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| Jul 23, 2026 | Planet Bluegrass gears up for 2 huge summer festivals, each with their own unique campfire soundtrack | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
When most people picture a classic American summer camp, it looks like college students equipped with a plastic whistle, a water-stained CPR card and the ability to organize a canoe race without lo... |
| Jul 1, 2026 | These Colorado summer retreats can help adults escape burnout | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
More adults are swapping their laptops and smartphones for campfires and hiking boots or yoga mats and meditation.
Burnout, the fast pace of daily life, or a desire for something real are all reaso... |
| Jun 4, 2026 | This Front Range summer concert guide is huge. Handle with care (and festival flair) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
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Summertime in Boulder County is synonymous with things like being tweeted awake by an American robin at 7 a.m., bumping into your former literary analysis professor in line... |
| May 19, 2026 | Boulder musician Ingrid Avison turns birth control into a synth-pop banger | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Lusty pop songs have historically been inspired by a predictable, if effective, muse. Ginuwine’s 1996 R&B classic “Pony” was certainly not an ode to a small-statured equid, but a slick, bass-he... |
| Feb 25, 2026 | Lyons’ Wayback Bar launches jazz series in bluegrass-saturated town | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Lyons is known for many things. Being a gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park, for one. The burbling, photogenic churn of the St. Vrain River. A laid-back, neighborly, family-friendly and easygoi... |
| Sep 26, 2025 | Colorado’s best mountain towns for live music fans | Colorado’s mountain towns are destinations for hiking, biking, hot springs and more, but choose the right one and you’ll also tap into music scenes that are destinations in their own right.
Here are five places worth adding to any music fan... |
| Sep 5, 2025 | Music That Moves You | (Photo by Rosie Quebral Harris)Boulder Philharmonic Shift Series at Planet Bluegrass.
Why do people seek out live orchestral music in a world that moves so fast and talks too loudly? Because they’re looking for something that speaks in a di... |
| Aug 7, 2025 | Folks Fest lines up river vibes, chill folk for a perfect summer wrap at Planet Bluegrass in Lyons | Matthew Jonas / Staff PhotographerPeople in inflatable tubes drift down the North St. Vrain River during the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival at Planet Bluegrass in Lyons in 2017. (Matthew Jonas / Staff Photographer)
When it comes to the music... |
| Jul 24, 2025 | RockyGrass returns to Planet Bluegrass in Lyons for a pickin’ good time | “If you wander through the campgrounds, you’re likely to find jams and picking circles going until about 3 or 4 in the morning. People come to RockyGrass for that scene.”
She added: “It becomes this really awesome community.”
Camping is a c... |
| Jun 6, 2025 | Boulder’s Summer Symphony: A Musical Journey Through the Heart of Colorado | Summer in Boulder is a symphony of sound. The air buzzes with melodies, laughter, and the sweet scent of warm evenings. As the sun dips behind the Flatirons, the city transforms into a vibrant concert hall. From the intimate corners of loca... |
| Jun 5, 2025 | Boulder County’s 2025 summer concert guide: Dance under the moon and to barroom blues | “We’ve been playing at Gold Hill for a long time and we always love coming back,” said Aaron McCloskey of Wood Belly. “Brian (Finn) has created such an amazing vibe there and it’s one of our absolute favorite venues. The energy in that room... |
| Aug 17, 2023 | Entertainment | Bonnie Paine shares Elephant Revival’s trip through the unknown to unification ahead of Saturday concert at Planet Bluegrass | Last year, after an extended break from touring, Bonnie Paine took the stage with her fellow Elephant Revival bandmates to play a special reunion show in Lyons — more than four years after the Nederland-born band’s last appearance together ... |
| Aug 11, 2023 | Music and Concerts
Music and Concerts | Rocky Mountain Folk Fest is back with a bevy of stars, bourgeoning talent | Despite a lawsuit filed in Boulder County District Court last week against Planet Bluegrass owner Craig Ferguson, Rocky Mountain Folks Festival will go on this weekend as planned at the ranch in Lyons, where thousands of folk music fans and... |
| Jul 30, 2023 | Entertainment
Entertainment | Celebrate the city’s summer murals with Street Wise’s Community Day and other Boulder events for today | Summer Community Day with Street Wise: Community Day will highlight Street Wise’s 2023 Summer Mural Series with mural tours and an artist meet-and-greet at R Gallery (2027 Broadway) from 3-6 p.m. The artists include Moe Gram, whose “Creatu... |
| Jul 29, 2023 | Entertainment
Entertainment | Avery’s 30th birthday party tapping loads of beer and other Boulder events for today | Avery Brewing’s 30th Anniversary Party: Avery is celebrating its big birthday by tapping unlimited pours of more than 160 beers from over 60 breweries — including rare barrel-aged beers, like the new anniversary strong ale that pays homage ... |
| Jul 28, 2023 | Entertainment
Entertainment | RockyGrass rolls in Béla Fleck, Lil Smokies, Sierra Hull and other Boulder events for today | Today
RockyGrass: The annual event celebrating all things strings andn ‘grass returns to Lyons for its 51st annual festival. Runnign through Sunday, some of the top area and national bands will hit the stage. Friday’s lineup: Béla Fleck; La... |
| May 31, 2023 | Entertainment
Entertainment | 5 bluegrass music festivals to hit in Colorado this summer | The Telluride Bluegrass Festival celebrates a milestone 50th anniversary in June, but because the event is notoriously an instant sell-out, it’s improbable to find passes this close to the festival dates.
