STEVIE NICKS
ERIC CHURCH
KINGS OF LEON
Stevie Nicks
Sunday, September 5 | 7:30pm
Snowmass Town Park
Words… and Music… By Stevie Nicks
I began thinking about making this record in February of this year because I had about five months before Fleetwood Mac rehearsals started in August. We didn’t have a year to hang out and work on music like I usually do. I had about 40 songs originally done in demo form from 1969-1987 and ’94 and ’95. I thought we could certainly make an album from this collection –probably three albums. Many of the songs were already out there on the internet and fans have been asking for them for years through fan sites and letters. I used to make cassettes of my music and give them to anybody. But to know that these songs were finally going to be recorded with the same love they were originally done when they were demos –that was joyous for me. I narrowed it down to 30 and had to keep weeding out. I think Waddy hit it on the head when he said, “Stevie really writes one very long song. They’re all involved with each other. Each song is a lifetime… Each song has a soul… Each song has a purpose. Each song is a love story… They represent my life behind the scenes, the secrets, the broken hearts, the brokenhearted and the survivors… These songs are the memories –the 24 Karat gold rings in the blue box… These songs are for you.”
You usually don’t write songs about being super happy… When you write a song or a book, it’s usually when someone walks away. I think that’s the first moment you start to think about it not working out and you start to write. The relationship may go on for longer but you’ve already started writing in your head because you see the future… Other times, you know a relationship won’t work from almost the beginning but you wouldn’t trade what you shared for a million dollars…
It’s not acting…It’s never acting… It’s the reason I go onstage and sing Edge of 17 every night since ’81 or Gold Dust Woman. I just take myself back to that time when it was written… Sometimes I can’t remember what happened yesterday but I remember so well what happened through the whole period of time that I wrote these songs.
Regarding Fleetwood Mac, it’s going to be so great to look over to my right and see Christine behind the Hammond organ… I’ve missed her so much… I never thought she’d come back… She said she was never coming back… But she started seeing a therapist and one day she had an epiphany. I think he said, “What are you doing staying out in your castle, Guenivere… What are you doing out there? You need to come back and start living life… Go back to the band…” At that time, it was Mick, John, Lindsey and I touring… She called up and asked, “What would you think if I came back to the band?” And I said, “Chris, it is your band… Get a trainer…” So she got a trainer and she’s been working out for the last six months and she’s stronger than all of us. She’s going to leave us in the dust.
Eric Church
Saturday, September 4 | 7:30pm
Snowmass Town Park
The three-time Country Music Association and six-time Academy of Country Music Award winner released his highly-anticipated album Desperate Man atop the Billboard Country Albums chart in late 2018, earning praise as one of the year’s top albums by American Songwriter, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, Stereogum, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, USA Today and Vulture, among others. The album, featuring his most recent No. 1 hit “Some Of It,” also debuted at No. 5 on the all-genre Billboard 200. Rolling Stone describes it as “classic Church: expertly crafted and country-radio-friendly, while also pushing boundaries in a way that sounds natural and unforced” and American Songwriter notes that it “sublimates the pain of a tumultuous year into his most adventuresome album yet.” Church also returned to the road this year for his critically-acclaimed Double Down Tour, with back-to-back nights of two unique shows sans-opening act giving fans 6+ hours of his iconic music in each city. The tour recently featured a massive stop at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, where he broke the venue’s concert attendance record with more than 56,000 fans just two weeks before awing the same stadium’s audience with a 30-minute, solo acoustic CMA Fest set featuring a medley of 17 hits.
Kings Of Leon
Friday, September 3 | 8:00pm
Snowmass Town Park
Since their debut in 2003, Kings of Leon (Caleb (guitar/vocals), Nathan (drums), Jared (bass) and Matthew Followill (guitar)) have released seven albums (Youth & Young Manhood (2003), Aha Shake Heartbreak (2004), Because of the Times (2007), Only by the Night (2008), Come Around Sundown (2010), Mechanical Bull (2013) and WALLS (2016)), and sold over 21 million albums and over 38 million singles worldwide. The multi-platinum selling band has had five singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, all seven of their studio albums on Billboard’s 200 list and five singles that reached #1 on Modern Rock radio. Their seventh album WALLS debuted in October at #1 in the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland and Austria, and top 3 in more than 10 countries, including Germany and Australia. In addition, they have had seven Grammy Nominations, four Grammy Award wins, three NME Awards, two Brit Awards and one Juno Award. They have toured all over the world, selling out top venues and headlining major festivals such as Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits and visit
SHERYL CROW
MAREN MORRIS
GARY CLARK, JR.
Sheryl Crow
Saturday, September 4 | 5:00pm
Snowmass Town Park
A nine-time GRAMMY AWARD recipient, Sheryl Crow is an American music icon. Her first nine studio albums have sold 35 million copies worldwide; seven of them charted in the Top 10 and five were certified for Multi-Platinum sales. In addition to such No. 1 hits as “All I Wanna Do,” “Soak Up the Sun” and “The First Cut Is the Deepest,” Crow has lofted 40 singles into the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Top 40, Adult Contemporary, Mainstream Top 40 and Hot Country Songs charts, with more No. 1 singles in the Triple A listings than any other female artist. For her current album “Threads”, Crow collaborated with a broad array of her musical heroes, including Stevie Nicks, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Chuck D, Joe Walsh, Kris Kristoffersson, and even a duet of her classic song “Redemption Day” with the late legend Johnny Cash. “Threads” also features contributions by young artists shaping music today, including Gary Clark Jr, Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Margo Price, Andra Day, St. Vincent, and Maren Morris.
Crow is known as well for her passionate support of multiple charities, including The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, The World Food Program, Feeding America, ADOPT A CLASSROOM, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, MusiCares, and the Delta Children’s Home and many other worthy causes. For more information, visit www.SherylCrow.com
Maren Morris
Sunday, September 5 | 5:00pm
Snowmass Town Park
Maren Morris is one of the leading voices in country music today—armed with incredible vocal stylings that reflect her country, folk and pop influences, sheer talent, honest lyrics and a strong presence. Morris’ latest album GIRL, released in March 2019 via Columbia Nashville, was recently named Album of the Year at the 53rd Annual Country Music Association Awards, where Morris was the most nominated artist. The album shattered the record for the largest ever debut streaming week for a country album by a woman with 23.96 million streams and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and No. 4 on the Billboard 200. It features history-making title track “GIRL” which had the highest debut on Billboard’s Country Streaming Songs chart by a female artist and the highest weekly streams by a female country artist ever. GIRL comes three years after Morris’ breakout, Gold-certified debut album Hero and explores how her life has changed since then—a skyrocketing career, falling in love, becoming engaged and then married—and the highs and lows in between. She won a Grammy Award for Best Country Solo Performance at the 59th Grammy Awards, was named New Artist of the Year at the 50th Annual CMA Awards, Top Country Female Artist at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards and New Female Vocalist of the Year at the 52nd Academy of Country Music Awards. Morris was also the most-played female artist on country radio in 2017 and 2018. The 29-year-old from Arlington, Texas got her start playing in bars around her hometown and quickly made a name for herself with Hero and its Platinum-selling “My Church,” Gold-selling “80s Mercedes” and “I Could Use A Love Song.” Hero and its singles topped charts nationwide, set Country radio records, and were some of the most critically-acclaimed works of 2016.
Gary Clark, Jr.
