Music of Colorado
The American state of Colorado has many music scenes and venues, especially in the larger cities like Denver and Colorado Springs.
Colorado's orchestras include the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, among others.
Folk and traditional music in Colorado has been an intricate part of the local popular culture in the last century. The Colorado Bluegrass Music Society exists to promote Coloradan bluegrass music, and publishes a magazine called Pow'r Pickin'.Colorado bands and artists
Local bands and musicians as well as those often associated with Colorado include:
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- 16 Horsepower
- 3OH!3
- Air Dubai
- All
- Allegaeon
- Anti-Scrunti Faction
- The Apples in Stereo
- A Shoreline Dream
- The Astronauts
- Philip Bailey
- Ginger Baker
- Big Gigantic
- Big Head Todd and the Monsters
- Tommy Bolin
- Bloodstrike
- Breathe Carolina
- Antonia Brico
- Mark Brooks
- Calm
- Cellador
- Cephalic Carnage
- Christie Front Drive
- Churchill
- The Czars
- Demetrius Ross
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- Judy Collins
- John Denver 4 #1 Billboard Hot 100 songs
- DeVotchKa
- Dressy Bessy
- Drop Dead, Gorgeous
- Earth, Wind & Fire
- Elephant Revival
- Fear Before the March of Flames
- Firefall
- Five Iron Frenzy
- Flobots
- The Fluid
- Stelth Ulvang
- Josephine Foster
- The Fray. #1 Billboard 200 album with The Fray in 2009. Isaac Slade graduated from the University of Colorado Denver.
- Frogs Gone Fishin'
- The Gamits
- Miriam Gideon
- Dave Grusin. 10-time Grammy award winner.
- Tom Hamilton, Aerosmith bassist
- Havok
- Hit and Run
- Idlewhile
- India.Arie. Had a #1 Billboard 200 album in 2006.
- Javon Jackson
- Jag Panzer
- Mike Johnson
- Andy Kirk
- Leftover Salmon
- Willie Lewis
- The Lumineers. Had a #1 Billboard 200 album, folk rock Cleopatra in 2016.
- Meese
- Ron Miles
- Glenn Miller his "In the Mood" became the best-selling swing instrumental
- The Minders
- Mr. J. Medeiros
- Michael Martin Murphey
- The Motet
- Neighborhood Bully
- The Northern Way
- Neutral Milk Hotel Relocated to Denver to record On Avery Island and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.
- OneRepublic Two #2 Hot 100 hits, including "Apologize".
- Opera Colorado
- Paper Bird
- Matt Pike
- Playalitical
- The Photo Atlas
- Roy Porter
- Pretty Lights
- Primitive Man
- The Procussions
- Paul Quinichette
- Nathaniel Rateliff
- Dean Reed
- Dianne Reeves
- Rivulets
- Roper
- Rose Hill Drive
- The Samples
- SHEL
- Single File
- Slim Cessna's Auto Club
- Jill Sobule
- The String Cheese Incident
- Sugarloaf
- Dallas Taylor
- Sally Taylor
- Tennis
- Thinking Plague
- Tickle Me Pink
- Time
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- Vaux
- Laura Veirs
- Velvet Acid Christ
- The VSS
- Mary Watkins
- Paul Whiteman
- Wendy Woo
- Wovenhand
- Vale of Pnath
- Yonder Mountain String Band
- Zephyr
List of notable Colorado music venues
Fort Collins
- Washington's, 132 Laporte Ave.
- The Armory, 314 East Mountain Ave.
- Aggie Theater
Boulder
- Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St.
- Macky Auditorium, CU-Boulder campus
- Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St.
Broomfield
- 1stBank Center
Colorado Springs
- World Arena, 3185 Venetucci Blvd.
- Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts, 190 S. Cascade Ave.
- The Black Sheep
Denver
- Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St.
- Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave.
- Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Pl.
- Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave.
- Paramount Theater, 1621 Glenarm Pl.
- Gothic Theater, 3263 S Broadway
- , 2637 Welton St
- Summit Music Hall
Greenwood Village
- Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
Longmont
Loveland
- Budweiser Events Center
Morrison
- Red Rocks Amphitheatre has the Colorado Music Hall of Fame