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Lyle Lovett and his Large Band to headline the 2023 Downtown Summer Sounds outdoor concert.

Lyle lovett and his large band are heading to downtown billings sunday, july 23rd for the 2023 downtown summer sounds concert event. .

Downtown Summer Sounds is a ticketed, all ages, outdoor concert that will take place (once again) at the spacious downtown Billings Skate Park parking lot, located at 24 S. 26th St. The event is coordinated by our Downtown Billings team and The Pub Station Presents team.

Rain or Shine General Admission/All Ages Doors at 5PM/Show at 6PM $45 Advance/$49.50 Day of show Tickets go on sale Friday, April 7th at 10:00am.

Ticket price does not include Etix service fee(s). Service fee(s) vary by purchase method and are applied at checkout.

Tickets can be purchased online HERE though our downtownbillings.com website, at thepubstation.com (via etix) , or at The Pub Station box office, located at 2502 1st Ave. N. ,

This will be the fourth time we’ve transformed the Skate Park lot into a really enjoyable and urban concert space in downtown Billings. Our team is very proud and impressed by how well the under-utilized city owned Skate Park lawn and parking lot turns into one of Billings coolest outdoor concert venues.

Funds raised from the Downtown Summer Sounds concert go toward our Business Improvement District (BID) and help us fund street beautification projects like the downtown flower baskets, public art installations, and a number of large community events such as the recent St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Celtic Fair, Alive After 5, Strawberry Festival, HarvestFest, and the Holiday Parade.

About the Band

The headlining artist Lyle Lovett , a singer, composer and actor, has broadened the definition of American music in a career that spans 14 albums. Coupled with his gift for storytelling, the Texas-based musician fuses elements of country, swing, jazz, folk, gospel, and blues in a convention-defying manner that breaks down barriers. 

Whether touring as a ‘Duo’, with his ‘Acoustic Group’, or his ‘Large Band,’ Lovett’s live performances show not only the breadth of this Texas legend’s deep talents, but also the diversity of his influences, making him one of the most compelling and captivating musicians in popular music. 

Since his self-titled debut in 1986, Lyle Lovett has evolved into one of music’s most vibrant and iconic performers. Among his many accolades, including four Grammy Awards and the Americana Music Association’s inaugural Trailblazer Award, Lovett was named Texas State Musician. His works, rich and eclectic, are some of the most beloved of any artist working today.

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Downtown Summer Sounds: Featuring Lyle Lovett and His Large Band

Feb 10, 2023 at 6:00 pm, july 23 @ 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm   |   tickets $45 – $50.

Lyle Lovett and his Large Band  are heading to downtown Billings Sunday, July 23rd for the 2023 Downtown Summer Sounds concert event, a ticketed, all ages, outdoor concert that will take place once again at the spacious downtown Billings Skate Park parking lot, located at 24 S. 26th St. 

Coordinated by the Downtown Billings Alliance &  The Pub Station Presents  teams. Funds raised from the Downtown Summer Sounds concert go toward downtown’s  Business Improvement District (BID)  and help fund street beautification projects like the downtown flower baskets, public art installations, and a number of large community events such as the recent St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Celtic Fair, Alive After 5, Strawberry Festival, HarvestFest, and the Holiday Parade

This is an all ages outdoor downtown summer concert featuring: Lyle Lovett and his large band  at the  downtown billings skate park  parking lot 24 S. 26th St.

Sunday, july 23, 2023. gates open at 5pm/ show at 6pm  |    tickets on sale beginning april 7th.

Lyle Lovett  a singer, composer and actor, has broadened the definition of American music in a career that spans 14 albums. Coupled with his gift for storytelling, the Texas-based musician fuses elements of country, swing, jazz, folk, gospel, and blues in a convention-defying manner that breaks down barriers.

Whether touring as a ‘Duo’, with his ‘Acoustic Group’, or his ‘Large Band,’ Lovett’s live performances show not only the breadth of this Texas legend’s deep talents, but also the diversity of his influences, making him one of the most compelling and captivating musicians in popular music.

Since his self-titled debut in 1986, Lyle Lovett has evolved into one of music’s most vibrant and iconic performers. Among his many accolades, including four Grammy Awards and the Americana Music Association’s inaugural Trailblazer Award, Lovett was named Texas State Musician. His works, rich and eclectic, are some of the most beloved of any artist working today.