Friday, September 3 | 6:00pm
Snowmass Town Park
Clark achieved global impact following his first Grammy Award in 2014 winning Best Traditional R&B Performance for the track “Please Come Home” from his Warner Records debut album Blak And Blu, and seemingly never left the road. Throughout 2019 Clark ascended to greater heights with the release of This Land – his third full-length studio album which bowed at #6 on the Billboard Top 200, marking his third consecutive Top 10 debut. The album and single of the same name attracted acclaim from the likes of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and more. He has performed on Saturday Night Live, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Good Morning America, CBS News Sunday, CBS This Morning, The Today Show, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, The Howard Stern Show, WTF with Marc Maron and more. Clark’s domestic tours became instant sell outs and his international profile found him topping bills at legendary festivals around the world and venues including the Hollywood Bowl, along with multiple appearances in stadiums supporting and sharing the stage with The Rolling Stones. Most recently, Clark won three more Grammy Awards including Best Rock Performance “This Land,” Best Rock Song “This Land,” and Best Contemporary Blues Album THIS LAND. Clark also performed his award-winning single “This Land,” backed by The Roots at this year’s Grammy Award ceremony and released their version of the track. To date, Clark has been nominated for six GRAMMY Awards® and won four. Clark is currently working on his follow-up to THIS LAND.
Yola
Sunday, September 5 | 3:00pm
Snowmass Town Park
“It’s a paradigm shift.”
And as simply as that, Yola encapsulates the giddy expansiveness, stunning emotional breadth, and exponential musical growth of her sophomore album Stand For Myself, out July 30. She may only be saying four words, but it’s a whole new world.
Everything about the album—musically, lyrically, spiritually—explores the epiphany that making decisive choices leads to freedom. If her critically acclaimed 2019 debut Walk Through Fire was an exhilarating exercise in country soul, Stand For Myself explores the concept of genre. The album features a fluidity of sound that defies categorization weaving elements of symphonic soul, mellifluous pop melodies, disco grooves, rootsy rawness, and ecstatic gospel power into a package with instant appeal.
For those who fell in love with the singular British artist on Walk Through Fire—and the love affair was fierce with both critics and the Recording Academy which recognized Yola with four Grammy nominations—listening to Stand For Myself is like stepping out of Kansas into Oz. Home may have been cozy and full of great songs, but it’s time to take the Yola ride in full Technicolor. And there’s no place like Stand For Myself.
“The album is like a window into my mind, my life experiences, my politics, my hopeful and sentimental sides, and my hope for humanity at large,” she says of the 12-track collection that covers a wide swath of ground in its 45 minute-plus running time. At her most melodically and lyrically free, it is an album of both artistic freedom and subtle social commentary, that Yola hopes will connect personally with anyone who has experienced being made to feel “other.”
Yola makes exciting new vocal choices on Stand For Myself. While her gale force power remains undiminished, she probes the layers of her instrument. “So often people come out all guns blazing and they don’t navigate nuance,” she says of her purposeful vocal approach. “I thought, do you know what? Instead of punching out of the gate with absolutely everything I have, I’m going to really try and navigate nuance.”
The results show themselves in glorious fashion as she pushes herself to both higher and lower registers, modulates her attack with laser-like precision and generally explores new textures on songs like the transporting title track, the addictive “If I Had To Do It All Again” and the slow-burning “Great Divide” which deftly balances grit and light.
“The album is like a window into my mind, my life experiences, my politics, my hopeful and sentimental sides, and my hope for humanity at large”
— Yola
Lyrically, she explores the difference between surviving and thriving (the languid R&B soul-searcher “Barely Alive”); inventively imagines new outcomes grappling with mortality (the inventive “Break The Bough”); frolics in the intersection of sentimentality and sexuality (the deeply sensual “Starlight”); recognizes the value of allyship (“Be My Friend” featuring vocal contributions from Brandi Carlile); and takes control of her own destiny on the anthemic title track. In examining and embracing the various elements of her identity: black, female, empathic, creative, erotic, bawdy, sophisticated, curious, intelligent, and more, Yola takes listeners on a journey to self-actualization that they might not even realize they’ve been on until the album ends.
“That’s it,” she says accompanied by one of her deeply infectious laughs. “I want to trick people into empathy and self-actualization!”
On the title track, she urges the listener to stand for themselves and those around them by challenging biases that fuel bigotry, inequality and tokenism which have deeply impacted her personal life and professional career. “It is about how people continue to bury their heads in the sand to hide from inconvenient truths that create a profound need to change how they think,” she says.
Her own journey to Stand For Myself was a somewhat circuitous route, for which, in hindsight, Yola could not be more grateful.
As the anniversary of her debut album approached in February 2020, the artist was intended to embark on opening dates in arenas and stadiums with Chris Stapleton, headline and festival gigs, and a journey to Australia to play Sister Rosetta Tharpe in Baz Luhrmann’s untitled Elvis biopic starring Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker and Austin Butler as Elvis. Second album recording was to happen sometime in and around all of that. She got in one show with Stapleton before COVID-19 derailed those plans and headed home with an eerie sense of the unknown looming in front of her.
Finding herself in lockdown back in Nashville allowed Yola to have something she hadn’t experienced in a year, time.
“I wasn’t seeing anybody and I was just staying up until five o’clock in the morning until my brain was really fuzzy and hazy and then ideas would just jump out,” she says. “I studied my creative process to the point where I knew what kind of state my brain needed to be in to generate ideas and knew what time of day my ideas turn up and so the whole process was ‘Okay, I’m going to start writing some things now explicitly for this record.’”
Over the course of some weeks she brought her early morning visions to life, alongside song ideas she had been germinating for the last decade. Pandemic-penned ideas were developed with Joy Oladokun, Ruby Amanfu, fellow Highwoman Natalie Hemby, Bobby Wood, Pat McLaughlin, and more. She headed back into the studio for a week in October 2020 with Walk Through Fire producer Dan Auerbach and a fresh band of collaborators including Dap-King bassist Nick Movshon (Sharon Jones, Amy Winehouse), drummer Aaron Frazer, who plays with Durand Jones and the Indications and is an emerging artist in his own right, and in-demand session percussionist Sam Bacco (Sheryl Crow, Johnny Cash), among others.
The pair got the work done quickly thanks to Yola’s own prodigious studio work, her new sense of purpose and the ability to work with a creative partner who understood her in a new way. “Walk Through Fire was a collaboration, in the truest sense of the word,” she says of the album that grew out of her personal story of literally and figuratively surviving harrowing experiences that spawned fan favorites like the title track and “Faraway Look.” “It was a getting-to-know-you record.” She says, “Dan and I talked about the music that we had in common, and then we found that middle ground.”
After a year of touring, learning, writing, and introspection Yola was able to record Stand For Myself as the person she has known herself to be for years because what wasn’t new about the album was her innate sense of self. She wanted to show her vulnerability, her hope, her intricacies, and to ultimately uncover all of those things for the listener.
“I want people to feel like they know a dark-skinned black woman, a little better,” she says. “I could be the first, and all with an English accent and a chocolate bar skin tone. I will be an example of nuance that one can reference that someone might not have had, because the media does not want to portray us in a way that is nuanced.”
If, she says, the first record was about introducing a person who, at a low point, recognized the need to ask for help, this second one illuminates that “I’ve been proven through this fire and I’m back to where I started, the real me. I kind of got talked out of being me and now I’m here. This is who I’ve always been in music and in life. There was a little hiatus where I got brainwashed out of my own majesty, but a bitch is back.”
