Colorado Springs private parties
Live music for a Colorado Springs private party.
The light goes off Pikes Peak, somebody moves the party onto the terrace, and two musicians in the corner keep it there for another hour. Colorado Springs hosts beautifully outdoors and it hosts late indoors, and the size that suits both is a duo: voice and guitar, or guitar and upright bass, playing covers your guests can name at a volume they can talk across.
It’s one of our private parties bookings, for milestones, anniversaries, wedding weekends, club celebrations and evenings at home, on one contract with one flat Front Range travel line for the run down from Denver.
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The look
A band, and a set piece.
Tony Medina’s band on stage, and Dirty Flamenco live: the floor act and the centerpiece act a Colorado Springs party chooses between.
The sizes
Ensemble sizes for a Colorado Springs party.
Two musicians sound like live music from anywhere in the venue and still fit in a corner. In a city whose private events happen on terraces, in club dining spaces and in houses with a view, that combination is most of the job.
A solo player
One voice and a guitar. It suits a dinner for twelve and an outdoor afternoon where the music is there to make the arrival feel hosted.
An acoustic duo
The size this city books most. Voice and guitar for songs guests sing along to, or guitar and upright bass when the set should stay instrumental through dinner.
A trio
The one that gets people dancing without a stage, for an evening with dancing in the plan.
What the format plays, and the difference between the acoustic set and a jazz set, is on the acoustic duo and trio page.
The venues
Resorts, clubs and the wedding weekend around them.
The city's private celebrations concentrate in a short list of places. Garden of the Gods Resort and Club and Cheyenne Mountain Resort hold the family gatherings and the milestone weekends, with terraces built for the hour before dinner. The Broadmoor runs its own calendar at its own scale. Downtown, The Mining Exchange and The Antlers take the celebrations that want to be walked to from a hotel lobby rather than driven to.
More of this calendar is built around weddings here than in Denver, and most of a wedding weekend is the parties around it. The welcome party on the Friday, the rehearsal dinner, the brunch on the Sunday: those are private parties in everything but name, and a duo suits all of them. Where the wedding day itself is the one you’re planning, the Colorado Springs wedding page covers the ceremony, the cocktail hour and the floor at these same venues.
At home it's the same booking and an easier venue. A house on the west side with the front of the range in the windows takes a duo in a corner and needs nothing built. Tell us the address and which door the gear comes through, and the load-in is planned before the day.
The setting
About 6,035 feet, and the wind off the range.
The city sits at about 6,035 feet, high enough that guests from sea level feel it and low enough that it changes nothing about how musicians pace a set. What the Springs asks for is a plan for the afternoon. Wind comes off the front of the range and drops as the sun does, and an evening on a terrace can lose fifteen degrees between the first drink and the toast, so outdoor bookings here get a move-indoors call written down before the day.
The metro versions of this page are Denver and Boulder, and a Springs company party lives on the Colorado Springs holiday party page.
Questions
Asked about Colorado Springs dates.
Stage sizes, circuits and input lists for every size are on the technical page, in a form a resort’s events office can check line by line.
- Does travel from Denver add to a Colorado Springs quote?
- One flat Front Range line on the quote, covering the run down I-25 and back. There's no mileage arithmetic and no lodging line, because the band drives home the same night, and the fee for the music itself is the same one a Denver host sees. Signet Artists books private-party musicians in Colorado Springs from Denver.
- Can music play outdoors on a Colorado Springs terrace?
- Yes, on a covered, level and dry spot with power run to it and a move-indoors call agreed before the day. The wind and the temperature drop fast once the sun is behind the range, so the call gets made early, and a duo is inside in a few minutes.
- What does a Springs booking need for setup?
- A duo fits a corner of about 8 by 6 feet on one dedicated 20-amp circuit, a solo 6 by 4 and a trio 12 by 8. Setup runs 45 to 60 minutes, one van, through whichever door the venue prefers, and if a club or resort asks for a certificate of insurance, just let us know.
Extras that can appear on a quote.
- Front Range travel: Boulder, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins
- I-70 corridor travel: Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Winter Park
- Far resort travel and a night's lodging: Aspen, Telluride, Steamboat, Crested Butte
- Holiday and peak weekends, and New Year's Eve
- Live-band karaoke
- Learned songs, with four weeks' notice
Send us the date and the Colorado Springs venue, and we'll recommend the size.
Live music for your event, from a solo musician to a full band, with sound support that’s the right size for the venue and a personal contact for the night.