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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

Photographer Stephen Collector applied his attention to detail and lighting techniques to the world of ’80s music, a striking portfolio he shares with the Colorado Music Experience.

James Brown
Jimmy Cliff, 1985

Singer Jimmy Cliff, reggae music’s first international hitmaker, died November 24, 2025. He was 81.

Max Morath

Ragtime virtuoso Max Morath was born in Colorado Springs on October 1, 1926. His mother had lugged a piano bench full of music west from the family farm in Iowa; as a youngster, he said, he’d discovered “the beat in my fingers” for ragtime, the tunes that predated jazz as America’s first distinctive music.

Stanley Sheldon

Stanley Sheldon
Stanley Sheldon, a longtime member of Peter Frampton’s band, was a musician with fusion master guitarist Tommy Bolin’s groups from 1971 to 1974, including Energy.

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.

hosted by g. brown

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