COLORADO BAR MUSIC

ABOUT

Why this exists, how it works, and what to know

Across the city, musicians are playing in bars and small venues every night, but the information is scattered. This platform brings those events together in one place so anyone can quickly see what's happening and decide where to go.

The goal is to make it easy to have an unplanned night out — to check what's playing nearby, pick a place, and go see what happens.

Live bar music has always been part of a simple human tradition: people gathering in a room to listen, talk, and share a moment together. In a time when more of life happens online, these spaces still offer something real.

This platform also exists to support the musicians and venues that keep local music scenes alive.

Sometimes the best nights start the same way — with nowhere in particular to go, just the sense that somewhere in the city the music is playing and the lights are still on.

✨ What's New (click to expand)
Jul 29, 2026
  • Facebook coverage expanded from 4 to 34 venues — Lakewood Grill, Gold Pan Saloon (Breck), Bootstrap Brewing, the Pueblo bar cluster, Storm Peak & O'Neil's (Steamboat), Arvada Tavern, and two dozen more now flow in via our Facebook events pipeline
  • Mesa Theater (Grand Junction) is back — their site unblocked us (14 shows: Voodoo Glow Skulls, Nick Shoulders, Struggle Jennings)
  • Free summer concert series added: AvonLIVE!, Basalt River Park, Band by the River (Edwards), Granby Music & Market, Boardwalk Park (Windsor)
  • Updated the "venues we can't scrape" list — it got a lot shorter
Jul 23, 2026
  • Coverage push batch 3 — 6 more venues:
  • Mercury Cafe (Denver) — the historic Mercury's music nights, with the dance classes and tarot filtered out
  • Peculier Ales (Windsor) — Windsor's first venue on the site, Friday "Windsor Music" series
  • Goat Patch Brewing Monument (Sunday Summer Music Series), Bread Bar (Silver Plume), Black Rose Acoustic Society (Black Forest), and @ Cheers (Northglenn) tribute nights
  • Coverage push batch 2 — 6 more scrapers, ~120 events, 5 new towns:
  • All of Delta County in one sweep: Big B's Orchards, Grand Mesa Arts Center, Three20, Snow Capped Cider, the Paonia park series, and more (Hotchkiss, Cedaredge, Paonia, Delta)
  • The Stokehouse (Walsenburg) — the town's only venue, and a busy one
  • Heather's Snowmass and The Collective Snowmass — the Roaring Fork's free-music mainstays
  • Union Social House (Durango) and Dolores River Brewery (Dolores)
Jul 22, 2026
  • Statewide coverage push from our gap analysis — 7 new venues in one batch:
  • The Fox Theatre (Boulder) — the Hill's legendary 625-cap room, finally on the site
  • Strings Music Pavilion (Steamboat Springs) — 60+ summer shows incl. Fitz and the Tantrums, Cat Power, The Jayhawks
  • Sheridan Opera House (Telluride), The Freight (Leadville), City Star Brewing (Berthoud), Loveland Aleworks, and The Old Mine (Erie)
  • Berthoud, Erie, and Northglenn get their first-ever coverage (The Glenn Bar & Grill scraper fixed — was returning 0)
Jul 17, 2026
  • The Bricks (Longmont) added — 25+ shows from their events calendar, with their comedy/dance-class programming filtered out
  • Glenwood Caverns events restored after their site redesign broke the scraper — Music on the Mountain and Octoberfest are back
  • Weekly scraper health checks now verify against the live events database, so "broken scraper" alerts are far more accurate
Jul 06, 2026
  • The Stillery (Westminster) rebuilt — now pulling their full calendar (~109 shows, up from ~10)
  • Washington's (Fort Collins) events restored via a backup source after their main site started blocking us
  • New Niwot guide covering Rock & Rails, the 2nd Ave Concert Series, and the jazz festival
  • Live Music Tonight and This Weekend pages now show live show counts and are linked from every guide
  • Fixed filters that were wrongly hiding real shows (bands with "Cowboys", "Rodeo", or "Circus" in their name, tribute nights at vendor markets, and more)
Jul 05, 2026
  • Venue pages renamed to "«Venue» Upcoming Events & Live Music Schedule" so they're easier to find on Google
  • Four new city guides: bars with live music in Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, and Boulder — plus a Golden guide
  • Twitter bot now posts one clean daily roundup instead of a 4-tweet thread
  • The Couloir at Meier Skis events now read directly from their poster images using AI vision
  • Mission Ballroom and Ford Amphitheater map pins corrected
Jun 16, 2026
  • The Couloir Bar at Meier Skis (Denver) added — their flyer-only schedule is now on the site
