Colorado festivals and events in August

ARISE  Music Festival August 3-5 Sunrise Ranch, Loveland Slightly Stoopid, Thievery Corporation, OPIUO, Stick Figure, Trevor Hall, Living Legends, Pepper, Ott., Quixotic, Everyone Orchestra, The Lil Smokies, Start Making Sense: A Talking Heads Tribute, Dumpstaphunk, Kitchen Dwellers, CharlestheFirst, Bass Physics, Ayla Nereo, Con Brio, Shook Twins, The Dustbowl Revival, ProbCause, Dustin Thomas, Family And Friends, Eminence Ensemble and much more Bluegrass & Beer Festival August 4-5 River Run Village, Keystone Monocle, Old Salt Union, Ragged Union, Masontown, Cicada Rhythm, The Lonesome Days, Head For The Hills, Whitewater Ramble, Brent Cobb, The Lil Smokies, Mandolin Orange Bohemian Nights at NewWestFest August 10-12 Downtown, Old Town, Fort Collins Blondie, The Decemberists, The Motet, Hot Buttered Rum, Analog Son, Tnertle, Earth Like Twins, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Grayson County Burn Ban, Eurorquestra, Great American Taxi, Dirty Few, Brent Cowles, FACE, Flobots, Guerilla Fanfare, King Cardinal, Cary Morin, Blue Canyon Boys, The Drunken Hearts, Blake Brown & The American Dust Choir and many more   Boulder’s Big Hootenanny August 10 Boulder Theater Victor Wooten Trio, Roosevelt Collier Trio, Hot Buttered Rum, Parkin Lot, Hogan & Moss, The Wrecklands, Kevin DeForrest & Eric Drobny, Ben Hanna   Boulder County Fair August 3-12 Boulder County Fairgrounds, Longmont 101st Army Country Band, Bumkin, Stumble Monkey, Moriarty Dance Group, The Long Run, 300 Days, Mayhem Gulch, Blue Canyon Boys, Triple Nickel, Low Flying Knobs, Funkiphino, Andy Sydow, Nacho Men, Eric West, Raising Cain, Jeff & Paige, Benjamin Bell, Premium Diesel, Fab 4, Country Touch Band, Cowboy Dave   Boulder Craft Beer Festival August 18 North Boulder Park, Boulder The Sweet Lillies, Foxfeather   Carbon Valley Music & Spirits Festival August 4 Centennial Field, Dacono The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Burroughs, Taylor Scott Band, Bonnie & The Clydes, Andy Sydow, Veggie Matters     Carnation Festival August 10-12 Anderson Park, Wheat Ridge The John King Band, Tyler Walker Band, KISSm (Kiss tribute), Buckstein, The Trampolines, Your Own Medicine, Silver and Smoke, Michael Morrow and The Culprits, Thin Air (Widespread Panic tribute), Wild Mountain   Denver International Festival August 4 Civic Center Park, Denver El Javi, Cicely O’Kain, Orquesta La Brava, Irie Still, DJ SD, DJ Grooves   Durango Blues Train August 17-18 Durango/Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad The AJ Fullerton Band, The Rebekah Meldrum Band, Molly Gene – One Whoaman Band, D.W. Doucet, Cary Morin, RL Cole   FoCo Cafe’s Bike-In Music Festival August 5 The Burrow Farm, Fort Collins Pierce & Palser, Grass Blue Rhythm, The KITY Project, Good Gravy!   Four Corners Folk Festival August 21 – September 2 Reservoir Hill Park, Pagosa Springs Nahko And Medicine For The People, The Dawg Trio (feat. David Grisman, Danny Barnes & Samson Grisman), Sam Bush, Amy Helm, We Banjo 3, Sam Reider & The Human Hands, John Stickley Trio, Front Country, Jacob Jolliff Band (of Yonder Mountain String Band), The Accidentals, The Western Flyers, Darling West, Bonnie & The Clydes, Courtney Hartman & Taylor Ashton, Tallgrass   Gnarly Barley Brew Fest August 4 The Ranch Events Complex, Loveland Uncle Punch, Archie Funker, Wild Mountain Music   Gorefest The 13th August 3 – 5 The Roxy Theatre, Denver Ouija Macc feat. Death Plus, M.M.M.F.D., Big Hoodoo, Scum, Axe Murder Boyz, Damien Quinn feat. S.A.W> Da Ghozt, Jarren Benton, Insane Poetry feat. Team Guillotine, Liquid Assassin and many more   Grapes & Grass August 24 – 25 Highland City Club and Boulder Theater, Boulder Arthur Lee Land’s Twang is Dead // Twang is Salmon w/ Drew Emmitt & Andy Thorn, The Mighty Pines, Gasoline Lollipops, The Drunken Hearts, Ragged Union, Wood Belly, Lonesome Days, Timber!, Dirk Quinn Band, Chunky Whiskey, Bonnie & Taylor Sims and more   Guitar Town August 10 – 12 Copper Mountain Resort, Copper Mountain Al Di Meola, Robben Ford, Coco Montoya, John Jorgenson, Andy McKee, Pat Bergeson, Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley, Rory Hoffman, Christie Lenee, Stig Mathisen, Johnny A., Scott Goldman, Mark Selby Tribute   Leftapalooza August 11 Roosevelt Park, Longmont Loving The Alien (David Bowie), VanWholen (Van Halen + The Who), 4 Degrees (Tool), Firedancer (Dave Matthews Band), Mr. KnowItAll (Primus), Hey Lady (B-52’s), Sonic Highways (Foo Fighters), Guerilla Radio (Rage Against The Machine)   Liquid Mechanics 4th Anniversary & Outdoor Music Festival August 17 – 18 Liquid Mechanics Brewing, Lafayette