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.
