American Blues News reviewed one of her songs, 4 Non-Blondes, as being part Rolling Stones, part John Lee Hooker, and part Dukes of Hazzard car chase. In other words, Samantha knows how to play the blues, and we’re guaranteed another amazing show this Friday. Kate Moss will certainly only add to the party; she’s no stranger to the guitar herself. With these two on stage together, be ready to dance.

One added bonus: the Blues Society is kind enough to appreciate Verteran’s Day at the show, so any Verteran plus one guest will get into the show FREE! Guess what else? If you’re a guest of Winter Park Lodging Company, mention it at the door and your ticket will be on the house too! If you didn’t book with us this time, your ticket is $10, but it’s for a good cause: the Grand County Blues Society is a non-profit, so all the cash they collect at the door goes toward keeping Blues in the School and Blue Star Connection successful programs. Plus, our donations and ticket purchases help us to to keep bringing great live blues music back to Winter Park as often as we can. So, after you’re done waxing your skis for the early opening of Winter Park Resort this Saturday, come out to Smokin’ Moes for a great night with us. Want to make a weekend out of it? Give Winter Park Lodging Company a call to set up your lodging, lift tickets, ski rentals, and some free tickets to a great show!

The Winter Park Beer Festival makes its return to WP in Hideaway Park in on August 13, 2011 from noon to 5pm.   Last year was a great day with lots of beer great music and perfect weather.  This year the WP Beer Festival will be bringing great brews from 25 craft brewers, live music featuring headliner: The BoDeans, tasty food and AMAZING VIEWS!

The music lineup this year brings back a Colorado favorite, The BoDeans.  The BoDean’s played The American Music Festival at Winter Park Resort many times in the 1990′s.  The BoDean sound will be a nice accompaniment to the majestic Rocky Mountains and brews.

The full Winter Park Beer Festival Music Lineup:

We have another music festival up here in Winter Park this summer and she will be known as Solshine. The Solshine music festival will be held on July 16th and 17th with Saturday taking place at Hideaway Park on the Budweiser Stage and Subday taking place in Cooper Creek Square.  This is some of the best “new” live music that has been held up here in Winter Park in years. In the early planning stages this was going to be named the American Music Fest but that just didn’t work out. So Solshine we welcome you!

This NEW FREE festival features national, regional and local live music. Merchandise vendors and a food/beer garden will be in the park to add to the festive atmosphere.

FREE CONCERT 12-6pm Saturday July 16; 11-4pm Sunday July 17

Line-up

Saturday, July 16, 2011 (Hideaway Park)

the subdudes - click here to listen

Punch Brothers - click here to listen

Trampled By Turtles - click here to listen

Elizabeth Cook - click here to listen

Blind Pilot - click here to listen

Sunday, July 17, 2011 (Cooper Creek Square)

Gregory Alan Isakov - click here to listen

Johan Wagner - click here to listen

Megan Burtt - click here to listen

Reed Foehl - click here to listen

Ramaya Soskin - click here to listen

Saturday Night, July 16, 2011 (Cooper Creek Square)

Blind Pilot at Smokin’ Moe’s

For more information, contact the Winter Park/Fraser  Chamber of Commerce at 877.735.7059.  VIP tickets available for $25.  Box office phone ticket sales will end Thursday, July 14 at 5pm.

Winter Park Lodging Company will be giving away VIP tickets to the Solshine Music Festival with lodging for this weekend.

Summer is here and it is time to make your plans to come up and see some of the great music that will be going on all summer. Winter Park Lodging Company is trying to make it a little easier on your wallet this year with free tickets to the Winter Park Music Festival that is featuring Bret Michaels, Ski Row and Warrant.

Here are the details on your free tickets and how to see Bret Michaels perform “Every Rose has it’s thorns” for free:

WPLCo is offering a “package” deal for bookings made for the Winter Park Music Festival (aka Bret Michaels weekend). The weekend is August 6 & 7 in case you aren’t already in the know and have your 80’s costume planned.