Rules and Policies:

• Weather:  The concert will be held rain or shine. Be prepared for extremes such as heat, wind or rain. Dress accordingly, as the temperature may drop noticeably after sunset. No umbrellas please.
• Smoking:  NO smoking (cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars, pipes, etc.) is allowed on the grounds with the exception of the Smoking Area.
• Photography:  Cameras with removable lens, video cameras and recording devices are not allowed.
• Food and Beverages:  Food and beverages will be available for sale. No other food or beverages will be allowed.
• Seating:  Single size, low-profile lawn chairs permitted in designated areas (no higher than 32 inches total from the ground to top of chair).
• No Re-Entry:  Once you have entered through the gates, you may NOT exit and re-enter

Prohibited items:

• • No purses/bags sized over 8 & 1/2″x11″. All bags, cases, parcels and containers are subject to inspection upon entering the venue site. 
• • Alcoholic beverages
• • Animals (exception for certified service animals)
• • Bicycles, scooters, skates, Segway’s, golf carts or unauthorized means of transportation
• • Coolers or picnic baskets
• • Distribution of unauthorized promotional or commercial material.
• • Firework, explosives or any other incendiary devices.
• • Glass or metal containers
• • Aerosol cans or illegal substances
• • Weapons of any kind, including guns, knives, pepper spray or handcuffs
• • Items that may be deemed a safety hazard or annoyance to participants or guests (balls, frisbees, balloons, any type of projectiles, whistles, musical instruments, laser pointers, etc.
• • Large umbrellas, tents or canopies.

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Lyle Lovett and His Large Band play Billings July 23rd

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The amazing 2023 downtown summer sounds continues with Lyle Lovett and His Large Band in Billings July 23rd.

The concert is happening at the spacious downtown Billings Skate Park parking lot, located at 24 S. 26th St. and is put on by the Downtown Billings Alliance & The Pub Station Presents.

Funds raised from the Downtown Summer Sounds concert go toward downtown’s Business Improvement District and will help fund street beautification projects like the downtown flower baskets, public art installations, and a number of large community events such as the re cent St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Celtic Fair, Alive After 5, Strawberry Festival, HarvestFest, and the Holiday Parade. Lyle Lovett is a singer, composer and actor, with 14 albums of country, swing, jazz, folk, gospel, and blues. The concert begins at 5pm and runs until 10pm with tickets $45-50.

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Noose spotted in Billings under investigation

BILLINGS - After a noose was discovered in Billings this weekend by a member of the Lyle Lovett tour band, city leaders are taking a stand to condemn hate speech.

The item was found and reported to police by a member of the company managing the tour band, which has four black members.

The person who reported it, who was not identified, says it sends a threatening message.

Billings police are investigating the noose, which surfaced over the weekend on a light pole on the 2600 block of First Avenue North near the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel.

This picture went viral on social media after a member of the band reported it to police, believing it to be threatening the black members of the band.

On Monday, during a Billings City Council meeting, Mayor Bill Cole said the community condemns any hateful speech or symbols of hate in the community.

It's exactly what Cherilyn Devrees with the Montana Human Rights Network says the city should do.

"The best thing to do is for community leaders and for community members to pull together and say this doesn’t belong in our town," she said.

Billings police asked for surveillance video from the hotel, but the hotel's surveillance was down for maintenance, according to a police report.

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Billing Police investigate hate crime after Lyle Lovett band member spots noose

BILLINGS (AP) — A musician who performs with Lyle Lovett and His Large Band found a noose on a light pole over the weekend, prompting police in Montana's largest city to investigate the case as a possible hate crime.

Charles Rose, who plays trombone, says he saw the noose on a light pole a few feet from the band's tour bus in Billings when he went out to get something from the bus on Sunday morning. Lovett and his band performed at an outdoor concert in downtown Billings on Sunday evening.

"I don't recall seeing it when we first arrived this morning," Rose wrote on his Facebook page Sunday, where he shared an image of the noose. "Scary. Needless to say I took it down."

Rose later made a report to police. He did not immediately respond to a Facebook message from The Associated Press seeking comment on Tuesday.

Billings Mayor Bill Cole addressed the issue at a city council meeting on Monday night.

"Your city council, police department and city leaders take this matter very seriously," he said. "We condemn any hateful speech or symbols of hate in our community."

However, the investigation has so far not turned up any witnesses who saw the noose being placed on the light pole and police have not been able to find any surveillance video in the area, Cole said.

Nearly 30 years ago in Billings, the city united against racist attacks, with members of a painters union painting over racist graffiti that defaced a Native American family's house and with people from several denominations providing security at a Black church after skinheads had interrupted services.

