Above: Lucinda Williams performs with her band at Swallow Hill on Friday, October 30, 2026
Last week on the night before Halloween, alternative country icon Lucinda Williams performed with her band at Denver's Swallow Hill Music Hall. The show was sold out months in advance, and the small venue only sold around 260 tickets for an unique show.
All photos by Mark Matheson.
This past Thursday night, The Lariat in Buena Vista's first sold out show of 2026 happened to be two colorado bluegrass groups: Clay Street Unit and High Country Husle.
All photographs by Jessica Lewis.
This week, progressive bluegrass group The Punch Brothers performed a unique show at the Vilar Performing Arts Center in Beaver Creek, CO. The Brothers performed their new album, The Unsong Adventures of the Punch Brothers in it's enteritiy, with not many vocals throughout the interesting set.
This Sunday, Molly Tuttle closed out the 2026 FreeFall Bluegrass Festival in Avon, CO on the festival's one nice good weather day. A handful of other great musicians played throughout the day, but Molly's set was the highlight featuring an impressive cover of Dolly Parton's 9 to 5.
Belly Up and Dillon Amp are two of the very best venues in all of Colorado, so it was a great privilage to see one of our favorite groups, Elephant Revival, at both venues. Each show was very different with Saturday perhaps going out with a bang with many different things going on at once. Each show saw the many talents of lead singer and multi instrumanetalist Bonnie Paine.
Above: Union Peak Festival and the large crowd on day one: Friday, Aug 28, 2026
This past weekend, Copper Mountain's Union Peak Festival returned to downtown Copper Mountain for three days, Friday Saturday and Sunday. Despite incoming rain showers on both Saturday and Sunday, the weather mostly coroporated, with Saturday featuring the Turnpike Troubadours behing the highlight of the whole festival.
Colorado's own Yonder Mountain String Band performed in Breckenridge Friday night at the Beaver Run Resort Conference Center for Wine Classic Weekend. While it poured at the beginning of the event, the rain cleared out by the time the band came on stage. It wasn't the best time we've seen them, but Yonder always puts on a great long show no matter where they perform.
Veteran bluegrass jam band Greensky Bluegrass performed on both Friday and Saturday this past weekend at the Vail Amp. It was a hell raising good time with the five piece group, who were joined by Holly Bowling on Friday the 7th.
Above: the side stage at the 2026 Eagle River Jamboree
This past weekend, The Eagle River Jamboree descended upon Eagle County's fairgrounds August 8 & 9 with a stellar first line up that included both local and national touring artists. While everyone was hoping for a bit more attendees, (there were perhaps 1,500 in total), it was still a great, well organized event, and we hope it returns next year.
Watchhouse performs at Dillon Amp on Saturday, July 25, 2026
This weekend, Watchhouse performed at Dillon Amp for the first time. The intimate concert sounded great, and it proved to be an excellent night with a near full moon and additional rainbow over the amp to see some live music.
This past Tuesday night on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, Old Crow Medicine Show performed with Big Richard at Colorado Spring's Performing Arts Center. All photos by Jessica Lewis.
This past Wednesday night, jam-electronic group Sound Tribe Sector 9 performed for the very first time in Buena Vista, CO at the Surf Hotel for two nights. While we weren't able to cover the 2nd night, the 1st night was a jamming good time out on The Lawn, which is always a fun time experiencing live music for an outdoor concert in the small mountain town.
Above: Molly Tuttle performs with new band members Tuesday, July 16, 2026
Photo by Jessica Lewis
On Tuesday, June 16, Molly Tuttle joined Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on stage for two songs during their encore including an impressive cover of The Weight. However, during Molly's own performance, unfortunately power and sound became an issue, cutting the set a bit short.
Above: Danielle Nicole with Brandon Miller performs at 2026 Greeley Blues Jam on Saturday, June 6
This past weekend, Greeley Blues Jam returned for it's 22nd year in Greeley, CO at Island Grove State Park. Despite brutally hot weather Saturday afternoon (98 degrees F!), it did end up cooling down with some cloud coverage and wind. The Danielle Nicole Band performed an impressive set before headliner Robert Randolph, showing everyone that she was by far the best performer at this year's Blues Jam.
Molly Tuttle musician and fiddler Bronwyn Keith Hynes returned to the Lariat this past Friday night in beautiful Buena Vista, Colorado. This was our sixth time reviewing her this year, and she always stands out. Bronwyn's young band is also excellent, and they played a good handful of tunes from every musician's catalog. However, we would have liked to heard more Bronwyn's songs, but she did play our favorite 'Can't Live Without Love'. She does a superb version of Fleetwood Mac's The Chain live, which is just as good as Molly's White Rabbit. The sound is also always excellent at The Lariat, but the lighting not so much.
Outside Days before the crowd enters the festival on Day 2, Saturday, May 30, 2026
This past weekend, Denver's Outside Days returned for it's annual May dates in Denver, but this time, the festival was in a new venue. This year, the festival ascended upon Denver's Auraria Campus, which is under reconstruction at the time. While it wasn't perfect, it was a successful event that drew close to 30,000 attendees every day.
This year, the 6th annual Tico Time Bluegrass Festival got underway near Durango, Co for a 3 day festival May 15-17. Despite not being sold out, the festival hosted a wonderful line up of incredible musicians and artists from all around the nation, highlighted by Grammy award winning Old Crow Medicine Show on Saturday evening. Now, we'll highlight some of the best moments of this year's festival.
Above: Pixie and Amanda Grapes perform at last year's Tico Time Bluegrass Festival.
Although we haven't been to this festival yet, we've heard great things about Tico Time Bluegrass Festival. This festival is nearly two weekends away near beautiful Durango, CO, so we'd thought we'd break down the line up and who to highlight you can't miss to see if your going to this year's festival. You can check out the daily line up for the festival here:
https://ticotimebluegrass.com/daily-schedule/
Above: The Heavy Heavy perform on Saturday, May 2, 2026 at The Lariat
This past weekend, British rockers The Heavy Heavy jammed out to a near sold out crowd at The Lariat in Buena, Vista, CO. There was well over a hundred people in the audience making this one of the more crowded events we've been to the small bar, restaurant and music venue known as The Lariat.
View of the main stage on Sunday evening, March 1, of WWG 2026
The annual Steamboat Springs music festival WinterWonderGrass returned for its 13th year in 2026 over its usual time, the last weekend of February/first weekend of March. The festival is a Colorado musical staple now, filled with diehard fans returning year after year and newbies alike. The event was followed by an uncommon total Lunar Eclipse/Blood Moon on Tuesday morning which was visible with clear skies in most of Colorado. We break down the best moments of this year's festival.
