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.
Above: Bonnie Paine of Elephant Revival performs on Sunday, March 1, 2028, at WWG (Photo credit Jessica Lewis)
After three days of folk and bluegrass music, Wildfire Reviews sat down with multi-instrumentalist Bonnie Paine late Monday morning for a fascinating interview. As mentioned in our WinterWonderGrass article, Bonnie is simply an incredible person and extremely talented musician, and it happened to be one of our best interviews we've ever had.
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.
This past Saturday night, the all-female girl bluegrass band Big Richard returned to 10 Mile Music Hall for the second time and provided a fun and fast paced dancing filled evening.
