Miles Chrisinger
Audio By Carbonatix
With three nights booked at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre starting Thursday, August 15, folk-rock giant Mumford & Sons could easily zip in and out of Denver without doing much for the local scene. Instead, the band’s management reached out to Twist & Shout, the famous Colfax Avenue record shop, back in May to set up an in-store concert, which will take place at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, August 16.
“We had to completely keep everything a secret until yesterday,” store owner Paul Epstein told Westword today, August 13. “That’s hard in a record store. We’re not promoters. We’re used to hyping things up.”
Such intimate performances are a rarity for Mumford & Sons. The group played and recorded a show at Bull Moose Music in Portland, Maine, which made history for the business and the group, too.
Epstein expects the Twist & Shout concert, which will take place in the vinyl room, to be similarly memorable. The set will be entirely acoustic, with nobody plugging in – a first for Twist & Shout. Instead of a record-signing, the band will offer photo opportunities for groups of fans.
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The record store has hosted national and local acts over the years, including Nathaniel Rateliff, DeVotchKa and more recently Brent Cowles, who made Twist & Shout history as the first performer to send Epstein a handwritten thank you note for the gig.
“The bands have been pretty impressive over the last two years,” says Epstein.
Update: The Mumford & Sons concert at Twist & Shout has sold out.
