GO PRO MOUNTAIN GAMES MOUNTAINS OF MUSIC HEADLINERS – June 8 – 10, 2023
The 2023 GoPro Mountain Games will once again feature incredible live concerts throughout the event as part of the Mountains of Music concert series. Free day time music sets will liven the vibe in Mountain House Gear Town (Vail Village) and The Hangout (Golden Peak) each day from Thursday through Sunday. Then on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, the iconic Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater (The Amp) in Vail will host ticketed, headliner performances. When the sun sets, The Amp comes alive, winding down from a day of outdoor sport and lifestyle in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
BROTHERS OF A FEATHER FEATURING CHRIS & RICH ROBINSON AND THE MOTET, Thursday, June 8
Under the moniker Brothers of a Feather, The Black Crowes’ Chris and Rich Robinson give fans a rare opportunity to see them perform stripped down versions of some of their classic songs. Forming over two decades ago, the funk five-piece The Motet have learned to work as an interlocking unit, with each member bolstering one another toward the best creative output. This symbiosis has led to a unique style and cohesive musical chemistry, as seen in the band’s immaculate live performances and seamless blend of funk, soul, jazz, and rock.
OREBOLO AND THE HEAVY HEAVY, Friday, June 9
An acoustic trio featuring Rich Mitarotonda (vocals, guitar), Peter Anspach (vocals, guitar), and Jeff Arevalo (upright bass) – members of the emergent Connecticut rock group Goose. Orebolo has built a faithful following nationwide, specifically after a series of virtual festival appearances in 2020, and an acclaimed performance at Lockn’ Presents FRED The Festival in August 2021. The Heavy Heavy create the kind of unfettered rock ‘n’ roll that warps time and place, immediately pulling the audience into a euphoric fugue state with its own sun-soaked atmosphere.
LOCAL NATIVES AND CIRCLES AROUND THE SUN, Saturday, June 10
In their debut album as Local Natives, “Gorilla Manor,” was released in the UK on November 2nd, 2009, and saw a US release date of February 16th, 2010. The band’s sound has been described as “afropop-influenced guitars with hyperactive drumming and hooky three-part harmonies.” Los Angeles-based instrumental supergroup Circles Around the Sun is a contemporary instrumental rock band, initially formed with the purpose of creating music for “Fare Thee Well,” a series of reunion concerts played by the surviving members of the Grateful Dead.
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AMP SUMMER CONCERTS, 2023
The summer-long concert series at Vail’s Gerald. R. Ford Amphitheater returns in 2023 with more headliner concerts (in collaboration with AEG Presents) from a variety of genres including rock, pop, country, bluegrass, comedy, and more. There’s no better place to see these concerts than the natural, outdoor Ford “Amp”, set under the stars, surrounded by the mountains of Vail. Get up close and personal with covered reserved seating, or spread out with General Admission lawn seating. Just make sure you grab a ticket to these not to miss shows and secure your lodging today! Check back for more announcements!
SHAKEY GRAVES with support from Neal Francis – Wednesday, June 21
Austin, Texas, native Shakey Graves is a lifelong performer (and occasional actor) who has found success with his unique strain of blues, folk, and rock. In 2011, he was tapped as the “official busker” for the Railroad Revival Tour—featuring Mumford & Sons and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. Graves was named Emerging Artist of the Year at the 2015 Americana Music Honors & Awards. In 2018 he released the full-length LP, Can’t Wake Up, which climbed the Billboard’s Americana/Folk Albums chart.
Big Head Todd and The Monsters and Blues Traveler Concert, July 6
Big Head Todd and The Monsters have quietly become an American institution following three and a half decades of writing, recording, and touring (totaling over 3,500 performances). After countless sold-out shows in amphitheaters and on the high seas, beaming their tunes to outer space (literally), earning the endorsement of everyone from Robert Plant to The Denver Broncos, and tallying tens of millions of streams, Big Head Todd and The Monsters cite the friendships formed in the crowd among their proudest accomplishments. Joining Big Head Todd and the Monsters in Vail will be longtime rock band Blues Traveler. Starting in 1987, Blues Traveler is known for extensive use of segues in live performances and were considered a key part of the re-emerging jam band scene in the 1990s.
Thievery Corporation with special guest Boombox,July 15
Twenty-five years into their genre-defying electronic music career, Thievery Corporation’s founding principles of D.I.Y. and inclusion have become key themes in mainstream social conversation. After a dozen highly acclaimed full-length albums, remix LPs, concert recordings, and over two decades of incendiary live performances that have thrilled audiences worldwide, Thievery Corporation’s music and message is more relevant and important now than ever.
