The Winter Park Free Music Thursdays started last week and continues this week with Boa & Thde Constrictors.

Next week the guest is Opie Gone Bad. These guys are a big name to have up here in Winter Park for a free show.  With some of the bigger names in music getting ticket prices in the $300 range this is a breath of fresh air.

On Thursday July 8th you can get on up to Winter Park, CO bringing your favorite picnic meal, wine or other adult beverage and sit in the beautiful Hideaway Park Amphitheater and see Opie Gone Bad for only the price of gas, food and booze.  That sounds like a screaming deal and a darn good time.

Music outside in Winter Park can not be beat.  There is a long tradition od great music up here in WP.  The American Music Festival was an annual event here for  long time and played host to some of the biggest names in music including Dave Matthews, Toad the Wet Sprocket and Warren Zevon just to name a few.

If you are looking to see some music and want to get out of the heat and crowds down in the cities check out Winter Park’s free music Thursdays.

Winter Park Lodging Company is running a third night free special right now so come on up to the cool air of Winter Park for three nights and only pay for two.  Make you plans now for some great music up in the Rocky Mountains.

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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.

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.

There will be an after party at the Winter Park Resort after the first day of the Winter Park Jazz Festival.  This is the second year that WP Resort is throwing the after party and it should be a good time.

WP Resort, Becky Taylor and Jazz at Jacks presents the “Official WPJF After Party, featuring Denver’s Best Party Band Soul School” at West Portal Station at Winter Park Resort. Saturday, July 24, 2010 7:00pm-1:00am (doors open at 6:30pm)

Come have dinner and party at the 2nd annual Winter Park Jazz Festival after party.

Advance tickets will be available.

More information can be found at Jazz @ Jazks and Winter Park Resort.

This jazz festival is looking like one if the best in years with some different artists.  Here is this years Winter Park Jazz Fest line-up.

Tickets for the jazz festival will go on sale April 19th at both Ticketmaster and the Winter Park/Fraser Valley Chamber of Commerce.

The ticket pachage information has been released also.

2010 Winter Park Jazz Festival Ticket Packages

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

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Mountain Grind Coffee & Bistro Brings Winter Park Live Music with Java Mic Night

For some fun on a Friday night with live music, a cozy atmosphere and yummy treats, come on down to the Mountain Grind Coffee & Bistro in Cooper Creek Square for Java Mic Night. Every week they feature a different artist, based locally, regionally or even nationally, for a variety of musical genres including Blues, Folk, Rock-n-Roll and more.

Along with enjoying great music played live, you can shop the Mountain Grind’s fun and trendy selection of gifts, souveniers and clothing. I love their funny greeting cards and retro magnets.  You can also find some really neat coffee mugs, T-shirts, funky laptop bags and other colorful items.

While you’re at it, sip on a coffee, hot chocolate or even a cocktail now that they have a licence to serve alcohol. The Mountain Grind also has excellent fudge, Italian gelato and other treats. Actually, their Italian gelato is better than any ice cream I’ve ever had, but then again it’s not ice cream, it’s gelato!  They also serve sandwiches, soups, chili (great) and salads, too, but you have to come by before 5pm to get those.

Well, you can see that I’m a fan of the Mountain Grind, but let’s move on to the music! See below for the current line-up for the Java Mic Night Series along with some insider info about each performer. Thanks to Ali Grayson for putting on such a fun weekly event and for providing the following information!

 

Java Mic Night Line-up (all shows are from 7-9pm):

Feb. 26th: Brad Pregeant ($5 cover or $2 for students K-12) 
A local favorite! Music critic Jerry Minnich wrote pianist Brad Pregeant’s “range allows him to shift from jaunty blues to Bill Evansish standards to rippling New Orleans R& B . . .”  Brad Pregeant was born in Louisiana and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Southeastern Louisiana University with a degree in piano performance, Classical. His Java Mic Night performance is sure to be saturated with authentic Cajun goodness! Local high school student & musician, Zach Thorpe, will be opening for Brad with some sultry Blues!

