Cat Clyde and Dean Johnson make a Tuesday worth leaving the house for

The Canadian folk singer and the Seattle bartender-turned-songwriter share a bill at the ZACC's Show Room on Nov. 10.

A Tuesday in mid-November is a hard sell in Missoula. The football's on, the days are short, and the couch is right there. Next week's best argument against it comes in a pair: two songwriters who build whole rooms out of quiet.

Cat Clyde plays The Show Room on Tuesday, Nov. 10, with Seattle's Dean Johnson on the bill. Music starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are on eTix. The room holds 350, which is about the right size for two acts who trade in close, unhurried songs and reward an audience that keeps its voice down.

The two are out on a co-headlining run they announced in August, one that opened Oct. 28 in Victoria, British Columbia and worked through Western Canada before crossing south. After Missoula it heads to Fort Collins on Nov. 12, Colorado Springs on Nov. 13 and Denver on Nov. 14, with Oklahoma City, Houston and Salt Lake City later in the month.

Clyde, a Canadian folk singer, is touring behind Mud Blood Bone, her fourth full-length, which Concord Records released March 13. She spent the spring carrying it across North America with Boy Golden opening, then through Europe and the U.K. in April and May, including a night at Amsterdam's Paradiso. By November, those songs have had most of a year on the road to settle in, which is usually when a record starts to sound like itself on stage.

Johnson's story is the kind people in a bar town like this one tend to appreciate. For years he poured drinks at Al's Tavern in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood and was one of that city's better-kept musical secrets, after time in the band the Sons of Rainier. His solo debut, Nothing for Me, Please, came out in May 2023 on the Portland label Mama Bird, released on his 50th birthday. Sera Cahoone produced it, it was cut in New Orleans, and Paste gave it an 8.6. That record put him on the road opening for Jenny Lewis, and his follow-up, I Hope We Can Still Be Friends, landed on Saddle Creek. He's been headlining his own tours since.

Put them together and you get a bill that leans country and folk without sounding like a period piece: Clyde's records have grit under the prettiness, and Johnson writes small, everyday moments that land harder than they look on paper.

The Show Room is the performance space at the Zootown Arts Community Center, the downtown arts hub that brought the room back to in-person shows after the pandemic shutdowns. It's a listening room by design, the kind of space where a quiet verse actually carries to the back.

What to know before you go: because this is a co-headline, there's no throwaway opening set, so plan to be there at 8 rather than drifting in late. Grab tickets ahead of time; a 350-cap room doesn't leave a lot of slack on a bill with two draws.

There aren't many Tuesdays when two people this good at the small stuff come through the same door. Next week is one of them.

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