The hills (and mountains) around Denver have always been alive with the sound of music, from Red Rocks to Telluride, Lyons to Breckenridge. But never before has the city been this alive with live music. Sure there’s the popular . And the packed . And the crazed, long-running .
And now we have word on two more live music series — one at the Museum of Contemporary Art and another at fine-dining outpost Coohills. In an odd twist, they’re less than two blocks away from one another, and they both start next week — though the bands and the scenes will be quite different.
The MCA’s series, a collaboration with Audiovore, is called Don’t Look Down — because it’s held on the museum’s scenic rooftop (at 1485 Delgany St.). It starts on Sunday July 8 with Snake Rattle Rattle Snake side-project Sweet Tooth Meat Tooth, and it runs Sundays through early-September. Admission is $5, and the doors will open at 5 p.m. with the concert starting an hour later.
The full schedule:
July 8: Sweet Tooth Meat Tooth
July 15: Ending People
July 29: Force Publique
Aug. 5: You, Me & Apollo
Aug. 12: Zebroids
Aug. 19: In the Whale
Aug. 26: Yawpers
Sept. 2: Bad Weather California
The scene at Coohills series, called Beats on the Creek, will be decidedly different. The high-end French restaurant is utilizing the old bridge that crosses the Platte — adjacent to its patio (at 1400 Wewatta St.) — as a stage for its free series, which plays on Tuesdays. (The music starts at 6 p.m. each week.) The music will entertain guests on the patio, and inside the restaurant, too (with open windows letting in the tunes and hopefully a breeze). And everything gets going on Tuesday with ’80s covers band the Asteroids.
The full schedule:
July 10: The Asteroids
July 17: Rob Drabkin
July 24: Under a Blood Red Sky
July 31: Hazel Miller Band
Aug. 7: Blackberry Bushes String Band
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Ricardo Baca is the founder and executive editor of , the co-founder of The UMS and an award-winning critic and journalist at The Denver Post.
