Festivals in Colorado

Between the snow-capped peaks of the Rockies and the red-sandstone amphitheaters that made its legend, Colorado lives music a mile high. In Telluride, a former mining town tucked into a box canyon in the state's southwest, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival has sent banjos and mandolins ringing off the cliffs every summer solstice for half a century, before Telluride Blues & Brews takes over in autumn to pair gritty guitars with craft breweries. This devotion to mountain folk runs through the whole state, from the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival in Lyons to Winterwondergrass, which turns the Steamboat ski resort into an open-air barn in the dead of winter.

But Colorado is also Denver and its urban pulse: the Underground Music Showcase, the city's oldest and largest festival, spills through the bars and clubs of the RiNo district to spotlight the local indie scene, while the Global Dance Festival — born long ago on the fabled Red Rocks stage — drops the heaviest electro bass in the Mountain West. FestT calculates your FestiScore — the affinity between a lineup and your favorite artists — and keeps dates, headliners and ticketing up to date, so you can find the Colorado gathering made for your ears, from canyon bluegrass to electronic nights in the Mile-High City.