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Thu 8/11
Colorado Rockies vs. St. Louis Cardinals
@ 1:10pm / $9-$285 Coors Field, 2001 Blake St., Denver
CSU Flower Trial Garden
@ 3pm Fort Lupton Recreation & Parks De‐partment, 203 S Harrison, Fort Lupton. 303-857-4200
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Anavrin's Day at Hoffbrau @ 9pm Hoffbrau, 9110 Wadsworth Pkwy, Westminster
Adult Trips: Buffalo Bill's Grave & Museum 8/12
@ 4pm Offsite, 6060 E Parkway Drive, Commerce City. 303-289-3760
@ 6pm 1stBA�K Center, 11450 Broom�eld Ln, Broom�eld Featured
Dave Mensch at Floodstage Ale Works - Brighton, CO @ 8pm Flood Stage Ale Works, 170 S Main St, Brighton
Sat 8/13
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Community Garden Open House
@ 11am 9195 W 57th Ave, 9195 West 57th Avenue, Arvada. billorchard@ juno.con, 303-422-9468
Stand-Up Paddle Boarding @ Union Reservoir
@ 3pm Offsite, 6060 E Parkway Drive, Commerce City. 303-289-3760 Courtney Hartman: Soundpost Sessions
@ 8pm Longmont Public Media, 457 4th Ave, Longmont
Sun 8/14
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Denver Rocks Run 5K/10K
@ 8am Washington Park, S Downing St & E Louisiana Ave, Denver. jamie.smith@stacksports.com
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@ 2:30pm Arts Hub, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette
Jade Jackson
@ 7:30pm Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St,, Den‐ver
Metalachi
@ 8pm HQ, 60 S Broadway, Denver
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Anythink Backyard Concert Series: Gora Gora Orkestar
@ 6:30pm Anythink Wright Farms, 5877 East 120th Avenue, Thornton. mhibben @anythinklibraries.org, 303-4053200
Colorado Rockies vs. Arizona Diamondbacks
@ 6:40pm / $10-$285 Coors Field, 2001 Blake St., Denver Park Picassos Chalk Art Festival
@ 4pm Offsite, 6060 E Parkway Drive, Commerce City. 303-289-3760
Colorado Rockies vs. Arizona Diamondbacks
@ 6:10pm / $11-$285 Coors Field, 2001 Blake St., Denver
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Mon 8/15
DJ Rockstar Aaron: Forbidden Bingo Monday at Swanky's
@ 7pm Swanky's Vittles and Libations, 1938 Blake St, Denver
Danielle Ponder
@ 7pm Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St, Denver
Tue 8/16
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Wed 8/17
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Coffee with Local Transportation Providers
@ 3pm Eagle Pointe Recreation Center, 6060 E. Parkway Dr., Commerce City. 303-2893760
Medicare 101 8/17
@ 3pm Eagle Pointe Recreation Center, 6060 East Parkway Dr., Commerce City. 303-2893760
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Tim Ostdiek: Drop-In Acoustic Jam
@ 6pm 300 Suns Brewing, 335 1st Ave, Longmont
Danni Nicholls: Live on 4th
@ 6:30pm Live on 4th, Longmont
Thu 8/18
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Melissa Etheridge @ 7:30pm Arvada Center for the Arts and Hu‐manities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada
Fort Lupton’s Koshio Park was full Aug. 2 for the city’s 2022’s National Night Out celebration.
The annual event is marked by police and fi re agencies across the country on the fi rst Tuesday in August. It’s designed to build goodwill between police and other emergency responders and the public.
Fort Lupton’s celebration featured barbecue, games and demonstrations by local fi refi ghters.
Fort Lupton Police Master O cer Paul Grossman doles out some hamburgers outside the police station on McKinley Avenue Aug. 2 for the city’s National Night Out celebration. The American fl ag, held aloft by Fort Lupton Fire Department’s ladder truck is framed by the cloudy sky Aug. 2 at Koshio Park.
PHOTOS BY SCOTT TAYLOR
A bouncy housethemed basketball court drew plenty of players Aug. 2 at Fort Lupton’s Koshio Park for the annual National Night Out celebration. The folks at the Fort Lupton Recreation Center’s booth at Fort Lupton’s National Night Out celebration contend goodnaturedly with sudden gust of wind that cleared their table and threatened to pop the roof of their tent o .
