The VIP passes allow you to access seating close to the stage, two free drinks (either alcoholic or non-alcoholic), a free commemorative festival t-shirt and a chance to win a backstage pass to Meet & Greet the performers.

It’s that easy. Just book lodging in Winter Park for the festival weekend of your choice (or both), let us know how many people are in your group, and we’ll throw in the VIP passes for the festival.   Check out the details for the free Winter Park festivals below!

KYGO HIGH COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL

July 10th, 2010.

We’ve got Chris Cagle, who, since his debut on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles & Tracks in 2000, has produced numerous top-ten hits including “I Breathe in I Breathe Out”, “Chicks Dig It” and “What Kinda Gone”.

Also on the line-up is Texas’s The Josh Abbott Band, the “fastest rising young stars in Texas country,”  and Denver’s own up-and-coming star, the Kory Brunson Band.

103.5 THE FOX CLASSIC ROCK MUSIC FESTIVAL

August 7th, 2010

If you love classic 80′s & 90′s rock, then you’ll have a great time in Winter Park this weekend.

The headliner of the event is Night Ranger, whose biggest hits include Sister Christian and Don’t Tell Me You Love Me. Their twin lead guitar and melodious metal has become a genre all their own.

We’ll also have Pat Travers,  Lewis & Floorwax and Denver’s own The Groove Hawgs to bring their entertaining rock to the stage. You won’t want to miss this festival of rock n roll!

JP Soars and his handmade guitar

It turned out to be another perfect weekend of beautiful weather and outstanding blues performances for the eighth annual Blues from the Top festival in Winter Park, Colorado.  This weekend is my personal favorite of all Winter Park music festivals because: 1) it kicks off the summer in Winter Park; and 2) you can dance to the blues music right in front of the stage. You must check it out sometime if you haven’t yet.

The festivities started on Friday night with Curtis Salgado followed by Andy Irvine’s Blues Collective at Music at the Mall at Cooper Creek Square, then moved over to Smokin’ Moes for the official Pre-Festival Jam with jam performances by the festival’s performers.   The dance floor at Smokin’ Moes was packed as usual and the musicians were probably having as much or more fun than we were!

I missed the show on Saturday, but the highlight (from what I’ve heard) was the Walter Trout performance preceded by the hail strorm that swiftly cleared the park out for about 10 minutes. The cooler air after the storm was welcomed by my festival-goer friends, who came back to enjoy Walter and his band close out Saturday’s show.

Sunday’s show started out with a mimosa followed by several beers. Oh, and the music was great, too. We had Curtis Salgado, Nick Moss and the Fliptops, Mike Zito, Theresa James, JP Soars and Trampled Under Foot.  JP Soars was especially entertaining with his handmade guitar (pictured). His high energy paired with a voice that seems to come from a much bigger body was definitely a lot of fun to dance to. 

There were a lot of vendors to peruse between acts, plus good food like BBQ, Fried Catfish and Mexican. I loved the authentic $3 tamale and the mint chocolate chip ice cream for desert.  The continual lathering of sunscreen was necessary with all the wonderfully bright sunshine, with no afternoon thunderstorm or hardly a cloud in sight.  The Australian hat vendor sure must have made a killing, although be warned, he doesn’t take bargaining jokes lightly.

Ah, just another fun summer weekend in Winter Park, with plenty more to come. Next up is the Free Hi Country Music Festival, the Winter Park Jazz Festival, the Free Fox Classic Rock Festival and the Crankworx Colorado Mountain Bike Festival. The summer was just kicked off wonderfully by the Blues from the Top Music Fest.

Summer in Winter Park, Colorado

Today is the first day of summer officially and that means it is hot, very hot down in the low lands and dreamy beautiful up here in the Rocky Mountains.   The time to head to Winter Park is now to enjoy the beauty of Colorado without the crowds.

Here is the weather for Denver June 21st to June 24th:

89°F Current: Cloudy Wind: W at 4 mph Humidity: 80% Mon 89°F | 60°F Tue 91°F | 61°F Wed 81°F | 60°F Thu 89°F | 64°F

63°F | °C Current: Cloudy Wind: W at 4 mph Humidity: 80% Mon 89°F | 60°F Tue 91°F | 61°F Wed 81°F | 60°F Thu 89°F | 64°F

And here is the weather for Winter Park, CO.

Mon

71°F | 42°F

Tue

73°F | 42°F

Wed

66°F | 43°F

Thu

73°F | 47°F

As I said time to get out of the heat!

Lots of events and activities in WP this time of year also. The Eighth Annual Winter Park Blues Fest starts this Thursday with the best lineup ever for this rockin’ show.