Photo: Joseph Ross
Larkin Poe
Saturday, September 4 | 3:00pm
Snowmass Town Park
“The songwriting and recording development of Larkin Poe and their connection to the live audience has been a joy to behold…If you can find something of your own in a Skip James song, or spend a Berlin afternoon banging your hotel room’s furniture to render a YouTube version of an M.J. song, you know you’ve come to the right address.” – Elvis Costello
In any normal year, Larkin Poe would have released an acclaimed new album and then hit the road for a very long time. But of course, 2020 has been no ordinary year. The GRAMMY® Award-nominated sister duo of Rebecca and Megan Lovell kicked things off in June with their fifth studio album, SELF MADE MAN, topping an array of Billboard charts while earning unanimous acclaim around the world. Instead of a summer of tour buses and packed theaters, the Atlanta-bred, Nashville-based Lovells found themselves at home, performing many livestream concerts and adding to their much-loved YouTube covers series. That got them thinking, and now we have Larkin Poe’s second album of 2020 – KINDRED SPIRITS, a collection of stripped-back versions of covers, both classic and new.
KINDRED SPIRITS – which, like its three predecessors, was self-produced by Larkin Poe for their own Tricki-Woo Records, this time from their home studio with engineer and Rebecca’s husband Tyler Bryant of Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown – sees the duo paying tribute to favorite artists from the Allman Brothers Band, Lenny Kravitz, and Robert Johnson to Elton John, Post Malone, Ozzy Osbourne, and The Moody Blues.
“Music is a bridge that can connect generations across time,” says Rebecca and Megan. “In recording KINDRED SPIRITS, our admiration for the artists who originally wrote and performed these songs blossomed into an even deeper reverence. Coming up in a family of music lovers, a lot of the songs have been with us since childhood; in 2015, we started a YouTube series dedicated to paying tribute to our musical heroes that unexpectedly took off and when fans began requesting recorded versions of the songs, we began daydreaming about how an interpretive album might take shape. Bringing these old friends into the studio, stripping them to the bones and recording them live and raw, felt like a ritual.”
When Larkin Poe released SELF MADE MAN, it was in the wake of a remarkable two-year run that saw them earn a #1 Billboard Blues Chart album and a “Best Contemporary Blues Album” GRAMMY® Award nomination for 2018’s VENOM & FAITH. While VENOM & FAITH truly solidified the power and independent spirit of the band, SELF MADE MAN is undeniably the Lovell’s most wide reaching, artistically adventurous, and self-determined work to date, finding the multi-instrumentalist sister duo, pushing their music and message towards hitherto unexplored terrain.
Inspired by their epic world travels yet still powerfully rooted in the creative heritage of their beloved American South, the album was ambitious in both its eclectic, energetic sound and its resolutely welcoming mission, its universal lyrical approach fueled by tradition, invention, and Larkin Poe’s remarkable ability to touch the hearts and souls of their fellow humans worldwide.
In its first week of sales, SELF MADE MAN rose to the top of Billboard’s “Top New Artists Albums” and “Current Rock Albums” charts, while also climbing to #1 “Blues Albums” and #2 on the “Americana/Folk Albums.”
American Songwriter called the band “self made badasses,” going on to say, “Steeped in the sounds and tropes of the South, SELF MADE MAN is heavy and lean at the same time. Good and evil, sanctified and profane, they plug into the themes of Southern Gothic that have fed Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Harper Lee and Carson McCullers.”
No Depression said that Larkin Poe are “kicking butt with a mixture of rocking blues to make powerful, defiant statements,” while the Boston Herald hailed, “Larkin Poe plays southern rock. No matter how expansive your definition of the genre is, the band covers it then transcends it.” The Atlanta Journal Constitution said, “Larkin Poe simply dominates,” while Garden & Gun raved “southern music traditions loom large in the story of Larkin Poe.”
So while 2020 was supposed to be a year of hitting the road and taking their new songs to their fans around the globe, instead its become a year of reflection, of looking inward, of looking back. But Larkin Poe being Larkin Poe, looking in and looking back for them is also looking forward as they continue to put their own signature on the traditions they embrace. Not ones to sit around and wait for something to happen, Rebecca and Megan are constantly churning and creating. No one knows what this next year holds, but rest assured Larkin Poe will find ways to keep it fun and interesting for everyone, as we are all kindred spirits.
“We’re grateful for the experience of making this album and grateful to the kindred spirits who have come before us and written the soundtrack of our lives.”
STEVIE NICKS
Stevie Nicks
Sunday, September 5
Snowmass Town Park
Words… and Music… By Stevie Nicks
I began thinking about making this record in February of this year because I had about five months before Fleetwood Mac rehearsals started in August. We didn’t have a year to hang out and work on music like I usually do. I had about 40 songs originally done in demo form from 1969-1987 and ’94 and ’95. I thought we could certainly make an album from this collection –probably three albums. Many of the songs were already out there on the internet and fans have been asking for them for years through fan sites and letters. I used to make cassettes of my music and give them to anybody. But to know that these songs were finally going to be recorded with the same love they were originally done when they were demos –that was joyous for me. I narrowed it down to 30 and had to keep weeding out. I think Waddy hit it on the head when he said, “Stevie really writes one very long song. They’re all involved with each other. Each song is a lifetime… Each song has a soul… Each song has a purpose. Each song is a love story… They represent my life behind the scenes, the secrets, the broken hearts, the brokenhearted and the survivors… These songs are the memories –the 24 Karat gold rings in the blue box… These songs are for you.”
You usually don’t write songs about being super happy… When you write a song or a book, it’s usually when someone walks away. I think that’s the first moment you start to think about it not working out and you start to write. The relationship may go on for longer but you’ve already started writing in your head because you see the future… Other times, you know a relationship won’t work from almost the beginning but you wouldn’t trade what you shared for a million dollars…
It’s not acting…It’s never acting… It’s the reason I go onstage and sing Edge of 17 every night since ’81 or Gold Dust Woman. I just take myself back to that time when it was written… Sometimes I can’t remember what happened yesterday but I remember so well what happened through the whole period of time that I wrote these songs.
Regarding Fleetwood Mac, it’s going to be so great to look over to my right and see Christine behind the Hammond organ… I’ve missed her so much… I never thought she’d come back… She said she was never coming back… But she started seeing a therapist and one day she had an epiphany. I think he said, “What are you doing staying out in your castle, Guenivere… What are you doing out there? You need to come back and start living life… Go back to the band…” At that time, it was Mick, John, Lindsey and I touring… She called up and asked, “What would you think if I came back to the band?” And I said, “Chris, it is your band… Get a trainer…” So she got a trainer and she’s been working out for the last six months and she’s stronger than all of us. She’s going to leave us in the dust.
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ERIC CHURCH
ERIC CHURCH
Saturday, September 4
Snowmass Town Park
The three-time Country Music Association and six-time Academy of Country Music Award winner released his highly-anticipated album Desperate Man atop the Billboard Country Albums chart in late 2018, earning praise as one of the year’s top albums by American Songwriter, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, Stereogum, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, USA Today and Vulture, among others. The album, featuring his most recent No. 1 hit “Some Of It,” also debuted at No. 5 on the all-genre Billboard 200. Rolling Stone describes it as “classic Church: expertly crafted and country-radio-friendly, while also pushing boundaries in a way that sounds natural and unforced” and American Songwriter notes that it “sublimates the pain of a tumultuous year into his most adventuresome album yet.” Church also returned to the road this year for his critically-acclaimed Double Down Tour, with back-to-back nights of two unique shows sans-opening act giving fans 6+ hours of his iconic music in each city. The tour recently featured a massive stop at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, where he broke the venue’s concert attendance record with more than 56,000 fans just two weeks before awing the same stadium’s audience with a 30-minute, solo acoustic CMA Fest set featuring a medley of 17 hits.