The city united again when hate flyers were posted near a Jewish synagogue, headstones were knocked over at a Jewish cemetery and a brick was thrown through the menorah-decorated bedroom window of a 6-year-old boy, the son of a Jewish rabbi.

In December 1993, The Billings Gazette newspaper printed a full-page menorah that people could hang in their windows in support of Jewish residents. A sporting goods store posted "Not In Our Town" on its reader board, giving name to a movement that was the subject of news coverage and later, a made-for-TV movie. It continues as a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to "stop hate, address bullying and build safe, inclusive communities for all."

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A Lyle Lovett band member spotted a noose in Montana. Police are investigating it as hate crime

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A musician who performs with Lyle Lovett and His Large Band found a noose on a light pole over the weekend, prompting police in Montana’s largest city to investigate the case as a possible hate crime.

Charles Rose, who plays trombone, says he saw the noose on a light pole a few feet from the band’s tour bus in Billings when he went out to get something from the bus on Sunday morning. Lovett and his band performed at an outdoor concert in downtown Billings on Sunday evening.

“I don’t recall seeing it when we first arrived this morning,” Rose  wrote on his Facebook page Sunday , where he shared an image of the noose. “Scary. Needless to say I took it down.”

Rose later made a report to police. He did not immediately respond to a Facebook message from The Associated Press seeking comment on Tuesday.

Billings Mayor Bill Cole addressed the issue at a city council meeting on Monday night.

“Your city council, police department and city leaders take this matter very seriously,” he said. “We condemn any hateful speech or symbols of hate in our community.”

However, the investigation has so far not turned up any witnesses who saw the noose being placed on the light pole and police have not been able to find any surveillance video in the area, Cole said.

Nearly 30 years ago in Billings, the city united against racist attacks, with members of a painters union painting over racist graffiti that defaced a Native American family’s house and with people from several denominations providing security at a Black church after skinheads had interrupted services.

The city united again when hate flyers were posted near a Jewish synagogue, headstones were knocked over at a Jewish cemetery and a brick was thrown through the menorah-decorated bedroom window of a 6-year-old boy, the son of a Jewish rabbi.

In December 1993, The Billings Gazette newspaper printed a full-page menorah that people could hang in their windows in support of Jewish residents. A sporting goods store posted “Not In Our Town” on its reader board, giving name to a movement that was the subject of news coverage and later, a made-for-TV movie. It continues as a  not-for-profit organization  whose purpose is to “stop hate, address bullying and build safe, inclusive communities for all.”

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Recent events in billings show why we need more community action against racist displays.

Darrell Ehrlick

July 27, 2023 4:58 am.

A rope noose hanging from a utility pole in downtown Billings. City officials confirm they’re investigating the incident as a hate crime. (Photo via Facebook, shared by Lori Gendron, used with permission.)

To the  musicians traveling with Lyle Lovett’s band: No matter what the reason, no matter who put it there, the noose that suddenly appeared on a utility pole near your tour bus was cruel, bigoted and  shameful, and as Mayor Bill Cole of Billings said, it is something that is condemned, not condoned here.

Editor’s note: Original reports said that musician Gary Clark, Jr., was targeted, but that has since been clarified. He was not with the act. Accordingly, this column was updated to reflect that.

If you haven’t heard from others in Montana: We’re sorry and ashamed.

You are welcome here, and next time, I volunteer to stand outside your bus from your arrival ’till departure.

There simply is no excuse, no rationale, no logical explanation for why a rope, tied with the unmistakable hangman’s noose, would be randomly left around a downtown utility pole, especially just feet away from where  musicians of color slept.

For a moment, let’s say the noose was coincidental, I would still wonder: For whom was it intended? The meaning regardless, is the same – intimidation, fear, threats … all of it.

Montana has a long and ignominious relationship with ropes like that. Many residents are familiar with Montana’s “righteous” hangmen of the gold rush day, the Vigilantes, whose still secret code of 3-7-77 adorns most state law enforcement vehicles. The more accurate state history of nooses, though, is one of self-appointed residents literally taking the law into their own hands as posses, mostly in the eastern Montana. Those vigilante groups saved law enforcement the trouble of due process and justice by hanging dozens of men convicted by these “extra-legal” (the historically sanitized term) citizens who mostly targeted horse thieves.

And that doesn’t even take into account the equally vile practice in Montana of “sundown cities,” where any non-whites, mostly Natives, were ordered, chased, threatened or beaten out of many towns if they were not out of the city limits by sundown.

