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Denver’s Underground Music Showcase Bows Out “in Its Current Form” After 25 Years
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We spoke with the founder of Kolorádó, partygoers, and crew members about the significance of the festival, which started in 2016, its most beautiful moments, its future, and the background to the conflict that has developed around it.
Denver’s Underground Music Showcase bows out “in its current form” after 25 years
Underground Music Showcase Denver’s indie lifeblood is pulsing to its final beat this July. After a legendary twenty-five‑year run, the Underground Music Showcase—fondly known as UMS—is bowing out “in its current form”, with July 25–27 marking what organisers are calling a grand and necessary “blowout”. Since its scrappy DIY debut in 2001, born from the passion of Denver Post journalists Ricardo Baca and John Moore, UMS has grown from a handful …
Judging by the atmosphere, visitors did not come to the festival for a funeral, but the performers often referred to it as a farewell. The shrinking possibilities forced the organizers to find more efficient and thoughtful solutions in several respects, but regardless of the “threat from a high level”, they must also face the fact that Colorado has outgrown its current location.
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