Troy Evans gives Kalispell show

Actor Troy Evans returns to his Montana roots June 8 with a performance at in Kalispell.

Evans’ “Montana Tales and Other Badass Business” starts at 7:30 p.m. in the KM Theatre.

In the show, Evans will take the audience on a canoe trip down the river of his life and introduce them to characters he met along the way. He will select from the violent and astonishing life of Henry Plummer, the epic tale of “The Razor Blade Queen of Poker Jim Butte” and “The Powder Keg,” among others. Evans has performed the show from New York to Los Angeles and describes it as “an autobiography told by ghosts.”

Evans’ roots in Montana go back to his great-great-grandfather, a Mormon bishop from Wales who abandoned his family and returned to the Old Country after killing a man in a poker game. Evans’ great-grandfather was a muleskinner and lawman, and his grandfather was a state senator and state boxing commissioner. Evans’ mother was born in a tent in an oil camp in Wyoming in the dead of winter 1925.

Evans was born in Missoula but moved to Kalispell in 1954. He attended Cornelius Hedges Elementary School, Central School and Flathead County High School. Evans attended the University of Montana for one year before he was drafted into the military and sent to Vietnam.

Evans’ life includes time as a student, a bar owner, an infantryman, a convict, a patient in a veterans mental hospital and as an actor in the theater, on television and in movies.

His acting career started in 1970 at Flathead Valley Community College. Evans’ many roles have included recurring parts in “ER” and “Life Goes On” and roles in “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” and, most recently, the voice of Thistle Jinn in the animated feature “Epic.”

Tickets to the show are $20 each and are available at Noice Studio and Gallery, Ceres Bakery and the Kalispell Grand Hotel.

For additional information, call Marshall Noice at 755-5321.