Tag: Underground Music Showcase
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Denver’s Underground Music Showcase returns this summer, but moves
Despite tearful goodbyes, the Underground Music Showcase won’t miss a beat. The three-day South Broadway music festival will return in the summer of 2026 at a new location — the River North Art District — despite fears last year that the longest-running music event in Denver had reached its end. Those fears were legitimate, with…
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One last song: Dressy Bessy sends UMS out with a bang
A crowd of sweaty, yearning concertgoers screamed for one more song as Dressy Bessy apprehensively unplugged their equipment Sunday night at one of the last shows of the 2025 Underground Music Showcase. Singer and rhythm guitarist, Tammy Ealom, stood grinning at the crowd, egging her three bandmates to plug back in. The last few moments…
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Final Underground Music Showcase gets loud and local this weekend
A last hoorah will shake the buildings on South Broadway this weekend. The Underground Music Showcase (UMS) returns for its 2025 iteration on Friday, displaying more than 200 bands across 12 indoor venues and four outdoor stages throughout a nearly 1-mile stretch. Artists headlining the event include All them Witches, Flyana Boss, Devotchka and “a very…
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2025 Underground Music Showcase will be the last ‘in its current form’
The UMS is going out loud. Since 2001, the Underground Music Showcase has brought thousands of underground bands out into the light. But organizers announced Tuesday that the iconic summer festival’s upcoming 25th trip around the sun will be its last — ”at least in its current form,” said Jami Duffy, executive director of both the…
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Underground Music Showcase highlights gumbo of local genres
Splattered over a mile of stages and participating venues, the Underground Music Showcase (UMS) opened Friday night for its 24th birthday with an synthesis of sound. Over 700 artists — making up around 250 bands — are scheduled on the four outdoor stages and 10 indoor venues over three days. Over 80% of the artists are based…
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Underground Music Showcase trains staff for potential fentanyl overdoses
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Though the Underground Music Showcase (UMS) is set to bring three fun-filled days of live music to the South Broadway neighborhood, the event organizers know that potential drug overdoses are always a possibility. “Obviously, we do not permit drugs on our premises, but we’re also…
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Underground Music Showcase 2024 returns this weekend
The streets of Denver will be alive with the sound of underground music this weekend. The Underground Music Showcase — which started in 2001 and has hit South Broadway every year except 2020 — returns for its 2024 iteration on Friday, displaying over 175 bands throughout a nearly one-mile stretch. The festival takes place on four outdoor…
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Westword puts long-running music festival on hold for 2023 | Arts news
I remember happening upon a band called Slim Cessna’s Auto Club at the very first Westword Music Showcase in 1995 and thinking I had found my new church. One I have regularly attended since. (Both the band … and the festival.) Looking back on the lineup for that first-ever local music celebration in LoDo now…