Chad Okrusch
High-minded & Soulful Montana Troubadour
Rocky Mountain Americana with mining town grit, literary weight, and songs built for honest rooms.
Chad Okrusch has opened for Blake Shelton, Robert Earl Keen, Lee Brice, & Chris Knight.
A Festival Veteran, Okrusch has played
Red Ants Pants, National Folk Festival, Montana Folk Festival, Bob Marshall Music Festival, Red Lodge Songwriter Festival, Whitefish Songwriter Festival, Livingston Songwriter Festival, Storyhill Fest, Montana Country Jam, and is the co-founder of Americonda
Listening rooms, breweries, festivals, house concerts, and special events.
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Mostly Love is a wisdom-bent gathering of songs of love, heartbreak, friendship, community, and the kind of freedom you can only know in a place like Montana.
Forthcoming Album | Fall 2026
Mostly Love
Taos Tonight
Mostly Love
Disconnection Point
Be Like Water
The River Song
Bamboo
Nobody’s Hero
Tallahassee Bob
More Than a Song
Chad Okrusch
pilgrim. poet. professor.
Chad Okrusch writes Rocky Mountain Americana from Butte, Montana — songs with mining-town grit, literary weight, and a crooked kind of hope. Known as “Uncle Chad” in the Montana songwriting community, he has opened for Robert Earl Keen, Chris Knight, and Blake Shelton, and has appeared at Red Ants Pants, the Montana Folk Festival, the National Folk Festival, and songwriter festivals across the region. His forthcoming album, Mostly Love, gathers songs of love, repair, friendship, freedom, and the long road home.
In addition to making music, Okrusch earned a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon and is a tenured full professor of philosophy and communication at Montana Technological University.