1. Colorado bands and artists

2. List of notable Colorado music venues
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3. See also

4. References

The American state of Colorado has many music scenes and venues, especially in the larger cities like Denver and Colorado Springs.

Colorado's orchestras include the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, among others.

Colorado bands and artists

Local bands and musicians as well as those often associated with Colorado include:

• 16 Horsepower (Alternative/Country/Rock)
• 3OH!3 (Pop)
• Air Dubai^[2] (Alternative Hip-Hop)
• All (Punk)
• Allegaeon (Technical Death Metal)
• Anti-Scrunti Faction (Punk)
• The Apples in Stereo (Indie/Pop)
• A Shoreline Dream (Rock)
• The Astronauts (Surf)
• Philip Bailey (R&B/Funk)
• Ginger Baker (Jazz)
• BigDru (Alternative/Rock/Rap/Indie-Pop/Jazz Fusion/Rock Fusion)
• Big Gigantic (Instrumental Electronica)
• Big Head Todd and the Monsters (Rock/Blues)^[3]
• Tommy Bolin (1960s-1970s)
• Bloodstrike (Metal)^[4]
• Breathe Carolina (Electronic Rock)
• Antonia Brico (Classical)
• Mark Brooks
• Calm (hip hop)
• Cellador (Metal)^[5]
• Cephalic Carnage (Grindcore/Death Metal)
• Christie Front Drive (Post-hardcore, Indie, Emo)
• Churchill (Acoustic/Bluegrass/Folk Rock)
• Demetrius Ross (Pop/Hip Hop/R&B)
• Judy Collins (Folk)
• The Czars (Rock/Alternative)
• John Denver (Folk/Country) 4 #1 Billboard Hot 100 songs (d. 1997)
• DeVotchKa (Indie/Alternative - Post Rock)
• Dressy Bessy (Indie)
• Drop Dead, Gorgeous (Rock)
• Earth, Wind & Fire (R&B)
• Elephant Revival (Folk)
• Fear Before the March of Flames (Rock)
• Firefall (Rock)
• Five Iron Frenzy (Ska)
• Flobots (Rap-Rock)
• The Fluid (Rock)
• Josephine Foster (Folk)
• The Fray (Adult Contemporary/Soft Rock). #1 Billboard 200 album with The Fray in 2009. Isaac Slade graduated from the University of Colorado Denver.
• Frogs Gone Fishin' (Funk)
• The Gamits (Pop/Punk)
• Miriam Gideon (composer)
• Dave Grusin (composer). 10-time Grammy award winner.
• Tom Hamilton, Aerosmith bassist (rock)
• Havok (Metal){{cn|date=October 2016}}
• Hit and Run (Bluegrass)
• Idlewhile (Indie/Americana){{cn|date=October 2016}}
• India.Arie (R&B/Soul). Had a #1 Billboard 200 album in 2006.{{cn|date=October 2016}}
• Javon Jackson (Jazz){{cn|date=October 2016}}
• Jag Panzer (Heavy Metal){{cn|date=October 2016}}
• Mike Johnson (guitarist){{cn|date=October 2016}}
• Andy Kirk (Jazz) {{cn|date=October 2016}}
• Leftover Salmon (Jam)
• Willie Lewis (Rockabilly)
• The Lumineers (Folk/Alternative). Had a #1 Billboard 200 album, folk rock Cleopatra in 2016.
• Meese (Alternative)
• Ron Miles (Jazz)
• Glenn Miller (Jazz) his "In the Mood" became the best-selling swing instrumental (d. 1944)
• Hazel Miller (Rock/Jazz/Folk)
• The Minders (Indie)
• Mr. J. Medeiros (Hip-Hop)
• Michael Martin Murphey (Pop/Country Western)
• Neighborhood Bully (Pop/Rock)
• The Northern Way (Pop/Rock)
• Neutral Milk Hotel (Indie/Folk/Lo-Fi) Relocated to Denver to record On Avery Island and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.
• OneRepublic (Pop/Rock/Alternative/Folk) Two #2 Hot 100 hits, including "Apologize".
• Opera Colorado (Opera)
• Paper Bird (Americana/Folk)
• Matt Pike
• Playalitical (Rap/Hip-Hop)
• The Photo Atlas (Pop/Rock)
• Roy Porter (Jazz drummer)
• Pretty Lights (Electronic)
• Primitive Man (Metal)^[6]
• The Procussions (Hip-Hop)
• Paul Quinichette (Jazz)
• Nathaniel Rateliff
• Dean Reed (Rock 'n' Roll)
• Dianne Reeves (Jazz)
• Rivulets (Indie/Singer-Songwriter)
• Roper (Pop/Punk)
• Rose Hill Drive (Rock)
• The Samples (Jam/Rock)
• SHEL (Folk/Pop)
• Single File (Pop)
• Slim Cessna's Auto Club (Alternative/Country/Rock)
• Jill Sobule (Folk)
• The String Cheese Incident (Jam)
• Sugarloaf (Rock)
• Dallas Taylor (drummer)
• Sally Taylor (singer-songwriter)
• Thinking Plague (Avant/Progressive)
• Tickle Me Pink (Pop)
• Time (indie hip hop)
• Vaux (Alternative, 1990s-2000s)
• Laura Veirs (Folk)
• Velvet Acid Christ (Electronic/Industrial, 1990s-2000s)
• The VSS (Post-hardcore/Experimental Rock)
• Mary Watkins (Folk and Jazz pianist)
• Paul Whiteman (Jazz bandleader, composer, violinist)
• Wendy Woo (Singer/Songwriter)
• Wovenhand (Alternative/Country/Rock)
• Vale of Pnath (Technical Death Metal)
• Yonder Mountain String Band (Bluegrass)
• Zephyr (Rock)

List of notable Colorado music venues

Aggie Theater

Boulder

• Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St.^[7]
• Macky Auditorium, CU-Boulder campus
• Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St.^[8]

Broomfield

• 1stBank Center

Colorado Springs

• World Arena, 3185 Venetucci Blvd.
• Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts, 190 S. Cascade Ave.

Denver

• Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St.
• Ogden Theatre,^[9] 935 E. Colfax Ave.
• Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Pl.
• Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave.
• Paramount Theater, 1621 Glenarm Pl.
• Gothic Theater, 3263 S Broadway
• [https://www.cervantesmasterpiece.com/ Cervantes], 2637 Welton St
• Summit Music Hall

Greenwood Village

• Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre

Loveland

• Budweiser Events Center

Morrison

• Red Rocks Amphitheatre has the Colorado Music Hall of Fame (which features the John Denver "Spirit" statue)

See also

• Arapaho music
• Indigenous music of North America
• Music of Denver
• State of Colorado

References

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• Spangler Candy Company
• Spangler (disambiguation)
• Spangler Hills