Balladeer Joe Cocker is bringing it all back home.
He and his wife, Pam, have lived in the Colorado hamlet of Crawford since 1992 — and for the first time he’s going to throw it down in the ‘hood.
Cocker will rock at the Delta County Fairgrounds in Hotchkiss with the subdudes on June 24 at his “At Home” concert. That’s just down the road from his Mad Dog Ranch.
Proceeds from the concert will go to the Cocker Kids’ Foundation, which helps local youth-based organizations.
When I talked to Pam last year, she told me they discovered the town when Joe played Telluride almost 20 years ago. They love the people, the area and their 17,000- square-foot English castle that sits on 160 acres. “Joe has a lot of freedom here,” she said. “No one treats him as a celebrity, no one bothers him.”
The only drawback? Pam said they could not possibly live in a less convenient place for a touring rocker. “It takes us three plane rides to get anywhere.”
But not June 24, when he’s playing for the home team. Tix on sale May 10 at for $45. A few $100 VIP and $1,000 Super VIP slots (front-row seats and a pre-concert BBQ with Joe at Mad Dog Ranch) available at .
If you can’t make it to Crawford, Cocker is at Red Rocks July 31 with the Steve Miller Band.
Jingle.
Local rocker Wendy Woo wrote and performed the new jingle for Fox 31’s “Good Day Colorado” — and it’s catchy. In the TV promo, she’s singing it on a downtown rooftop as the morning team struts through Denver and Colorado.
Woo follows the lead of Chris Daniels and the Kings, which helps 9News’ morning show sign off with the “You Made It Through the Week” ditty every Friday. Between Daniels’ gigs here and in Europe, he’s teaching the music biz at University of Colorado Denver. See the band May 16-18 at The Little Bear, where they started.
Ditched.
You know that life isn’t fair when trainer and Jing partner Michael Ditchfield e-mails you a picture of his very own self with overly hot actress Maria Bello (“History of Violence,” “Cooler,” “Thank You for Smoking”). They were hanging out together on a podium in San Francisco when the Olympic torch passed through town.
When Ditchfield was told she was an actress, he asked her, “What restaurant do you work at?” HA! And she thought it was funny.
Just shoot me.
City spirit.
They built this zoo on rock ‘n’ roll. Starship plays at Do at the Zoo on June 19 . . . Janet Elway’s June 6 Janet’s Camp pool-party, always a hot summer blowout, gets a kickoff Thursday with a Campy Couture Fashion Show at Saks. Gloria Neal will emcee; models include Lisa and Ed McCaffrey, Samantha and Vinny Castilla, Aimee Sporer and Dan Caplis . . . Sez who: “My set list is basically like my hits. There is a good reason why they are there; people really like them.” Joe Cocker
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