT): Livingston Mountain Berry bowls serves up a refreshing and fun summer treat packed with antioxidants. We blend an all-natural açaí smoothie topped with homemade, gluten-free granola and finish it off with fresh fruit, superfood toppings, and a drizzle of honey

H) Antoinette’s Cajun (Laurel, MT): Come taste our Cajun comfort food–fried shrimp, catfish, gator bites, Cajun fries, hush puppies, jambalaya and more! Create your own combo meal from our locally-sourced menu. Gluten free options available.

I) Island Noodles (Bozeman, MT): Island Noodles is multiple fresh vegetables, wok fired, Buckwheat Soba Noodles cooked in our ginger garlic Island Sauce. Island Noodles is served as is (Vegan) or topped with teriyaki chicken, which is cooked and held separately.

J) Lil Jittz (Box Elder, MT): Lil Jittz brings the meats to the streets. Come try our all-time favorite Philly, loaded carne asada fries, or native nachos, with a unique variety of fresh squeezed lemonades and energy drinks.

K) FreyGuys Funnel (Kalispell, MT): Enjoy the best funnel cakes in Montana right here at Red Ants Pants Music Festival–including huckleberry cream or an apple pie flavors. Also try our deep-fried Oreos, twinkies, and cookie dough. Come indulge!

L) Full Curl Smokers (Moore, MT): Full Curl Smokers serves Texas style BBQ at its finest. Known for our brisket and pulled pork our BBQ is known state wide and through the festival circuit.

M) Citrus Cyclones (Helmville, MT): The best lemonade in Montana made to order pick your flavor from our extensive choices–all made with fresh fruit. Never has sour tasted so sweet!

N) Cowboy Catering (Bozeman, MT): Baja Fish Tacos are back! Rock Fish, creamy lime coleslaw, salsa roja, lettuce, chipotle crema and cotija cheese on delicious homemade corn tortillas. Don’t like fish? That’s ok! We will be doing a meat special taco or quesadilla Breakfast Burritos as well.

O)  Summer Snow (Billings, MT): Come taste a smile with Summer Snow shaved ice. We are a female business and have over 30 flavors. You will leave happier than when you came!

P) Twisted Brothers Pretzels (Bozeman, MT): Hand-twisted soft pretzels baked fresh all day in our vintage Airstream. From classic salted pretzels to pretzel brats and cinnamon sugar bites, we serve warm, handheld comfort food that pairs perfectly with cold drinks and live Montana music.

SERVICE VENDORS

Triangle Communications (Statewide, MT): Triangle Communication is proud to sponsor the festival and provide Wi-Fi to certain areas of the festival grounds.  Stay connected all weekend long for $15 or buy a day pass for $7 (fees are per device).

WSS Rotary (White Sulphur Springs, MT): Selling ice by the bag from our booth, and also delivering throughout the festival and campgrounds! Located next to the Draft Beer Tent. Rotary is a club of business professionals that work supporting local and international projects for the betterment of the community.

Tree of Life Family Care (Bozeman, MT): Are you a new mom or caregiver? Come settle into this clean, cozy, and accessible area to breastfeed and change your baby, right next to our Kids Tent. The Community Care Tent features extra diapers and wipes, hand sanitizer, and comfortable chairs for breastfeeding or bottle feeding your baby out of the elements.

CAMPGROUND VENDORS

Wednesday & Thursday Only:

Touch of Country Catering (Absarokee, MT): Cookin’ with some country flare in the campground on Wednesday and Thursday. Come try our Bison burgers and bison nachos and fries.

Rolling Cones (Livingston, MT): Rolling Cones serves handcrafted scoops from Bozeman’s Genuine Ice Cream — made right here in Montana, including real huckleberry. From classic cones to floats and sundaes, we’re a family-run trailer bringing sweet moments to the festival.

Throughout the weekend: 

Biscuit Bandits (Bozeman, MT): Biscuit Bandits brings bold, scratch-made biscuits to the festival- crafted with organic ingredients and Wheat Montana-milled flour. From savory stacked biscuits to sweet favorites, we serve Outlaw comfort food with big flavor and local roots. Open Thursday through Sunday, 7:30 am-2:30 pm (possibly later).

Yellowstone Coffee Roasters (Bozeman, MT): Serving hot drip, cold drinks, breakfast burritos, and sweet treats in the campground at the festival entrance. Open 7AM-12PM.  Located near the entrance to the Festival G3.

 

CRAFT & NON-PROFIT VENDORS

1) Red Ants Pants (White Sulphur Springs): Yes! We sell pants (and more!). Come see us for new designs, new products, and lots of great workwear for women. Our original work pants are made in the USA, and we have a brand-new shipment of them in all sizes!

