Music

Michelle Guadalupe Felix Garcia, a 16-year-old from Mexico, has been enamored with the music of the Fray, and particularly the Denver group’s frontman Isaac Slade, for some years now.

Musicians are rallying to raise money for Zuma’s Rescue Ranch, a Littleton group that uses horses saved from slaughter in therapy for veterans with PTSD and youth in the foster-care system.

Blues Traveler returns to Red Rocks for its annual Fourth of July show with Rusted Root, Spin Doctors and the Samples opening the show, while Queen and Adam Lambert take over the Pepsi Center on Thursday.

Since Tuesday, June 27, Westword has been following Wheelchair Sports Camp MC Kalyn Heffernan’s efforts with the disability-rights group ADAPT to convince Senator Cory Gardner to vote against a GOP healthcare proposal that would leave 22 million without health insurance, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Guitarist Marc Ribot, who’s worked with heavies like Tom Waits and Elvis Costello, says playing music is all about what you do with your limitations, and playing acoustic guitar, which he’ll do when he plays two solo sets at Dazzle this Saturday, has definite limitations.

Umphrey’s McGee returns to Red Rocks for a three-night run that kicks off tonight, while Rise Against and Deftones co-headline at the Pepsi Center tonight.

On Friday, July 7, the Open Media Foundation hosts its next monthly free Open Music Session event, which will spotlight music from Joseph Lamar and comedy from Caitie Hannan and Joshua Skillman.

HAIM stops at the Ogden Theatre on Wednesday, September 13, in support of Something to Tell You, which is slated for release on July 7. Tickets ($35) go on sale on Friday, June 30, at 10 a.m.

A sit-in almost turned into a shit-in when disability rights activists with ADAPT started needing to use the restroom — which had been shut down — after they had spent the night in Republican Senator Cory Gardner’s Denver office, trying to force him to vote against a Republican healthcare proposal that the Congressional Budget Office says would leave 22 million uninsured by 2026.

The votes are in. The winners of the 2017 Westword Music Award were announced Tuesday, June 27, at Globe Hall.

Wheelchair Sports Camp MC Kalyn Heffernan and seven other members of the disability rights group ADAPT have begun a sit-in at Cory Gardner’s office, today, June 27. The group is demanding that the Republican senator vote against the GOP-led health-care bill that would replace President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act…

“The most useful thing we can do as humans is to die, be put in the forest and let the forest floor eat us away and later create new life.”

Ebenezer Yebuah, better known by his artist name Mawule, learned at a young age that it is important to make time for what you love.