JV3, Hindsight, The Aristocrats, Rogue 2, Guerilla Radio, Ultralowfi, Indigent Row, Brothers Fortune Colorado   Local Jam 18 August 10 – 12 Edgewater Brewery, Grand Junction Stray Grass, Suckafish, Mount Orchid, Jack + Jill, Tim + Richard, Shea + Larren, Shaun Ray, Freeway Donna, Cody Snow, The Company, Wrong Impressions, Wave 11, Union of None, Soul Habit, Peach Street Revival, Five 14, NC-17’s Ornet, Awaiting Eternity, Sole Aggression, Haven Effect and many more   Mountain Town Music Festival August 18 River Run Village, Keystone Blind Pilot, The Lone Bellow, The Mulligan Brothers, The Dustbowl Revival   NedFest Music & Arts Festival August 24 – 26 Downtown, Nederland Electric Hot Tuna w/ Steve Kimock, 20th Anniversary Super Jam w/ Michael Kang and Kyle Hollingsworth, Anders Osborne, Kim Dawson, Jeremy Salken and more, Jorma Acoustic, Melvin Seals JGB, Head For The Hills, Flash Mountain Flood, Fareed Haque and His Funk Brothers, The Sweet Lillies w/ Vince Herman, New Family Dog, Electric Toast and many more   Palisade Peach Festival August 18 – 20 Riverbend Park, Palisade Soul Sacrifice, Stray Grass, Tim & Richard, Soul Habit, Toaster, Union of None, Proper Medication, Thomasina Russell   Red Rocks Beer Festival August 19 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison Stone Temple Pilots, Bush, The Cult   Rhythms on the Rio August 3 – 5 River Mill, South Fork Keller Williams’ PettyGrass feat. The Hillbenders, Jeff Austin Band, Dumpstaphunk, Vince Herman, Drew Emmitt & Andy Thorn, Euforquestra, Grant Farm, The Giving Tree Band, Wood and Wire, The Wooks, Halden Wofford and the Hi* Beams, Elder Grown, Liver Down The River, The Sweet Lillies, Shaky Hand String Band, Charley Wheeler   Rocky Mountain Folks Festival August 17 – 19 Planet Bluegrass, Lyons Regina Spektor, Indigo Girls, Jeff Tweedy, Los Lobos, The Milk Carton Kids, Tinariwen, Martin Sexton Trio, Darrell Scott, Wild Child, Las Cafeteras, Mary Gauthier, Penny & Sparrow, Magic Music, River Whyless, Steve Poltz, Jayme Stone’s Folklife, Les Poules a Colin, Bonnie Paine, FY5, Heather Mae   San Juan Brewfest August 25 Buckley Park, Durango Strange Americans, The Yawpers   Seven Peaks Festival August 31 – September 2 Downtown, Buena Vista Clint Black, Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert, Brothers Osborne,  Sawyer Brown, Terri Clark, David Lee Murphy, Hot Country Knights, Sam Bush, The Cadillac Three, Kiefer Sutherland, Lucie Silvas, Elle King, Dan + Shae, Del McCoury Band, Lanco and more   Sister Winds Festival August 26 Mishawaka Amphitheatre, Bellvue Ayla Nereo, Nina Storey, Bonnie Paine & Bridget Law, Qbala Music, Katie Gray, Xerephine Musica feat. Teresita & Maqi Star, Mama Lenny and The Remedy, Whippoorwill, Porlolo, Liz Barnez, DJ Mandi Lix, Shaela Noella, Sister Winds Ensemble, Fierce Le Fey, Las Curanderas, Ley Line, Ariana Saraha & Flight Behavior and more   Solshine Music Festival August 11 Rendezvous Event Center, Winter Park Lettuce, The Floozies, Dynohunter   Telluride Jazz Festival August 3 – 5 Town Park, Telluride Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers, Irma Thomas, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band, BadBadBadNotGood, Turkuaz, Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles, Gogo Penguin, Sammy Miller & The Congregation, No BS Brass Band, Nachito Herrerra Trio, Polyrhythmics, Tyree Morris & The Hearts of Worship, The Lao Tizer Quartet and more   Trinidaddio Blues Fest August 25 Central Park, Trinidad Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Kenny Neal, C.J. Chenier and The Red Hot Louisiana Band, Dave Specter’s Chicago/New Orleans Blues Review feat. Johnny Sansone and Brother John Kattke, Vanessa Collier, Los Albuquerque Blues Connection, Zakk DeBono & The Broken Circle   Velorama August 17 – 19 27th and Blake, RiNo, Denver Modest Mouse, Cold War Kids, The Growlers, Matt & Kim, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, The Kills, Cults, Hop Along, Slow Caves, Lo Moon, Brent Cowles, Wildermiss, Tracksuit Wedding, The Shacks   Winter Park Beer Festival August 4 Hideaway Park, Winter Park Buffalo Commons, The Company Stores   Wunderbar Music Festival August 25 Mishawaka Amphitheatre, Bellvue Eminence Ensemble, Evanoff, Tenth Mountain Division and more   Yarmonygrass August 9 – 12 Rancho De Rio, Bond Poor Man’s Whiskey, Trout Steak Revival, Billy Strings, The Good Time Travelers, Tenth Mountain Division, Coral Creek, The Drunken Hearts, Rum Creek, Liver Down The River, Rumpke Mountain Boys, Mama Magnolia, Hot Buttered Rum, Gasoline Lollipops, Cascade Crescendo, Ragged Union w/Burle Galloway, Timber!, Boris Garcia, Buffalo Commons and more