2) In Your Element Designs (Philipsburg, Montana): Local handmade, slow-made jewelry. I value regionally sourced stones, including Montana Sapphires and Agates, as well as southwest turquoise and eco-sourcing of stones. I am a trained jeweler and value my ability to provide adventure-ready jewelry for the outdoor enthusiast!

3) Pacific Northwest Carry (Longview, WA): Unique and sturdy western themed bags using vintage materials such as vintage wool textiles and gently used leather tack for strappings. I design and make each bag. There are a variety of sizes and styles available.

4) Bella’s Bones (Emigrant, MT): Bella’s Bones combines our love of dogs with our love of roaming the Montana mountains and a bit of creativity to produce functional works of antler art using elk and deer sheds found by Bella and her friends.

5) Anita Mathews Artwork (Butte, MT): I make pen & ink artwork of native wildflowers on historic maps I inherited from my grandfather. The historic topographic maps are from the early to mid 1900s of states such as MT, ID, WY, NV, CA, and AZ.

6) Shooting Star Saddlery, LLC (Niarada, MT): When Jeff Morrow began making his own cowboy gear, he didn’t realize leather work would become a lifelong passion. Lately he makes more personal items like belts, rucksacks, and totes out of interesting leathers for this music-loving crowd.

7) West Winds Jewelry (East Glacier Park, MT): West Winds Jewelry is a Montana-based, women-owned business creating handcrafted beadwork inspired by the landscapes, rivers, and stories of the Rocky Mountains. Each piece brings elements of the outdoors into wearable art through color and pattern.

8) Kazalone Design (Belgrade, MT): I am excited to bring a variety of distinctive stained glass work to the festival. I incorporate vintage art glass and copper foil overlays into handcrafted keepsake boxes, incense burners, tabletop décor, seasonal sun-catchers and various sizes of window panels.

9) Of Myth and Matter (Butte, MT): Handcrafted in Butte, Montana, Of Myth and Matter offers mixed-metal and stone jewelry inspired by land, symbol, and story. Each piece is a modern talisman—shaped by earth and hand, designed to reconnect you with your depth and strength. (Formerly Keira Shine for those who follow her work!)

10) Windy Raven (Three Forks, MT): Ellen, the maker behind Windy Raven, is a Montana based carved leather artist. Each wallet, purse or pair of earrings she create incorporates original art that alludes to the spirit and traditions of the American West with a modern twist.

11) Lost Ornithology (Butte, MT): Christine Martin is a fine artist currently living and working in Butte, Montana. She is a printmaker and painter whose work focuses on the celebration of local wildlife and ecosystems of Montana and the greater American West.

12) Little Arms Creative (Bozeman, MT): Little Arms Creative makes vibrant, funky and functional one-of-a-kind textile goods using upcycled materials. Her hats, clothing and bags are inspired by and made in the mountains of Montana.

13) True South Wood Designs (Florence, WY): Pyrography is the art of drawing with fire. Jenna Forest creates Montana-themed wood burning art that is both functional and unique. From wood earrings, coasters, cribbage boards, and picture frames to charcuterie boards, spoons, and wall-hanging art pieces.

14) Echos (Manhattan, MT): Echos specializes in recreated custom country clothing made from old shirts, linens and jeans including skirts, tops and jackets for adults and children.

15) Sterling Jules-Back Road Studio (Manhattan, MT): A family of three Montana women coming together, creating wearable art. Our pieces are handmade using silver, stone, and salvaged leather. We take pride in offering a variety of sizes, adaptations and prices so our jewelry is accessible to everyone!

16) Howard Zehntner Horseshoe Nail Art (White Sulphur Springs, MT): I have been welding since I was in high school making repairs and fabricating needed items for the ranch. Branched with bother things. Health issues are slowing things down and I’m never sure how much longer I can continue.

17) Red Ants Pants Foundation (White Sulphur Springs): Our mission is to develop and expand leadership roles for women, preserve and support working family farms and ranches, and enrich and promote rural communities. Stop by to discover how the Red Ants Pants Music Festival fuels our mis-sion-driven work and show your support by entering to win a Molly Tuttle signature Martin Guitar or our daily 50/50 raffle!

18) Western Territory Company (Polson, MT): We are a small Montana family business offering one-of-a-kind customized cowboy hats and refurbished vintage Stetsons, handmade leather accessories including purses, belts, cuffs, hatbands and now my new popular boot wallets, as well as a unique selection of hand-crafted jewelry.

19) Juju Gear (Bozeman, MT): Juju Gear is run by a mother and son, creating unique skirts, shorts, pants, and other clothing and accessories by upcycling garments, keeping thousands of pounds of clothing out of landfills. Each piece is individual, available to custom order.

20) DARIANMONT (Bozeman, MT): The wide open spaces, river beds, and mountains of Montana shape everything I make. Whether it’s a bold silver ring, Montana agate earrings, or a statement piece, my jewelry is meant to feel connected to the land that inspires it.

