A symposium at Fiske Planetarium convened members of Spontanuity, whose psychedelic light show provided visual background for the Dead’s 1969 concert in Boulder.
For more than 25 years, photographer Garrett Hacking has captured the personalities and emotions of musicians at concerts across Colorado. He selected some of his favorite images exclusively for Colorado Music Experience.
Mike Peters, the frontman and songwriter of the Alarm, died on April 28, 2025, at age 66 after a long battle with blood cancer.
For most of the 1970s, Katy Moffatt was a fixture in the Denver folk music scene, playing clubs and small rock venues and spending countless hours at musicians’ haunts like the Denver Folklore Center.
Steve Conn
Led by singer and keyboardist Steve Conn, Colorado’s Gris Gris played “slightly twisted funky New Orleans dance music” in the early 1980s. Conn was a regular soloist at the Hotel Boulderado’s mezzanine, and he served as eTown’s first musical director. He eventually moved to Nashville, where he made a career as a notable sideman and… more ≫
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