Music of Colorado

The American state of Colorado has many music scenes and venues, especially in the larger cities like Denver and Colorado Springs.

Colorado's orchestras include the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.

Folk and traditional music in Colorado has been an intricate part of the local popular culture in the last century. The Colorado Bluegrass Music Society exists to promote Coloradan bluegrass music, and publishes a magazine called Pow'r Pickin'.

Colorado bands and artists

Local bands and musicians as well as those often associated with Colorado include:

• 16 Horsepower (Alternative/Country/Rock)
• 3OH!3 (Pop)
• 3 The Hard Way^[1] (Hip-Hop)
• Air Dubai^[2] (Alternative Hip-Hop)
• All (Punk)
• Antonia Brico (Classical)
• The Apples in Stereo (Indie/Pop)
• A Shoreline Dream (Rock)
• The Astronauts (Surf)
• Big Gigantic (Instrumental Electronica)
• Big Head Todd and the Monsters (Rock/Blues)^[3]
• Breathe Carolina (Electronic Rock)
• Calm (music group) (hip hop)
• Cephalic Carnage (Grindcore/Death Metal)
• Christie Front Drive (Post-hardcore, Indie, Emo)
• Churchill (Acoustic/Bluegrass/Folk Rock)
• The Congress (Rock)
• The Czars (Rock/Alternative)
• Dean Reed (Rock 'n' Roll)
• Dethcentrik (Industrial metal)
• DeVotchKa (Indie/Alternative - Post Rock)
• Dianne Reeves (Jazz)
• Dressy Bessy (Indie)
• Drop Dead, Gorgeous (Rock)
• Earth, Wind and Fire (R&B)
• Elephant Revival (Folk)
• Fear Before the March of Flames (Rock)
• Firefall (Rock)
• Five Iron Frenzy (Ska)
• Flobots (Rap-Rock)
• The Fluid (Rock)
• The Fray (Adult Contemporary/Soft Rock)
• Frogs Gone Fishin' (Funk)
• The Gamits (Pop/Punk)
• Ginger Baker (Jazz)
• Glenn Miller (Jazz)
• Havok (band) (Metal)
• Hazel Miller (Rock/Jazz/Folk)
• Hit and Run (band) (Bluegrass)
• Idlewhile (Indie/Americana)
• India.Arie (R&B/Soul)
• Jag Panzer (Heavy Metal)
• Jill Sobule (Folk)
• John Denver (Folk/Country) His song "Sunshine on My Shoulders" was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1974.
• Josephine Foster (Folk)
• Judy Collins (Folk)
• Leftover Salmon (Jam)
• The Lumineers (Folk/Alternative)
• The Minders (Indie)
• Meese (Alternative)
• Mark Brooks
• Matt Pike
• Mike Johnson (guitarist)
• Mr. J. Medeiros (Hip-Hop)
• Nathaniel Rateliff
• Neighborhood Bully(Pop/Rock)
• The Northern Way (Pop/Rock)
• OneRepublic (Pop/Rock/Alternative/Folk)
• Opera Colorado (Opera)
• Paper Bird (Americana/Folk)
• Philip Bailey (R&B/Funk)
• Playalitical (Rap/Hip-Hop)
• The Photo Atlas (Pop/Rock)
• Pretty Lights (Electronic)
• The Procussions (Hip-Hop)
• Reverb and The Verse (Hip-Hop/Electronic)
• Rivulets (Indie/Singer-Songwriter)
• Ron Miles (Jazz)
• Roper (Pop/Punk)
• Rose Hill Drive (Rock)
• Sally Taylor (singer-songwriter)
• The Samples (Jam/Rock)
• SHEL (Folk/Pop)
• Single File (Pop)
• Slim Cessna's Auto Club (Alternative/Country/Rock)
• The String Cheese Incident (Jam)
• Sugarloaf (Rock)
• Thinking Plague (Avant/Progressive)
• Tickle Me Pink (Pop)
• Time (rapper) (indie hip hop)
• Tommy Bolin (1960s-1970s)
• Under Two Tables (Alternative Rock)
• Vaux (Alternative, 1990s-2000s)
• Velvet Acid Christ (Electronic/Industrial, 1990s-2000s)
• Wendy Woo (Singer/Songwriter)
• Willie Lewis (Rockabilly)
• Wovenhand (Alternative/Country/Rock)
• Yonder Mountain String Band (Bluegrass)
• Zephyr (Rock)

List of notable Colorado music venues

Boulder

• Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St.^[4]
• Macky Auditorium, CU-Boulder campus

Broomfield

• 1STBANK Center

Colorado Springs

• World Arena, 3185 Venetucci Blvd.
• The Black Sheep, 2106 Platte Avenue.

Denver

• Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St.
• Magness Arena, 2240 E. Buchtel Blvd.
• Ogden Theatre,^[5] 935 E. Colfax Ave.
• Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Pl.
• Bluebird Theater, 930 W. 7th Ave.
• Paramount Theater, 1621 Glenarm Pl.

Greenwood Village

• Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre

Loveland

• Budweiser Events Center

Morrison

• Red Rocks Amphitheatre

See also

• Music in Denver
• State of Colorado

References