Colorado Music Experience

01/01/2026

However you’re stepping into the new year—fast, slow, or somewhere in between—it’s alright. 🎵 Best wishes for 2026 from CoME!

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12/31/2025

Thirty years ago, Ozzy Osbourne’s “Retirement Sucks” tour came to McNichols Sports Arena in Denver. Were you there in 1995?

12/31/2025

Remembering John Denver, who would have been 82 today. Once one of the five top-selling recording artists in the history of the music industry, Denver will always be associated with the Rocky Mountains and the city from which he took his name.

📽 Learn more about Denver in CoME's mini-documentary, 𝘙𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘏𝘪𝘨𝘩: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘰 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘋𝘦𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳: https://colomusic.org/video/rocky-mountain-high-the-colorado-legacy-of-john-denver/

12/30/2025

🎶Happy birthday to Wesley Schultz, guitarist and lead vocalist of The Lumineers, one of Colorado’s most influential bands in recent years.

12/27/2025

🎶Happy birthday to keyboardist Bob Carpenter, a member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band since 1977.

📽Learn more about Carpenter and the band in CoME's mini-documentary: https://colomusic.org/video/the-nitty-gritty-dirt-band-2/

12/26/2025

In 1968, Led Zeppelin played its first North American show—opening for Vanilla Fudge and Spirit, unbilled, at Denver’s Auditorium Arena.

➡Learn more about the band's Colorado connection on the CoME website: https://colomusic.org/profile/led-zeppelin/

12/25/2025

🎶From the Colorado Music Experience family, wishing you a holiday filled with music, joy, and the stories that bring us together.🎶

12/25/2025

Remembering Jimmy Buffett today on what would have been his 79th birthday. His long-standing ties to Colorado began when he included “A Mile High in Denver” on his first album in 1970, and later deepened when he made Aspen one of his homes.

Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, whose brand of laid-back island escapism on hits like “Margaritaville” and “Cheeseburger in Paradise” made him a hero to devoted fans known as Parrot Heads, died on September 1, 2023.

12/24/2025

Remembering Carl Wilson, guitarist of The Beach Boys , today on what would have been his 79th birthday. Using Colorado’s Caribou Ranch Recording Studio as his home base, Wilson released his self-titled solo debut in 1981.

During the 1960s, the Beach Boys’ ability to surf the waves of commercial success and artistic development made them America’s preeminent pop group. By the late 1970s, the venerable band was threatening to splinter. Carl Wilson, guitarist of the Beach Boys and the man who many people credited wi...

12/20/2025

In 1969, “Leaving on a Jet Plane” became Peter, Paul and Mary’s only No. 1 hit on the 𝘉𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘣𝘰𝘢𝘳𝘥 Hot 100 chart. The song was written by a young John Denver, then a member of the Chad Mitchell Trio.

📽 Learn more about John Denver in CoME's mini-documentary about him: https://colomusic.org/video/rocky-mountain-high-the-colorado-legacy-of-john-denver/

12/19/2025

🎶Happy 80th birthday to multi-instrumentalist John McEuen, a founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and a prolific solo musician. McEuen’s latest album is 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘯.

🎙Celebrate John's birthday by listening to CoME's podcast with him: https://colomusic.org/podcast/john-mceuen/

12/19/2025

R.I.P. Joe Ely, the highly regarded pioneer of the ’70s Texas progressive country sound who died on Monday at age 78. CoME director G. Brown spoke with the “Lord of the Highway" over the years and has written a remembrance.

Joe Ely, the highly regarded pioneer of the ’70s Texas progressive country sound, died December 15, 2025, at age 78.