Built on more than 20 years of Junkerdash tradition, Hillfolk Noir is rooted in the band’s song craftsmanship. From spiral-bound mountains of frontman Travis Ward’s ragged notebooks comes the hard and the tender. Hillfolk Noir can blow the roof off the place, or draw you around the fire with their earnest musical narratives of the back alleys, the open range, and the front porch. “If John Steinbeck owned a speakeasy,” said John Doe (X, the Knitters), “Hillfolk Noir would be the house band.”

As a teenager in the early ‘90s growing up in the muddy potato fields of Idaho, John Németh was drawn to the hard-edged hip hop sounds and rock bands of the day, until a friend, Tom Moore, introduced him to the Junior Wells and Buddy Guy classic “Hoodoo Man Blues.” Together they formed Fat John & the 3 Slims, which is still regarded as a legendary band in the Boise region. Németh released two more albums on the Blind Pig label, “Love Me Tonight” (2009) & “Name The Day (2010), both hitting #6 on the Billboard Blues Chart, and beginning his long string of Blues Music Award (BMA) nominations, numbering 20 at last count. John has also won two Blues Blast Music Awards – Best New Artist Debut Recording and Sean Costello Rising Star Award

2026 marks the 21st anniversary season of Teton Valley Foundation’s Music on Main. Considered a summer bucket list item for both sides of the Tetons, Music on Main, generously presented by the Shefter Family Foundation, strives to bring national acts to local audiences free of charge. A suggested $5 donation each week is encouraged by all attendees to keep the concerts donation-based. Regularly voted Best Of, the 2026 concerts start on June 18 and run through August 13 at Victor City Park. Music on Main skips Thursday during the Fourth of July holiday week. The venue opens at 5 p.m. with opening sets starting at 5:45 p.m. The venue will open for the Sunday Brunch on August 2 at 1 p.m.