After selling out the Top Hat, Daniel Donato moves up to the Wilma

Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country plays the Wilma on Saturday, March 20, 2027, about a year after a sold-out Top Hat night, and tickets went on sale last Friday.

Last February, on a Tuesday night, the Top Hat sold out for a guitar player most of Missoula had only heard about from friends. A year later he's coming back to a bigger room. Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country plays the Wilma on Saturday, March 20, 2027, Logjam Presents announced on Oct. 20.

It's one half of a two-night Montana run. The band plays The ELM in Bozeman on Friday, March 19, then crosses the pass for Missoula the next night. Logjam's Groove Presale ran Oct. 21–22, and general on-sale opened Friday, Oct. 23 at 10 a.m., online and in person at Logjam's box offices, while supplies last. The show is all ages. Both dates also appear, with ticket links, on Donato's own tour page.

The Wilma, which holds about 1,500, is a real step up. Donato's last Missoula visit was Feb. 3, 2026 at the Top Hat, an evening show with no opener, tickets at $33 in advance and $37 at the door, and a "sold out" tag on Logjam's listing. When a band moves from the Top Hat to the Wilma inside a year, word of mouth did the booking.

When a band goes from the Top Hat to the Wilma in a year, it's because the people who were there wouldn't shut up about it.

If you weren't one of them, here's the pitch. Donato is a guitarist and songwriter who started Cosmic Country, the band and the name for its sound: country rock with the doors left open for long improvisation and psychedelic detours, as Wikipedia summarizes it. Donato calls himself the architect of the style, and he talked through how it works with WXPN. In practice you'll hear honky-tonk songs, but the solos don't stop where radio would cut them. One night's version of a tune won't sound much like the next, and that's why jam fans and country fans end up at the same shows.

Missoula is a natural market for that crossover. This is a town that turns out for string bands and for jam bands, and a Cosmic Country show sits right where those crowds overlap. Logjam has put Donato in front of both audiences now. The Top Hat show proved the demand, and the Wilma gives it room to dance.

The Wilma suits it in a way the bar couldn't. There's room to move on the floor, people up in the balcony can watch the guitar work, and the historic theater on Higgins has a sense of occasion that suits a band whose sets tend to stretch. Saturday night is the better slot too. Last time was a Tuesday, and plenty of people who'd have gone had to work the next morning.

If you're the type who drives the interstate for shows, the two-night run makes for an easy weekend: Bozeman on Friday, Missoula on Saturday, a different set each night.

Tickets have been on sale for less than a week, so you're not late yet. Given how the Top Hat went, though, don't wait for spring to decide.

Sources: Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country Returns to Bozeman & Missoula in 2027 — Logjam Presents (logjampresents.com); Tour — Daniel Donato (danieldonato.com); Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country (Top Hat, Feb 3, 2026) — Logjam Presents (logjampresents.com); Daniel Donato — Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); The sound of 'cosmic country,' according to its architect, Daniel Donato — WXPN (xpn.org); Wilma Theatre (Missoula, Montana) - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Yonder Mountain String Band - Logjam Presents (logjampresents.com)