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Thanks to our sponsors:	Entertainment Center  Entertainment in Boulder County: Bands, Venues, Events, and Listings A categorized listing of various Boulder County and regional entertainment resources. Things to do, people to see, places to eat, and more. Please contact the developer at the bottom of this page for changes or additions.

Related Centers

• Arts Center Music schedules, art exhibits, theater and more
• Media Center Local publications, television and radio stations, and more.
• Recreation Center outdoor activities, travel, games

Local Entertainment

Events

• Planet Bluegrass, bringing you the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, RockyGrass, Folks Fest and Festival of Mabon.
• Live Music in Boulder from Music-Cal World's largest listing of live music
• Naropa Events Calendar from the Naropa Institute; dance performance, spoken word, and other events.
• NedFest Music and Arts Festival An Outdoor Bluegrass, Jazz & World Beat Concert. Many national and local bands.
• Stone Age Fair In Loveland, 68 years and going strong.
• The Telluride Film Festival September 3-6, 2010. Now in its 36th year.
• University of Colorado Events Calendar

Restaurants and Food

• GetBoulder Dining Guide from Boulder Magazine
• Boulder Daily Camera Food Listings
• Boulder Eats - Boulder Restaurant Guide Providing news, information, ratings, reviews and recommendations for locally-owned Boulder Restaurants.
  
• Boulder Menu Page from the same great folks who brought you the Boulder Movies Page
• Colorado Restaurants - Boulder
• CitySearch Dining Guide Reviews of many Boulder Restaurants
• Dex Restaurants Guide to Rocky Mountain restaurants -- link to the list of Boulder restaurants
• OpenTable Reservations for many Boulder Restaurants
• Yelp Boulder Restaurants from Yelp

Venues and Nightspots

• Albums on the Hill Live comedy and bands (no calendar yet)
• Boulder Theater With show information
• Chautauqua Association Colorado Chautauqua Association, with schedules for the Silent Film Series, Auditorium, and Forum series
• CORE Media Nightlife Listings
• Denver Center For The Performing Arts Includes the Denver Center Theater Company, Center Attractions, and much more.
• E-Town Environmental Radio Show recorded in Boulder
• End it Presents! Many jam band listings.
• Fiske Planetarium Schedule Including the schedules for evening, matinee and laser shows.
• Flatz at the Renaissance Hotel; Thursday night is Jazz Night at Flatz, the grill at the new Renaissance Hotel.
• The Foundry DJs and occasional live bands.
• The Fox Theater With show information.  Live venue in Boulder, on the hill.
• The Gothic Theater In Denver.
• Herman's Hideaway With schedule and reviews.  Live venue in Denver.
• Laughing Goat Live folk and poetry at a great little coffeehouse.
• Macky Auditorium Concert Hall at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Includes the Boulder Philharmonic Schedule
• Mountain Sun and Southern Sun Brewpubs in Boulder, live music on Sundays, Mondays, and frequently other days.
• Nissi's Bistro in Lafayette. Live music almost nightly, early enough for my wife to go (no 11 pm shows!)
• Nobody in Particular Presents Presenting live music around Boulder and Denver.
• Pepsi Center Local venue for sports, concerts and special events
• Planet Bluegrass Home of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, The Folks Festival, the Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Festival, and much more.
• Red Rocks Full guide to events at Colorado's most famous outdoor venue.
• RedFish Brewhouse Cajun food, live music.
• The Republic of Boulder Brewpub, 11th and Pearl in Boulder. A community gathering place.
• Rock 'N Soul Cafe Coffee and live music
• Swallow Hill Denver's primary producers of folk music shows. Extensive schedule.
• Trilogy Wine Bar Good food and great music in the lounge. 13th between Spruce and Pearl (off the mall.)
• The Venue List A List of Venues in Boulder and the surrounding areas (phone numbers and addresses).