Rules:

- One bedroom condo lodging get 2 free VIP tickets

- Two bedroom lodging get 4 VIP tickets

- Three bedroom lodging get 6 VIP tix, and

- Four or more bedroom lodging get 8 free VIP tix

Details:

The VIP tix allow access to the restricted area at the front of the stage, the Stage Left tent plus two free beverages at the private bar.  Each VIP ticket is good for one day of the festival only. Saturday’s show will have seating, but not Sunday’s show with Bret Michaels, just a mosh pit.

Winter Park Music Festival Lineup

August 6 - Warrant, Skid Row, Lewis & Floorwax and The Groove Hawgs

August 7 – Bret Michaels, Lewis & Floorwax and The Groove Hawgs

VIP tickets are on a first come first serve basis and there is a limited supply.  Don’t miss out and get your free VIP Winter Park Music Festival tickets today.

Find your Winter Park Music Festival Lodging.

The summer music festival scene is about here in Winter Park. Winter Park Resort will open for the summer season on June 11th and the music festivals will follow soon after.

This year there are five music festivals and all have some great music.  The music festival season is kicked off with the Blues from the Top Music Festival on June 25th and 26th with some of the best blues artists in the country.  Next up is the  resurrected American Music Festival on July 16th and 17th.  The biggest show of the year, the Winter Park Jazz Festival is July 23rd and 24th. One of the biggest names in Winter Park this year will be Bret Michaels, of Poison fame, showing up for the Winter Park Music Festival with Warrant and Skid Row.  The last music festival of the summer will be a beer and music celebration at the Winter Park Beer Festival on August 13th.

Lots of music for almost any taste with some great names.  All shows will be in Hideaway Park in downtown Winter Park, Colorado.  Tickets for all the shows can be bought through the Winter Park/Fraser Chamber of Commerce or with lodging through the Winter Park Lodging Company.

Check out all the lineups and show times:

Blues from the Top Music Festival

American Music Festival -Winter Park

Winter Park Jazz Festival

Winter Park Music Festival – with Skid Row & Bret Michaels

Winter Park Beer Festival

Lots of music festivals going on up here in Winter Park.  Make sure to get your lodging now for the best and most convenient digs.  Most lodging packes from Winter Park Lodging Company come with complementary tickets to the above music festivals.

Who is ready to sing “every rose has it’s thorn” ?  Bret Michaels, of Poison fame, is headlining  the Winter Park Music Festival on August 6th and 7th, 2011.  The Winter Park Music Festival is presented by Denver radio station 103.5 The Fox.

Saturday, August 6th Warrant, Skid Row and The Groove Hawgs will be on stage at Hideaway Park right off of US Highway 40 in the town of Winter Park, CO.  Saturday’s show kicks off at noon and will go to 6pm.  On Sunday, August 7th Bret Michaels and the Groove Hawgs will be rockin’ it out from noon until 3pm.

Hideaway Park is a great place to see live music.  Surround by the peaks of the Colorado Rocky Mountains with great seating and sound and right in walking distance of all Winter Park has to offer.  Prices for the show have not been announced but we will keep you informed when that information becomes available.

Check out Bret Michaels Facebook page and get psyched up for some great music this summer.  Here is a YouTube video of Poison’s top ten songs.  Bret should be playing all of these Poison classics high up here in Winter Park.

Warrant (Cherry Pie) and Skid Row (18 and Life) both had success in 80′s and 90′s and should make for a great afternoon of headbangin’ music.

Looking to see some fun music in a great setting? Look no further than the Winter Park Music Festival.  Come up for the whole weekend and enjoy the fun here in the Colorado mountains.

Winter Park Lodging Company has the best lodging for the WP Music Festival.  We have a couple of units that will be able to see Bret Michaels from the patio.  So book your lodging today for the best and closest digs.

The ninth annual Blues from the Top Music Fest inm Winter Park, CO is coming Friday, June 24th through Sunday, June 26th.  The artist lineups look amazing if the show is anything like last year it will be a screaming good time.

The American Music Festival is making a return to Winter Park, Colorado, now called the Winter Park Solshine Music Festival.  This may be in name only but it sure does bring back great memories of the American Music Fest held on the slopes of Winter Park Resort from the mid 19190′s to the early 2000′s.  The AMF brought to Colorado some of the biggest and best music acts of the day and still some of the best know artists around .  Check out the AMF concert poster to the right and see Widespread Panic, Brian Setzer and Ani DiFranco…. Wow, I wish we could get these artists back to Winter Park now!

