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Built in 1898 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, the Auditorium’s lofty, open architecture is from another era and the incredible acoustics keep the music real. In Colorado’s chillier months, you will find concerts, speakers, and panels in the intimate setting of our 1918 Community House.
Events are subject to local health mandates.
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Presented By KGNU Door time: 7:30 Show time: 8:00 Join LAPOMPE for "A Very Django Holiday Show"! Be ready for a delightful re-interpretation of classic Christmas & Holiday music through the lens of Early Swing & Hot-Club Jazz. Burning Gypsy jazz tunes mixed with Carol of the Bells, Honeysuckle Rose mixed with Let it Snow, […]
Door time: 3:30 Show time: 4:00 Join Jeff and Paige for a magical holiday concert filled with music, laughter, and fun! Their interactive live show is a Chautauqua holiday tradition and is perfect for the whole family. Sing along and join us for the festive tree lighting to follow! Jeff and Paige use songs, storytelling, […]
Door time: 6:30 Show time: 7:00 Paige is one of the world's most accomplished female sport climbers, with 5.14d ascents including Squamish's renowned Dreamcatcher. In 2022, she became a mom, which forever changed the landscape of her climbing, but not the magnitude of her goals. Paige discusses the expectations she brought into parenthood, along with the realities […]
Presented By KGNU Door time: 7:30 Show time: 8:00 Wes Corbett & Simon Chrisman Since meeting over 15 years ago, Wes Corbett and Simon Chrisman, virtuosos on banjo and hammered dulcimer respectively, have toured the world with some of the great musicians of our time. Their duo performances spotlight not only their world-class musicality but […]
Presented By KGNU Door time: 7:30 Show time: 8:00 Cole Scheifele Cole Scheifele is an up-and-coming folk singer/songwriter based out of Denver, Colorado. He combines beautiful melodies with deep and thought-provoking lyrics that he says stem from his never-ending hunger to discover more about the human experience. “I don’t think we ever stop learning and […]
Sponsored by The Betsy Hitchcock Fund Door time: 6:30 PM Show time: 7:00 PM Chart your personalized menopause map with local experts. Join our growing community of women to navigate menopause with confidence. We are proud to introduce "Putting Menopause on the Map", a three-part speaker series dedicated to empowering women through education, support, and […]
Presented By KGNU Door time: 7:30 Show time: 8:00 Covenhoven is internationally recognized indie artist Joel Van Horne, a multi-instrumental singer-songwriter whose rich harmonies, reedy baritone, and commanding falsetto have found a home with critics and fans since 2013. Through 4 full-length albums and 2 EPs Covenhoven has forged a signature style; layered acoustic arrangements […]
This is a featured event of the BAE Systems Space Series at Chautauqua Presented in partnership with: Door time: 7:00 Show time: 7:30 Join us for an evening with Dr. Gregory Wirth of BAE Systems on a fascinating journey through the past, present, and future of the NASA space telescopes transforming our understanding of the […]
Presented By KGNU Door time: 7:30 Show time: 8:00 Luke Bulla has been singing and playing music most of his life. Touring with and singing in his family band from age four, Luke took up the fiddle at seven. Over the course of the next few years, he won the National Fiddle Contest (in Weiser, […]
Door time: 7:00 Show time: 7:30 Join us for an elegant evening of live podcasting with America's favorite climbing podcasters, Chris Kalous and Andrew Bisharat. Plus, Secret Special Guest! The best moments in climbing happen in obvious places, like the sharp end of a memorable lead, but they can also occur in surprising places, like […]
Presented By KGNU Door time: 7:30 Show time: 8:00 Sturtz Sturtz’s music stands out for its distinctive, soothing instrumental and vocal harmonies. The acoustic quartet – Andrew Sturtz , Jim Herlihy , Courtlyn Carpenter , and Will Kuepper - falls somewhere at the intersection of folk and soul, with lead singer Andrew Sturtz’s melodic vocals soaring over the […]