So, whether the the musicians knew any of this history or not, there’s good reason to report such a symbol to the police, and there’s even more reason for the rest of us to take note and take action.

As badly as I wanted to write the following sentence, I just couldn’t.

I wanted to say: Sorry. We’re better than this. This doesn’t represent who we are.

Except, I can’t.

And that pains me.

This isn’t hyperbole. I have been lucky enough to come back to the place I was born – the same location where several generations of my family have also been born. The community that nurtured me, supported me and which I truly feel in my blood, is a place I defend, promote and cherish.

Having lived through the “Not In Our Town” moment of the early 1990s, when Billings beat back a rash of neo-Nazis who targeted our Jewish brothers and sisters, it felt like exactly the kind of place that I, in turn, would fight to defend.

And while I will love my hometown and my home state, I am not sure that I can say much more other than apologize for what they experienced here. And while I can say it doesn’t represent the best of us, I can’t say for certain say it’s completely inaccurate.

For more than a year now, I have written columns reflecting on the hard turn to the right that Montana, like many rural states, has taken. I have said that we’re better than the legislative crap that has been shoveled onto the law books which bans abortion, vilifies librarians, targets our LGBTQ+ brothers and sisters, and delegitimizes Native Americans. I have yearned for a return of the live-and-let-live spirit that seemed as much a part of my birthright as the Big Sky. And, I have asked openly if we were better than this.

But as I tossed and turned thinking about this most recent incident – one piece of rope around one utility pole – I have to be open to the idea that while I believe that Montana and Billings are better than that, what happens if we’re not?

This isn’t pearl clutching by an equally fragile snowflake. In the past year or so, our town has been blanketed with “White Lives Matter” stickers and pictures of an avowed Neo-Nazi etching a swastika and other white supremacist symbols on one of the most sacred Native American sites in the area.

Unlike the community solidarity of the 1990s, these other troubling scenarios were met with mostly silence.

What used to be an outrage is now just something that’s, at best, noted.

I could speculate on the root causes for the change, or how such outrageous events have been normalized. I could assert justifiably that without more pushback, we run the very real risk of endorsing such action by our own inaction.

Instead of treating these events as discrete, random events, perpetrated by unknown people while pretending we don’t know exactly, for certain, absolutely, precisely what they meant, we need to talk about the events more, and acknowledge the very real, very ugly common denominator — overt racism coupled with a threat.

If you don’t believe swastikas and nooses are menacing or correlated with hatred, try putting them on your house or Christmas tree.

We fear that by talking about the events in a more open way, we will somehow be labeled “that town” or “that state.” So, our silence in not addressing this in a more systemic, head-on way instead confirms that we indeed may be both of those things.

The only antidote I see for the sneaky symbols that just pop up randomly is to counteract them in a deliberate manner. I urge our leaders, regardless of political persuasion, to do more by acknowledging that even though different groups or individuals are responsible for them, they have one common message.

The very reason for studying history, something that cannot be changed, is in the hopes of not repeating the same past mistakes. Let history guide our actions, as those who led us previously met the challenge of racism head on, and not with weary indifference.

Speaking of history, Montana has a proud history of pushing back, too – from the early integration of some schools across the state, to Dolly Cusker Akers, the first female Native elected to the Legislature, to running the KKK out of Butte to the Not In Our Town movement.

Truly, there are enough examples to follow and plenty more to teach so that the same children who are growing up now do not come of age in a state where nooses and swastikas are as common as the silence which accompanies them.

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Darrell Ehrlick is the editor-in-chief of the Daily Montanan, after leading his native state’s largest paper, The Billings Gazette. He is an award-winning journalist, author, historian and teacher, whose career has taken him to North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Utah, and Wyoming.

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A Lyle Lovett band member spotted a noose in Montana. Police are investigating it as hate crime

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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A musician who performs with Lyle Lovett and His Large Band found a noose on a light pole over the weekend, prompting police in Montana’s largest city to investigate the case as a possible hate crime.

Charles Rose, who plays trombone, says he saw the noose on a light pole a few feet from the band’s tour bus in Billings when he went out to get something from the bus on Sunday morning. Lovett and his band performed at an outdoor concert in downtown Billings on Sunday evening.

“I don’t recall seeing it when we first arrived this morning,” Rose wrote on his Facebook page Sunday , where he shared an image of the noose. “Scary. Needless to say I took it down.”

