TODAY
Sounds of New Orleans
Fat City Mardi Gras Band
Memorial Park, West 25th Avenue and Chase Street, Edgewater, 6:30 p.m.
Edgewater calls itself the city of choice, and ours is to recommend getting yourself over to the gazebo at Memorial Park to take in a free concert, courtesy of the city. Fat City’s performance will be a salty, soulful way to get the long holiday weekend party rolling. The city’s Sunday concert series continues through Aug. 6.
MORE FOR THE WEEK
MONDAY – Low Flying Knobs | Zimbabwe and Afro-pop marimba-style music, part of the Crested Butte Center for the Arts’ annual Alpenglow series. 5:30 p.m. | Crested Butte | 970-349-7487 or crestedbuttearts.org
MONDAY – Colorado Symphony Orchestra Patriotic Celebration | Free concert on City Park Meadow, west of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. 7:30 p.m. | West of Colorado Boulevard, north of East 17th Avenue, Denver
TUESDAY – Granby Independence Day Parade | Floats and other parade entries imagine the next 100 years of Granby. 10 a.m. Free. | Granby
TUESDAY – Independence Day the Carbondale Way | Think parade, family fun, arts and crafts booths, beer garden, great music and delicious food, all capped off with fireworks at dark. Starts at 3 p.m. Free. | Sopris Park, downtown Carbondale | carbondale.com
THURSDAY – The Iguanas | Free show by the Cajun party band, part of the Snowmass Summer of Free Music Series. 6 p.m. | Fanny Hill, Snowmass | 800-SNOWMASS or snowmass village.com
THURSDAY – Family Night at the Denver Zoo | An enchanted evening for kids and their parents, during which fairy tales will come alive with costumed characters. Also, experts will explain about zoo animals and exhibits. 6:30-9 p.m. Free, with museum admission. | 2300 Steele St., Denver | denverzoo.org or 303-376-4894
FRIDAY – Festival Fridays | Bands, beer and wine, and a place to dance among the sculptures in the Jackson Sculpture Garden. This week, dance to Andy Clifton & Co. $5. 6-10 p.m. | Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, 210 N. Santa Fe Ave., Pueblo | 719-295-7222
SATURDAY – Coronation of Poppea | Free preperformance preview providing the “opera notes” version of Claudio Monteverdi’s opera about lust, politics and power in the Roman empire, presented by opera scholar Mark Ringer and the show’s stage director Ken Cazan. 6:45 p.m. | Williams Stables, across from the Opera House, Central City | centralcityopera.org
SATURDAY – Particle and The Mutaytor | Free show, part of the Snowmass Summer of Free Music Series. 6 p.m. | Fanny Hill, Snowmass | 800-SNOWMASS or snowmass village.com
SATURDAY – Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace | The show starts at dusk in the second show in the every-other-Saturday Parker Chamber Picture Show series. Free. | O’Brien Park, downtown Parker. | parkerchamber.com/movies.cfm
SATURDAY & SUNDAY – Steamboat’s Hot Air Balloon Rodeo | More than 40 balloons will launch Saturday and Sunday morning. 7-10 a.m. | Wild Horse Meadows, Steamboat Springs | Steamboatchamber.com
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