March 5th: Bobby Walker ($5 cover or $2 for students K -12)  - Bobby Walker delivers blues, soul, and funky rock n’ roll performances with his trademark gravelly voice… [and] enthusiasm from the realness of the music he feels.  He has a sense with guitar that drives home a lifetime of authentic music experiences to his audience.  He has many recordings dating back to 1982, and has enjoyed performing all over the Western U.S., as well as Europe and Japan.  Everyone who hears Bobby Walker knows from the first note that he is the Real deal. 

March 12th: Jeremy Dion ($5 cover or $2 for students K-12)
Insightful progressive folk, like John Mayer meeting James Taylor. Tight grooves, soaring harmonies and a vocal style that is soulful, expressive and candid. Jeremy grew up outside Seattle, where he was influenced by the music of Crosby, Stills and Nash, James Taylor, and Paul Simon. Jeremy has been singing, playing guitar, writing songs and performing since he was a student at U.C. Berkley, combining the sounds of his musical influences with a bluegrass twist.

March 19th: Diane French ($5 cover or $2 for students K-12) - For the past several years, the Fraser Valley has been silenced by the intoxicating sound of Diane French and Band.  Performing Songwriter Magazine calls Diane French’s music “soulful”, “cinematic” and “mesmerizing.”  Java Mic Night is excited to feature Diane French again this year! 

March 26th: Gregory Alan Isakov ($10 cover or $2 for students K-12)
Originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, Gregory Alan Isakov’s song-craft lends to the deepest lyrical masterpieces. With hints of his influences, Leonard Cohen, Iron and Wine and Kelly Joe Phelps, Gregory Alan Isakov has been described as “strong, subtle, a lyrical genius” and has shared the stage with touring artists such as Calexico, Ani Difranco, Brandi Carlile, Indigo Girls, Richie Havens, and Fiona Apple. He has performed throughout the United States and Europe and appeared at numerous music festivals such as South By Southwest, Telluride Bluegrass Festival and Rocky Mountain Folks Fest.  Java Mic Night is honored to have GAI as our Season 6 finale show!

 

The Mountain Grind Cafe & Bistro is across from the fountain on the ground level of Cooper Creek Square, which is the three-story brick shopping mall in downtown Winter Park.

For more information, call 970-726-0999. You can also visit www.javamicnight.com,  www.aligraysonmusic.com or www.coopercreeksquare.com. 

 

Winter Park Jazz Festival is back at Hideaway Park in the Town of Winter Park.  Dates for the festival are 7/24/2010 – 7/25/2010 and times are 11AM to 6PM both days.  Last year was a great show and we are looking for more of the same for the 2010 rendition.

Don’t miss out on the lodging of your choice.  Last year the premier lodging sold out quickly so book your WP jazz lodging now.

This is the biggest event in Winter Park for the summer season so make your plans and stay a few days in the beauty of Winter Park, Colorado.  The acts have not been announced but stay tuned here as we will update when the official jazz lineup is announced.

Here was the lineup for last year:

Saturday July 25th, 2009

11:00 am Doors Open
11:00-11:45 Mango Chutney
11:45-12:00 Set Change
12:00-12:45 Dotsero
12:45-1:15 Set Change
1:15-2:15 Warren Hill
2:15-2:45 Set Change
2:45-4:00 War
4:00-4:30 Set Change
4:30-6:00 Four Play

Sunday July 26, 2009

11:00 am Doors Open
11:00-11:45 Mango Chutney
11:45-12:00 Set Change
12:00-1:00 The Rippingtons
1:00-1:15 Set Change
1:15-2:15 Hazel Miller
2:15-2:45 Set Change
2:45-4:00 Sax for Stax
4:00-4:30 Set Change
4:30-6:00 Boney James

Set your plans now and don’t miss some of the hottest jazz up in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

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!