Green Box Arts Festival Free Concerts!

Join us for five free concerts in beautiful Green Mountain Falls, CO as part of our 15th annual Green Box Arts Festival!

All free concerts will take place in various locations around Green Mountain Falls, for more festival events and detailed information please visit our website: www.greenboxarts.org

June 30th, 5:00pm @Various Green Mountain Falls Locations:

Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP): SICPP is an 8-day intensive seminar held at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs on the performance of 20th and 21st century music, culminating in a day-long marathon of explosive new music, a smorgasbord of masterworks and world premieres by composition fellows. Performances will begin at 5PM throughout the Green Box campus and will conclude with SICPP’s final seminar performance featuring works by composer-in-residence Marti Epstein
at the Church in the Wildwood.

July 4th, 6:30pm @ the Green Box Farm Stand: Carlos Washington’s Steel Horse Swing:

hails from Colorado, Texas, and New Mexico. The award-winning and internationally acclaimed band mixes western swing with rodeo and cowboy classics, celebrating a musical legacy that is timeless. Reflections of Bob Wills and Hank Thompson with a dash of Asleep at the Wheel gives this group a nostalgic feel while keeping it fresh with original songs.

July 4th, 7:30pm,  @ the Green Box Farm Stand: Lilli Lewis Trio:

Athens, Georgia native turned New Orleans Folk Rock Diva Lilli Lewis is a voice for the voiceless. In Americana, her third full album for Louisiana Red Hot Records, Lewis is lauded by NPR, Rolling Stone, Offbeat Magazine and the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Trained as an opera singer and classical pianist, singersongwriter Lewis is known as the Folk Rock Diva since performing in the Folk Rock band The Shiz, founded with her wife Liz Hogan.

July 14th, 7:00pm @ Sallie Bush Community Center: Colorado Springs Summer Youth Symphony:

The Colorado Springs Youth Symphony is thrilled to be back at Green Box to present
the Sounds of Summer Orchestra. The Youth Symphony plays for thousands of children and adults yearly, focusing on audiences that have limited exposure to live orchestral music.

July 15th, 7:30pm @ the Green Box Farm Stand: Handmade Moments:

What makes the homey Ozark stew of Handmade Moments so very nourishing, so perfectly spiced? Partake and be effortlessly guided through wistful and deep channels of musical flavor, rich with hearty roots and fungi, vegetables home-gardened and watered from the sacred well of American music: jazz, old-time country, blues, soul, hip-hop, and rock. Glistening with insight and whimsy, long simmering with righteous compassion and beauty, Handmade Moments are a fearless all-weather duo–complementary spirits of musical tightrope and magic–serving up entrée to their secret river of goodness.

We hope you join us for any or all of these free concert events and be sure to check out more than 70 other festival events from June 20th – July 15th in beautiful Green Mountain Falls, CO!