City Star Brewing
Join us Saturday, June 20th for the 8th Annual Hops and Harley at Fickel Park in downtown Berthoud, CO 11am-6pm. This dog friendly community festival benefits Harley’s Dream and features craft beer, live music, food trucks, dog agility, vendors, kids activities, and much more!
Sean Clark of the Rock y Mountain Beard and Moustache Club is hosting their annual Colorado Facial Hair Chili Cook Off at City Star Brewing on February 4th, with public tasting from 5-7pm.
Tasting is open to the public for a donation to the Muscular Dystrophy Association (suggested donation is $5).
There are four categories to be judged: Red, Green, Hottest and Best in Show.
Chili entries are open to all facial hair club members. Competitors may enter one of three categories: Red, Green, or Hottest. Hottest entries are required to eat 8oz of their chili in front of a judge before the event starts.
Pennies on the Track is a Colorado Front Range acoustic folk trio. Three singer/songwriters merge sweet vocal harmonies and versatile instrumentation into folk rock and blue grass barnburners, acoustic ballads and rock and roll. With original music and covers of some Americana’s greatest, the band brings something for everybody. The Pennies are Brian Good, Jack Keith and Neil Sperandeo, who met while playing in other groups, open mics and solo gigs. Now good friends as well as bandmates and collaborating songwriters, these guys play for the love of making music together, and that enjoyment reaches out to anyone listening.
Follow the Fox is what happens when Sarah Cole and Dylan McCarthy join creative forces to create honest acoustic music. Occasionally joined by a myriad of talented friends, Follow the Fox is centered around the captivating songwriting and passionate performances of these two artists based out of Lyons, Colorado. Anywhere from heart-breaking ballads to hard-hitting bluegrass tunes, their spell-binding harmonies and thoughtful arrangements give them a sound all their own. Come see them in person and follow the fox, wherever it may go….
Join us for a fun night of trivia hosted by Ian Philips. It’s FREE to play and you could win $20 in beer tokens! The fun starts at 7pm.
A rabble-rousing, foot-stomping quartet that plays a variety of music – traditional old-time tunes, rock and roll, pop, speed metal – all with a bluegrass flair. We play at a lot of parties, fund raisers, farms, breweries, small bars and, if no one wants us, Jill’s front porch. We come up with a personalized band name unique to each venue just to amuse ourselves and stay one step ahead of the sheriff, but you can usually sniff us out on our Facebook page or on the web at theweirdgrassband.com.
Just don’t follow too closely, we bite.
Jon Garson and Late for Supper evolved out of a three year Friday night jam which took place at Jon’s Boulder home called POS (pickin on the strings) around 2014. Jon had the vision for LFS based on what he calls a “fluid band model,” a couple of core members joined by a changing blend of other musicians. Fronted by Jon Garson on upright bass, guitar, and vocals, Late for Supper draws from a who’s who of Colorado roots music bands. Members of The Railsplitters, Masontown, Monocle Band, Road West, Halden Wofford & the Hi-Beams, The Western Flyers, Flat Five, The Matt Flinner Trio, are frequent staples of LFS gigs.
Bluegrass • Americana • Honky Tonk • Swing
John McKay’s first instrument was piano, which he started playing at the age of 10. He quickly realized by the age of 11 that the drums were his real interest. By the age of 15, John was learning guitar and bass. From then on the guitar became his main focus. Throughout the years he played in various bands. In 1996 John earned a B.A. in Classical guitar performance from the University of Colorado Boulder. His first band playing his original music is the Wiley Cotton Band which was named after his father- Wiley Cotton McKay. This band got together in Feb. 2014 for a show at the Dickens Opera House in Longmont which was quite a blast!
Guitarist/singer/songwriter John McKay blends the deeply personal insights of a man immersed in nature, places of the past along with political observations of a protest singer, and the broad musical traditionalism of a folk rock musician with the passion and commitment tot a rock and roller. A musicians musician, McKay has an element of distraction to his performance as it is difficult to ignore the guitar playing which is in competition with vivid mind-expanding lyrics.
The John McKay Band is rich with musical talent which runs the musical gamete from jam band to folk rock to world musics. JMB is a combination of the familiar things that exemplify retro rock and roll and folk music that we all are presently yearning for from the past with modern touch of contemporary times and life today.
Rock • Americana • Blues • Guitarist
Taylor Shuck of Woodbelly and Derek Blake.
The Seers, an experimental folk-rock duo from Fort Collins, CO, have transformed their shared passion for great songs into a walking, talking, modern-day jukebox of musical versatility. With a “stunning repertoire” of over 700 covers and 100 originals spanning from alternative rock to Americana country, the Seers deliver sing-along performances that bring people closer together.
As a duo, three-piece, four-piece, and five-piece band, Seers perform at regional festivals (SXSW 2015 Colorado Music Showcase), weddings (in Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado), private events, restaurants, bars, breweries, memorials, markets, and more. With over fifteen years of collaboration, it easy to see why they’re in high regional demand: they love to play.
As prolific songwriters and aspiring recording artists, Collins and Waters have been recording and releasing albums as The Seers since 2010. Their first was an underground, stream-of-consciousness EP titled “Universal Tree.” Two eclectic rock albums followed: “The Seers” (2013) and “Cellophane Eyes” (2014). In 2016, in collaboration with Danny Kalb (Beck, Ben Harper, and Foster the People), The Seers released the indie folk EP “Signals” to critical acclaim. Their fourth release, the full-length “Better Days” is out May 13th, 2017
folk • rock
http://www.theseersband.com