Music of the Mountains: Gilpin County Fair 2026 (with Marilyn Ashmore)

Music of the Mountains: Gilpin County Fair 2026 (with Marilyn Ashmore)

The 2026 Gilpin County Fair [https://gilpin-fair-ascent.base44.app/] is coming to Black Hawk from July 17th to 19th, and to prepare for the event, we talked with volunteer organizer Marilyn Ashmore to talk about the fair and what to expect! Our theme song is courtesy of singer-songwriter Brittney Wagner. Stream her record Better off Dead here. [https://open.spotify.com/album/2bGdISOly1MQhe77P3vJUm] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1583656/support] Thank you for listening to The Mountain-Ear Podcast, featuring news and culture from peak to peak! Additional pages are linked below. If you want to be involved in the podcast or paper, contact: Barbara Hardt, our editor-in-chief, at info@themountainear.com Tyler Hickman, multimedia producer, at tyler@themountainear.com Jamie Lammers, podcast host, at media@themountainear.com General inquiries: frontdesk@themountainear.com Head to our website [https://www.themtnear.com] for all of the latest news. Subscribe [https://mountainear.creativecirclemedia.com/subscribe/?] to The Mountain-Ear in print and online. Submit local events [http://themtneareventlink.creativecirclemedia.com/] to promote them in the paper and on our website. Find us on Facebook @mtnear [https://www.facebook.com/mtnear/] and Instagram @mtn.ear [https://www.instagram.com/mtn.ear/] Listen [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMDbqntDX-L9JPHB9V5OPr5XE9fr_l0kQ] and watch [https://www.youtube.com/@themtnear] on YouTube today. Share this podcast by scrolling to the bottom of our website home page or by heading to our main hub on Buzzsprout [https://themtnearpodcast.buzzsprout.com]. Thank you for listening!

From the archives: How hippies rode an asteroid into Boulder

Today's show is a rerun of one of our most popular episodes ever. Back in February, we produced this story about how Boulder ended up as a hot bed for hippies and counterculture. If you didn't catch it then, you're in for a treat. Here's the link to the original episode, along with details about the historical clips used to produce the show: buzzsprout.com/1583656/episodes/18748944 Our theme song is courtesy of singer-songwriter Brittney Wagner. Stream her record Better off Dead here. [https://open.spotify.com/album/2bGdISOly1MQhe77P3vJUm] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1583656/support] Thank you for listening to The Mountain-Ear Podcast, featuring news and culture from peak to peak! Additional pages are linked below. If you want to be involved in the podcast or paper, contact: Barbara Hardt, our editor-in-chief, at info@themountainear.com Tyler Hickman, multimedia producer, at tyler@themountainear.com Jamie Lammers, podcast host, at media@themountainear.com General inquiries: frontdesk@themountainear.com Head to our website [https://www.themtnear.com] for all of the latest news. Subscribe [https://mountainear.creativecirclemedia.com/subscribe/?] to The Mountain-Ear in print and online. Submit local events [http://themtneareventlink.creativecirclemedia.com/] to promote them in the paper and on our website. Find us on Facebook @mtnear [https://www.facebook.com/mtnear/] and Instagram @mtn.ear [https://www.instagram.com/mtn.ear/] Listen [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMDbqntDX-L9JPHB9V5OPr5XE9fr_l0kQ] and watch [https://www.youtube.com/@themtnear] on YouTube today. Share this podcast by scrolling to the bottom of our website home page or by heading to our main hub on Buzzsprout [https://themtnearpodcast.buzzsprout.com]. Thank you for listening!

Music of the Mountains Flashback Episode: Treeline String Band

This week, we're flashing back to the very first segment of Music of the Mountains to celebrate the five-year anniversary of journalist and host Jamie Lammers writing for the column. This first interview features bassist Dolores Berbaum talking about her group Treeline String Band after their first performance. Our theme song is courtesy of singer-songwriter Brittney Wagner. Stream her record Better off Dead here. [https://open.spotify.com/album/2bGdISOly1MQhe77P3vJUm] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1583656/support] Thank you for listening to The Mountain-Ear Podcast, featuring news and culture from peak to peak! Additional pages are linked below. If you want to be involved in the podcast or paper, contact: Barbara Hardt, our editor-in-chief, at info@themountainear.com Tyler Hickman, multimedia producer, at tyler@themountainear.com Jamie Lammers, podcast host, at media@themountainear.com General inquiries: frontdesk@themountainear.com Head to our website [https://www.themtnear.com] for all of the latest news. Subscribe [https://mountainear.creativecirclemedia.com/subscribe/?] to The Mountain-Ear in print and online. Submit local events [http://themtneareventlink.creativecirclemedia.com/] to promote them in the paper and on our website. Find us on Facebook @mtnear [https://www.facebook.com/mtnear/] and Instagram @mtn.ear [https://www.instagram.com/mtn.ear/] Listen [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMDbqntDX-L9JPHB9V5OPr5XE9fr_l0kQ] and watch [https://www.youtube.com/@themtnear] on YouTube today. Share this podcast by scrolling to the bottom of our website home page or by heading to our main hub on Buzzsprout [https://themtnearpodcast.buzzsprout.com]. Thank you for listening!

