Name: Fempire Comedy Festival
Start: 2026-10-23T19:00:00-06:00
Location: Junkyard Social Club

Junkyard Social Club

Come celebrate women in comedy at the first annual Fempire Comedy Festival!
Fempire Comedy Festival brings together and celebrates women in stand up comedy. Come laugh while supporting female headliners and comics from all over the nation.

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Come celebrate women in comedy at the first annual Fempire Comedy Festival!
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Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr. Boulder, CO 80302

Featuring live music accompaniment by the Mont Alto Orchestra and Rodney Sauer.
A 100-year tradition, the beloved Chautauqua Silent Film Series continues with The General (1926). The General is a silent comedy-adventure starring Buster Keaton as a determined railroad engineer whose beloved locomotive is stolen during the American Civil War. When Union spies capture both his train and the woman he loves, he embarks on a daring and hilarious rescue mission. Featuring spectacular train stunts, inventive physical comedy, and Keaton’s signature deadpan performance, The General is widely regarded as one of the greatest achievements of silent cinema.<a href="https://eventvesta.com/events/152132/t/tickets" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View Tickets &amp;&nbsp;More Info</a>

Local Event: Silent Film: The General (1926)

Silent Film: The General (1926)

Featuring live music accompaniment by the Mont Alto Orchestra and Rodney Sauer.
A 100-year tradition, the beloved Chautauqua...

<a href="https://www.chautauqua.com/event/uncovering-our-concrete-jungle/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> National Geographic Live</a>
Discover the cosmopolitan wildlife that shares our city alleys and backyards with urban ecologist Chris Schell and find out how American history has shaped many species.
Thinking that wildlife lives “somewhere else” is an easy mistake. Urban ecologist and National Geographic Explorer Chris Schell has dedicated his work to understanding and celebrating the surprising wildlife in our backyards. But this show isn’t only an exploration of animal behavior. We go on assignment with Chris to discover the unexpected story of how American history has shaped urban wildlife.
Chris Schell Chris Schell is an urban ecologist, professor, Afrofuturist, father, and published author. His research at the University of California, Berkeley, investigates how carnivores—coyotes, foxes, and raccoons—adapt to life in cities. This transdisciplinary work aims to disentangle how environmental injustices have structured our urban ecosystems and how we can harness those lessons to build more just, biodiverse, and resilient cities. He is a Cal Academy Fellow and board member and was a member of the 2021 Grist 50.<a href="https://eventvesta.com/events/153139/t/tickets" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View Tickets</a> &amp; More info

Local Event: National Geographic Live: Uncovering Our Concrete Jungle

National Geographic Live: Uncovering Our...

 National Geographic Live
Discover the cosmopolitan wildlife that shares our city alleys and backyards with urban ecologist...

National Geographic Live: Uncovering Our Concrete Jungle

Jesters Dinner Theatre

Roughly a decade ago, the OxyMorons improv troupe created a presence in Asheville, NC with standing-room-only comedy nights at the Area 45 Theatre. Three of OxyMorons' founding members now call Colorado home, and they've partnered with local talent to make funny Front deRanged style. Watch as players use your suggestions to create scenes, situations, and clever one-liners in an evening of unscripted, unbelievable - and dare we say unforgiving - comedy. It's a serious dose of funny that'll make you laugh until you cry (and that's no oxymoron).
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Local Event: Front deRanged Improv Comedy

Front deRanged Improv Comedy

Roughly a decade ago, the OxyMorons improv troupe created a presence in Asheville, NC with standing-room-only comedy nights at...

It's National Encouragement Day Saturday 9/12 - come celebrate with an ALL AGES, FREE&nbsp;music festival at Junkyard Social Club in Boulder! Featuring an incredible line-up of artists at the awesome indoor stage. Drinks and food for purchase, donations towards the artists welcomed! Kids can enjoy the expansive outdoor playground, too.
09:35p&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/sarahxbreanne/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Endless Daze</a>&nbsp; 08:45p&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/thegreghoy/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Greg Hoy</a> 08:00p&nbsp;<a href="https://ingridavison.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Ingrid Avison</a> 07:25p <a href="https://www.justinbadger.com/epk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Justin Badger</a> 07:00p&nbsp;<a href="https://natalieadele.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Natalie Adele</a>&nbsp; 06:30p <a href="https://www.instagram.com/christophermorse.music/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Christopher Morse</a>&nbsp;

Local Event: Encouragement Day Festival 2026

Encouragement Day Festival 2026

It's National Encouragement Day Saturday 9/12 - come celebrate with an ALL AGES, FREE music festival at Junkyard Social Club in...

Roots Music Project

Join us for A Funeral for the Patriarchy and Cabaret Revue, a Lavender Sleaze Production featuring live music by Kalyn the Miller. Guests are invited to attend in their fanciest, witchiest, funeral attire for this unique and subversive performance experience.

Local Event: The Gentle Thems Club

The Gentle Thems Club

Join us for A Funeral for the Patriarchy and Cabaret Revue, a Lavender Sleaze Production featuring live music by Kalyn the...

