PRESENTING PREMIER MUSICAL EVENTS IN COLORADO’S SCENIC HIGH COUNTRY
Year-round programming including the Summer Festival, featuring the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra, in residence each summer; Chamber music in intimate settings; Blue River Series jazz, blues and bluegrass, roots rock country and many other musical styles.
Breckenridge Music Festival brings great music to residents and visitors of Summit County.
The Breckenridge Music Festival is supported by funding from the Colorado Creative Industries Division, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
The BMF would like to thank all of our Patron’s, Volunteers, Sponsors, Applause! Members, Musicians, and Crew for making our 30th Anniversary Season such a success. We could not have done it without you!
Keep checking back for updates on our 2010-11 Winter Series concerts and Applause! Parties!
The Blue River Series of the Breckenridge Music Festival is thrilled to present Asleep at the Wheel at the Riverwalk Center on Saturday August 21 at 7:30pm. This Western swing band has entertained thousands of people across the country and has won nine Grammy’s since 1970 – including one in 2001 for best Vocal Performance By A Duo or Group for “Cherokee Maiden” from their acclaimed Ride With Bob album. Tickets, $23 in advance, $28 day of show, can be purchased by calling 970-547-3100 or ordered online by Clicking Here
Rolling Stone, who voted Asleep at the Wheel “Best Country & Western Band” in 1977, refers to the band as “one of the most popular and acclaimed bands of its genre, re-popularizing western swing at a time when it had fallen out of favor with the country world.” Though the group has had nearly 100 members over the years, one constant has been frontman Ray Benson. Following the release of their 1973 debut, Comin’ Right At Ya, Asleep at the Wheel moved to Austin, Texas, their current home base. In 1974 the band scored their first chart hit with “Choo Choo Ch’Boogie,” from a self-titled effort on Epic Records.
Asleep at the Wheel scored their biggest hit to date in 1975 with Texas Gold, released on Capitol Records. Featuring the crossover hit “The Letter That Johnny Walker Red,” Texas Gold made Asleep at the Wheel one of the more popular country groups of the decade. Several more albums followed, but by the early 1980s the group was sidelined with lineup difficulties; nonetheless, Benson pressed on with Asleep at the Wheel, keeping the band going through thick and thin, eventually settling down with Epic Records in the late ’80s and reviving the group’s fortunes with 1987’s Wheel 10, a major hit which featured the Grammy-winning single “Strong of Pars.”
In recent years Asleep at the Wheel has been going strong, winning a second Grammy in 1988 for the single “Sugarfoot Rag” and scoring another major hit in 1993 with A Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, which featured cameos by Chet Atkins, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, Brooks and Dunn and Garth Brooks. The group received an award in the category “Best Country Instrumental Performance” at the 42nd Annual Grammies for “Bob’s Breakdowns,” taken from their 1999 release Ride With Bob, a tribute to western swing pioneer Bob Wills. Since their beginning they have released over twenty albums, which have featured such guest artists Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, Merle Haggard, Lyle Lovett, Huey Lewis, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Bonnie Raitt, George Strait, Dwight Yoakam, Shawn Colvin, and many more.
Get your tickets now to see Asleep at the Wheel at the Riverwalk Center on Saturday, August 21st at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $23 in advance, $28 day of show and can be purchased by calling the Riverwalk Center Box Office at 970.547.3100. For a complete Breckenridge Music Festival schedule or to order tickets online Click Here
Click Here to read the Summit Daily News article on our final BRS concert of the year!
Click Here to read the Summit Daily News Article on the BMF Orchestra’s Finale Concert!
The Breckenridge Music Festival is pleased to present the 2010 30th Season Finale Concert on Friday August 20th at 7:30pm at the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge, showcasing the artists of the Festival Orchestra as soloists: Performing with the full Festival Orchestra under Maestro Gerhardt Zimmermann, flutist Helen Blackburn, Harpist Megan Stout; Pianist Michael Linville; and percussionist Drew Lang will be featured in performances of Hanson’s Serenade for Flute and Harp, Khachaturian’s Piano Concerto in D-Flat and Ewazen’s Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra. The evening will close with Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, with the Festival Orchestra.
Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra Principal Flutist Helen Blackburn is also principal flutist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and a member of “Voices of Change.” Ms. Blackburn has been a member and a featured soloist with the South Bohemia and Aspen Music Festivals, the Dallas Chamber Orchestra, the Brevard (NC) Music Center, and the Chicago Civic Orchestra. Ms. Blackburn is adjunct professor of flute at Texas Christian University and the University of North Texas. Helen is a certified Bikram Yoga instructor, an avid dog lover and enjoys hiking and most things outdoors.
Harpist Megan Stout is active as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral harpist in the IN area. She is principal harpist for the Evansville Philharmonic (IN), Owensboro Symphony (KY), and is a regular second harpist at the St Louis Symphony as well as a substitute for the principal position. Megan substitutes at the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and the Indianapolis Symphony. She has recently been featured in performances in Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffman with the Opera Theatre of St Louis. In addition to her private teaching studio, Megan is a faculty member at Indiana University Southeast.
Percussionist Drew Lang performs in the Dallas and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras, Dallas Opera Orchestra, Dallas Wind Symphony and Casa Mañana Musicals. He has recently been featured performing Bodine’s Concerto for Marimba and Band at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, and in the world premier of Bodine’s “Namaste: Concerto for Marimba and Percussion Ensemble.” An active drum set/percussionist in jazz clubs, contemporary church services, and symphonic pops, he plays in the Dallas-based rock band, Scarlet Vermillion. Drew is in his seventh season at the Breckenridge Music Festival. He teaches percussion and drum set at Eastfield College, is on the percussion faculty at Southern Methodist University, and runs a summer high school camp called MARIMBA MADNESS.
Michael Linville is currently Associate Dean and Director of Chamber Music Activities for the New World Symphony, and artistic coordinator of the New World Percussion Consort, performing contemporary chamber music featuring percussion. As a soloist, Mr. Linville has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, the New World Symphony, the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra, the National Repertory Orchestra, and the Atchison, KS and Central Iowa Symphonies. He has been guest artist with the Honolulu and Pasadena Symphonies, and was a featured keyboardist with the Florida Philharmonic. His playing can be heard on a number of recordings including White Mares of the Moon-Chamber Music of Dan Welcher, which Mr. Linville also produced.
Please join Maestro Gerhardt Zimmermann, the BMF Orchestra and these exceptionally talented musicians Helen Blackburn, Megan Stout, Drew Lang and Michael Linville for this grand 30th Anniversary “Grand Orchestra Showcase” at the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge, August 20 at 7:30 pm. For tickets ($25, $30, and $35 Adults, $10 students, $7 juniors) call 970.547.3100 or buy tickets online by CLICKING HERE
The Breckenridge Music Festival (BMF) is pleased to present a Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra concert entitled “South of the Border.” The evening’s performance will celebrate the spicy music of the Latin world from Madrid to Buenos Aires. Selections from the evening will including: Surinach’s Ritmo Jondo, Gutierrez’s Pavana for Strings, Falla’s Suite No. 1 from The Three Cornered Hat, Sarasate’s Navarra for Two Solo Violins and Orchestra featuring Nathan Olson and Kathryn Hatmaker, Golijov’s Last Round and Ginastera’s Estancia; Four Dances.
Nathan Olson and Kathryn Hatmaker
Please join the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra under conductor Gerhardt Zimmermann, for an energetic evening highlighting the works from the Latin world at the Riverwalk Center on Thursday, August 19th at 7:30 pm.
Tickets can be purchased at the Riverwalk Center Box office or by calling (970)547-3100 or can be purchased online by CLICKING HERE
The Breckenridge Music Festival (BMF) is pleased to present a BMF chamber concert, featuring the ever-talented quintets and Brass Symphony of the BMF Orchestra. The evening will consist of: Barber’s , Summer Music, featuring the Alpine Quintet, Nielsen’s, Woodwind Quintet, featuring the Quandary Quintet, Ewald’s, Symphony for Brass, and Koetsier’s, Quintetti Lirico for Brass Quintet.
Please join the BMF for an intimate evening with a trio of quintets and Brass Symphony at the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge, August 17 at 7:30 pm. Tickets can be purchased at the Riverwalk Center Box office or by calling (970)547-3100 or can be purchased online by CLICKING HERE
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Winter Season Tickets will be on sale soon, please keep checking back!
The 2010-11 Winter Series Tickets will be on sale soon. Tickets will be available through the Breckenridge Music Festival Office. Please keep checking back for more info.
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