Events: What to do when there’s nothing to do

EVENTS EVENTS

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Rocky Mountain Folk Festival

10 a.m. Aug. 12-14, 500 W. Main St., Lyons. Friday Tickets: $85.50, bluegrass.com

For over 30 years, Folks Fest has brought together songwriters of all genres to the Planet Bluegrass Ranch in Lyons for three days of music, camping and inspiration. This year you can catch Ani DiFranco, Robert Earl Keen, Yola, Sarah Jarosz and more on the Main Stage. Not far away, you can come say “Hi!” to Boulder Weekly editors and writers, sign up for our newsletter and enter to win a gift card to local businesses like Avanti and OAK at fourteenth.

Arts in the Open

Workshops

10 a.m.-noon, Saturday Aug. 13, Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Tickets: $25-$30, tickets.chautauqua.com

Surround yourself with beauty at Chautauqua Park and paint a masterpiece, step by step, with help from a teacher. This event is appropriate for families, couples, and friends. Participants should wear clothes to paint in and bring a blanket to sit on, water bottles and sunscreen.

Opening Reception of 100 Years

of Boulder Community Health

4:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Tickets: $5, museumofboulder.org

2022 marks Boulder Community Health’s 100th anniversary. This fall, the Museum of Boulder is celebrating the contributions BCH has made to the community with an exhibit highlighting the organization’s history, partnerships, and innovations. Explore 100 years of history, from medical procedures in the 1920s to the pandemic response, and beyond to the future of BCH. Light refreshments and snacks will be served.

6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11, Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Tickets: $5, boulderbookstore.net

Alan and Joanne marry in midlife and live a happily-ever-after existence until, at 69, Alan is diagnosed with a rare, fatal, neurodegenerative illness. As he becomes increasingly disabled and dependent on others, and decreasingly he wants to end his suffering using Colorado’s Medical Aid in Dying law. Walking Him Home is Joanne Tubbs Kelly’s tale of coming to terms with her kind, funny husband’s illness; of learning to navigate caregiving and the pitfalls of our medical system; and of choosing to help her husband in his quest to die with dignity. (Kelly will also speak at Tattered Cover Bookstore, 8885 Westminster Blvd., on Aug. 18.)

FU Smash the Patriarchy:

A Fundraiser for Reproductive Rights

7 p.m.-midnight, Saturday, Aug. 13, Junkyard Social Club, 2525 Frontier Ave., Unit A, Boulder. Tickets at various price tiers, junkyardsocialclub.org/events

As we work together to culturally smash the patriarchy, take your rage out physically right now while raising money for Colorado-based work to promote reproductive rights. Take a sledgehammer to a gutted-out Prius, and smash patriarchal Throw plates that will be repur plus cocktails by DV8 and food by Fancy AF, and an incredible line-up of live music and performance, including drag, circus, DJs, and an unnameable, local, 34-member band that engulfs the audience in an electric bog of music, ephemera, and spectacle. Proceeds go that advances reproductive rights, and COLOR Latino, the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights.

longmontpublicmedia.org

Neptune Mountaineering presents Henna Taylor:

Adventure Storytelling In Reel Time

7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway Boulder. Tickets are free but

Speak To Me Softly A Thousand Ways To Kiss The Ground. An Accidental Life

Boulder County Fair

Longmont, bouldercountyfair.org

EVENTS CONCERTS

FRIDAY, AUGUST 12

Chain Station. Inn,

Eben Grace Duo.

Goldpine. Stafford Hunter. ,

The Samples.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 13

Showdown.

Jesse Cook.

see CONCERTS Page 20

JUST ANNOUNCED

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THU. AUG 11

88.5 KGNU & WESTWORD PRESENT LOVING

SAM BURTON

FRI. AUG 12 RED FANG

BELL WITCH & AERIAL RUIN: STYGIAN BOUGH, HELP

SAT. AUG 13 THE PAMLICO SOUND + THE BURROUGHS

CARD CATALOG

THU. AUG 18 ALPENGLOW

THE ROCKY COASTS, THE DICK NIXONS

FRI. AUG 19

ROOSTER PRESENTS TRIPP ST.

SPECIAL GUEST BLACK CARL!, JOSH TEED

SAT. AUG 20

INDIE 102.3 & WESTWORD PRESENT THE DISTRICTS

ALL THINGS BLUE

THU. AUG 11 KUNC PRESENTS 1A REMAKING AMERICA

SAT. AUG 13

50 YEARS OF MUSIC ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL

GREG SCHOCHET & LITTLE AMERICA

SUN. AUG 14

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND PRESENTS BOMBINO

SELASEE & THE FAFA FAMILY

TUE. AUG 16 MICHAEL “MIKEE T” PATRICK TIERNAN: A CELEBRATION OF LIFE

FEAT. MEMBERS OF THE MOTET, DPO & MORE

WED. AUG 31

88.5 KGNU, WESTWORD & PARADISE FOUND PRESENT HIATUS KAIYOTE

MON. SEP 12

MAYBE SOMEDAY IT’LL ALL BE OK WORLD TOUR CLINTON KANE

EVENTS CONCERTS

CONCERTS from Page 25

RED FANG, PHOTO BY JAMES REXROAD

Joe Schicke Duo. 8 p.m. Velvet Elk Lounge, 2037 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $5

Stafford Hunter. 6 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder. $17 suggested cover.

The Alcapones. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Dr., Nederland. Tickets: $15

The Pamlico Sound & The Bur-

roughs with Card Catalog. 7:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1164 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $15-$18 SUNDAY, AUGUST 14

Bombino with Selasee & The

Fafa Family. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater. 2032 14th St., Boulder. Tickets: $20$25

Chaz Fest West 2022 (Sunday).

6 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder. Tickets: $20

Lionel Young Duo. 8 p.m. Velvet Elk Lounge, 2037 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $5 MONDAY, AUGUST 15

Michael “Mikee T” Patrick: A

Celebration of Life. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater. 2032 14th St., Boulder. Tickets: $25-$30

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17

Anya Hinkle. 6 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder. Tickets: Free

Bourbon, Blues & Grooves:

Jack Hadley Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Entertainment Venue & Event Center, 1455 Coal Creek Drive, Unit T, Lafayette. Tickets: Free

Keith Waters. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. S. Boulder Road, Lafayette. Tickets: $20; Students: $10

Rodney Rice Duo. 8 p.m. Velvet Elk Lounge, 2037 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $5 THURSDAY, AUGUST 18

Alpenglow with The Rocky

Coasts, The Dick Nixons. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1164 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $15-$20

David Lawrence and the Spoon-

ful. 9 p.m. Velvet Elk Lounge, 2037 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $10

Loose Cannon. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Entertainment Venue & Event Center, 1455 Coal Creek Drive, Unit T, Lafayette. Tickets: Free

MuseCycles Vocal Jam. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. S. Boulder Road, Lafayette. Tickets: $10