Rose later made a report to police. He did not immediately respond to a Facebook message from The Associated Press seeking comment on Tuesday.

Billings Mayor Bill Cole addressed the issue at a city council meeting on Monday night.

“Your city council, police department and city leaders take this matter very seriously,” he said. “We condemn any hateful speech or symbols of hate in our community.”

However, the investigation has so far not turned up any witnesses who saw the noose being placed on the light pole and police have not been able to find any surveillance video in the area, Cole said.

Nearly 30 years ago in Billings, the city united against racist attacks, with members of a painters union painting over racist graffiti that defaced a Native American family’s house and with people from several denominations providing security at a Black church after skinheads had interrupted services.

The city united again when hate flyers were posted near a Jewish synagogue, headstones were knocked over at a Jewish cemetery and a brick was thrown through the menorah-decorated bedroom window of a 6-year-old boy, the son of a Jewish rabbi.

In December 1993, The Billings Gazette newspaper printed a full-page menorah that people could hang in their windows in support of Jewish residents. A sporting goods store posted “Not In Our Town” on its reader board, giving name to a movement that was the subject of news coverage and later, a made-for-TV movie. It continues as a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to “stop hate, address bullying and build safe, inclusive communities for all.”

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A musician who performs with Lyle Lovett and His Large Band found a noose on a light pole over the weekend, prompting police in Montana’s largest city to investigate the case as a possible hate crime.

Charles Rose, who plays trombone, says he saw the noose on a light pole a few feet from the band's tour bus in Billings when he went out to get something from the bus on Sunday morning. Lovett and his band performed at an outdoor concert in downtown Billings on Sunday evening.

"I don't recall seeing it when we first arrived this morning," Rose wrote on his Facebook page Sunday, where he shared an image of the noose. "Scary. Needless to say I took it down."

Rose later made a report to police. He did not immediately respond to a Facebook message from The Associated Press seeking comment on Tuesday.

Billings Mayor Bill Cole addressed the issue at a city council meeting on Monday night.

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"Your city council, police department and city leaders take this matter very seriously," he said. "We condemn any hateful speech or symbols of hate in our community."

However, the investigation has so far not turned up any witnesses who saw the noose being placed on the light pole and police have not been able to find any surveillance video in the area, Cole said.

Nearly 30 years ago in Billings, the city united against racist attacks, with members of a painters union painting over racist graffiti that defaced a Native American family's house and with people from several denominations providing security at a Black church after skinheads had interrupted services.

The city united again when hate flyers were posted near a Jewish synagogue, headstones were knocked over at a Jewish cemetery and a brick was thrown through the menorah-decorated bedroom window of a 6-year-old boy, the son of a Jewish rabbi.

In December 1993, The Billings Gazette newspaper printed a full-page menorah that people could hang in their windows in support of Jewish residents. A sporting goods store posted "Not In Our Town" on its reader board, giving name to a movement that was the subject of news coverage and later, a made-for-TV movie. It continues as a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to "stop hate, address bullying and build safe, inclusive communities for all."

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A Lyle Lovett band member spotted a noose in Montana. Police are investigating it as hate crime

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A musician who performs with Lyle Lovett and His Large Band found a noose on a light pole over the weekend, prompting police in Montana’s largest city to investigate the case as a possible hate crime.

Charles Rose, who plays trombone, says he saw the noose on a light pole a few feet from the band’s tour bus in Billings when he went out to get something from the bus on Sunday morning. Lovett and his band performed at an outdoor concert in downtown Billings on Sunday evening.

“I don’t recall seeing it when we first arrived this morning,” Rose  wrote on his Facebook page Sunday , where he shared an image of the noose. “Scary. Needless to say I took it down.”

Rose later made a report to police. He did not immediately respond to a Facebook message from The Associated Press seeking comment on Tuesday.

Billings Mayor Bill Cole addressed the issue at a city council meeting on Monday night.

“Your city council, police department and city leaders take this matter very seriously,” he said. “We condemn any hateful speech or symbols of hate in our community.”

However, the investigation has so far not turned up any witnesses who saw the noose being placed on the light pole and police have not been able to find any surveillance video in the area, Cole said.

Nearly 30 years ago in Billings, the city united against racist attacks, with members of a painters union painting over racist graffiti that defaced a Native American family’s house and with people from several denominations providing security at a Black church after skinheads had interrupted services.

The city united again when hate flyers were posted near a Jewish synagogue, headstones were knocked over at a Jewish cemetery and a brick was thrown through the menorah-decorated bedroom window of a 6-year-old boy, the son of a Jewish rabbi.

