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Pasta Jay's

The protean musician, artist and designer's years in Colorado found him composing, recording and performing countless works.

Tim Duffy

A symposium at Fiske Planetarium convened members of Spontanuity, whose psychedelic light show provided visual background for the Dead’s 1969 concert in Boulder.

Grateful Dead/Spontanuity

Having shot hundreds of concerts as a house photographer at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Lisa Siciliano has generously culled images from her voluminous collection in this gallery for Colorado Music Experience.

Neil Young, 2015
Dave Mason, 1978

Dave Mason, the English singer and guitarist who co-founded the seminal band Traffic before starting a successful solo career, died April 19, 2026. He was 79.

Poco

Rusty Young got his musical start in Böenzee Cryque, a Denver-based band whose odd moniker was inspired, perhaps apocryphally, by the local business sign on an appliance store. Getting local airplay, a single got placed with Uni Records, and “Still in Love with You Baby”/ “The Sky Gone Gray” went to No. 1 on the hit list of KIMN, the dominant Top 40 station in Denver, in April 1967.

Spike Robinson

Spike Robinson
Spike Robinson, a world-renowned saxophonist, lived in Boulder for years and was a fixture in area clubs before relocating to the United Kingdom, where he died in 2001.

On Record Book Series

On Record book series

Each volume of the award-winning On Record series gathers over 200 limited and extraordinary images and 100 interview-based profiles spotlighting an array of musical artists.

merch

merchandise

Explore the Colorado Music Experience’s store, stocked with stylish products and gifts for music fans.

hosted by g. brown

A non-profit organization established to preserve the legacies of Colorado music, CoME serves as a repository for informational and archival resources.

Jon Rizzi, G. Brown, Mark Zaremba and Chip Garofalo