Steamboat Springs Free Summer Concert Series
The Steamboat Springs FREE Summer Concert Series is a Steamboat summer tradition with five free concerts throughout the summer. Come down to the Howelsen Hill amphitheater, in the heart of downtown Steamboat Springs, for a night of FREE live music. Don't forget your picnic blanket, chair and dancing shoes!
The free concerts start around 5:00 p.m. with an opening band and then the main act to follow. There will be food vendors, kids activities and beer sales at the concert. No alcohol or dogs can be brought into the concert.
2012 Free Summer Concert Series Lineup TBA
2011 Free Summer Concert Series Lineup
Date: Friday, July 1, 2011
Time: Concert starts around 5:00 P.M.
Where: Howelsen Hill Amphitheater
From their days playing together as teenagers to their current acoustic and electric blues, probably no one has more consistently led American music for the last 50 years — yes! — than Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, the founders and continuing core members of Hot Tuna. With the April 5, 2011 release of Steady as She Goes, their first new album in twenty years, Hot Tuna proves that they remain one of the most innovative bands in American music.
Date: Thursday, July 14, 2011
Time: Concert starts around 5:00 P.M.
Where: Howelsen Hill Amphitheater
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals are like a modern-day version of Tina Turner stroking the microphone in a spangled mini-dress while fronting the Rolling Stones circa Sticky Fingers. The proof is there for all to hear on the band’s third album for Hollywood Records, hitting this spring, and marks an artistic breakthrough for a vital young band caught in the act of fulfilling its immense promise. Little wonder that Grace and her cohorts have chosen to title it, directly and emphatically, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.
Date: Friday, July 22, 2011
Time: Concert starts around 5:00 P.M.
Where: Howelsen Hill Amphitheater
Though starting out as "Jam Band," the Freddy Jones Band began concentrating on its own material, and Capricorn Records signed the group after its self-titled and self-released 1992 debut sold more than 10,000 copies. The FJB steadily built an audience from there with 1993's "Waiting For the Night," 1995's "North Ave. Wake-Up Call," and 1997's "Lucid" – which reached No. 19 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart – as well as radio play for songs such as "In a Daydream," "Waitress" and "Mystic Buzz." Rolling Stone praised the group's "fine line between schizophrenic jam band and sensibly-minded pop-rock." The All Music Guide opined that it's "sound at times is reminiscent of the Allman Brothers" – high (and accurate) praise indeed.
Date: Saturday, August 13, 2011
Time: Concert starts around 5:00 P.M.
Where: Howelsen Hill Amphitheater
G. Love & Special Sauce is an alternative blues band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Formed in 1992, the group (Garrett Dutton, better known as G. Love, Jeffrey Clemens on drums, Mark Boyce on keyboards, and Timo Shanko on bass) are known for their unique “laid back” blues sound. The group released their first album; self titled, in 1994 on Okeh/Epic, a subsidiary of Sony Music. On the strength of the single “Cold Beverage”, in part due to MTV rotation, the album nearly went gold. After which, trying to capitalize on the success of the album, the group toured heavily, eventually landing a spot on the H.O.R.D.E. tour. Soon after G. Love & Special Sauce set out on another world tour, returning to Philadelphia in 1999 for the release of their fourth album, Philadelphonic. Philadelphonic was followed up with Electric Mile in 2001, an album that shows the wide-ranging influences of the group, incorporating hip-hop, funk, psychedlia, blues, and soul in equal and ambitious measure.
Date: Friday, August 26, 2011
Time: Concert starts around 5:00 P.M.
Where: Howelsen Hill Amphitheater
The 3 Twins is an 8 piece band: SUBDUDES founding members John Magnie(accordion and keyboard), Tim Cook(bass) and Steve Amedee(all manner of percussion toys from snare drums to soup cans) plus 5 other great musicians. Cory and the Crew open the show, with local guest guitarist JOHN MAY of Casper. John Magnie, Cory Mcdaniel and John May joined us this morning.
Additional concerts have not been scheduled yet. Please check back at a later date for a more complete line up.
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