What started as a national music movement in the 1940s continues as Jackson Hole tradition today. The Hootenany--a local gathering of musicians who get together to swap tunes, beats, harmony and ideas--began in Jackson in 1993, when Bill Briggs and dick Barker co-founded the Jackson Hole Hoot. The first gathering of folk musicians took place at Dornan's in Moose (where you can still catch the action on Monday nights at 7:00 p.m.).

The Hoot has since garnered a following of local talent, including folk, old-time bluegrass, country, rock and acoustic singer-songwriters. It is some of the veterans of the program who will perform tonight, including Anne and Pete Sibley, dick Barker and Bill Briggs, Alan Morton, John Cooke, James Booth and Kati Standifer, Greg Keckler, Adrienne and Peter Ward with John Sidle, Byron Tomingas, John Kuzloski, Jerome Young with Jack Sallee and friends, The Girls (Jenny Landgraf, Sherry Stewart, and Sally McCullough) and Dave Carman, and Phibbs and John Carney.

The show will start at 7:00 p.m. at the Center for the Arts building in downtown Jackson. Tickets are $5 and the performance is open to all ages. And if you can't make this show, make sure you get up Dornan's to catch one of the weekly outdoor performances of some of Jackson's biggest bluegrass names.