Two new mountain-town music fests will bid for busy Colorado concert fans
A pair of new, multi-day music festivals will debut in Trinidad and Aspen this year, joining a crowded field that already includes large and multi-day events stretching from Colorado’s high country to the plains.
The Fancy Spider Music Festival will take over the New Mexico border town of Trinidad Oct. 12-15, according to founder Curt Wallach, a music promoter and guitar player who owns the Trinidad Lounge and Hotel, as well as Denver’s Hi-Dive club.
Trinidad’s new Fancy Spider Music Festival is scheduled to run Oct. 10-12, 2025. (Provided by Fancy Spider)
Artists performing at Fancy Spider include more than 50 independent, national and Colorado-based acts of diverse genres. The lineup features Off With Their Heads, Dylan Earl and the Reasons Why, Ritmo Cascabel, Esther Rose Band, The Omens, Heavy Diamond Ring, Rubedo, Don Chicharron, Bluebook and dozens more. Also promised? Yoga, art, cycling, wellness, comedy and, uh, “tarantulas.”
Fancy Spider is just the latest, multi-venue cultural performing arts festival planned for the town, following a defunct stand-up comedy festival and other annual gatherings. The small population and relative isolation of Trinidad has made boosters eager to attract more tourism and investment, with artist-colony and outdoor-culture marketing, although newer events have had a hard time hanging on for more than a few years.
In Aspen, which already counts the JAS Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience (with headliners Imagine Dragons, Lenny Kravitz and Luke Combs), the Up in the Sky Festival will debut Aug. 8-9 at Buttermilk Ski Resort with another eclectic mix of artists, albeit more mainstream ones. They range from country powerhouse Kacey Musgraves and U.K. band Glass Animals to Australia’s dance-pop champs Rüfüs Du Sol and support acts Suki Waterhouse, Jensen McRae, Role Model and others.
Tickets for both are on sale today. Fancy Spider costs $110 for a 3-day, all-access pass. A 1-day pass to Up in the Sky goes for $259, with 2-days costing $364 (packages with cabins are also available). See fancyspider.net or upintheskyfestival.com for more.
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