There is also the Winter Park Chocolate Festival this weekend on June 26th.  Taste some great chocolate with some wine and have a great time in the Rockies.

And for the kids there are all the events and activities in the  Winter Park Village and base area:

COCA-COLA® FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT
Fridays, June 25 – September 3 The Village at Winter Park presents Outdoor Movie Night! We will be showing a great selection of family and kid-friendly movies every Friday evening from June 25 – Labor Day Weekend. Movies will be held outdoors on the lawn next to the Discovery Center and are free to the public. A limited number of chairs are provided. All movies will begin just after sunset. Times may vary week to week.

CIRQUE du SATURDAYS
Saturdays, July 3 - September 4

It’s a circus in the mountains every Saturday in the Village at Winter Park!  Kids will enjoy the fun and festive atmosphere as they walk with troubadours, unicyclists, stiltwalkers, jugglers, and more in the Village from 10am – 2pm. Don’t forget to pause long enough for free face-painting and caricatures. All events are free and fun! Come one, come all! Don’t miss out on the chance to join the circus!

KIDS’ NIGHT OUT
Saturdays, July 3 – August 21

This fun, activity-filled evening is for 4-12 year olds. This program is loaded with indoor and outdoor activities and it includes dinner and s’mores by the firepit! Kids’ Night Out is a worry-free night out for Mom & Dad and a convenient alternative to at-home babysitting.  Kids’ Night Out is held at the Discovery Center in the Village at Winter Park on Saturday evenings from 5:30pm – 9:00pm starting July 3rd and running through August 21.  Kids’ Night Out is a FREE childcare service offered to parents on the condition that $30 per child is spent in any commercial outlet at the resort during the hours that your children are in the program. We do require original receipts to verify the expenditure. If less than $30 per child is spent, parents will be charged the difference. Kids Night Out includes: Dinner from Doc’s Roadhouse and Outdoor Activities / Indoor Activities - games, crafts, movies.

Reservations: Please reserve your child’s space by 3pm on Saturday. Call Winter Park Guest Services at 800.729.7907 to reserve your child’s space. Enrollment is limited and is on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Now that is a deal free day/night care while the parents head out for a drinks and dinner.

Summer is here and the now is the time to make your plan to head up to the mountains.  Let Winter Park Lodging Company make your getaway fun, economical and relaxing.

Winter Park, CO will be hosting free Music Thursdays in Hideaway Park in downtown Winter Park.  These are completely free shows and are just a blast to attend.

The shows start at 6PM and go till around 8PM and there are usually good crowds and lawn chairs are provided by The Winter Park Chamber of Commerce.  It is always fun to pack a picnic dinner and some adult beverages and here a little live music in one of the most s[spectacular settings that you will ever hear live music. These shows are very kid and dog friendly and are well attended by both locals and visitors alike.

This year there are some pretty well known names on lineup that includes Opie Gone Bad and Hunker Down, a Winter Park favorite.  The first show is June 24th and last is August 12th.

Here is the lineup and dates:

June 24: Samantha Fish
July 1: Boa & The Constrictors
July 8: Opie Gone Bad
July 15: Wendy Woo
July 22: Quemando Band
July 29: Rob Drabkin
Aug 5: Soul School
Aug 12: Hunker Down

Again the performances take place in Hideaway Park right on US Highway 40 in town.  Look for the big moose on the north side of US 40 and take a right.  The park on your left.  Pack a picnic , the kids, some drinks and head out for some music and a great friendly atmosphere.

The last two years the weather has been great with mostly sunny skies and no wind.  It does get a little chilly as the sun sets so be sure to bring a jacket if you are planning on staying past dark.

Come up and make a weekend out of the show with some great biking at Trestle Bike Park on Friday and maybe a hike or Colorado mountain golf on Saturday and then some mountain biking on Sunday.

The first annual Winter Park, CO beer festival has been announced and will be taking place in Hideaway Park in downtown Winter Park, Colo on Saturday August 14, 2010.  This is Winter Parks first foray into the beer festival world but we are thinking that the Winter Park Beer Festival will be bigger and badder than the Great American Beer Festival in no time.

The Winter Park Beer Festival will be a celebration of beer, music and mountains, can you have any of these without the others?, in the beautiful environs of Winter Park, CO.  There will be over 25 breweries represented doing beer tastings and selling merchandise with local and national bands to keep all entertained.  There will also be vendors in Hideaway Park selling all that you will need to make this a fun and friendly day of beer drinking.  We are hoping that the three young ladies to the left will be attending to help peddle some of the suds.

