To be honest, something’s on my mind as I write this. My weekend plans.
Within the next few days, I’m going to a show at The Black Sheep, seeing live music at Axe and the Oak during a Kentucky Derby party and more music at Front Range Barbecue.
A note from “future me”: It was a good weekend.
It sounds like a surreal dream from another time to say that live music can be part of my plans again. It’s just so exciting that there are this many options around town again.
And it seems like there’s going to be more options, like a brand-new blues festival in Colorado Springs.
Janiva Magness will headline Octoberâs Blues on the Mesa, featuring Grammy winner Alvin Youngblood Hart and others. Paul Moore
Amy Whitesell and her husband George have been staples of the Colorado Springs blues community for nearly two decades. In 2003, Amy was one of the founders of the nonprofit
Pikes Peak Blues Community, which supports blues and American roots music along the Front Range. In 2006, she parted ways with them to start her own company with George, and thatâs when
A Music Company Inc. was born.
Since then, theyâve brought in tons of national touring blues artists such as
• Meals on Wheels, Tri-Lakes area Sue Cliatt, 481-3175.
• Mountain Community Senior Services coloradoseniorhelp.com.
• Multiple Sclerosis Alliance 633-4603, msasoco.org.
• National Alliance on Mental Illness 473-8477.
• Need Project Inc. needproject.org.
• One Nation Walking Together 329-0251, onenationwt.org.
• Open Bible Medical Clinic 475-0972.
• Partners in Housing mdunlap@ partnersinhousing.org.
• PEAK Parent Center peakparent.org, 531-9400.
• Peterson Air and Space Museum 556-4915, P SGAR.MU@us.af.mil.
• Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments/Area Agency on Aging 471-2096, ext. 114.
• Pikes Peak Area Crime Stoppers 444-7866.
• Pikes Peak Blues Community pikespeakblues.org.
• Pikes Peak Chapter of the American Red Cross 632-3563.
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