Mile High Music Festival

Hello all! This is Matt and Laura posting tonight together! Last Sunday, we attended the Mile High Music Festival. We spent all day (afternoon to evening) wandering from concert to concert listening to some great music from many different genres. It was a blast! Perhaps even more interesting than the music was all the people! Specifically the "hippies" and wannabe hippies. We spent a lot of time people watching as well. :)

We also took a lot of pictures at the concerts. We will start with the last concert we saw and work our way to earlier in the day, because that is the way the pictures loaded.

Our favorite concert and one of the main headliners was The Fray. I (laura) know pretty much every one of their songs and was super excited to get to see them. We got to the stage an hour and a half early to make sure we got a good spot. And we did! The only thing that put a damper on the concert was the couple that showed up 10 minutes before the show and tried to squirm their way into a couple inches of space in front of us. We were not particularly thrilled about that.

So this first picture is at the end of the show. Here is the group together just before they left the stage singing "Happiness." We loved the message they gave before the song started...they dedicated the song to those who were struggling in this economy and told them to have hope. What a great song and message to end with!


This is the lead singer, Isaac, with some crazy effects of the lights glowing off his white shirt. Cool picture...






This is the lead singer off to the side of the stage, also shown on the huge TV.

This guy is SO talented. He is an amazing singer, piano player and guitar player. I'm assuming he is also good at song writing...they are all wonderful. They write all of their songs based off of their life experiences.

The stage during the encore break. Lights trickled down and looked like tears.

They had a great stage set for the show, for as many concerts were played on that stage before them!


As with any good performer, he gets really into the music. It's really cool to see the drummer illuminated in red too. :)

Matt takes awesome pictures...this one is cool with all of the lights during the song.


I think this was my favorite song..."Never Say Never."

This is one of Matt's favorites because it gets the whole band with cool lighting.




Above the stage, they had black and white videos of each of the band members as they performed.

More cool lighting from above...each one manned by a real person sitting above the stage, moving the lights like a 3D video game.



Storms came through before the show and it got really windy. I would have been davastated if they had cancelled the show. But we were in luck and missed most of the bad stuff. It cleared up half an hour before the show started. As you can tell by all the pictures, we REALLY enjoyed The Fray's performance. We have a couple videos too...

Another show we went to right before The Fray was 3Oh!3. They are a younger group, and mostly do rap. They really got the crowd going! This is us right before the last song.

The Colorado Rapids stadium. We discovered that the bathrooms in there were much better than the port-a-potties in the park.

Resting a bit while enjoying Buddy Guy.

Here is Buddy Guy singin' the blues.


Another great concert was Mat Kearney. He does alternative music and we have his first album. He can do what I call "soft rapping" on the spot. It was great!

Singing a duet with one of his band members.

We were really close to the stage for this show!

They had the speakers held up by a giant fork lift in the tents.

Our very first concert of the day was Jack's Mannequin. It was our second favorite performance. For some reason, they had characters from Gumby and Boston Celtics figurines on stage. Can anyone explain that one to us?

This is another MAJORLY talented lead singer/piano/guitarist.

He even jumped around on the piano. It was awesome and really got the crowd excited for it being so early in the day.



A larger view of the stage while he's singing on top of the piano.

We had a great day together at the festival. We decided it is a "must do" on our list for next year. We will probably try to go the entire weekend next time. Anyone who is interested in joining us is certainly welcome. You can't find more variety of music (rap, hip-hop, alternative, pop, blues and more) in one place very often. Just make sure to bring your tye-dyed clothes and Birkenstocks! I felt a bit out of place in my outfit. :)