The National. Red Rocks Amphitheatre. 09.12.22 The National are no strangers to Red Rocks or Colorado in general (they performed in Dillon a month ago), so it wasn’t surprising that the show on Monday night was akin to a family gathering. Black and white footage of the band backstage was broadcast on the big screen
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Lucy Dacus. Red Rocks Amphitheatre. 09.12.22 Lucy Dacus and her band graced the stage at Red Rocks as openers for the second time in as many years. Last year they were accompanied by Shakey Graves; this year, they were warming up for The National. But it was more than just a warmup. Lucy’s voice is
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Shakey Graves. Red Rocks Amphitheatre. 09.05.22 (photos) Alejandro Rose-Garcia is no stranger to Red Rocks. He has performed there as Shakey Grave a half dozen times over the past decade. On Monday night, he brought one of the hottest artists in country music with him, Sierra Ferrell. Sierra and her band opened the show, and Alejandro
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Sierra Ferrell. Red Rocks Amphitheatre. 09.05.22 From busking across America to racking up hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube, from stealing the show at festivals to the iconic stage at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Sierra Ferrell is on top of the world right now, and she is embracing it. Strutting onto the stage with her
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Here and There Festival. Mission Ballroom. 09.03.22 “I got lost somewhere between Here And There, I’m not sure what the town was called” Here and There was touted as a “touring festival,” but not in the way Lollapalooza or Warped were touring festivals. Curated by Courtney Barnett, it was essentially her summer tour with a
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The National with Bartees Strange. Dillon Amphitheater. 08.10.22 Red Rocks will always be the most iconic amphitheater in Colorado (and the country, for that matter), but it is not the only amphitheater the Centennial State has to offer. No, I am not talking about the corporate hellhole down in Greenwood Village. There’s The Mishawaka in
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The Wild Hearts Tour. Mission Ballroom. 08.07.22 The Wild Heart Tour brought three of the most celebrated female musicians across the country for a month from July 21st through August 21st, ending with a pair of shows in Central Park. The Denver stop came right in the middle of the run and found all three
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Fire in the Mountains 2022 It took Jeremy Walker, Founder & Owner of Fire in the Mountains, less than five hours to answer the questions I emailed just days before his third festival kicked off at the Heart 6 Ranch in Moran, Wyoming. I had five questions, but Jeremy’s answer to the third inquiry was
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Palomino Festival 2022 What defines country music? Wikipedia defines it as a “genre of American popular music that originated in the Southern United States in the 1920s.” It goes on to say that country music “often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments.” I can’t
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Good Riddance. Marquis Theatre. 01.25.18 May 5th, 1994. I am 17 years old and sitting in my ’84 Honda Accord in a dirt parking lot at the World Beat Center in San Diego. It’s 6 pm, and there are no other cars in the lot. I am early. Ridiculously early. A month has passed since
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