Danielle Nicole proves she's still the best at this year's Greeley Blues Jam, A

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.

Bronwyn Keith Hynes always delivers and returns to the Lariat in BV on Friday, June 5, 2026

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 Festival Returns to Denver with a new venue, B+

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.

The top 5 best moments of this year's Tico Time Bluegrass Festival

(Above: the main stage viewing area at 2026 Tico Time Bluegrass Festival on Sunday, May 17, 2026)

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.

Breaking down the line up and who you can't miss to see at this year's Tico Time Bluegrass 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/

The Heavy Heavy jam out The Lariat on a May Saturday night, A-

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.

Interview with Bonnie Paine at Steamboat Springs resort on Monday, March 2, 2026

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.