  • Palisade Brewing Company added with 60+ shows from their calendar
  • The Roxy on Broadway (Denver) added
Jun 10, 2026
  • Fixed "TBD" event times at Tabor Opera House, Belly Up, Federal Theatre, and Moxi Theater
  • A weekly automated data-quality review now checks for wrong times, duplicates, and non-music events
May 30, 2026
  • 20 top venues enriched with Google ratings, photos, and descriptions on their venue pages
  • Cervantes Masterpiece gets its own scraper — near-term shows no longer missing
May 24, 2026
  • The Burndown (Denver) and Grizzly Rose added
May 15, 2026
  • Fixed 12 broken scrapers in one sweep (+146 events)
  • Site navigation unified across pages, with the map view easier to reach
  • Map zoom controls cleaned up on mobile
May 11, 2026
  • The Couloir at Meier Skis and Town Hall Collaborative scrapers added
  • 38 missing map pins added
  • Odyssey Beerwerks and the Longmont city events calendar added
May 02, 2026
  • New Journal section: concert recaps and photo galleries from contributors
Apr 27, 2026
  • Every active venue now has its own page at /venue/«name» — 244 venue pages with upcoming shows, past shows, and venue info
Apr 24, 2026
  • 29 new Colorado Springs venues added from Reddit community suggestions, including Triple Nickel Tavern, Mother Muff's, Red Leg Brewing, Poor Richard's, Hillside Gardens, Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort, The Navajo Hogan, What's Left Records, Coati, Tokki, and more
  • ICONS, Red Leg Brewing, Mother Muff's, Bar-K, Back East, Axe and the Oak, Buffalo Lodge, Hillside Gardens, Summa Tap House, Poor Richard's, What's Left Records, Whiskey Rose, Tokki, Coati, Chicken Coop, and Navajo Hogan events now flowing in
  • Summer amphitheater and stadium shows finally visible — extended event window from 29 to 180 days so Fiddler's Green, Gerald R. Ford, Dillon Amphitheater, Coors Field, Folsom Field, and Empower Field shows appear months in advance
  • Deduplication fix: removed cross-scraper duplicates where Ticketmaster and a venue-specific scraper double-posted the same show (e.g. Lucero at Black Sheep showing twice)
  • Em-dash / hyphen / smart-quote duplicates collapsed (e.g. "The Librarians — Clifton" vs "The Librarians - Clifton")
  • 29 new map pins added so every new venue shows up on the map view
Apr 16, 2026
  • Filter by multiple values at once: pick several cities, venues, artists, or types as tag chips
  • Type filter now matches the tag-chip style of the others
  • Mobile autocomplete suggestions are now reliably tappable
  • Better, more relevant venue photos throughout the site
  • City spotlights rotate through multiple venue photos
  • Time fixes for AM events at 27 venues
  • Lion's Lair time display fixed
Apr 13, 2026
  • "Add to Calendar" button on every event downloads an .ics file
  • Mobile calendar button no longer fights with the card tap
Apr 12, 2026
  • Updated the "Venues we know about but can't scrape" list — 31 venues grouped by reason
Apr 09, 2026
  • Bar Hop Guide page launched at /bar-hop — auto-suggests a featured city and builds a 5-stop evening itinerary with a route map
  • Bar hop stops sort chronologically (earliest show first)
  • Bar hop covers major metros: Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Grand Junction, Boulder, Longmont
Apr 08, 2026
  • Daily event highlights now posted to Twitter at @CO_Bar_Music
  • 68 venues added to the map (no more missing pins)
  • 50+ new venue scrapers added from Reddit + community suggestions
Apr 07, 2026
  • Black Buzzard, Trinidad Lounge, and Niwot/RockinRails events now showing
Apr 06, 2026
  • New venues added: Belly Up, Federal Theatre, 715 Club, Marigold, The Legacy
  • Verboten Brewing event filtering improved
Apr 02, 2026
  • Streamlined the navigation — date quick-buttons (Today / Tomorrow / Weekend / This Week) replace the old Tonight and Weekend nav links
  • Better Google search results with cleaner event data
Apr 01, 2026
  • "My Location" button on map view zooms to your current spot
  • SEO landing pages added for Denver, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs
Mar 26, 2026
  • 12 new venues added: Hi-Dive, HQ, Bar 404, Meow Wolf (Convergence Station), The Junkyard, Seventh Circle, The Mockingbird, Creepatorium, Denver Botanic Gardens, Hudson Gardens, Greek Theater, Lost Lake
  • Roxy Theatre, Moxi Theater, Black Sheep, and Nocturne Jazz events now showing
Mar 22, 2026
  • Globe Hall, Tailgate Tavern, and Surfside Seven events now showing
Mar 20, 2026
  • Subscriber digest emails working again — daily, weekly, or monthly delivery with custom filters