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Bailey Elora, 22, is a small-town Colorado girl with a powerhouse voice.
Now, she’s a small-town Colorado girl with a music distribution deal with Sony Music subsidiary The Orchard.
Elora said her music distribution deal gives her some of the benefi ts of having a label without being tied to all the label’s rules. She can continue to operate as an independent artist under her own self-named Elora label.
“I will release a handful of songs this year starting with a new song, ‘Love Like This,’” Elora said.
David R. Navarro, Elora’s manager, said the deal lets The Orchard distribute Elora’s music while she develops as an artist and builds a following. The company has a year to produce music and then extend the contract. They start the musician in small venues or radio to get a feel for their music and see if the audience likes it.
“It been a good journey and we look forward to Bailey having new music coming out starting in August,” Navarro said.
Elora said she’s hoping to eventually be able to record and release more music. She is currently working on something more upbeat.
“I’ve got a lot of music with sultry vocals and want to move more into the more alternative raw sound,” Elora said.
Singing to recording
Elora grew up in the Hudson/ Keenesburg area and graduated from Weld Central High School. She has been singing since she was eight and started singing professionally with the Youth on Records.
Elora said she was inspired to audition for the children’s chorus in a production called Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat at the University of Northern Colorado Greeley music school.
She entered the Denver student music non-profi t group called “Youth on Record’ at age 14. The program hires experienced musicians to teach the students aged 14 to 21 years old. The students have access to a complete recording studio to participate in labs and are taught spoken word poetry and music theory.
It was through Youth on Records that Elora started doing actual stage performances. She joined a women’s female group called “SenPowered” that got to sing at Michelle Obama’s Women’s Foundation event when she came to Denver at the Pepsi Center.
Westword Music Showcase
But Elora’s big Denver music scene break came in 2019 when she was invited to perform during Denver’s 25th Anniversary Westworld Music Showcase. She also received a nomination for the prestigious “Best Singer-Songwriter “ voted by the public.
“The Westword showcase was mainly luck. They didn’t even announce it or tell me,” she said. “I found out that I was a part of the lineup of people that I could get an award. I went on to vote for one of my friends and saw my name on the list. I thought, cool!”
“They choose who gets to perform at the showcase based on who’s got the most votes so it was luck and I hard work,” she said.
Elora said she also received the Youth on Records Real Rock Star Award for a Music Ambassador and has been a part of multiple fellowship groups. Also, she has been a dedicated and active artist with Youth on Record for over seven years.
Elora’s genre is Alternative-Rock and sings with her band lead guitar Alfredo “Freddy” Zamora, guitar Isaac Zamora, guitar Dillon Jeffries, bass Geoff Orwiler and James Romine on drums.
They continued to play at local venues around town until February 2017. And then COVID hit, delaying everything. She kept busy, however.
“During COVID, I did a lot of songwriting,” Elora said.
Future
She and the band would love to continue to be doing more festivals and would like to go out on the road, she said.
“I’ve never done like a legit like tour, I think it’d be fun and cool,” Elora said.
For the time being, Elora and her band are playing a lot of small local venues. She recorded her new music with music industry professionals Glenn Sawyer and Rich Veltrop at The Spot Studios in Evergreen. She also has new music coming out this year with Jason Cave of Beat Hogs Production Company in Loveland, Colorado.
Elora not only sings in English she has crossed over to singing and writing in Spanish. She has performed with Denver Latin rock band, iZCALLi for about a year. Elora has written fi ve songs so far with lead singer, Miguel Avña.
Two of the songs, “Pasa el Tiempo” and “One Last Time” are on their new album, Rebirth. “Pasa el Tiempo” was Bailey’s fi rst song that she has written, performed and sang in Spanish. This is a big deal since Bailey doesn’t speak Spanish.
The Bailey Elora Band be performing at The Roxy on Broadway in Denver for a Coastless Creatives concert with Bennett Lamaster on Saturday, September 10th. The show starts at 9:00 p.m.
Bailey Elora
PHOTO BY RICKY ZASTROW
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