Summer Sounds
2024 Concert Dates: June 14 - July 12 - August 9 - September 13
Show Time: 6 - 9 pm
Location: Memorial Park, 1800 Greene St., Silverton CO, 81433
Join us under the stars every second Friday of the month from June through September!
Now in its seventh season, Silverton Summer Sounds 2024 is a free open-air music series produced by Silverton Creative District and presented by the Town of Silverton. This family-friendly event features libations, food and free live music in Memorial Park. Located at 1800 Greene Street, Memorial Park is ideally situated at the north end of Silverton’s charming downtown district, within an easy stroll of myriad hotels, shops and restaurants. Concerts take place at 6 pm every 2nd Friday of the month from June through September with two high caliber musical acts at each show.
The show goes on RAIN OR SHINE so please come dressed for the weather. Feel free to bring camp chairs or picnic blankets to sit on. No outside alcohol or dogs are allowed. Please note that Memorial Park is a drug, smoke and vape free zone.
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JUNE 14, 2024
THE RUNAWAY GROOMS
Colorado Americana, Jam & Roots Rock.
The Runaway Grooms is a five-piece Americana band based in Vail Valley, Colorado. Much like the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Atlanta Rhythm Section, and the Grateful Dead, The Runaway Grooms paint a spacious soundscape that expands in ever-widening circles, inviting us into warm, enveloping musical landscapes that traverse jazz, rock, and folk.
Their newest album, This Road, captures the energy that the Colorado-based band brings to live performances, each song stretching out along a path filled with melodious meanderings and percussive pathways that dance around a central musical theme.
Above all, The Runaway Grooms are passionate about connecting with their fans and inviting them into their music through its warm tones and emotional authenticity. They have developed a strong following in a short time and after 7 national tours, have shared stages with Umphrey's McGee, Robben Ford, Twiddle, Trombone Shorty, North Mississippi Allstars, and Robert Randolph, among others. With This Road the Runaway Grooms are poised to ride even higher into the musical stratosphere.
FOXHUNT
FoxHunt is a four-piece rock and roll band based out of Silverton, Colorado. Featuring Hunter Little on guitar and vocals, Todd Bove and Nathan Schroepfer on guitar and bass respectively, and Julian Hood on drums. Pulling from a wide variety of classic covers and lesser-known B-sides, crowds can expect to be kept on their toes while listening to everything from Three Dog Night, The Faces, and My Morning Jacket to the Grateful Dead, The Talking Heads, and Wolfmother.
JULY 12, 2024
CAITLIN KRISKO & THE BROADCAST
Female fronted powerhouse soul rock.
Caitlin Krisko and The Broadcast is a powerhouse soul rock band hailing from Asheville, North Carolina.
Krisko has been stunning audiences across America and Europe with her soaring vocals, powerful grooves, emotional lyrics and undeniable songwriting. Her electrified and unforgettable performances led to her working with members of Tedeschi Trucks Band and David Bowie's Blackstar Band on the band’s newest studio album Lost My Sight.
Krisko captivates her audiences, bringing the perfect blend of power and vulnerability throughout her shows. With a mix of soul rock arrangements with dashes of blues and pop, Caitlin Krisko and The Broadcast has shared stages with Mavis Staples, the late Charles Bradley, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Marcus King, The String Cheese Incident, Bettye Layette, and Gregg Allman’s Buffalo Mountain Jam among others.
The Broadcast is: Caitlin Krisko (vocals), Aaron Austin (guitar), William Seymour (bass), Michael W. Davis (drums), and Tyler Housholder (percussion).
WRUFUS WILMOT
Currently in the midst of releasing his debut “album,” Wrufus Wilmot’s music is focused on the type of social, economic, and environmental change that requires critical thinking, self awareness, and purposeful empathetic action. He uses his is whistleblowing messaging and lyrical style to callout the lies that would have us believe that blind faith in any arena will chauffeur humanity into an age of enlightenment and equity.
“Organize, agitate, educate.”
AUGUST 9, 2024
THE SWEET LILLIES
String Americana ranging from folk and rock to hip-hop.
The Sweet Lillies' music is, first and foremost, heartfelt and collaborative. Those defining traits are given life by the quartet of musicians who make up the Lillies. Together they have combined their individual strengths to deliver powerful narratives of life in song. With their lineup of guitar, viola, upright bass, drums and ethereal vocal harmonies that float like a dream, the Sweet Lillies' music has a hard hitting original flavor with a forward-looking eye. They have incorporated all of their cumulative life-experiences into their music, song-writing, and artistry, crafting an uncommonly-beautiful style
they have christened “String-Americana” - a nod to the band’s all encompassing musical tastes and willingness to experiment with genres ranging from folk and rock all the way to hip-hop. The band’s newest release, Equality, was produced by Grammy-award winner Chris Pandolfi of The Infamous Stringdusters and will be out on Americana Vibes On June 2, 2023.
Equality is an intrepid collection of songs that fully represents the current and evolved sound of the band. The instrumentation is primarily what you will hear at a live show with the exception of Pandolfi on banjo for a few select tracks and Kyle Hollingsworth of The String Cheese Incident on keys. The record truly sounds like a live Sweet Lillies experience, with Jason Hann of The String Cheese Incident filling in on drums for the entirety of the album. Powerful rapping next to layered vocals and instrumental solos are only one of the aspects that give this album an original sound. Through the recording process, Pandolfi challenged the band to find their more ‘savage lillies’ side which is present throughout the music. Each song is a unique composition that blends into the concept of the album which is Equality. Social Justice, self exploration, and evolution of the spirit are the guiding feelings of this new record.
SCOTT & HIS YOUNGER BROTHERS
Scott Craig and Pete Barszcz have been playing music locally together for over 20 years. Recently they’ve teamed up with Tyrone Toral and are playing jam style music with hard driving percussion and totally creative improv guitar and other instruments, some of which are made in Silverton. Doesn’t get more local than that!
Pete being born in Poland and Tyrone born in the Philippines gives their music a local as well as planetary diverse flavor. The talented Mike Richardson will be joining the group on bass.
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
BARACUTANGA
South American flavor with rhythms of Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Colombia and more.
Baracutanga is a seven-piece band, representing four different countries (Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, USA), that blends South American ancestral traditions with a modern sensibility, whose exciting and distinct Latin flavor keeps crowds dancing and always wanting more. Baracutanga creates songs that cross linguistic and cultural barriers, building bridges between the south and the north, overcoming the barriers of discrimination and promoting intercultural experiences that empower Latinos and all people with a positive message of self-affirmation.
The band promotes non-violence and their music as a vessel to increase and acknowledge cultural pluralism. Baracutanga‘s live shows are joyous, intense and explosive, propelled by the sounds of Andean flutes, charango, accordion, vibes, horns, guitar, bass, drums, vocal harmonies, and an array of percussion, often joined on stage, by Afro-Peruvian and Latin dancers. Baracutanga has received multiple regional awards and recognitions and have performed across the Southwest, Rocky Mountains, and California, with stops in Calgary, NOLA, Austin and México.
BROOKSIDE
Brookside is an Indie/Alternative band, and has been making music together since middle school. The band is now spread out, with members in Nashville, Washington D.C., and Silverton, but this has not stopped them from continuing to make new music. With more songs unreleased than released, the best is yet to come!