Breweries that can be expected to be attending, but in no way guaranteed to be, include New Belgium Brewery, Odell’s Brewery, Coors, Budweiser, Great Divide Brewery, Oscar Blues Brewery, Sierra Nevada Brewery, Left Hand Brewery, Grand Lake Brewery, Deschutes Brewing and Flying Dog Brewery.  There should be some great beers by some of the best brewers in the nation.

As for music, the lineup should be fun with lots of good beer drinking tunes.  Here is who will be playing:

JJ Grey and MOFRO

“intriguing and fortuitous… Grey’s a songwriter with a sharp wit and a knack for skewering the hypocrites, jive politicians and carpetbaggers who litter the landscape. The MOFRO vibe travels freely among swamp funk, blues, rock and soul, and does so with a certain down-and-dirty swagger that’s as real as it is appealing.”

Filthy Children

This funk/jazz/rock septet serves up a funkinetic frenzy of fresh, original, mind moving music; reminiscent of such groove giants as Soulive, Greyboy Allstars, John Scofield, and Deep Banana Blackout. Filthy Children deliver action packed funk that’s sure to be “a big fat kick in the groove”

Cowboy Dave

Hillbilly yuckster by day, Saturday-morning-cartoon hero by night, Cowboy Dave and his band of honky-tonk all-stars are poised to put the western back in country and western. Known to many as the deadpanned FortyTwenty frontman and fiddle player, Cowboy Dave Wilson has spent the better part of this decade honing his craft throughout the honky-tonks of the Midwest and South.

Sounds like some good grooves to get a good beer drink going up in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.  This festival being on a Saturday lets you come up and enjoy a Free Ride Friday in Trestle Bike Park then the beer festival on Saturday and maybe some cross country/ single track mountain biking on Sunday before you return home.

I forgot to mention that the Winter Park Beer Festival benefits a truly worthy cause in the National Sports Center for the Disabled.  I do not know of a better cause to give to and to do it all by drinking some beer and listening to some music in the Colorado mountains, now that is one heck of a weekend.

So come on out and celebrate summer with some beer and music!

Winter Park Jazz Festival tickets go on sale today April 19th, 2010. The 2010 Winter Park Jazz Festival is sponsored by Winter Park Resort and Jazz @ Jacks.

This year’s lineup couldn’t be any better!   Saturday’s concert includes Brian Culbertson, Craig Chaquico, Dotsero ant Boa & The Constrictors, with the headliner being Chaka Khan!   On Sunday we will have Norman Brown’s Summer Storm (starring Brenda Russell, Phil Perry and Jessy “J”, Boney James, Ryan Shaw, Hazel Miller and Jazz Del Barrio.  On Saturday night be sure not to miss the Official After Party at Winter Park Resort.

According to saxman Boney James’ Facebook page, his Colorado performance was rained out last year, so he should return with the vengeance of a summer storm to Hideaway Park this July.

Tickets can be purchase through Ticketmaster or the Winter Park/Fraser Chamber of Commerce:

Ticketmaster

Winter Park/Fraser Valley Chamber of Commerce: by calling the Visitor Center at 800.903.7275 or in person.

Get your tickets now and don’t miss out on the premier Winter Park Jazz Festival Lodging for your trip up to WP.

Hideaway Park is right off of US Highway 40 in downtown Winter Park, Colorado.  Winter Park Lodging Company offer many condos and town-homes that are with in walking distance to this music venue and the local restaurants and bars.

Yes, it is April 1st, 2010 and the lineup for the Winter Park, Colorado Jazz Festival is out (No, it’s not an April fools joke).  The festival this year will be held again at Hideaway Park in the town of Winter Park, CO. on July 24th and 25th.

Tickets will go on sale April 19th at both Ticketmaster and the Winter Park/Fraser Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center at 800.903.7275 or in person.

This 2-day festival features national, regional and local live music. A variety of jazz music both days, merchandise vendors and a food/beer garden will be in the park to create an atmosphere of music & fun.  This is biggest summer event in Winter Park and one that should not be missed.

Gate and vendors open at 10 am both Saturday the 24th and Sunday the 25th.

There should also be an event for the evening of Saturday the 24th at Winter Park Resort or in town.  We will keep you posted when that information becomes available.

Winter Park, CO Jazz Festival Line-up

Saturday, July 24, 2010
Chaka Kahn
Brian Culbertson
Craig Chaquico
Dotsero
Boa & The Constrictors

Sunday, July 25, 2010
Norman Brown’s Summer Storm staring Brenda Russell, Phil Perry, Jessy J
Boney James
Ryan Shaw
Hazel Miller
TBA

Pricing and ticket package has yet to be announced and we will keep you posted when that becomes available.

