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Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers – August 8th – Denver Botanic Gardens

Estimated read time 3 min read

The Botanic Gardens was beautiful on Monday night. Though storms swirled nearby, not a drop of rain fell on the gardens and the crowd was linen clad and ready for some great music. Though there was a smattering of younger faces in the bowl, the vast majority of the audience was over 40 and sat back, wine glass in hand, to enjoy some adult contemporary hits from the late 80’s and early 90’s. Boy, were they in for a surprise.

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Frightened Rabbit – April 24th – Ogden Theatre

Estimated read time 4 min read

Let’s face it, Sunday nights are tough nights for those of us that love to see live music – the weekend is wrapping up and the work week lies in waiting. That said, the crowd that slowly filtered into The Ogden on Sunday night may have started out tame and mellow, but slowly ramped up as the night went on and, if Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison’s ramblings were any indicator, gave the band one of their best receptions in a long-while.

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Dance Party Time Machine – December 11th – Cervantes’ Ballroom

Estimated read time 6 min read

This past Friday night brought Denver unusually warm weather and a variety of choices for the Denver live music faithful to get down. Down at Cervantes’, J2G Live was ready to deliver their third installment of the Dance Party Time Machine, a collaborative effort of Denver’s finest musicians who come together to throwdown a mixtape of hits from throughout the decades of dance music. After trips through the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and more, the time machine landed safely in 2015 to end the evening.

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The Motet’s “Mixtape 1980” – November 2nd – Ogden Theatre

Estimated read time 4 min read

Halloween might have happened on Thursday, Oct. 31, but it happened again two days later at The Ogden Theatre when The Motet packed the house for a sold-out show that Denver fans come out in droves for every year. While The Motet puts on an annual Halloween rager, this year’s show was focused on the year 1980, and the crowd added to the theme with costumes that shaded the room with every bright color that the 80s represented.

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Umphrey’s McGee’s Joel Cummins Talks sUMmer school, Huey Lewis & The rUMors, and Much More!

Estimated read time 16 min read

In some people’s eyes, one of the things that makes a good band great is their ability to improvise on the fly and Umphrey’s McGee is one of that bands doing that best today. We had the opportunity to sit down with Umphrey’s Keyboard player, Joel Cummins, late this summer to talk about the band’s new sUMmer school, their work with Huey Lewis, and, of course, their upcoming show at Red Rocks with Railroad Earth.