Winter Park Blues from the Top Music Fest

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Chris

Grand County Blues From the Top Music Festival

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 shows will again be held at Hideaway Park in Winter Park, CO under the peaks of the continental divide. Check out this years lineup:

Friday, June 24th

Smokin’ Moe’s Pre-fest Show
8pm

Artists:

Girls with Guitars: Samatha Fish, Dani Wilde, Cassie Taylor

Matt Schofield

Saturday, June 25th

10am-7pm

Atrists:

Ronnie Baker Brooks
Nick Moss and The Flip Tops
Joe Moss, John Nemeth Soul Revue,
Samatha Fish, Cassie Taylor, Dani Wilde
Mary Bridget Davies, Dustin Pittsley, Michaela Rae

Sunday, June 26th
10am-7pm

Artsts:

Jimmy Hall and Wet Willie
Matt Schofield Trio
Albert Cummings
Joanne Shaw Taylor
Sammy Mayfield
Ashley Cleveland Gospel
Reese Wynans

Category 5 Night
Smokin’ Moe’s
9pm to 12am

Artists:

Nick Moss
Joe Moss
Kate Moss
Samantha Fish
Joanne Shaw Taylor
Albert Cummings
+ more!

Get your tickets early to save some $$$
Door prices are :
$31 for a single day pass

Get your tickets for the 2011 Blues from the Top

The Blues from the top show kicks off the Winter Park summer music series and this has become one of the best shows here in WP. Make your plans now for a weekend of blues, BBQ and a good time up in the high country. Let Winter Park Lodging Company get you the best deals on lodging, show tix, and restaurant discounts. Come on up for Blues from the Top.

SolShine Music Festival – Winter Park, CO

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Chris

Winter Park Resort – SolShine Music Fest

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

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

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.

Winter Park Jazz Festival 2011

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Chris

Winter Park Jazz Festival lineup Winter Park, Colorado Jazz Festival 2011

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.

Winter Park Music Festival – Free!

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Chris

Winter Park CO free summer music festival Rock Fest at Winter Park, CO

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.

Sweet VIP Pass Offer for Free Concerts in Winter Park, CO

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Valarie

VIP Treatment at Winter Park's Free Music Festivals Join us in Winter Park for two FREE outdoor music festivals at Winter Park’s downtown concert venue at Hideaway Park, and when you book with Winter Park Lodging Company, you’ll get VIP passes to the show for all of the people in your group.

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!

Highlights from the Blues from the Top Festival in Winter Park

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Valarie

JP Soars at Winter Park Blues from the Top Music Festival

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 clearly having as much fun as 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 from one of the vendors, then my freinds and I settled in our campchairs to take in some sun and music. It wasn’t long though before we were up dancing to the tunes. 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 blues, paired with a deep soulful voice, 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.

Winter Park, CO Summer Fun

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Chris

summer in winter park colorado

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.

65°F

Current: Sunny
Wind: SW at 3 mph
Humidity: 44%

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 Free Music Thursdays

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Amy

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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.

Winter Park, Colorado Beer Festival

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Chris

Colorado Mountain Beer Festival

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, CO Music Festivals

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Chris

Summer Music in Winter Park Colorado

Music is in the air this year in Winter Park, Colorado. The big festivals are back and there is a smattering of some new events to make this a great year up here in Rockies. There will be jazz, blues, rock and country festivals through the season at the Hideaway Park venue in downtown Winter Park, CO.

The Winter Park Jazz Festival - A Colorado tradition for over 20 years and it just keeps on getting stronger. This year featuring Chaka Khan and Norman Browns Summer Storm. The Jazz Festival is the premier summer jazz fest in the Rocky Mountain region.

Blues From The Top Music Festival – From the Grand County Blues Society this is one rockin’ show that blues lovers do not want to miss. Tis’ is a full weekend of music with a Friday night show at Smokin’ Moe’s to get the party started right.

The Fox Classic Rock Music Festival – Featuring that ‘80′s hit producing machine Night Ranger, tell me you don’t remember the high school classic Sister Christian. Come out for 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! Yes it is free, not something you hear very often when it comes to live music! Show is 8/7/2010 from noon to 6PM. Contact winter Park Lodging Company for your tickets.

KYGO High Country Music Festival – Another free festival featuring Chris Cagle, The Josh Abbott Band and Kory Brunson. No editorializing here as I’m not a Country Music aficionado. I bet though it would be a great time and a lot cheaper than the $300.00 U2 is getting for their Denver show this summer.

There is also the season long High Note Thursday free shows in Hideaway Park. Artists have not been released yet. Also there is the season ling Fraser Picnic In The Park Series with Denver and local artists.

We have a lot of music going on up here in winter Park, CO along with great weather and more outdoor activities than you could name.

Come have a great summer time in Winter Park, Colorado.

See Winter Park Lodging Company for tickets to all events and the best music lodging available.