Lodging for the Winter Park Jazz Festival is starting to fill up.  The most desirable lodging will be gone in the next few weeks so do not delay and get your primo Winter Park Jazz Fest lodging today.

]]> http://www.wplbo.com/news/2010/04/winter-park-2010-jazz-festival-lineup/feed/ 5 http://www.wplbo.com/news/2010/03/winter-park-co-blues-from-the-top-music-festival/ http://www.wplbo.com/news/2010/03/winter-park-co-blues-from-the-top-music-festival/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:16:13 +0000 chrisb http://www.wplbo.com/news/?p=2996 Blues Festival in Winter Park, CO

The Blues from the Top Winter Park, CO blues music festival is making a return to Hideaway Park in downtown Winter Park.  This is a three day affair starting on June 25th, 2010 with a prefest jam at Smokin’ Moe’s in Cooper Creek Square right on US Highway 40 in town of WP.

This is a very fun music festival in the beauty of the Colorado Rocky Mountains.  If you are a blues lover or a music fan at all do not miss this great show.  Tickets will go on sale April 1st, 2010 (April fool’s day, but no its not a joke).

Winter Park Blues From the Top Artist Lineup

Friday Night June 25th: Smokin’ Moe’s Prefest Jam
featuring…Mike Zito & Trampled Under Foot and special guests

Saturday June 26th: featuring…
Samantha Fish
Johnny O’Band
Smokin’ Joe Kubek featuring Bnois King
Ana Popovic
Dick50 (Delbert McClinton’s band)
Walter Trout and the Radicals

Sunday June 27th: featuring…
Delores Scott/Jack Hadley
JP Soars and The Red Hots
Teresa James and the Rhythm Tramps
Nick Moss and The Flip Tops
Mike Zito
Trampled Under Foot

Tickets can be purchased from the Grand County Blues Society.  This festival starts out a great summer season here in Winter Park.  This should be a great summer here with some fantastic weather.  The Winter Park Village is open for it’s second year and the mountain biking looks to be spectacular as usual.  As the saying goes you “come to Winter Park for the winter but stay for the summers”.

Come on up and enjoy some world class blues music in Winter Park, Colorado.

Spring is here and summer is soon to follow.  The Winter Park Jazz Festival will be held on July 24th and July 25th, 2010.  This is the number one event in Winter Park this summer and is a don’t miss for all music lovers.

This will be the 26th annual Winter Park Jazz Festival and will be held in downtown Winter Park at the Hideaway Park music complex.  The lineup should be solid this as it has the last few years.  The full lineup will be announced on April 1st, 2010 along with full ticket pricing info and all other details.  And no this is not an April fools joke, fool.

Rumor has it that so far the lineup includes:  Boney James returning after last years cancellation, and Norman Brown’s Summer Storm Ft:  Phill Perry, Jessy J, Gail Johnson and Brenda Russell.

Last year there was a bit of rain and the Winter Park/Fraser Chamber of Commerce announced a ticket discount for this year.  As soon as we here any details of that discount we post it right here.

Wanting to head for the one of the best events in the Colorado Rocky mountains?  Book your WP Jazz Festival lodging now and don’t miss out on the premier diggs.  We have a handful of Trailhead Lodge units still available that puts the Jazz Fest right in your back yard.  A couple of the units have a stage view from the patio.

Come on up to Winter Park, Colorado and enjoy a wonderful day of music surrounded by the Rocky Mountains

]]> http://www.wplbo.com/news/2010/03/winter-park-co-jazz-festival/feed/ 2 http://www.wplbo.com/news/2009/12/blues-show-at-smokin-moes-in-downtown-winter-park-this-saturday/ http://www.wplbo.com/news/2009/12/blues-show-at-smokin-moes-in-downtown-winter-park-this-saturday/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:18:02 +0000 sam http://www.wplbo.com/news/?p=2590 Grand County Blues Society is at it again! If you’ve never heard of the Grand County Blues Society, you’re missing out on some of the most passionate Blues supporters out there. Once or twice a month these guys bring the Blues to Winter Park by hosting a great band at our very own Smokin’ Moes Ribhouse and Saloon, located in Cooper Creek Square. Check out their website where you can read more about what they do and check out upcoming shows. The shows are always a blast; be ready to dance to some fabulous live music and enjoy Smokin’ Moes’ famous ribs.

If you take a break from tearing up the dance floor during the show, track down one of the Blues Society members with your questions about blues music , you won’t be disappointed! This Saturday, they’re hosting John Richardson and the Jelly Roll Bakers (Johnny O and Andy Irvine) at 9pm. You can check out a quick bio about these guys on the Blues Society website.

Hope to see you there!