UPDATE: We were curious, so we reached out to see if Hickenlooper was actually performing on Tuesday, and it turns out he was, for the most part. Here’s how the Governor’s Office responded to our inquiry:
“The banjo isn’t plugged in to anything but his mic was live,” said Kathy Green, director of communications for the governor.
He’s still
It’s his party he can play banjo if he wants to.
During the concert celebrating his inauguration for his second term as Colorado governor, joined the on stage at the Ogden Theatre to perform “Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms.”
Hickenlooper took center stage midway through SCI’s set to play banjo and sing with the popular Colorado jam band.
The night started out with a set from Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats before Hickenlooper addressed the crowd for the first time.
“When I first told my brother I would run for mayor he told me, ‘Politics is just rock and roll for ugly people who can’t sing,'” Hickenlooper told the audience. “We have assembled some of the best musicians not just in Colorado, but maybe the world.”
After talking about Denver’s superiority over Austin, Texas as a music town, he introduced the night’s surprise guest, the Fray’s Isaac Slade, who performed a rare acoustic set with his wife Anna.
Scheduled to go until nearly 1 a.m., Hickenlooper’s sold out inauguration boasted a bill that also featured Big Head Todd and the Monsters and the Lumineers. And rumors had spread through the Ogden earlier in the night Hickenlooper was tuning up his own banjo backstage.
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