KINGS OF LEON
KINGS OF LEON
Friday, September 3
Snowmass Town Park
Since their debut in 2003, Kings of Leon (Caleb (guitar/vocals), Nathan (drums), Jared (bass) and Matthew Followill (guitar)) have released seven albums (Youth & Young Manhood (2003), Aha Shake Heartbreak (2004), Because of the Times (2007), Only by the Night (2008), Come Around Sundown (2010), Mechanical Bull (2013) and WALLS (2016)), and sold over 21 million albums and over 38 million singles worldwide. The multi-platinum selling band has had five singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, all seven of their studio albums on Billboard’s 200 list and five singles that reached #1 on Modern Rock radio. Their seventh album WALLS debuted in October at #1 in the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland and Austria, and top 3 in more than 10 countries, including Germany and Australia. In addition, they have had seven Grammy Nominations, four Grammy Award wins, three NME Awards, two Brit Awards and one Juno Award. They have toured all over the world, selling out top venues and headlining major festivals such as Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits and visit
SHERYL CROW
SHERYL CROW
Saturday, September 4
Snowmass Town Park
A nine-time GRAMMY AWARD recipient, Sheryl Crow is an American music icon. Her first nine studio albums have sold 35 million copies worldwide; seven of them charted in the Top 10 and five were certified for Multi-Platinum sales. In addition to such No. 1 hits as “All I Wanna Do,” “Soak Up the Sun” and “The First Cut Is the Deepest,” Crow has lofted 40 singles into the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Top 40, Adult Contemporary, Mainstream Top 40 and Hot Country Songs charts, with more No. 1 singles in the Triple A listings than any other female artist. For her current album “Threads”, Crow collaborated with a broad array of her musical heroes, including Stevie Nicks, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Chuck D, Joe Walsh, Kris Kristoffersson, and even a duet of her classic song “Redemption Day” with the late legend Johnny Cash. “Threads” also features contributions by young artists shaping music today, including Gary Clark Jr, Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Margo Price, Andra Day, St. Vincent, and Maren Morris.
Crow is known as well for her passionate support of multiple charities, including The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, The World Food Program, Feeding America, ADOPT A CLASSROOM, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, MusiCares, and the Delta Children’s Home and many other worthy causes. For more information, visit www.SherylCrow.com
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MAREN MORRIS
MAREN MORRIS
Sunday September 6, 2020
Snowmass Town Park
Maren Morris is one of the leading voices in country music today—armed with incredible vocal stylings that reflect her country, folk and pop influences, sheer talent, honest lyrics and a strong presence. Morris’ latest album GIRL, released in March 2019 via Columbia Nashville, was recently named Album of the Year at the 53rd Annual Country Music Association Awards, where Morris was the most nominated artist. The album shattered the record for the largest ever debut streaming week for a country album by a woman with 23.96 million streams and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and No. 4 on the Billboard 200. It features history-making title track “GIRL” which had the highest debut on Billboard’s Country Streaming Songs chart by a female artist and the highest weekly streams by a female country artist ever. GIRL comes three years after Morris’ breakout, Gold-certified debut album Hero and explores how her life has changed since then—a skyrocketing career, falling in love, becoming engaged and then married—and the highs and lows in between. She won a Grammy Award for Best Country Solo Performance at the 59th Grammy Awards, was named New Artist of the Year at the 50th Annual CMA Awards, Top Country Female Artist at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards and New Female Vocalist of the Year at the 52nd Academy of Country Music Awards. Morris was also the most-played female artist on country radio in 2017 and 2018. The 29-year-old from Arlington, Texas got her start playing in bars around her hometown and quickly made a name for herself with Hero and its Platinum-selling “My Church,” Gold-selling “80s Mercedes” and “I Could Use A Love Song.” Hero and its singles topped charts nationwide, set Country radio records, and were some of the most critically-acclaimed works of 2016.
GARY CLARK, JR.
Gary Clark, Jr.
Friday, September 3/h4>
Snowmass Town Park
Clark achieved global impact following his first Grammy Award in 2014 winning Best Traditional R&B Performance for the track “Please Come Home” from his Warner Records debut album Blak And Blu, and seemingly never left the road. Throughout 2019 Clark ascended to greater heights with the release of This Land – his third full-length studio album which bowed at #6 on the Billboard Top 200, marking his third consecutive Top 10 debut. The album and single of the same name attracted acclaim from the likes of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and more. He has performed on Saturday Night Live, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Good Morning America, CBS News Sunday, CBS This Morning, The Today Show, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, The Howard Stern Show, WTF with Marc Maron and more. Clark’s domestic tours became instant sell outs and his international profile found him topping bills at legendary festivals around the world and venues including the Hollywood Bowl, along with multiple appearances in stadiums supporting and sharing the stage with The Rolling Stones. Most recently, Clark won three more Grammy Awards including Best Rock Performance “This Land,” Best Rock Song “This Land,” and Best Contemporary Blues Album THIS LAND. Clark also performed his award-winning single “This Land,” backed by The Roots at this year’s Grammy Award ceremony and released their version of the track. To date, Clark has been nominated for six GRAMMY Awards® and won four. Clark is currently working on his follow-up to THIS LAND.
YOLA
Yola
FSunday, September 5
Snowmass Town Park
“It’s a paradigm shift.”
And as simply as that, Yola encapsulates the giddy expansiveness, stunning emotional breadth, and exponential musical growth of her sophomore album Stand For Myself, out July 30. She may only be saying four words, but it’s a whole new world.
Everything about the album—musically, lyrically, spiritually—explores the epiphany that making decisive choices leads to freedom. If her critically acclaimed 2019 debut Walk Through Fire was an exhilarating exercise in country soul, Stand For Myself explores the concept of genre. The album features a fluidity of sound that defies categorization weaving elements of symphonic soul, mellifluous pop melodies, disco grooves, rootsy rawness, and ecstatic gospel power into a package with instant appeal.
For those who fell in love with the singular British artist on Walk Through Fire—and the love affair was fierce with both critics and the Recording Academy which recognized Yola with four Grammy nominations—listening to Stand For Myself is like stepping out of Kansas into Oz. Home may have been cozy and full of great songs, but it’s time to take the Yola ride in full Technicolor. And there’s no place like Stand For Myself.
“The album is like a window into my mind, my life experiences, my politics, my hopeful and sentimental sides, and my hope for humanity at large,” she says of the 12-track collection that covers a wide swath of ground in its 45 minute-plus running time. At her most melodically and lyrically free, it is an album of both artistic freedom and subtle social commentary, that Yola hopes will connect personally with anyone who has experienced being made to feel “other.”
Yola makes exciting new vocal choices on Stand For Myself. While her gale force power remains undiminished, she probes the layers of her instrument. “So often people come out all guns blazing and they don’t navigate nuance,” she says of her purposeful vocal approach. “I thought, do you know what? Instead of punching out of the gate with absolutely everything I have, I’m going to really try and navigate nuance.”
The results show themselves in glorious fashion as she pushes herself to both higher and lower registers, modulates her attack with laser-like precision and generally explores new textures on songs like the transporting title track, the addictive “If I Had To Do It All Again” and the slow-burning “Great Divide” which deftly balances grit and light.
