Culture

Strings Music Festival unveils its Season 39 roster for Steamboat Springs, featuring 18 Grammy winners including Herbie Hancock and Cat Power, alongside new standing-only shows and community programming.

Compare the cost of local culture in the Roaring Fork Valley, from free art shows and Dandelion Day to the $45 Hotel Colorado tea and premium theater tickets.

Compare 'The Sheep Detectives' and 'Mortal Kombat 2' on Western Slope. Both cost $15-$20 per ticket, but offer vastly different entertainment values for families.

Aspen's spring arts calendar reveals a community deeply committed to cultural engagement, highlighted by Theatre Aspen locals passes selling out in under a day and a diverse lineup featuring the Wood Brothers and Aspen Shortsfest.

Executive producer Dan Tapster brings the chaos of nature filming to the Vilar, sharing hilarious and gritty behind-the-scenes stories from Our Planet and Life on Our Planet.

Steamboat Springs celebrates the transition from ski season with the First Friday Art Walk on April 4, featuring the 'Après Art' exhibition at the Depot Art Center and local galleries.

Composer Chris Rogerson succeeds Anne-Marie McDermott as the fourth artistic director of the Bravo! Vail Music Festival, assuming the role immediately with a full title effective September 2026.

Surfer Girl frontman Carter Reeves promises to bring the beach to the mountains when his band performs at Belly Up Aspen on April 24, promoting their upcoming album Midnight.

The Aspen Indigenous Foundation hosted a free Native American cultural exhibition at Sister Cities Plaza, headlined by world champion hoop dancer and Cirque du Soleil artist ShanDien Sonwai LaRance.

Folk musician Sam Lee uses the Nightingale's song to illustrate the urgent reality of climate change and ecological loss, connecting the bird's decline to the specific environmental anxieties of the Western Slope.

Viral TikTok hit 'Buttercorn' drives Sun Jr. to a standing-room-only, 21-and-up show at The Arts Campus at Willits in Basalt on May 9.

Discover local events in Glenwood Springs and Carbondale this week, featuring the 'Anything Goes' art exhibit at the library, Vespertinesbaby at El Dorado, the Stroll for Joel avalanche memorial, and Lena Marie Schiffer's album release.