The UMS is consistently one of the best weekends of the summer in Denver, and this year’s festival — July 21-24 along South Broadway — will be no different. Reverb has the jump on the four-day festival’s schedule, and note, this is only the beginning. The festival organizers will be announcing lots and lots more in the coming months — remember, this is the only festival in the state that includes 300-plus bands and musicians and comedians.
There are already some exciting names on the list — national acts and local bands. Among them, we’re particularly looking forward to seeing Oklahoma art-freaks Colourmusic and Tennessee indie rockers Royal Bangs. We’re also fans of New Orleans swanksters Generationals, Boise rocker Finn Riggins and Philadelphia-rooted singer-songwriter Denison Witmer.
Not to mention the many great locals who will represent the 303 (and 720 and 970 and 719) including Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, Houses, Varlet, Wheelchair Sports Camp, Mr. Pacman, Kingdom of Magic, Ian Cooke, Danielle Ate the Sandwich and more. Here’s a full list of the locals who are confirmed so far. Get your tickets cheap — $25 — right .
In addition to the national acts mentioned above, here are the locals already confirmed for this year’s 11th annual UMS:
200 Million Years
3Two
A Shoreline Dream
A. Tom Collins
Abi Robins
Accordion Crimes
Achille Lauro
Alameda
All These Billions
Amazing Twin
Archeology
As Tall As Buildings
Bad Luck City
Bare Bones
Barnacle
BLKHRTS
BLNX
Blue Million Miles
Blueberry Cake
Bonnie and the Beard
Bop Skizzum
Bury My Bones
Cardinal Grey
Casey James Prestwood and The Burning Angels
Chavez Y Chavez
Chella Negro
Churchill
Colfax Speed Queen
Common Anomaly
Corey Turuya
Cotton Keys
Dan Craig
Danielle Ate the Sandwich
Doubters (formerly China Venture
El Toro de la Muerto
Eolian
Epilogues
Fingers of the Sun
Flashlights
Force Publique
Galaxies
Girls Walk By
Git Some
Glass Hits
Glowing House
Green Typewriters
Grub Street Writer
Halden Wofford and the Hi-Beams
Hearts in Space
Hideous Men
Hindershot
Hot White
Houses
Ian Cooke
Il Cattivo
Jay J Matott and the Arctic
Jeffrey Dallet
Jen Korte (solo)
Jessica Sonner
Jim McTurnan and the Kids that killed the man
Joel Van Horne (of Carbon Choir)
Josh Dillard
Joshua Novak
Ken Arkind
Kingdom of Magic
Kissing Party
Lil’ Slugger
Lion Sized
M. Pyres
Magic Cyclops
Monroe Monroe
Mr. Pacman
New Ben Franklins
Oliver Vanity
Panal SA de CV
Petals of Spain
Pina Chulada
Pink Hawks
Porlolo
Port Au Prince
Radical Knitting Circle
Reviving Cecilia
Rob Drabkin
Rubedo
Sarah Slaton
Serious Moonlight
Snake Rattle Rattle Snake
Sour Boy Bitter Girl
Spires
Sun Red
Take To The Oars
The Dendrites
The Denver City Saltlicks
The Don’ts and Be Carefuls
The Foot
The Hollyfelds
The Knew
The Lumineers
The Maykit
The Photo Atlas
The Pirate Signal
The Raven and the Writing Desk
The Reckless Nights
Tim Bruns (of Churchill)
Tommy Metz / Iuengliss
Ukulele Loki
Varlet
Vitamins
Wheelchair Sports Camp
Wire Faces
Young Cities
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Ricardo Baca is the founder and co-editor of , the former executive director of The UMS and an award-winning critic and journalist at The Denver Post.