“The album is like a window into my mind, my life experiences, my politics, my hopeful and sentimental sides, and my hope for humanity at large”
— Yola
Lyrically, she explores the difference between surviving and thriving (the languid R&B soul-searcher “Barely Alive”); inventively imagines new outcomes grappling with mortality (the inventive “Break The Bough”); frolics in the intersection of sentimentality and sexuality (the deeply sensual “Starlight”); recognizes the value of allyship (“Be My Friend” featuring vocal contributions from Brandi Carlile); and takes control of her own destiny on the anthemic title track. In examining and embracing the various elements of her identity: black, female, empathic, creative, erotic, bawdy, sophisticated, curious, intelligent, and more, Yola takes listeners on a journey to self-actualization that they might not even realize they’ve been on until the album ends.
“That’s it,” she says accompanied by one of her deeply infectious laughs. “I want to trick people into empathy and self-actualization!”
On the title track, she urges the listener to stand for themselves and those around them by challenging biases that fuel bigotry, inequality and tokenism which have deeply impacted her personal life and professional career. “It is about how people continue to bury their heads in the sand to hide from inconvenient truths that create a profound need to change how they think,” she says.
Her own journey to Stand For Myself was a somewhat circuitous route, for which, in hindsight, Yola could not be more grateful.
As the anniversary of her debut album approached in February 2020, the artist was intended to embark on opening dates in arenas and stadiums with Chris Stapleton, headline and festival gigs, and a journey to Australia to play Sister Rosetta Tharpe in Baz Luhrmann’s untitled Elvis biopic starring Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker and Austin Butler as Elvis. Second album recording was to happen sometime in and around all of that. She got in one show with Stapleton before COVID-19 derailed those plans and headed home with an eerie sense of the unknown looming in front of her.
Finding herself in lockdown back in Nashville allowed Yola to have something she hadn’t experienced in a year, time.
“I wasn’t seeing anybody and I was just staying up until five o’clock in the morning until my brain was really fuzzy and hazy and then ideas would just jump out,” she says. “I studied my creative process to the point where I knew what kind of state my brain needed to be in to generate ideas and knew what time of day my ideas turn up and so the whole process was ‘Okay, I’m going to start writing some things now explicitly for this record.’”
Over the course of some weeks she brought her early morning visions to life, alongside song ideas she had been germinating for the last decade. Pandemic-penned ideas were developed with Joy Oladokun, Ruby Amanfu, fellow Highwoman Natalie Hemby, Bobby Wood, Pat McLaughlin, and more. She headed back into the studio for a week in October 2020 with Walk Through Fire producer Dan Auerbach and a fresh band of collaborators including Dap-King bassist Nick Movshon (Sharon Jones, Amy Winehouse), drummer Aaron Frazer, who plays with Durand Jones and the Indications and is an emerging artist in his own right, and in-demand session percussionist Sam Bacco (Sheryl Crow, Johnny Cash), among others.
The pair got the work done quickly thanks to Yola’s own prodigious studio work, her new sense of purpose and the ability to work with a creative partner who understood her in a new way. “Walk Through Fire was a collaboration, in the truest sense of the word,” she says of the album that grew out of her personal story of literally and figuratively surviving harrowing experiences that spawned fan favorites like the title track and “Faraway Look.” “It was a getting-to-know-you record.” She says, “Dan and I talked about the music that we had in common, and then we found that middle ground.”
After a year of touring, learning, writing, and introspection Yola was able to record Stand For Myself as the person she has known herself to be for years because what wasn’t new about the album was her innate sense of self. She wanted to show her vulnerability, her hope, her intricacies, and to ultimately uncover all of those things for the listener.
“I want people to feel like they know a dark-skinned black woman, a little better,” she says. “I could be the first, and all with an English accent and a chocolate bar skin tone. I will be an example of nuance that one can reference that someone might not have had, because the media does not want to portray us in a way that is nuanced.”
If, she says, the first record was about introducing a person who, at a low point, recognized the need to ask for help, this second one illuminates that “I’ve been proven through this fire and I’m back to where I started, the real me. I kind of got talked out of being me and now I’m here. This is who I’ve always been in music and in life. There was a little hiatus where I got brainwashed out of my own majesty, but a bitch is back.”
Photo: Joseph Ross
LARKIN POE
LARKIN POE
Saturday, September 4
Snowmass Town Park
“The songwriting and recording development of Larkin Poe and their connection to the live audience has been a joy to behold…If you can find something of your own in a Skip James song, or spend a Berlin afternoon banging your hotel room’s furniture to render a YouTube version of an M.J. song, you know you’ve come to the right address.” – Elvis Costello
In any normal year, Larkin Poe would have released an acclaimed new album and then hit the road for a very long time. But of course, 2020 has been no ordinary year. The GRAMMY® Award-nominated sister duo of Rebecca and Megan Lovell kicked things off in June with their fifth studio album, SELF MADE MAN, topping an array of Billboard charts while earning unanimous acclaim around the world. Instead of a summer of tour buses and packed theaters, the Atlanta-bred, Nashville-based Lovells found themselves at home, performing many livestream concerts and adding to their much-loved YouTube covers series. That got them thinking, and now we have Larkin Poe’s second album of 2020 – KINDRED SPIRITS, a collection of stripped-back versions of covers, both classic and new.
KINDRED SPIRITS – which, like its three predecessors, was self-produced by Larkin Poe for their own Tricki-Woo Records, this time from their home studio with engineer and Rebecca’s husband Tyler Bryant of Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown – sees the duo paying tribute to favorite artists from the Allman Brothers Band, Lenny Kravitz, and Robert Johnson to Elton John, Post Malone, Ozzy Osbourne, and The Moody Blues.
“Music is a bridge that can connect generations across time,” says Rebecca and Megan. “In recording KINDRED SPIRITS, our admiration for the artists who originally wrote and performed these songs blossomed into an even deeper reverence. Coming up in a family of music lovers, a lot of the songs have been with us since childhood; in 2015, we started a YouTube series dedicated to paying tribute to our musical heroes that unexpectedly took off and when fans began requesting recorded versions of the songs, we began daydreaming about how an interpretive album might take shape. Bringing these old friends into the studio, stripping them to the bones and recording them live and raw, felt like a ritual.”
When Larkin Poe released SELF MADE MAN, it was in the wake of a remarkable two-year run that saw them earn a #1 Billboard Blues Chart album and a “Best Contemporary Blues Album” GRAMMY® Award nomination for 2018’s VENOM & FAITH. While VENOM & FAITH truly solidified the power and independent spirit of the band, SELF MADE MAN is undeniably the Lovell’s most wide reaching, artistically adventurous, and self-determined work to date, finding the multi-instrumentalist sister duo, pushing their music and message towards hitherto unexplored terrain.
Inspired by their epic world travels yet still powerfully rooted in the creative heritage of their beloved American South, the album was ambitious in both its eclectic, energetic sound and its resolutely welcoming mission, its universal lyrical approach fueled by tradition, invention, and Larkin Poe’s remarkable ability to touch the hearts and souls of their fellow humans worldwide.
In its first week of sales, SELF MADE MAN rose to the top of Billboard’s “Top New Artists Albums” and “Current Rock Albums” charts, while also climbing to #1 “Blues Albums” and #2 on the “Americana/Folk Albums.”
American Songwriter called the band “self made badasses,” going on to say, “Steeped in the sounds and tropes of the South, SELF MADE MAN is heavy and lean at the same time. Good and evil, sanctified and profane, they plug into the themes of Southern Gothic that have fed Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Harper Lee and Carson McCullers.”
No Depression said that Larkin Poe are “kicking butt with a mixture of rocking blues to make powerful, defiant statements,” while the Boston Herald hailed, “Larkin Poe plays southern rock. No matter how expansive your definition of the genre is, the band covers it then transcends it.” The Atlanta Journal Constitution said, “Larkin Poe simply dominates,” while Garden & Gun raved “southern music traditions loom large in the story of Larkin Poe.”
