Music & Cultural Events

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Ridgway is a vibrant, creative community that thrives on our inspiring setting, with many arts and entertainment venues and events where artists and performers display their talents. Our rich, year-round cultural scene is sure to stimulate your mind, touch your heart and excite your senses. From turn-of-the century theaters to outdoor stages, local and national musicians, singers, actors, comedians, magicians, and dancers display their talents and experts share local history and international issues. Many events are free or admission is $20 or less. Ridgway loves its festivals as much as nearby festival capital Telluride. Yes, we See previous page for contact have music festivals and even our own Independent Film Festival, but we also mix outdoor adventure and our popular information past-times into our festivals. Ridgway for the listed organizations RiverFest, Spirit Fest, San Juan (beer and wine!) Barrel Fest, Ridgway Rendezvous Art & Craft Festival, and Sneffels Fiber and events. Arts Festival are just a few examples. Visitors are welcome to join locals at workshops and classes for every imaginable art form from dance and theater to glass blowing and painting, offered by various cultural organizations. Known for its dance classes that produce talented young performers, Weehawken Creative Arts also has drop-in dance, yoga and Zumba classes for various ages. Theater workshops often run for just a couple weeks providing the opportunity for families on longer vacations to get involved. Many visual art and writing classes are geared for adults, and offered in one or two sessions to easily fit into a vacation plan. The genres are limitless with professional artists guiding the classes as students create everything from mosaic art and painted landscapes to prose and journals.

Ridgway’s newest outdoor music event pleased crowds in 2021, so is coming back in June 2022 to the streets and parks around town. Fete de la Musique presents FREE music from more than 10 bands and performers over several hours, organized by Weehawken Creative Arts and The Sherbino and supported by Citizen’s State Bank and other business partners.

Everyone is invited to participate in this wacky “race” with optional 5K warm-up lap in early October, presented by Citizen’s State Bank, Weehawken Creative Arts and The Sherbino. The Ridgway 1K is a silly, costumed race for all ages with plenty of rest stops along the “grueling” six-block downhill course. The finish line at Hartwell Park features live music and an optional add-on regional barrel tasting festival, San Juan Barrel Fest.

The Ridgway Independent Film Festival brings an exciting selection of some of the best short films from around the world to the Sherbino Theater in Ridgway for two nights each November. Festival film entries are open to all filmmakers working in all categories of film, and the resulting festival program is diverse and eclectic. Youth entries are a fan favorite every year.

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