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW, Sunday, July 16
Old Crow Medicine Show began in late September of 1998 when a monkey wrench gang of old-time string band musicians, most of us still in our teens, left Ithaca, New York to cross the Canadian border and play our way to the Pacific. We brought our pawnshop fiddles, banjos, guitars and washboards to downtown street corners across Ontario, to paper mill towns above Lake Superior, farmers markets in Manitoba, Indian reservations in South Dakota, and out to the streets of Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle and Portland. Along the way we discovered a unique country sound both old and new, foreign and familiar. We knew we had captured something special.
CAAMP, Monday, July 17
On their earthy, jubilant new album, the Columbus, Ohio, band Caamp examine those in-between days that make up a life — not the best or most eventful days, certainly not the worst or most tragic, but those full of small pleasures and forgotten disappointments. Taylor Meier, the group’s singer and primary songwriter, came up with the phrase Lavender Days to describe them — a phrase that struck him out of the blue, “like a coconut out of the sky,” he says with a laugh. Why lavender? “It’s nostalgic. It can remind you of your grandmother’s perfume or maybe the air freshener in your mom’s car. It can summon up all of these incredible memories and transport you to those in-between days, which I think everybody remembers with more clarity than the big events.”
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue and Ziggy Marley with support from Mavis Staples & Robert Randolph and The Family Band – Monday, July 24
You don’t want to miss this high-energy evening of funky horns with New Orlean’s very own Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue and eight-time Grammy Award winner Ziggy Marley. Additionally, the legendary singer Mavis Staples and gospel soul act Robert Randolph and The Family Band will open the show and get the crowd moving!
Chicago – Friday, August 11
Hailed as one of the “most important bands in music since the dawn of the rock and roll era, the legendary rock and roll band with horns, Chicago, came in as the highest charting American band in Billboard Magazine’s Top 125 Artists Of All Time. And Chicago is the first American rock band to chart Top 40 albums in six consecutive decades.
The Head & The Heart with Father John Misty, August 15 & 16
Mt. Joy with Support by Flipturn, Saturday, August 19
Across various cultures and belief systems, the color orange symbolizes sunshine, creativity, heat, freedom, fascination, and fire. Mt. Joy channels this bright, bold, and brilliant energy on their 2022 third full-length offering, Orange Blood, which is set to release on June 17th via Island Records. The title track, which was released today across platforms, hinges on gently strummed guitar as woozy vocals echo over sparse swells of sound before the central hummable harmony drifts in and out of focus.
Pixies and Modest Mouse with special guest Cat Power, Saturday, September 2
As a blood moon looms over mankind in the wake of the pandemic, Pixies come out to play, gripped by a creative rage. In a virtually peerless 36-year history taking in a first era (1986-1993) that gouged out a raw, dynamic and influential new path for alternative rock over a clutch of seminal albums merging mythological savagery, sci-fi intrigue and collegiate pop charm, and a second since their 2004 reunion that has seen them alchemize more sophisticated dark arts, the iconic alt-rock pioneers rarely been so fired up and wracked with that ancient hunger. Over the past quarter century, Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock has served as indie rock’s resident backwoods philosopher, pondering his infinitesimal place in the world at large and seeking balance in a universe governed by polar opposites.
Tash Sultana Concert, September 3
Since they broke through into the Australian music scene more than a decade ago, Tash Sultana has been nothing less than a musical force. The gender-fluid multi-instrumentalist, producer, singer-songwriter, engineer and entrepreneur has carved out every step in their musical journey over the last 15 years, which has taken them from performing open night mics all over the country, busking the streets of Melbourne to releasing platinum records, accumulating billions of streams, nominations across the globe, to winning awards and selling hundreds of thousands of concert tickets worldwide.
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Moe’s Original BBQ Hot Summer Nights| Select Tuesdays
Hot Summer Nights has been a longstanding Vail tradition for 20+ years and a favorite Tuesday night scene for locals and visitors alike. This free concert series brings popular bands from today and yesterday to the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater. Bring a picnic (food is also available for purchase), grab a beverage (wine, beer, and cocktails available for purchase), spread out a blanket, and enjoy a music-filled evening.
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Pop-Up Concerts & Live Music | All summer | FREE
Many of Vail’s favorite local musicians bring their music to the streets of Vail with pop-up performances throughout Vail Village and Lionshead. Be surprised and delighted as you happen upon these high-energy outdoor performances this summer!