So while 2020 was supposed to be a year of hitting the road and taking their new songs to their fans around the globe, instead its become a year of reflection, of looking inward, of looking back. But Larkin Poe being Larkin Poe, looking in and looking back for them is also looking forward as they continue to put their own signature on the traditions they embrace. Not ones to sit around and wait for something to happen, Rebecca and Megan are constantly churning and creating. No one knows what this next year holds, but rest assured Larkin Poe will find ways to keep it fun and interesting for everyone, as we are all kindred spirits.
“We’re grateful for the experience of making this album and grateful to the kindred spirits who have come before us and written the soundtrack of our lives.”
Donor (VIP) Tickets – Purchase Here
JAS Aspen Snowmass Donor Passes get you in on the inside track and provide you with outstanding Donor privileges. Donor Passes also help JAS fulfill its mission to bring world-class renowned and emerging artists to its stages. Below is pricing and information for the 2021 Labor Day Experience. For information on becoming a JAS National Council Member please click here.
Or call 970.920.4996 for assistance in purchasing.
For general admission ticket information visit us here
Labor Day 3-Day Silver Donor Passes
$2,650* for Silver WITH Two Creeks Parking/ $2,400* for Silver WITHOUT Parking
*All prices subject to change
- One 3-Day Silver Donor Pass for the Sept. 3 – 5, 2021 Labor Day Experience
- Open seating on the Donor patio and tent behind the gold section seating
- Donor Tent access with afternoon grille fare, open bars, gourmet catered hors d’oeuvres, dinner & dessert
- Access to Silver Lift – raised platform by sound board.
- Prominent event program listing
- Standing room only access front row to the side of stage left.
- OPTION for PARKING PASS FOR TWO CREEKS LOT with shuttle service to site. All passengers arriving at Two Creeks must have parking option on ticket in order to receive a shuttle ticket to the venue! Any attendees arriving at Two Creeks without a parking pass ticket will not be allowed on the shuttle.
- $1,600 tax deduction for Pass WITH Parking / $1,400 tax deduction for Pass WITHOUT Parking
Labor Day 3-Day Gold Standing Room Donor Passes – SOLD OUT
$3,250* for GOLD SRO WITH Two Creeks Parking/ $3,000* for GOLD SRO WITHOUT Parking
*All prices subject to change
These tickets are currently Sold Out. To get a on the waitlist please click here, we will call you if something becomes available.
- One 3-Day Gold Donor Standing Room Pass for the Sept. 3 – 5, 2021 Labor Day Experience
- Donor Tent access with afternoon grille fare, open bars, gourmet catered hors d’oeuvres, dinner & dessert
- Standing room only section from 5th – 10th Rows Premium Center Stage Location
- Prominent event program listing
- OPTION for PARKING PASS FOR TWO CREEKS LOT with shuttle service to site. *PLEASE NOTE: Parking at this level is now at the Two Creeks Lot with Shuttle to VIP Entrance* All passengers arriving at Two Creeks must have parking option on ticket in order to receive a shuttle ticket to the venue! Any attendees arriving at Two Creeks without a parking pass ticket will not be allowed on the shuttle.
- $2,200 tax deduction for Pass WITH Parking / $2,000 tax deduction for Pass WITHOUT Parking
Labor Day 3-Day Gold Donor Passes – SOLD OUT
$3,900* for GOLD WITH Rodeo Lot Parking/ $3,600* for GOLD WITHOUT Parking
*All prices subject to change
This pass is currently sold out. If you would like to get on the waitlist please fill out the form here. If tickets become available we will give you a call.
- One 3-Day Gold Donor Pass for the Sept. 3 – 5, 2021 Labor Day Experience
- Reserved table seating in Gold Section behind JAS National Council seating
- Donor Tent access with afternoon grille fare, open bars, gourmet catered hors d’oeuvres, dinner & dessert
- Standing room only section from 5th – 10th Rows Premium Center Stage Location
- Prominent event program listing
- OPTION for PARKING PASS FOR RODEO LOT within walking distance from venue entrance
- $2,850 tax deduction for Pass WITH Parking / $2,600 tax deduction for Pass WITHOUT Parking
- Child tickets are available for children 12 & under for $350/per day. One child’s ticket can be purchased for each adult PAID Donor ticket. Child tickets are for standing room only: no reserved seating. Kids will have access to the same areas as their paid adult Donor.
Comp adult tickets are not allowed access to discounted children tickets, your ticket will specify comp or paid amount.
For more information or to purchase Donor Passes, contact JAS at 970-920-4996, or by email cisley@jazzaspensnowmass.org
EVENT CANCELLATION POLICY: The cost of each VIP Donor Pass for the JAS June & Labor Day Experience (Gold, Silver or National Council Membership) includes a fair market value component for admission to the event and a tax deductible donation, which supports JAS year-round education and programming . In the event that the event is cancelled for any reason, only the fair market value (FMV) component will be refunded or credited for future use. The tax deductible donation will not be refunded under any circumstances, including if the event is cancelled, as your donation and tax deduction will be acknowledged (per IRS rules) in the year in which you made the donation. JAS cannot carry forward this donation to the following year under any circumstances. JAS proudly uses the tax deductible contribution in furtherance of JAS’ mission of music education and performance programming.
If you elect to receive a credit for the FMV to a future event, if the ticket for the future event includes a tax deductible contribution component or increased FMV, you will need to pay the difference in connection with the new ticket value. For example, if you purchased a ticket to an event for $1,500 that included a $500 fair market value component and a $1,000 tax deductible donation, if the event is cancelled you would be entitled to a refund of $500 or a $500 credit against a ticket for a future event with JAS.
Friday, September 3rd – Sunday, September 5th, 2021
Our JAS Labor Day Experience brings artists from a wide range of popular genres of music: rock, heritage, country, pop and alternative to name a few. If you are looking for a more jazz focused musical lineup please take a look at our JAS June Experience and our JAS Café Series.
Snowmass Town Park
2000 Brush Creek Road
Snowmass, CO
Friday: JAS Village Opens @ 4pm, Festival Grounds @ 5pm
Saturday & Sunday: JAS Village Opens @ 1pm, Festival Grounds @ 2pm
VIP:
Friday: 5pm
Saturday & Sunday: 2pm
• JAS Deck: 3-Day Passes – SOLD OUT. Visit us here to learn more about how to access the JAS Deck.
•Donor (VIP) Passes: 3-Day Silver, Gold SRO and Gold passes available now here. Single day tickets will be released, based on availability, closer to the beginning of summer.
• Includes a transferable wristband or single day ticket good for entrance to the JAS Deck & General Admission access.
• Deck passes include nightly grilled fare, complimentary beer, wine and daily specialty cocktail, private bars and restrooms.
• The JAS Deck does have lounge areas and table seating, but it is on a first come, first serve basis. Your ticket does not guarantee you a seat.
• Please note: The Deck is located at the back of the Main Field & does not include stage-front viewing. Ticket holders may access the Standing Room Only (SRO) section shown above in the General Admission lawn area.
Purchase JAS Deck Passes Here
VIP Tickets come in the following levels: Silver, Gold SRO and Gold and each ticket has a portion that is tax-deductible. VIP Pass Holders have access to the exclusive JAS Donor (VIP) Tent where there is a separate Donor (VIP) Entrance, daily grille fare, premium open bars, live cooking stations, Standing Room Only (SRO) sections in front of the stage, reserved seating for Gold Pass Holders or open seating for Gold SRO and Silver Pass Holders and option to purchase a parking pass. Learn more by clicking on the “Donor Tickets” tab above.