No worries, though, as Colorado is ... |
| Aug 10, 2022 | Music and Concerts
Music and Concerts | ‘Nonstop’ summer for Planet Bluegrass with Folks Fest up next, bringing big names, valley vibes | Late last month, a sold-out RockyGrass brought three full days of music to Planet Bluegrass for the festival’s 50th year. Kicking off Friday, stages will once again be filled for the 32nd Rocky Mountain Folks Festival — another beloved Lyon... |
| Jul 28, 2022 | Music and Concerts
Music and Concerts | RockyGrass celebrates milestone 50th year with incredible lineup | RockyGrass — Lyons’s ultimate celebration of bluegrass — is turning half a century old and promises three days of nonstop music, tubing in the Saint Vrain River, campground jams and more starting on Friday and stretching into Sunday. Otto A... |
| Jun 3, 2022 | Music and Concerts
Music and Concerts | The Sounds of Summer: 2022 Boulder County concert guide | Boulder
Bands on the Bricks – Complete with a beer garden, downtown Boulder’s long-standing concert series offers free shows every Wednesday from 5:30-9 p.m. on the 1300 Block of Pearl Street; boulderdowntown.com. Lineup: June 15 Hazel Mill... |
| Aug 4, 2021 | The 31st annual Rocky Mountain Folks Fest spotlights regional and national talent | Last month RockyGrass, at Planet Bluegrass, attracted sold-out crowds eager to wade in the St. Vrain River while dancing to the banjo’s pluck and mandolin’s woody punch. The star-studded bill featured Béla Fleck, Sam Bush, Del McCoury and m... |
| Jul 27, 2021 | Bluegrass & Brews Festival brings top acts to The Foundry Plaza in Loveland | Last weekend, RockyGrass may have filled Planet Bluegrass’s 20-acre Lyons venue with sets from Sam Bush, Béla Fleck and a bevy of other talented pickers, but Northern Colorado is bringing some of the Front Range’s most revered musicians in ... |
| Jul 22, 2021 | RockyGrass returns to Planet Bluegrass with star-studded lineup, high-def livestreams | RockyGrass — one of the nation’s most beloved and top-ranked bluegrass festivals — stayed in hibernation last summer due to the pandemic. Folks hang by the St. Vrain River at RockyGrass 2019 at Planet Bluegrass in Lyons. (NOCOAST/ Courtesy ... |
| Jun 23, 2021 | Sandstone Summer Concert Series returns to Lyons next month | Summer is officially here and with it comes the promise of longer days, packed patios, new seasonal ales and live music throughout the Front Range. Multi-instrumentalist, soul singer and Lyons resident Dechen Hawk will kick off the Sandston... |
| Mar 18, 2021 | As the weather warms, live music makes its long-awaited return to Colorado | While multiple musicians and event organizers did an amazing job of providing virtual offerings to fans during the pandemic, nothing quite comes close to the magic that surfaces from sitting in a packed concert hall or standing shoulder-to-... |
| Aug 15, 2019 | Planet Bluegrass’ Folks Fest offers a soothing song summit for the soul | One wouldn’t normally expect to see the Violent Femmes, a band that rose to ‘80s fame with rock hit “Blister in the Sun,” on the same bill as singer-songwriter Patty Larkin, but at this weekend’s genre-crossing Folks Fest anything goes. Tra... |
| Jul 24, 2019 | RockyGrass Academy strikes a chord with bluegrass musicians across country | Wednesday afternoon at the Planet Bluegrass Ranch in Lyons, notes from banjo, guitar and bass mingled with the sounds of water flowing in North St. Vrain Creek.
The music, alongside hundreds of tents set up against the backdrop of the area’... |
| Aug 21, 2016 | 26th annual Lyons Folks Festival at Planet Bluegrass draws crowds | Today’s heat made the shady banks of the St. Vrain River, or even the river itself, a popular spot to soak in the music at the 26th annual Rocky Mountain Folks Festival in Lyons.
The three-day festival, at the 15-acre Planet Bluegrass Ranch... |
