Chautauqua Auditorium
Month of rain, 2 months of sizzle – triple digit HEAT.
2019’s also been a solid season of MUSIC. Outdoor concerts, outdoor theatre. Rodeo & Shakespeare. Tim McGraw ‘Party Zone’ tickets, Diana Ross @ Red Rocks.
New addition to the tradition? Colorado Music Festival, Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder. Warm summer night, Mahler Symphony No. 3, soul-reaching viola. String, my orchestra ‘Spirit Animal’. Violin, viola, bass. Completely memorized.
Downtown Street Faire. Bookend’d this year’s series. Second Friday of June, second Friday of August – concert first & last. More than music, love the energy, the life it breathes into my hometown’s downtown. Kids in the Bounce House, grandparents bunched close to Stage. BBQ, microbrews & Sweet Cow. Dig that too ❤️
Season shift, autumn. Kids in school. Sun drops sooner. Centaurus High band part of the outside evening beat. Friday nights & football. Goodnite Moon 🌙
September Update: Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. Bus, box lunch & show badges. Employer treated the entire Company. Thanks PS!
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- Mahler Symphony No. 3
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- end of Summer
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- Goodnite Moon 🌙
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- Thanks PS!
Louisville Street Faire (2019 season-end)
Rodeo empty; fair food finished. Short hour nap & ready for Round 2. Tim McGraw. Tickets in the ‘Party Zone’. First time ‘Best Available’ shoulda come with an age limit. College-age beer, crowded ‘round an outdoor stage. $30 less would have bought a seat 🙂
Stared up at the screen, watched the opening act embrace the elements. AND enjoyed the moment, it’s only rain. Wet, corralled in a sea of cowboy – hats, boots, dippin’ tobacco & solo-cup beer. Stage lights pulsed. Everyone got loud, and there he was – Tim McGraw. For this legend, even the rain stopped. Surrounded by thousands who LOVE him, his music. Down-home lyrics. Catchy hooks. Redneck, yep – and FUN.
An hour in, crazy half-lit Tanya Tucker stumbled on stage. Delta Dawn.
Earlier Saturday, CSU-Fort Collins doctors operated on her dog’s heart. She came/went/asked Tim for money (hefty vet bill). Delta Dawn. Gal’s been around a long time – appreciate that AND empathy for the dog. Surprise glimpse at another legend.
Diana Ross. Shakespeare. Tim McGraw. Next week, Mahler symphony at Chautauqua. HUGE fan of string. Cello — its deep somber resonance, my soul instrument.
Summer break almost over. Go, do, be. LOVE LOVE my Colorado life ❤️
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- Cheyenne, Round 2
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- kickin’ up dust 🤠
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- Frontier NIGHTS
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- sea of COWBOY
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- Wyoming LOVED
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- Party Zone crowd
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- U-S-A 🇺🇸
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- country legend
Tim McGraw (Cheyenne 2019)
Tim McGraw & Tanya Tucker
KANGAROO 🦘
Daddy of ‘em All. Cheyenne, Wyoming. Frontier Days.
After a four-year absence, I’m back folks. America’s largest outdoor rodeo – & later tonite, country legend Tim McGraw. Goin’ BIG – no regrets this summer season 😊
Cowboy’d up with Stephen, Saturday morn. DIA flight from New Hampshire; hour-half highway north on I-25. First out-of-state trek for my BIG FORD TRUCK. Rodeo adventure, bang-on perfect. Have I told y’all how much I LOVE my new truck? HA!
Bronc buckin’, steer wrestlin’ & calf roping. Missed the bulls this year, probably my fave-absolute next to the buckin’ broncs. An event which NEVER disappoints.
123rd CFD Rodeo – older than the state itself. Dig the big-voice announcer, crowd of cowboy hats, parking lot of trucks & horse trailers. My season. Good to be back.
Cowboy up y’all. Rodeo season – mmm, feels like summer.
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- Daddy of ’em All
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- BRONC buckin’
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- high adrenaline, NEVER disappoints
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- steer wrestlin’
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- team roping
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- rattlesnake BRATWURST
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- fair FOOD fave 😊
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- COWBOY season
Cheyenne Frontier Days 2019