Door time: 7:00 Show time: 7:30 How do you put the hardest, most painful, yet most incredible journey into words? This record wasn't just about a time, it was about our community and the encouragement we received, the struggle, the comeback, pulling ourselves back up from the depths of despair, and continuing. It’s about our […]
Presented By KGNU Door time: 7:30 Show time: 8:00 Rooted in tradition but with a fierce commitment to innovation, Jake Leg forges a unique path through the expansive world of acoustic music. Consisting of award-winning musicians Eric Wiggs on guitar and vocals, Dylan McCarthy on mandolin and vocals, Justin Hoffenberg on fiddle, and Aaron Hoffenberg […]
Presented By KGNU Door time: 7:30 Show time: 8:00 In the summer of 2006, Alex Thoele and Jon Pickett met while playing guitars around a campfire, high on a mountaintop in Estes Park, CO. The two have been entertaining and writing music since. In 2010, they were joined by mandolin player and fellow midwesterner Jarett […]
Presented By KGNU Door time: 7:30 Show time: 8:00 Describing the musical partnership of Natalie Cressman and Ian Faquini as a duo is accurate, but their collaboration contains multitudes. She’s a trombonist, vocalist and songwriter from San Francisco. He’s a composer, guitarist, and singer from Brasilia. Together they’ve honed a singularly expansive creative communion encompassing their love of the […]
Presented By KGNU Door time: 7:30 Show time: 8:00 Ragged Union The band’s recipe for tasty contemporary bluegrass contains three main ingredients. Geoff Union’s ‘Outsider Songwriting’ makes use of poetic lyric ideas that stretch beyond the ‘normal’ country themes to include personal, fictional, and even historical, stories, often presented in creative rhyme meter. Ragged Union […]
Presented By KGNU Door time: 7:30 Show time: 8:00 Eli West Eli West is an American Roots musician from the Pacific Northwest. A multi-instrumental creator of sonic spaces, Eli’s former training as a designer informs a sound that is lush and organic – neither manicured nor overgrown. Evergreen timbres weave among pitches, rhythms, and lyrics […]
Presented By KGNU Door time: 7:30 Show time: 8:00 “The most exciting vocal group in a generation,” Windborne’s captivating show draws on the singers’ deep roots in traditions of vocal harmony, while the absolute uniqueness of their artistic approach brings old songs into the present. Known for the innovation of their arrangements, their harmonies are bold […]
This is a featured event of the BAE Systems Space Series at Chautauqua Presented in partnership with: Door time: 7:00 Show time: 7:30 The ground-breaking DIMPLE (Dating an Irregular Mare Patch with a Lunar Explorer) experiment will for the first time send a rock-dating instrument to resolve a scientific mystery on the Moon. The objective […]
Door time: 7:00 PM Show time: 7:30 PM Josh Wharton is one of America’s most accomplished all-around climbers, with three decades of cutting-edge ascents across all genres of climbing. From free solos of Switzerland’s famed Eiger and Matterhorn North Faces, to the first ascent of the world’s longest rock route, The Azeem Ridge, on Pakistan’s Great […]
Chautauqua Member Pre-Sale: Wednesday, November 13 at 10:00 AM Public On-Sale: Friday, November 15 at 10:00 AM Presented By KGNU Door time: 7:30 Show time: 8:00 Hazel Miller and the Collective is a highly popular and in-demand band in Colorado and beyond. Ms. Miller, an accomplished performer who has been playing in Colorado for almost […]
Presented By KGNU Door time: 7:30 Show time: 8:00 Griffin House is an American singer-songwriter and storyteller. Touring and making records for over 20 years, House has a discography that includes over 13 albums. His debut record “Lost and Found” (2004) was featured on CBS Sunday Morning by music critic and then VP MTV/VH1, Bill […]
Presented By KGNU Door time: 7:30 Show time: 8:00 Seth Walker is often cited as one of the most prolific Americana artists on the scene today. He’s a multi-dimensional talent who combines a gift for melody and lyric alongside a rich, Gospel-drenched, Southern-inflected voice with a true blue knack for getting around on the guitar. […]
This is a featured event of the BAE Systems Space Series at Chautauqua Presented in partnership with: Door time: 7:00 Show time: 7:30 In the last three decades, the explosion of exoplanet discoveries have demonstrated that, on average, every star in the Milky Way hosts a planetary system. With so many planets now discovered, our […]