Bands

    Classical and Jazz (in the Arts Center )

• Dave Beegle Great local guitarist and also the guy from Fourth Estate rock band
• Big Head Todd and the Monsters Boulder Music's Biggest Export
• Bola Abimbola Nigerian Afropop, now native to Denver
• Butterfly Cocktail Homegrown Boulder jam band.
• Devotchka "A wholly unique mélange of Middle Eastern, Eastern European, and American Punk and Folk music
• Firefall Holy Cinderella, they're back!
• The Fray The biggest band from Denver in a long time.
• Hot Rize The amazing bluegrass band that won't go away
• Johhny O. Band Funky, bluesy, danceable.
• Judge Roughneck Denver Ska/Reggae band
• Leftover Salmon Polyethnic Cajun Slamgrass? Local/National Band
• Lynn Patrick Boulder guitarist, just released her 2nd album, Winnie's Guitar
• Sean Mahnken New Age piano, first album just released.
• The Mercury Project One of Denver's best live bands... hip-hop, jazz, blues, latin, reggae, folk, rock, whatever.
• Mumbouli Drawing musical inspiration from many different mediums (including Bluegrass,Reggae, Jugband, Rock, Celtic, Blues, Funk, and Jazz to incorporate into warm organic sound), Mumbouli has been described as "Johnny Cash on acid meets Ween."
• Offering74 Another Denver band
• Opie Gone Bad Great funky rock band
• Rebecca Folsom Great local singer-songwriter
• Rose Hill Drive Great local hard rock band (that opens for The Who a lot)
• The Samples Boulders other biggest export
• The Scooterz Denver band - New Wave, punk, alternative, retro-80's, and a girl bass player to boot.
• String Cheese Incident OK, they're from Crested Butte, but they're great.
• subdudes Another (default) local (Ft. Collins and then New Orleans) band makes good (and now devolved into 3 Twins and others).
• Yo, Flaco! Great Trip Hop/Jazz/Whatever band... winner of many national and local band contests.
• Wind Machine National band based in Boulder

Cinema

• Boulder Almost Free Outdoor Cinema Boulder's most unusual (and probably most fun) film festival
• Boulder Movie Page whats playing, and where.  Full list of showtimes for Boulder County!
• Boulder Public Library Film Series Great free classic and special interest films, often with discussion.
• Boulder Daily Camera Movies Listings
• CitySearch Events Calendar for Boulder
• CORE Magazine Movie Listings
• International Film Series At CU's Muenzinger Auditorium
• Movie Habit Nice page with movie info, Boulder Movie Calendar (with University/Library movies!), more.
• The Video Station Boulder's Largest Video Store

Miscellaneous Stuff

• Online Greeting Cards
  • Blue Mountain Arts
  • Leanin' Tree
• Recording Studios
  • Boulder Sound Company Full featured, 5-room studio in Boulder since 1994.
  • Falcon Recording 24-track, 72-channel, full digital/analog studio in Denver.
  • Immersive Studios, Boulders newest world class recording studio.
  • Low Overhead Audio Low cost studio, also available for site recording.  As well as a truly amusing (and very ugly) website.
• Book Stores
  • The Boulder Book Store
• Interesting Stuff (to who?)
  • The Bubblegum Music Site Make your day sweeter by visiting Andrew Bergey's (Channel 54's Station Manager) Bubblegum Music Home Page
  • Why is Ma Vie en Rose Rated R? You decide... Local entertainment commentary.

Information and List Sites

• Arts to Zoo Greater Denver Area Arts/Festivals/Museums information - Big resource!
• Boulder County Menu, Shopping and Professional Guide
• Colorado Daily Boulder's Free newspaper has a full events listing on line.
• Colorado Music Association Colorado music industry's networking, education and support resource. Great list of bands and venues.
• COMA the Colorado Music Association
• CORE Media Events New Denver area listing site with arts and entertainment listings.
• CU Athletics Information Event Schedules, etc. courtesy of UCB
• Denver/Boulder Music Your source for the best live music in Colorado.
• Denver Musicians Association, Local 20-623 of the American Federation of Musicians. Local concert listings as well as information about hundreds of bands.
• Frommers Arthur Frommers Outspoken Encyclopedia of Travel -- biggest travel site, with link to outstanding bargains.
• GetBoulder with film, music, etc. from Boulder Magazine
• GetBoulder Fairs and Festivals from Boulder Magazine
• Rock On Colorado All about Colorado acts and music
• Ticketmaster Colorado events online.
• University of Colorado College of Music Schedules and Box Office