Chautauqua Auditorium, 198 Morning Glory Dr, Boulder, CO, 80302

Come celebrate Boulder’s vibrant history at the <a href="https://www.chautauqua.com/event/boulder-histories-film-festival/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Boulder Histories Film Festival!</a>
Taking place at the foot of the iconic Flatirons in the historic Chautauqua Auditorium, BHFF screens short documentaries about Boulder County, focusing on the People, Places, and Preservation efforts in the region. This one-day festival will feature three short film screening blocks, filmmaker Q&amp;A’s, and jury and audience awards.
Purchase a full-day pass&nbsp;to attend all three screenings and save!
Doors 9:30 AM / Show 10:00 AM –&nbsp;Screening Block 1 – People:&nbsp;These short documentaries focus on the impactful and important people of Boulder County, both living and historical
 Doors 12:30 PM / Show 1:00 PM –&nbsp;Screening Block 2 – Places:&nbsp;These short documentaries focus on buildings, architecture, and environments in Boulder County
 Doors 3:30 PM / Show 4:00 PM –&nbsp;Screening Block 3 – Preservation + Awards Ceremony:&nbsp;These short documentaries focus on individuals and organizations preserving historic buildings and places in Boulder County. The awards ceremony for all submitted films will follow this screening block.<a href="https://eventvesta.com/events/154376/t/tickets" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View Tickets</a> &amp; More info

Local Event: Boulder Histories Film Festival

Boulder Histories Film Festival

Come celebrate Boulder’s vibrant history at the Boulder Histories Film Festival!
Taking place at the foot of the iconic...

Chautauqua Auditorium

Recommended if you like: Buddy Guy, North Mississippi Allstars, Little Feat
Taj Mahal doesn't wait for permission. If a sound intrigues him, he sets out to make it. If origins mystify him, he moves to trace them. If rules get in his way, he unapologetically breaks them. To Taj, convention means nothing, but traditions are holy. He has pushed music and culture forward, all while looking lovingly back.
"I just want to be able to make the music that I'm hearing come to me -- and that's what I did," Taj says. The 82-year-old is home in Berkeley, reflecting on six + decades of music making. "When I say, 'I did,' I'm not coming from the ego. The music comes from somewhere. You're just the conduit it comes through.
You're there to receive the gift."
Taj is a towering musical figure -- a legend who transcended the blues not by leaving them behind, but by revealing their magnificent scope to the world. "The blues is bigger than most people think," he says. "You could hear Mozart play the blues. It might be more like a lament. It might be more melancholy. But I'm going to tell you: the blues is in there."
If anyone knows where to find the blues, it's Taj. A brilliant artist with a musicologist's mind, he has pursued and elevated the roots of beloved sounds with boundless devotion and skill. Then, as he traced origins to the American South, the Caribbean, Africa, and elsewhere, he created entirely new sounds, over and over again. As a result, he's not only a god to rock-and-roll icons such as Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones, but also a hero to ambitious artists toiling in obscurity who are determined to combine sounds that have heretofore been ostracized from one another. No one is as simultaneously traditional and avant-garde.
Quantifying Taj's significance is impossible, but people try anyway. A 2022 Grammy win for 'Get On Board' for his collaboration with Ry Cooder, then a trip with his Sextet to Leon Russell's Church Studio in Tulsa, OK to record 'Swingin' Live at the Church Studio in Tulsa,' yet another Grammy win, brought his Grammy tally to five wins and 16 nominations, and underscored his undiminished relevance more than 50 years after his solo debut. Blues Hall of Fame membership, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association, 2025 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree and other honors punctuate his resumé. He appreciates the accolades, but his motivation lies elsewhere. "It's not a hunger, not a lust or even a thirst," Taj says of what drives him. "It's just more knowledge of self -- to realize that almost everything is right here. We're so used to looking outside of ourselves for things, and it's right here."
Taj's exploration of music began as an exploration of self. He was born in 1942 in Harlem to musical parents -- his father was a jazz pianist with Caribbean roots; mother was a gospel-singing schoolteacher from South Carolina -- who cultivated an appreciation for both personal history and the arts in their son. "I was raised really conscious of my African roots," Taj says. "So I was trying to find out: where does what we do here connect to what we left there?" In the early 1950s, his family moved to Springfield, Massachusetts -- a microcosmic melting pot for immigrants from across the globe: the Caribbean, the American South, Europe, the Mediterranean, Syria, Lebanon. "Music was everywhere," he says. "Things were different in those days. There weren't a lot of places that African Americans had to go out to entertain themselves. So people did a lot of entertaining in their homes. Friday or Saturday night, you'd move the furniture, mop and wax the floor, and set things up so people could pop over and hear all the music." Musicians and friends from around the world passed through, ate home-cooked feasts, and led neighborhood jam sessions and dance parties in cozy living rooms.
From the beginning, Taj found the blues magnetic, even as most artists around him in the Northeast were exploring other sounds. "I could hear little strains of the blues coming through -- you could feel that energy in the music that was being played," he says. "I could also feel that energy of the blues inside myself." Piano lessons didn't stick -- "I'd already heard what I wanted to play" - so when a blues guitarist from North Carolina moved in next door, Taj found an early mentor and was off.
For college, Taj attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He graduated after studying agriculture and animal husbandry. "I knew I'd like to connect myself to something on this planet that's meaningful," he says. "That's why I was interested in agriculture and music. Those were the two things that I recognized even as a very young child that people are never going to do without."

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Local Event: TajMo: Taj Mahal + Keb’ Mo’

TajMo: Taj Mahal + Keb’ Mo’

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