The new SolShine Music Festival will be held in the Town of Winter Park at the Hideaway Park amphitheater and at Cooper Creek Square.  The dates are July 16th and 17th, the weekend before the Winter Park Jazz Festival, another great week here in Winter Park for some live music.

Line-up for Winter Park Solshine Music Festival:

Saturday, July 16, 2011 – at Hideaway Park

Sunday, July 17, 2011 (Cooper Creek Square)
Gregory Alan Isakov – click here to listen
Johan Wagner – click here to listen
Megan Burtt – click here to listen
Reed Foehl – click here to listen
Ramaya Soskin – click here to listen

Admission is free for general admission and $25 for VIP section in the restricted area at the front of the stage.

If you are looking to come up to the mountains this summer this is a wonderful time.  Mountain biking is aplenty and the temperatures are perfect.  There are no 100° Denver and Front Range summer days up her in Winter Park. Make your plans now to see some fun music and get up to the Rocky Mountains this summer.  Let Winter Park Lodging Company make your trip fun and hassle free.

It is getting the time of year to start looking forward to the summer music festivals here in Winter Park.  This year looks to be a doozy of a year with a couple of new festivals with some great music and musicians.

The biggest and usually the best Colorado summer concert music festival is the Winter Park Jazz Festival.  The dates are set for this years festival for Saturday July 24th and Sunday July 25th.  There a some rumors as to the jazz festival musician lineup but we promised to keep out tongues tied until there is an official announcement.  Last year the lineup was announced April 1st and that should be the same this year.

Check out the jazz festival poster to the left for last years musician lineup.  This year again the festival will be held at Hideaway Park in downtown Winter Park, CO.  Times for the shows should also be the same going from 11am to 6pm.

The WP Jazz Festival is the premier Winter Park music festival of the year and if you are thinking of attending make sure to reserve your lodging soon.  The best lodging books early and you don’t want to be in some bad digs for this show.  Check out Winter Park Lodging Company’s Jazz Festival lodging options.

Winter Park, Colorado comes alive in the summer so get here a day or two early and stay and stay a couple of days late and enjoy the Rocky Mountain summer.

Stay tuned for the Winter Park Jazz Festival artist lineup – we will keep you posted.  And mark your calendars the 2011 Jazz Festival is July 23rd and 24th.

The Winter Park Music Festival is this weekend Saturday August 7th at Hideaway Park.  The festival is featuring Night Ranger, Pat Travers and The Groove Hogs. Yes, a little bit nostalgic but the show is free and who can’t sin along with “sister Christian now the time has come”. Whew, brings me right back to high school in 1984.

The weather in Winter Park is just about perfect right now and you can’t beat live music under the mountain tops listening to some rockin’ tunes.

Come on up and enjoy a day of Music, Food, Beer Pavilion, Vendors and Fun.  103.5 The Fox brings a GREAT line-up of music and fun.  Gates and Vendors open at 10 am for this FREE EVENT!

Book your lodging with Winter Park Lodging Company and get free VIP tickets to the show.  The VIP package includes:
• Access to Chair Seating close to the stage
• 2 FREE Beverages
• A chance to win tickets to the Backstage Meet and Greet Party
• A FREE Festival T-Shirt

Again headlining  is Night Ranger:

Night Ranger left an indelible mark with a string of best-selling albums that sold more than 16 million copies worldwide. The band’s popularity was fueled by an impressive string of instantly recognizable hit singles and signature album tracks, including “Sister Christian,” “(You Can Still) Rock In America,” “When You Close Your Eyes,” “Sentimental Street,” “Goodbye” and “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me.” Harnessing the frenetic drive of heavy metal to hook-laden rock songs, throwing in a stunning twin lead guitar team, and melodious, radio-friendly power ballads, Night Ranger inspired new descriptive phrases such as “melodic metal” and “metal power pop”. They became the standard-bearer of a new sound.

Free music, beer, all in the mountains. Sounds like a great weekend.