In the zone with BoCo-based band Prairiewolf

The July issue of Caribou Current hit the racks this week, so today we're featuring an exclusive interview with Boulder County-based cosmic Americana group Prairiewolf. Our editor Jezy Gray sat down with Jeremy Erwin, Tyler Wilcox and Stefan Beck to chat about their latest album Zone Poems, out July 17. Last year the group went on tour around Colorado and got into some pretty funky head spaces on stage. They didn't know it yet, but they were recording their next record in real time. Listen in to go on that journey with them. You can check out their upcoming show schedule here: prairiewolfmusic.com/home#shows [https://www.prairiewolfmusic.com/home#shows] Today's show featured their first single from the record "Burning Edges", which you can stream here: prairiewolfcf.bandcamp.com/album/zone-poems [https://prairiewolfcf.bandcamp.com/album/zone-poems] Head to cariboucurrent.com [https://www.cariboucurrent.com/] to read the full story, and so much more.  Our theme song is courtesy of singer-songwriter Brittney Wagner. Stream her record Better off Dead here. [https://open.spotify.com/album/2bGdISOly1MQhe77P3vJUm] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1583656/support] Thank you for listening to The Mountain-Ear Podcast, featuring news and culture from peak to peak! Additional pages are linked below. If you want to be involved in the podcast or paper, contact: Barbara Hardt, our editor-in-chief, at info@themountainear.com Tyler Hickman, multimedia producer, at tyler@themountainear.com Jamie Lammers, podcast host, at media@themountainear.com General inquiries: frontdesk@themountainear.com Head to our website [https://www.themtnear.com] for all of the latest news. Subscribe [https://mountainear.creativecirclemedia.com/subscribe/?] to The Mountain-Ear in print and online. Submit local events [http://themtneareventlink.creativecirclemedia.com/] to promote them in the paper and on our website. Find us on Facebook @mtnear [https://www.facebook.com/mtnear/] and Instagram @mtn.ear [https://www.instagram.com/mtn.ear/] Listen [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMDbqntDX-L9JPHB9V5OPr5XE9fr_l0kQ] and watch [https://www.youtube.com/@themtnear] on YouTube today. Share this podcast by scrolling to the bottom of our website home page or by heading to our main hub on Buzzsprout [https://themtnearpodcast.buzzsprout.com]. Thank you for listening!

Music of the Mountains: Ravin' Wolf (Jamey and Heather Bilyeu)

In this week's Music of the Mountains, Jamey and Heather Bilyeu take time out of their breaks performing at Very Nice Brewing Company in Nederland to talk about their history as a duo before their follow-up performance at the Gilpin location on July 11th. Our theme song is courtesy of singer-songwriter Brittney Wagner. Stream her record Better off Dead here. [https://open.spotify.com/album/2bGdISOly1MQhe77P3vJUm] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1583656/support] Thank you for listening to The Mountain-Ear Podcast, featuring news and culture from peak to peak! Additional pages are linked below. If you want to be involved in the podcast or paper, contact: Barbara Hardt, our editor-in-chief, at info@themountainear.com Tyler Hickman, multimedia producer, at tyler@themountainear.com Jamie Lammers, podcast host, at media@themountainear.com General inquiries: frontdesk@themountainear.com Head to our website [https://www.themtnear.com] for all of the latest news. Subscribe [https://mountainear.creativecirclemedia.com/subscribe/?] to The Mountain-Ear in print and online. Submit local events [http://themtneareventlink.creativecirclemedia.com/] to promote them in the paper and on our website. Find us on Facebook @mtnear [https://www.facebook.com/mtnear/] and Instagram @mtn.ear [https://www.instagram.com/mtn.ear/] Listen [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMDbqntDX-L9JPHB9V5OPr5XE9fr_l0kQ] and watch [https://www.youtube.com/@themtnear] on YouTube today. Share this podcast by scrolling to the bottom of our website home page or by heading to our main hub on Buzzsprout [https://themtnearpodcast.buzzsprout.com]. Thank you for listening!