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Terrapin Care Station
Cambridge Audio

The protean musician, artist and designer's years in Colorado found him composing, recording and performing countless works.

Tim Duffy

A symposium at Fiske Planetarium convened members of Spontanuity, whose psychedelic light show provided visual background for the Dead’s 1969 concert in Boulder.

Grateful Dead/Spontanuity

Denver’s premiere concert venue in the Rockin’ 70’s, Ebbets hosted a lineup of legends and up-and-comers. Young Bob Ferbrache hung out at Ebbets, where he morphed from gofer to photographer—and captured history.

Dolly Parton – 4/25/74
Bob Weir, 1978

A founding member of the Grateful Dead, Bob Weir passed away on January 10, 2026, at age 78.

Tim Goodman

Circa 1980, Denver rock promoter Barry Fey got the go-ahead from CBS Records (Columbia) to assemble talent for his own custom label. Under the arrangement, his Feyline Presents handled all of the basic record company functions but got to use the corporate muscle of CBS for distribution.

Peter La Farge

Peter La Farge
The son of a Pulitzer Prize winner, Peter La Farge, an often neglected folk singer-songwriter of the 1950s and 1960s, grew up partly on the former Kane Ranch in Fountain, Colorado.

On Record Book Series

On Record book series

Each volume of the award-winning On Record series gathers over 200 limited and extraordinary images and 100 interview-based profiles spotlighting an array of musical artists.

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merchandise

Explore the Colorado Music Experience’s store, stocked with stylish products and gifts for music fans.

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A non-profit organization established to preserve the legacies of Colorado music, CoME serves as a repository for informational and archival resources.

Jon Rizzi, G. Brown, Mark Zaremba and Chip Garofalo