BOOK LIVE MUSIC IN COLORADO

Community programs

Musicians for farmers markets, library programs and rec centers.

A Saturday morning at the farmers market is even better when you can hear someone singing Take It Easy a few stalls down. We can bring live music to your market, library, rec center or summer concert series across Denver and the Front Range, from one singer with a guitar to a full band on a park stage.

The acts that work well at community events include the singer and guitarist, the acoustic duo, the Americana band, the Spanish guitarist, the jazz duo and Firstwater’s sound bath. Want more ideas? Take a look at our other daytime music.

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Video Clips

Watch a solo musician and a trio play live

In these two clips, Tejas Singh builds No Woman No Cry from the ground up on his own with a loop pedal, and Dirty Flamenco plays a rumba as a trio.

Live music ideas

What music works for your market, library or rec center?

Farmers markets
A singer with a guitar, a solo guitarist or an acoustic duo is a great fit for a farmers market, and they can play in sets across the morning. They’ll play folk, country and singer-songwriter songs that people know the words to. Planning music for a whole season of Saturdays? You can send us all the dates at once.
Libraries
A library is built for quiet, so we usually book a solo musician or a duo. We can help with an adult program, a summer concert on the lawn, an afternoon of standards for older adults or a sound bath for a wellness program. René Moffatt is a featured artist in the Denver Public Library’s Volume Denver program, and Your Bird Can Sing plays the Beatles for all ages.
Rec centers and community centers
Community and rec centers book music for all kinds of events. The Americana band is a great choice for an outdoor summer evening, as a trio or a quartet. For an indoor event, like a holiday open house or a lunch for older adults, a solo musician or a duo is usually all you need.
Summer concert series
Many summer concert series put out a call for performers. For a park stage, we’d suggest the Americana band, Tejas Singh, Tony Medina, René Moffatt with his band or the yacht rock band. Send us the call and we’ll suggest the act that fits the stage.

Questions

What program coordinators ask us

Need stage sizes and power details for your facilities office? Check out our technical page. Planning a program in a resort town? Learn more on our mountain corridor page.

How loud is it?
At a market, we’ll keep it loud enough to hear from the next stall and quiet enough that vendors can still talk with their customers. In a library, we’ll keep it about as loud as a conversation, and a guitarist in a meeting space can play with no amplification at all. On a park stage, a band can turn it up as far as your permit allows.
What do you need outdoors?
You won’t need much for a guitarist or a singer with a guitar, since they can play on a battery-powered sound system or with no amplification. A band with drums usually needs its own power source, and if a park stage already has a sound system, we’ll want to talk with whoever runs it beforehand. Whatever the size of the act, we’ll need a covered, level, dry spot, and we’ll work out a rain plan with you ahead of time. A park or a plaza sometimes needs a permit for amplified sound, and the market or the city usually holds it. If amplified sound isn’t allowed, a solo musician or a small acoustic group can play without it.
How much space do the musicians need?
A solo musician needs about 6 by 4 feet, a duo about 8 by 6 and a trio about 12 by 8, on the ground or on a stage. Setup usually takes about 45 minutes for a solo musician and an hour for a duo or a trio, and we’ll get that done before your program starts.
Do you work with purchase orders and city vendor paperwork?
Yes, we do, and we can name the city, the district or the library as additional insured. Just let us know what the business office needs.

Looking for live music for your community program?

You’ll have a single point of contact for the day, and we’ll size our sound system to your venue.

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Send us the dates, the venue and whether there’s power, and we’ll get back to you with a recommendation and costs. If you’re curious what live music costs in Colorado, our pricing page is a good place to start.

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