Colorado Springs private parties
An acoustic duo 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.
Milestone birthdays and anniversaries, wedding weekends and the dinners on either side of them, club celebrations and evenings at home: this is the Colorado Springs version of our private parties page. One contract, sound included at every size, a personal contact for the night, and 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 read as live music from anywhere in the venue and still fit an 8 by 6 foot corner on a single dedicated circuit. 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, in 6 by 4 feet. 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. Both hold 65 to 72 dBA at the nearest table.
A trio
The one that fills a dance floor without a stage, in 12 by 8 feet, 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. What live music costs across this market is set out on the pricing 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 are 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.
Logistics
The drive down, and what the weather asks for.
Colorado Springs is a Front Range drive rather than a mountain date, which keeps the logistics simple. Travel is one flat line on the quote covering the run down I-25 and back, with no mileage arithmetic and no lodging line, and the fee for the music itself is the same one a Denver host sees. Load-in runs 45 to 60 minutes at these sizes, one van, through whichever door the venue prefers.
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 does ask 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 three things written down before the day: a covered, level and dry performance area, power run to it, and an agreed move-indoors call. Instruments and electronics both stop behaving in the cold and the wet, and a duo moves indoors in a few minutes when the call is made early enough. Footprints, circuits and input lists for every size are published on the technical page, in a form a resort's events office can check line by line.
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
A club or resort that asks for a certificate of insurance gets one with the contract. The metro versions of this page are Denver and Boulder. A Springs company party is a different set of questions again, and it lives on the Colorado Springs holiday party page.
Questions
Asked about Colorado Springs dates.
- Do you book an acoustic duo in Colorado Springs?
- Yes, and it is the size this city books most. Voice and guitar, or guitar and upright bass, playing covers guests can name at 65 to 72 dBA at the nearest table. It fits an 8 by 6 foot corner on one dedicated 20-amp circuit, which suits a resort terrace, a club dining space or a house without anything being built for it.
- 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 is no mileage arithmetic and no lodging line, because the Springs is a drive home rather than a mountain date, and the fee for the music itself is the same one a Denver host sees.
- Can music play outdoors on a Colorado Springs terrace?
- Yes, on a covered, level and dry performance area with power run to it and a move-indoors call agreed before the day. Wind comes off the front of the range in the afternoon and the temperature drops fast once the sun is behind it, so the call gets made early and a duo is inside in a few minutes.
- What size fits a wedding welcome party or rehearsal dinner here?
- A solo musician or a duo. Most of a wedding weekend is dinners and drinks rather than dancing, and those evenings want music underneath the conversation. A trio is the booking when the welcome party is going to turn into a dance floor, and the wedding cocktail hour itself has its own page.
- Does the altitude in Colorado Springs change anything?
- Not for the music. The city sits at about 6,035 feet, which guests from sea level notice and musicians don't. The mountain corridor is a different question, and altitude planning for Vail, Aspen and Breckenridge is set out on our mountain page rather than here.
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.
Send us the date and the venue, and we’ll come back with a recommendation and a price for your night. What live music costs in this market is on the pricing page.