• All-inclusive, chef-driven catered cuisine and live cooking stations
• Open bar with premium cocktails
• High-top and banquet tables with chairs and comfortable views of the stage
• Option to purchase a parking pass
• A tax-deductible portion included in the ticket price
PLEASE NOTE:
• If you are upgrading from GA or JAS Deck to VIP you will be issued a full refund from those tickets and then charged the full amount of the VIP tickets.
• If you would like to only upgrade one day from your 3-Day Pass, we will release your 3-Day Pass and charge you single day prices for the other days of the festival.
Should JAS have to cancel any event due to Colorado or Pitkin County COVID related restrictions you will have the option of receiving a refund for your tickets or a credit for future rescheduled events.
We have now switched over to AXS Mobile ID. You will receive your tickets via our JAS Aspen Snowmass App. These will arrive in the “Tickets” section of the app at a date closer to the festival. You will receive an email informing you when your tickets are available in the JAS App. You can have your tickets mailed to you for an additional $8 or can pick them up at Will Call during the event for an additional $6.
VIP–
AXS Mobile ID:
• Estimated to be sent out before the start of the summer. You will receive an email informing you your tickets have arrived in the JAS App Standard Mail: All standard mail tickets will be sent out approximately two weeks prior to Labor Day Weekend
Will Call:
• Will Call will be open at the Belly Up on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021 or at the festival site daily starting at noon on Friday, Sept 3, 2021.
VIP
• All tickets will be sent via email, including your parking passes, starting in early August.
• Thursday, September 2nd:2pm –8pm (times subject to change) at Belly Up in Downtown Aspen
• Friday, September 3rd –Sunday, September 5th: 12pm –9pm at the Festival Entrance
• GA Child Ticket -$45 /child/day
• VIP Child Ticket -$350 /child/day
PLEASE NOTE: When a day is SOLD OUT that also includes Children Tickets. Do not wait to buy your kids tickets, our shows have been selling out in advance! Children Ticket prices do not change.
AXS Mobile ID allows for convenience, flexibility and security. Fans can manage tickets digitally, transfer or sell tickets when needed (if applicable), and remain assured that all tickets are authentic and secure. The move to AXS Mobile ID is designed to put tickets in the hands of JAS fans, reduce ticket scalping from unauthorized resale sites & ensure that we know who is coming to the show.
and times of each artist will be announced at a later date.
Single Day Tickets: you will not see your tickets in your AXS Mobile ID seats on the Jazz Aspen Snowmass app until early summer
AXS Mobile ID tickets via the Jazz Aspen Snowmass mobile app is the recommended form of entry, but if you don’t have access to a smartphone, you may use the credit card you used to purchase the tickets or your ID (ID must be registered to your AXS account).
1. Get the Jazz Aspen Snowmass app if you haven’t already
2. Open the App and sign in to see your tickets. WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND OPENING YOUR TICKETS IN THE APP PRIOR TO ARRIVING AT THE VENUE TO AVOID ANY CONNECTIVITY ISSUES.
3. Show the ticket in the App at the entrance and get them scanned to enter.
You may also present another convenient form of ID – AXS Mobile ID registered credit card or driver’s license (only available for
certain states and the newest versions of their IDs).
Enjoy the event!
Bought tickets for a group? Make sure everyone enters together OR transfer tickets to friends before the event & have them follow the steps above to enter the venue.
A ticket transfer allows you to digitally give each guest in your party their own ticket via AXS Mobile ID. With seat transfers, you no longer need to worry about delivering the paper tickets to them in advance or meeting them outside of the gates to walk in together. There is no fee for transferring seats and you are allowed unlimited transfers.
Your guests will need to create an AXS account to receive tickets. Guests can transfer the tickets back to you if they can’t attend or you can cancel the transfer if they have yet to set up their AXS account. If they already have an AXS account set up the tickets will go in their account automatically.
Here’s how it works:
1. Click the Transfer button next to the event in your AXS account.
2. Select the tickets to transfer and enter the recipient’s information.
3. On the review page, click the Transfer button to send the tickets.
The recipient will get an email about the transfer, and they’ll need to create an AXS account (if they don’t have one yet) to complete the transfer. After that, the tickets will be theirs to use with the AXS app.
They’ll also need to get the Jazz Aspen Snowmass app. When it’s time for the event, they can open the app to show their tickets on their phone. Make sure they do this prior to arriving at the venue to avoid any connectivity issues that could occur.
The fan-to-fan exchange is the best place to sell your seats because it is the official marketplace endorsed by JAS. Tickets purchased through unofficial sources (such as Craigslist, StubHub, Vividseats etc.) may not be valid.
Here’s how it works:
1. Click the Sell button next to the event in your AXS Account.
2. Select the tickets to sell, and then set your price and selling options.
3. On the Review page, click the List Tickets button to finish.
When your tickets sell, you’ll receive an email informing you of the sale. The tickets will be delivered to the buyer automatically. You’ll be able to transfer money to your bank from your account on AXS.com.
• One Day From Now
• One Week From Now
• One Day Before Event
• One Hour Before Start Time
• At Event Start Time
• One Hour After Event Start Time
1. Sign into your AXS Account and click Listings
2. Choose a listing and click Retract
3. Click yes, retract now.
And you’re done! Your tickets will no longer be listed for others to buy.
Click Here for Festival Map (map details are subject to change and are updated regularly)
IMPORTANT: Our festival is in the middle of the Colorado High Rockies, so please plan accordingly. Weather and temperatures change frequently and drastically. It could be a blue bird, 75-80 degree day and at about 3-5pm it could drop to 50-60 degrees and start pouring and then be back to warm and beautiful within the hour or could stay cold. Packing layers, rain jackets, hats, gloves, closed toed shoes and socks is encouraged.
FREE parking is also available at the Town of Snowmass Village parking garage located at Base Village and all numbered lots on the Snowmass Village Mall with FREE shuttle service to the site.
NO ON-SITE PARKING AVAILABLE EXCEPT FOR VIP TICKET HOLDERS!
General Admission lawn seating is first come, first served. The Standing Room Only area in front of the stage for General Admission is also first come, first served.
If you and your party would like to have seating during or in-between sets, please see the option to upgrade your GA experience with The JAS Deck single-day tickets or three-day passes.
Blankets and low-back chairs will not be allowed in this area but will be permitted outside of this area. The SRO is first come, first served for front-of-stage access.
You may bring in ONE factory sealed bottle of water or empty water bottle/Camelback. There will be FREE water stations throughout the venue that will be available for refills.
If you have special dietary needs to require you to bring in outside food or drinks, please get a signed doctor’s note to present at event check-in.
Most vendors are cash only. Alpine Bank ATMs will be available on-site at the Vendors’ Village.
• In between Main Stage performances, additional up-and-coming bands will perform at the JAS Village Stage. Make sure to discover these burgeoning acts!
• A kid’s area is also located in the village with face painting, juggling and crafts for the young ones in your group.
See a map of all the vendors here (map details are subject to change and are updated regularly)
• NO TARPS & RUGS, no pets, alcohol, coolers, weapons, inflatables, tents or HIGH-BACK CHAIRS OF ANY KIND are allowed in.
• No outside food or drink, except one sealed water bottled. Empty refillable water bottles are allowed, and water stations are provided
• Mother Nature can be unpredictable! Though we will be monitoring the weather at all times, to prepare, it’s important that you check the weather right before leaving for the event. This way you can be prepared with rain gear, warm clothes, or anything else you may need to be comfortable in the case of unpleasant weather.
