Tag: ford amphitheater
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O.A.R. ready to rock with show at Ford Amphitheater
By L. Kent WolgamottLast Word Features Chris Culos was reviewing a list of 40-plus songs that O.A.R. was preparing to play as the hard-touring Maryland rock band set to embark on another run of shows. That list included hits such as “Lay Down,” “Shattered (Turn The Car Around)” and “Love and Memories”; a few of the…
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Two Colorado artists win grants for new murals at Ford Amphitheater
Muralist Malachiah Curry hoped to capture the experience of live music with his paintbrush. His new large-scale mural, “Echoes of the Rockies,” one of two new murals at the award-winning Ford Amphitheater on the north side of Colorado Springs, does just that. The warm reds, oranges and yellows depict a performer on stage, crooning into…
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Two Colorado artists win grants for new murals at Ford Amphitheater
Muralist Malachiah Curry hoped to capture the experience of live music with his paintbrush. His new large-scale mural, “Echoes of the Rockies,” one of two new murals at the award-winning Ford Amphitheater, does just that. The warm reds, oranges and yellows depict a performer on stage, crooning into a mic, while the audience goes wild…
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Ford Amphitheater receives noise permit for 2026 concert season, councilmember would still like changes
For the third time since it opened, Ford Amphitheater has received a noise hardship permit from Colorado Springs to cover its concerts. The city announced Wednesday that it had issued the permit covering the 2026 concert season for Ford Amphitheater, the 8,000-seat open-air music venue in northern Colorado Springs. The noise permit is largely identical…
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Ford Amphitheater receives noise permit for 2026 concert season
For the third time since it opened, Ford Amphitheater has received a noise hardship permit from Colorado Springs to cover its concerts. The city announced May 6 that it had issued the permit covering the 2026 concert season for Ford Amphitheater, the 8,000-seat open-air music venue in northern Colorado Springs. The noise permit is largely…
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How does Colorado House committee voting down noise abatement bill affect Ford Amphitheater?
Tuesday was a swan song for the state bill that would have helped Ford Amphitheater and other venues put on louder concerts. The House Transportation, Housing and Local Government Committee voted Tuesday to indefinitely postpone the noise abatement law. The decision means the proposed Senate Bill 98, which had passed the state Senate in March,…
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How does Colorado House committee voting down noise abatement bill affect Ford Amphitheater?
Last week was a swan song for the state bill that would have helped Ford Amphitheater and other venues put on louder concerts. The House Transportation, Housing and Local Government Committee voted April 14 to indefinitely postpone the noise abatement law. The decision means the proposed Senate Bill 98, which had passed the state Senate…
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LETTERS: Individual property rights; something to celebrate
Individual property rights Giving local control over noise limits may create a negative quality of life for more Colorado communities, as it has had for hundreds of families for the past two concert seasons under the variance, aka “local control”, given by Mayor Yemi Mobolade and our police chief. Local control for the amphitheater is…
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Award-winning musicals, plays coming to Colorado stages this spring
Through April 5: “The Phantom of the Opera”Denver Center for the Performing Arts In Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award-winning tragic musical, based on the 1920 novel by Gaston Leroux, a mysterious, disfigured musical genius who lives in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Paris Opera House develops an obsession with a singer. April 2-19: “Frozen” by…
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Survey from Ford Amphitheater owner touts support for noise bill moving through legislature
A bill that would help Ford Amphitheater and other for-profit concert venues receive noise exemption permits for future concerts is being considered by a state House subcommittee after passing the Senate on a 30-4 vote this month. State lawmakers introduced Senate Bill 98 after a 2025 Colorado Supreme Court ruling in a noise pollution case…