In December 1993, The Billings Gazette newspaper printed a full-page menorah that people could hang in their windows in support of Jewish residents. A sporting goods store posted “Not In Our Town” on its reader board, giving name to a movement that was the subject of news coverage and later, a made-for-TV movie. It continues as a  not-for-profit organization  whose purpose is to “stop hate, address bullying and build safe, inclusive communities for all.”

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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Lyle Lovett band member spots noose in Montana, police investigating as hate crime

Lyle Lovett & His Large Band member Charles Rose discovered a noose hanging on a light pole in Montana over the weekend and urged police to investigate the case as a possible hate crime

• 03:11, 26 Jul 2023
• Updated 03:16, 26 Jul 2023

Lyle Lovett & His Large Band member Charles Rose discovered a noose hanging on a light pole in Montana over the weekend and urged police to investigate the case as a possible hate crime .

Trombone player Charles Rose said that he came across the noose hanging on the light pole only a few feet away from the band's tour bus in Billings, Montana. Lyle Lovett & His Large Band were performing a concert in downtown Billings that Sunday evening.

In a Facebook post, the country music musician shared an image of the noose he found and wrote: "I don't recall seeing it when we first arrived this morning. Scary. Needless to say I took it down."

According to ABC News , Rose filed a police report shortly after. The mayor of Billings Montana, Bill Cole, also addressed the issue during a city council meeting on Monday.

In the meeting, the mayor said: "Your city council, police department and city leaders take this matter very seriously" he added: "We condemn any hateful speech or symbols of hate in our community.”

According to Cole, no other witnesses have come forward and they are still unsure who placed the noose on the light pole since they have not been able to find any video footage of the area either.

Nooses have historically been a strong symbol of hate in American history - representing thousands of innocent people that were lynched. More than 4,7000 people were lynched in the US between 1882 and 1968, according to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), though it is believed that number could be much higher. Over 70 percent of victims were African American.

The city of Billings has had an unfortunate dark past of racist attacks including racist graffiti defacing a Native American family's house and hate flyers were posted near a Jewish synagogue. In both instances, the Montana community came together to tear down and paint over the hate crimes, showing support for their Native American and Jewish residents.

Lyle Lovett is an American singer, songwriter, and actor that has been making music since 1980. Lovett has recorded fourteen albums during the plan of his career in addition to 25 singles. His most well-known song 'Cowboy Man' made number 10 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in 2005. He has also won the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance.

Lyle Lovett is currently on tour with his band performing across the United States with concerts scheduled until March of 2024.

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A Lyle Lovett band member spotted a noose in Montana. Police are investigating it as hate crime

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A musician who performs with Lyle Lovett and His Large Band found a noose on a light pole over the weekend, prompting police in Montana’s largest city to investigate the case as a possible hate crime.

Charles Rose, who plays trombone, says he saw the noose on a light pole a few feet from the band's tour bus in Billings when he went out to get something from the bus on Sunday morning. Lovett and his band performed at an outdoor concert in downtown Billings on Sunday evening.

“I don't recall seeing it when we first arrived this morning," Rose wrote on his Facebook page Sunday , where he shared an image of the noose. “Scary. Needless to say I took it down."

Rose later made a report to police. He did not immediately respond to a Facebook message from The Associated Press seeking comment on Tuesday.

Billings Mayor Bill Cole addressed the issue at a city council meeting on Monday night.

“Your city council, police department and city leaders take this matter very seriously,” he said. “We condemn any hateful speech or symbols of hate in our community.”

However, the investigation has so far not turned up any witnesses who saw the noose being placed on the light pole and police have not been able to find any surveillance video in the area, Cole said.

Nearly 30 years ago in Billings, the city united against racist attacks, with members of a painters union painting over racist graffiti that defaced a Native American family's house and with people from several denominations providing security at a Black church after skinheads had interrupted services.

The city united again when hate flyers were posted near a Jewish synagogue, headstones were knocked over at a Jewish cemetery and a brick was thrown through the menorah-decorated bedroom window of a 6-year-old boy, the son of a Jewish rabbi.

In December 1993, The Billings Gazette newspaper printed a full-page menorah that people could hang in their windows in support of Jewish residents. A sporting goods store posted “Not In Our Town” on its reader board, giving name to a movement that was the subject of news coverage and later, a made-for-TV movie. It continues as a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to “stop hate, address bullying and build safe, inclusive communities for all.”

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