• Stay hydrated and be prepared for sun! It can get very hot in September in Snowmass, make sure you have plenty of sunscreen and a good plan for having water near you at all times! (Remember empty camelbacks and plastic water bottles are allowed in, bring them and take advantage of out water fill stations)
• Take a moment to look over the map, locate all the medical tents and emergency exits so you know the quickest way to safety in an emergency!
• Be considerate of those around you! There are a lot of people around you and you are all there for one reason – TO HAVE FUN!
• Follow the emergency exit signs. Please take a moment to review the map and look for emergency exits. These exits will also be marked with signs in the venue, so take a moment once you enter to take a moment and make yourself familiar with their locations in the event of an evacuation.
• KEEP UP-TO-DATE! In the event of an evacuation or emergency we will post updates via our social network pages, app and texting platform. Make sure you follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, have downloaded our app to stay updated. Keep your eyes on these sites for all safety and scheduling updates.
• In the event of an emergency buses WILL NOT make regular stops! Buses will take patrons DIRECTLY to either: Ruby Park in Aspen, the Intercept Lot, Snowmass Base Village Transit Depot or Snowmass Mall Transit Depot. From there you can get on connecting buses to your final destination.
GA/JAS Deck – parking will be located at the Intercept Lot located at the cross section of Highway 82 and Brush Creek Road. Shuttles will be running regularly and will drop you off at the Transportation Center at the Snowmass Town Parking Lot.
Silver VIP & Gold SRO Parking – will be located at the Two Creeks Parking Lot off Owl Creek Rd. Please access via Brush Creek Road from Highway 82. DO NOT USE OWL CREEK ROAD.
Gold VIP Parking – will be located at the Rodeo Lot by the event. Gold Parking Pass holders will enter the lot from the roundabout at the far corner of the parking lot.
*Please note parking is limited and on a first come first serve basis. Please help us reduce parking by taking alternative means of transportation*
From Aspen – Look for the JAS Shuttles leaving from Ruby Park.
Intercept/ Downvalley – please take the regularly schedule RFTA buses to the Intercept Lot. JAS Shuttles will leave the Intercept Lot from the Northeast side of the parking lot (not the regular bus stop) These shuttles will drop you off at the Transportation Center at the Snowmass Town Parking Lot.
From Snowmass – JAS Shuttles will take patrons from stops in Snowmass Village to the venue. PLEASE NOTE: the shuttles will be RFTA and School Busses. TOSV busses WILL NOT be taking attendees to the festival entrance – they will be dropping patrons off at the Alternative Transportation Drop Off. Shuttle routes and stops have changed please see below.
Hotels and other private transportation will be dropping off at the Old Information Kiosk north of the roundabout and guests will be walking on the pedestrian path to the festival entrance.
Walking/ Biking – Please note that these is no longer an entrance on the west side of Brush Creek Road. Please do not attempt to access the venue this way. All patrons should enter through the Town Park Lot.
• Carbondale is approximately 50 minutes “down valley” from the venue. Click here for a list of accommodations in Carbondale. You will need to either drive up and park at the Intercept Lot (at the intersection of Hwy 82 and Brush Creek Rd) and take an event shuttle up OR you can take a RFTA bus from Carbondale up to the event. See bus schedules here.
• Glenwood Springs is approximately 70 minutes “down valley” from the venue. Click here for a list of accommodations in Glenwood Springs. You will need to either drive up and park at the Intercept Lot (at the intersection of Hwy 82 and Brush Creek Rd) and take an event shuttle up OR you can take a RFTA bus from Carbondale up to the event. See bus schedules here.
The following information should answer questions regarding accessibility at Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience. If you have any additional questions, by all means contact us via email at: jazzaspenaccess@gmail.com.
For help or information during the festival please call: 970.989.4074
Festival Grounds
Golf carts operate each day when the gates open until the last act is over. Golf carts will be available to transport patrons with mobility impairments. Golf carts travel to and from Accessible Parking and the viewing platform. To request a cart from the viewing deck please contact the viewing deck manager.
Emotional support or comfort animals are not considered service animals under the ADA and therefore are not allowed at JAS.
Please note that all service dogs, including those from out of state are subject to local dog ordinances, which includes a valid rabies certificate.
1. Service animals must be accompanied by the handler with the disability at all times.
2. Service animals must be under the control and supervision of their handler at all times.
3. Service animals are not permitted to be left in camp unattended under any circumstances.
4. Handlers are required to be prepared for, and clean-up after, their animals at all times.
5. We reserve the right to remove and/or refuse access to any service animal from the campgrounds or venues if that animal is deemed to be a health or safety threat to festival patrons, staff, or other service animals, or in violation of these policies.
6. All service animals must be credentialed by the JAS staff (see the procedures below).
What will you need to do? It’s easy. Once you arrive at JAS, come to the information booth in the front of the accessible parking area. Staff will speak with you, record your contact information, and provide a collar tag for your service animal. Then you are good to go! Security/Staff will be on the lookout this year for all animals to have a properly credentialed JAS collar tag.
Remember, Service animals are allowed, all other dogs are not!
There will be no bottles of water for sale during the 2021 JAS Labor Day Experience. Instead you can buy a reusable, JAS logoed water bottle to use throughout the festival and beyond!
All food at the festival is served on compostable or reusable plates and utensils and a full-scale compost disposable system is in place.
In 2016 we eliminated plastic “stir sticks” from the main field bars, eliminating over 20,000 pieces of plastic from the landfill.
We are excited to bring back reusable cup program. Bring your festival souvenir cup back to the bars for $1 off your next drink.
In 2018 we achieved an 88% diversion rate. Please do your part in 2019 by putting your waste in the correct bin.
● All volunteers must be 16 years old or older to apply.
● All volunteers must submit an application (coming out late Winter 2021) to be considered for a volunteer position. If accepted as a volunteer, you must complete one shift (6-8 hours each) in exchange for a 1-Day GA festival pass and a festival volunteer t-shirt.
● All applicants must enter credit card information as a guarantee that you will complete your scheduled shifts if accepted as a volunteer. If you fail to satisfactorily complete your scheduled shift, Jazz Aspen Snowmass reserves the right to charge for the equivalent amount of a 1-Day Pass (refer to the ‘I Agree’ section on the volunteer application for more information).
Fill Out the Volunteer Application Here
Prices for 2021 Lodging Packages
Visit our Lodging Partners in Snowmass for your Experience Lodging! For additional lodging options call 800-SNOWMASS
Stay in one of Destination Snowmass’ Aspen/Snowmass area vacation rentals and enjoy amenities like private entrances, full kitchens, spacious living areas, and private outdoor space. All the comforts of home with all the amenities of a hotel to make your music festival weekend easy and comfortable. Choose from boutique hotel rooms to four bedroom residences located throughout Snowmass Village, some within walking distance to the venue. Earn World of Hyatt points with your stay.
Click here or call 970-429-5055 to book your Jazz Aspen Snowmass lodging experience.
Book at 800-356-5949 or res@thecrestwood.com
Below rates to not include taxes or fees (20.7%)
Standard Condo |
Standard |
Deluxe | Premier |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Bedroom – 2ppl | $221/night | $271/night | $311/night |
| 1 Bedroom+Loft – 4ppl | $266/night | $324/night | $380/night |
| 2 Bedroom – 4ppl | $289/night | $360/night | $418/night |
| 3 Bedroom – 6ppl | $349/night | $428/night | $497/night |
| 3 Bedroom+Loft – 8ppl | $395/night | $486/night | $566/night |
| 4 Bedroom – 8ppl | $471/night | $582/night | $684/night |