21) Steph Kasun Art (Wilsall, MT): I am a local artist out of Wilsall. I create large and tiny landscape paintings of our favorite places in this great state. I also burn and paint leather goods, such as custom made patches for hats, jewelry and more.

22) Miguel & Co Vintage (Bozeman, Montana): Miguel & Courtney (Co) have a passion for vintage clothing that’s rooted in their love of the West.Their curated pieces help tell the story of the ‘American’ worker.They believe in quality, durable clothing made to last the test of time.

23) Nature’s Hair Claws (St Maries, ID): Hairclaws have been a huge part of my life since my Mom started making them when I was a child. She taught me everything I know about making a perfect, curved, strong hairclaw. I use local/exotic hardwoods and recovered antlers/horns.

24) Resilient Hide Co. (Thompson Falls, MT): Montana woman-owned business handcrafting timeless leather bags from premium Horween leather. Each piece designed to complement the effortless beauty, quiet confidence, and relentless grit of resilient Montana women, reflecting the resilient elegance of Montana’s wildlife and landscapes.

25) The High Lonesome (Sheridan, MT): Using functional fused glass, I aim to capture the essence of the West, through the people and scenes that make up that landscape. I can’t wait to tell you some stories, and for you to regale me with yours.

26) Seven Bear Studio/Crazy Woman Trading MT (Big Timber, MT): I create unique, hand crafted jewelry in the foothills of the Crazy Mountains in Big Timber MT. I repurpose vintage tin, beverage cans, license plates and buttons into jewelry. Jewelry won’t change the world but the women wearing it will!

27) Kathy Chapman Pottery (Choteau, MT): In my small studio on the Rocky Mountain Front, I build functional stoneware pottery reflecting the color, palette and textures of Montana, using many textural techniques using local plants, trees and other found objects and floral leather carving.

28) Needle and Axe (Columbia Falls, MT): Needle and Axe is slinging stitches on a human powered treadle sewing machine, perfect for intentional slow sewing. Creating thoughtfully designed and adventure-ready gear. Bike bags, slings, and more are all sewn in an off-grid studio in Northwest Montana.

29) Briggs Beard Co. (Missoula, MT): We are a locally owned all-natural beard product company based in Montana, U.S.A. We strive to provide high-quality oils for your skin and hair while simultaneously reducing our environmental impact from seed to seal every batch no questions asked.

30) Bridgercare (Bozeman, MT): Bridgercare is a Montana-based nonprofit providing reproductive and sexual healthcare, education, and support. Visit our booth for free resources and conversations about our services and reproductive care access!

31) Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation (Hungry Horse, MT): Stop by the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation’s Bob Booth to talk trails, swap stories, and learn how you can get involved in giving back to the iconic 1.6-million-acre Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex in Northwest Montana.

32) Montana Discovery Foundation (Helena, MT): MDF works to continue the tradition of conservation education on public lands & waters with, by, and for Montanans. To uphold these ties and foster an understanding of our natural world across every season, MDF provides year-round, outdoor experiential learning for people of all ages and backgrounds. We believe in cultivating a lasting relationship between people and nature to ensure lifelong appreciation and stewardship of our wild places. Check out their Stop the Bear Trailer and activities next door in the Kids Tent!

33) Rocky Mountain Songwriter Festivals Inc. (Red Lodge, MT): The Rocky Mountain Songwriter Festivals is a 501 c-3 organization that produces the Red Lodge Songwriter Festival (June) and the Livingston Songwriter Festival (October). It is our mission to promote the art of songwriting, attract destination music fans supporting local businesses, and financially support music education. We have proudly donated over $130,000 to support music education in our host communities.

34) Meagher County Rodeo Club (White Sulphur Springs, MT): White Sulphur Springs hosts a two-day, action-packed professional rodeo Sunday and Monday every Labor Day, known for its high added money across the MT circuits. Join us for two rodeo performances, a street dance Sunday night, and a hometown parade on Monday!

35) The Montana Project (Belgrade, MT): The Montana Project features “Black Ram” guitars, pioneered by master luthier Kevin Kopp and subsequently Jeff Bridges’ “All in This Together” sustainability campaign. From one seed came one tree, and now one idea: protecting all old-growth forests as climate lifeboats.

36) Montana Farmers Union (Great Falls, MT): MFU is the state’s oldest and largest grassroots agriculture organization advocating for family farmers, ranchers, and rural communities. MFU is founded on the 3 pillars of education, cooperation, and legislation. We believe that no farmer or rancher should stand alone, and are fighting for the issues that will preserve family farm agriculture and rural communities for generations to come. 

37) Meagher Post 25 American Legion (White Sulphur Springs, MT): American Legion Meagher Post 25, a local veteran service organization, is holding a fundraiser to support American Legion Boys and American Legion Auxiliary Girls State, as well as needy Veterans within the community.

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