⚙ How It Works

1

Scrape

Automated scrapers collect event data from venue websites across Colorado every day

2

Clean

Data is standardized — dates, times, venue names, and cities are normalized

3

Publish

Events appear on the site, searchable by artist, venue, city, date, and type

4

Notify

Subscribers get email digests with events matching their preferences

⚠️ Things to Know

Always double-check times with the venue

Heads Up

Event times are pulled from venue websites automatically. Sometimes a venue lists door time vs. show time, or the scraper picks up the wrong field. When in doubt, check the venue's website or give them a call before heading out.

Spotify links aren't always accurate

Heads Up

Spotify artist links are matched automatically by name. Sometimes a local band shares a name with a different artist on Spotify, so the link may point to the wrong profile. If something looks off, it probably is.

We can't scrape Facebook events

Limitation

Many bars — especially smaller ones — post their events exclusively on Facebook. Facebook blocks automated scraping, so those events won't appear here. If your favorite spot is missing, this is likely why. Suggest the venue anyway and we'll see what we can do.

Some venues aren't listed yet

Limitation

Colorado has hundreds of bars with live music. We're adding new venues regularly, but there are still gaps. If you know a spot we're missing, let us know.

Event types are assigned by venue, not by show

Good to Know

The "Bar," "Brewery," "Venue," etc. labels reflect the venue type, not the specific event. A jazz show at a brewery still shows as "Brewery." We're working on genre tagging down the road.

Data refreshes daily

Good to Know

The scrapers run once a day, usually in the early morning. If a venue updates their calendar mid-day, it may not appear until the next refresh. Last-minute additions or cancellations may not be reflected.

Eastern plains and mountain towns are limited

Limitation

Most venues along the Front Range have scrapeable websites. In smaller towns, many bars rely solely on Facebook or word of mouth for event promotion, so coverage is thinner outside of the metro areas.

Venues we know about but can't scrape

Limitation

A few venues still can't be reliably pulled in. The good news: as of July 2026 most Facebook-only venues (Lakewood Grill, Gold Pan Saloon, Bootstrap Brewing, the Pueblo bars, Storm Peak, and ~30 more) are now covered by our Facebook events pipeline, and Mesa Theater in Grand Junction is back after its site unblocked us. Here's what remains:

🔒 Website Blocks Scraping

Dickens Opera HouseLongmont
Chicken Coop Sports BarColorado Springs
Rialto Theater CenterLoveland
Cavalcade (970Tix)Fruita

📅 No Public Events Calendar

Fly Me To The Moon / O'Bannon'sTelluride
The Rabbit HoleColorado Springs
Thunder and ButtonsColorado Springs
Trailside SaloonThornton
Lyric CinemaFort Collins
The AtriumFort Collins

🔧 Site Down / Likely Closed

Mancos Brewing CompanyMancos
Native SonGlenwood Springs
Montrose Rotary AmphitheaterMontrose
Rendezvous Event CenterWinter Park
The Tune UpBoulder
The PondyCedaredge
Riverwalk CenterBreckenridge
The SundrySalida

If you know a venue that should be listed, let us know — we'll look into it.

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