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Telluride Bluegrass Festival – June 15, 16, 17, 18 – Telluride Town Park

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On Thursday, June 15th, the main street of Colorado’s most captivating town, was abuzz with an energy and excitement as the crowds (some there for days) made their way to Town Park for the start of the 45th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. There is no better setting for a music festival; there is no better music for such a setting.

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Gregg Allman’s Laid Back Festival – September 25th – Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Estimated read time 5 min read

The Laid Back Festival made its long awaited harvest stop at Red Rocks Amphitheatre last weekend. There was concern that Gregg Allman would miss the Red Rocks premiere performance at his well-received traveling festival due to health concerns but he dispelled that notion with a short and satisfying acoustic set alongside guitarist Scott Sharrard.

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PICK OF THE WEEK: Gregg Allman’s Laid Back Fest – Red Rocks – Sunday, September 25th

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The 2016 Laid Back Festival is an extraordinary one-day event coming to Red Rocks this Sunday. The traveling musical caravan is headlined and curated by Gregg Allman, who will be performing an acoustic set at Red Rocks. The Red Rocks lineup also features ZZ Top and will include Richie Furay Band, Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band and more. This is a day of great music and food you can’t afford to miss!

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Gregg Allman – October 13th – Boulder Theater

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The Boulder Theater was charged last Tuesday night as longtime fans waited for the legendary Gregg Allman to take the stage before the nearly capacity crowd. While the majority of those who packed the beautiful Art Deco theater were silver haired and pushing 60 (and with seated tickets on the lower level priced at $90, that’s not a surprise) there was a healthy contingent of younger fans who had no doubt been brought up on Allman’s music and wanted to check this one off the bucket list.

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Telluride Blues & Brews – September 18th-20th – Telluride Town Park

Estimated read time 8 min read

The Listen Up Denver! crew rolled into Telluride with one simple intention: Do not take this for granted. We were in Telluride! Man, it was amazing! The weather was epic, the beer flowed freely and the music, oh the music. The footprints of musicians including Rich Robinson, Sharon Jones, and Otis Taylor dotted the stage throughout the weekend, and while the sun warmed the day, clear and starry skies cooled off the evenings and the dancing lasted till the wee hours of the morning.

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Connor Kennedy, A Student Of The “Woodstock Sound” To Open For The Waterboys

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Connor Kennedy can often be seen kicking around Woodstock, NY in his brown leather boots, digging through vinyl at radio station 100.1 WDST, playing a local bar with members of Gregg Allman’s band or The Levon Helm Band or playing organ alongside Donald Fagen of Steely Dan at The Barn. Wherever Kennedy is, or what he is doing, he is either absorbing the music of others, or creating his own.

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Telluride Blues & Brews Announces 2015 Lineup

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TELLURIDE BLUES & […]