A symposium at Fiske Planetarium convened members of Spontanuity, whose psychedelic light show provided visual background for the Dead’s 1969 concert in Boulder.
Photojournalist Bill Warren shot practically every concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in the early and mid-1980s. He picked this assemblage of his archival images exclusively for the Colorado Music Experience.
A founding member of the Grateful Dead, Bob Weir passed away on January 10, 2026, at age 78.
Before he finally made a chart showing in America, John Grant had been making records for 20 years. Even then, it was a moderate push, but the emergence of Pale Green Ghosts showed that the thoughtful songwriter was inching into the mainstream after a lifetime spent grappling with depression, poverty and addiction.
Peter Kater
Of German birth and descent, composer and pianist Peter Kater moved to Boulder in 1977 at the age of 18, finding stimulation in the beautiful terrain of the Rocky Mountains, “the movements and wholeness of the Earth.” He began a six-year period of improvisational playing at the Mezzanine at Hotel Boulderado and the Broker Inn. His music… more ≫
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