CBMS - Colorado Bluegrass Music Society

02/10/2025

GET THOSE TICKETS Y’ALL! 🙌 Super fun party coming right up and all your friends will be there. 🤗 Picking literally everywhere, a lineup that will knock your socks off, and yours truly 🙋‍♀️🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏼 bringing back the CBMS Hall of Honor ceremony Sunday at 10 AM. For the first time ever there will be full band inductees, come make history with us! 🎶 Click the link, get your ticket, support your community, and we’ll see you SOON! 

Midwinterbluegrass.com

02/07/2025

To know him was to love him. Telluride Tom Heidger was a standout in the bluegrass scene, as the Mayor of Town Park had a long and beautiful reign. This man just made you feel good, plain and simple. His smile was contagious and his attitude was positive. Tom WON his battle with cancer, every single day, always in good spirits, always keeping hope and love in his heart, but in the end, it took his life. He will mourned by many, and his reach in this world can be seen in the tributes that continue to flood his page. A true LEGEND 👑 Rest easy dear friend. 🙏🏻

02/02/2025

One of UllrGrass’ finest spotted in her CBMS t-shirt with these two who quite frankly embody the whole festival. 🤘🏼Last day! Come on out for sunshine, music, and commUNITY. ☀️🎶 Today is family day and the kid tent will in action for your littles.

01/28/2025

Hey y’all! UllrGrass festival is looking for those last minute volunteers! Please consider, spread the word, and join the most fun volunteer crew on the front range! We CAN confirm, it’s a great time to be had, and it feels good to help.

Email Heather: [email protected]

01/27/2025

Beginners jam camp 🤗🎶 If you want to learn how to play bluegrass with others in safe, encouraging, inspiring space, this is the camp for you! If you already know how to play with others, this is also the camp for you. Instructor Janeen Bogue curates a weekend of fun, friendship and music, and you WILL enjoy and grow. Book your spot now, it’s tuition-based (camp runs March 1-2 in Lyons).

01/26/2025

Current situation

01/22/2025

🚨The ever-so-talented David Smith has written a new piece about the ever-so-amazing Midwinter Bluegrass Festival. This festival is a MUST ATTEND Y’ALL!! Don’t sleep on this friends; read the article, buy the tickets, have the fun. 🎉🎶

“And when it comes to those mainstage acts, there are headliners for the upcoming February 14-16 festival that you simply will not see anywhere else: Tony Trischka's Earl Jam, Wood Box Heroes, and Sister Sadie. There are traveling and local favorites who will play with the tone and honesty that the festival is known for: Mike Compton & Joe Newberry, Damn Tall Buildings, Jake Leg, Blue Canyon Boys, Ms. Amy & the Jet Set, Ragged Union, Charlie Stevens Band, and KC n' Co (KC Groves and friends!).”

Midwinter Bluegrass festival will be held February 14-16, 2025There is one key word, a proper noun in a literary sense, that I’ve heard again and again over the last ten years or so in Colorado. With each passing season it seems to grow in number, like the miracle of mitosis creating life as cells...

01/17/2025

FOLKS!! We have some REALLLLY big announcements today! 🙌 You’re going to want to read all of this!!

New year, new website! 😍 Thanks to Nadine Sekerez, we are pleased to introduce a website like never before. You can find jams, festivals, workshops, history and more, all in one very fancy place. Y’ALL!!! Please check it out, girl worked incredibly hard and it shows.

💥 also- NEW CBMS HALL OF HONOR INDUCTEES coming to you via Midwinter Bluegrass Festival!!! That’s right, this cherished tradition of honoring those that honored Bluegrass before us is returning this year in the same fashion as before. The ceremony will be held Sunday at 10am in the venue.

Created in 2006, the CBMS Hall of Honor now has FORTY individuals, and for the first time ever, we will be honoring two bands as well. It’s important to know who came before us and what part they played, so please make sure to check out the rich history on our website and join us Sunday at the festival to cheer on the new inductees.

Don’t see your band, join! Want your festival to be included in our newsletter, sign up for a business membership. We are here to answer questions, we are here to keep you in the loop, and we are here to keep Bluegrass alive and thrive in ‘25. 🎶

Click here to see more 👇🏼
https://www.coloradobluegrass.org/post/cbms-to-induct-honorees-to-the-cbms-hall-of-honor-at-midwinter-2025

01/12/2025

“It’s Never Too Late” is an article written by Mike Jackson that for SURE needs to be read by at least one person today. That person out there who has been wishing they had learned how to play sooner, someone who thinks everyone in the circle has been there all along, someone who would like to be in one of those chairs too.

“Bluegrass is a genre built on musical tradition and playing music in community, with an open and welcoming invitation for all to join.”

The timing of the article couldn’t be any better, because our CBMS beginners bluegrass jam is tomorrow (Monday), 630-830, at American Music School. If you play an instrument, come play bluegrass with us. 🙏🏻🎶 If you’d like to start playing an instrument, reach out. We’d love to help.

If you have spent much time in Colorado, you have probably walked into a bar and seen a bunch of musicians sitting around in a circle playing bluegrass music.  If you said to yourself, I’d love to play like that but I am too old to learn, well then read on.  Starting a to play a bluegrass instru...

01/11/2025

Order your Midwinter Bluegrass Festival t-shirt and poster early this year! In an effort to buy and use only what’s needed 🌎 shirts will be made to order this year. Pre-order by January 28th for pick up at the festival. There will only be a few extra printed, so don’t miss out!! 👕🐇🎻

Celebrate the Midwinter Bluegrass Festival in style!✨Pre-order your 2025 Midwinter Bluegrass Festival merch by midnight on January 28th for pick-up at check in. Only a few extras will be available at the festival, so grab yours today!🎶

https://www.midwinterbluegrass.com/t-shirt-poster-pre-orders

01/07/2025

Who likes saving money?! GET YOUR early bird SnowyGrass Music Festival in Estes Park tickets now to receive 15% off! You have until midnight on the 7th! (Tuesday/ Tomorrow/ Practically Tonight!!).

Can we even tell you how much it means to festival producers when they can plan better? 🙏🏻 Every time a festivarian buys an early bird ticket a producer gets their wings. (or something like that!!) Be the one y’all.

We're kicking off the new year with putting the festival Tix on sale! Lot's of prep goes into getting that ready. I worked with James Armington to get everything formatted on our ticketing platform, TicketSignup. James has worked really hard with the developers to use their platform--originally desi...

01/03/2025

Since we KNOW one of your new year’s resolutions is to hit more bluegrass festivals, we want to remind you that we keep a full list of Colorado festivals and jams right on our website. 🎶 We have MORE THAN 30 of both!! 🤯🙌 So get these festival dates on your calendar y’all! We’ll keep filling them in as dates are announced.

*Things can change without notice, please understand there may be cancellations on this list. As always, we are happy to add another festival to the list - send any additions, changes or questions to: [email protected]

12/31/2024

Ball drops at midnight, prices go up. GET YOUR EARLY BIRD TICKETS TODAY!!! 🎶 You know you’re going, don’t delay! .bluegrass.festival

12/31/2024

LAST DAY FOR EARLY BIRD PRICES Y’ALL!! You know you’re going, so don’t delay!!!!! When the ball drops at midnight prices go up. It’s also a great service to our local festivals when we buy our tickets early, be that guy (gal). We’ll see you there!!!

Join me at the Midwinter Bluegrass Festival