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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

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.

King Sunny Ade - 1983
Bob Weir, 1978

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

Jimmy Buffett

Raised in Alabama, Jimmy Buffett had never seen the mountains until a friend from Colorado’s Timberline Rose turned him on to the Rockies.

Brethren Fast, 1999 - Gordon Beesley, Mik Messina, Don Messina

Brethren Fast
In the late ’90s, Brethren Fast earned a reputation along the Front Range for white-hot live shows that were reckless adventures in self-described “electrified hillbilly hot-rod funk.”

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