Here's your community calendar for Friday, July 17th, underwritten by Basalt Regional Library, presenting your chance to turn reading into prizes! Readers of all ages can exchange logs for book bucks, grand prize raffles and more! More info at basalt library dot org.
T-Minus one week until the 55th Annual Mountain Fair! Here's a ton of ways to spend this last weekend before the party begins…
- Lift Up Distributes food & Pantry supplies at the New Castle River Center from 9 to 1, and at the Rifle Library from 11 to 2
- Victoria Pennock starts the afternoon with a live music performance at the Third Street Center at 4pm today.
- ACES puts on a Community Lecture on Wildlife Filmmaking with David Attenborough, that's at 5pm at Paepcke Auditorium in Aspen
- The Crystal Theatre begins showing Minions & Monsters today at 6pm, with showings at the same time Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
- Shaefer Welch plays a solo show at Downvalley Brewing in New Castle at 6.
- The Boneshakers play two shows at the Paul JAS Center in Aspen, at 6:30pm and again at 9.
- The Pat Byrne Trio plays live at the Tabor Opera House in Leadville at 7pm
- Valle Musico returns to Heather's Savory Pies in Basalt, that's at 7 as well.
- The Aspen Dance Connection presents Emergence at TACAW, that's at 7:30
- Also at 7:30, The Collective Snowmass plugs in for a Comedy Open Mic Night
- The Cary Morin Duo takes the stage at Steve's Guitars at 8pm
- And Belly Up Aspen welcomes back 40oz To Freedom, doors open at 8:30
Here's just a quick teaser for Saturday morning as well. We'll have all the activities happening in the evening on tomorrow's calendar!
- Carbondale's Yard Waste Dropoff runs from 9am to Noon tomorrow at 4th & Colorado.
- Tai Chi at the Library flows into the Glenwood Branch tomorrow morning at 9:30
- And the Aspen Music Festival & School presents Edlis Neeson Opera Encounters, that's at 10am tomorrow at the Wheeler Opera House
Keep your community in the loop about events and programming ideas by emailing calendar@kdnk.org. We're counting down the days until Mountain Fair and we could still use your help at the Cantina next Friday, go to kdnk.org to sign up. If you've got air-conditioning in your house or your place of employment we hope you're enjoying winning out over this heat, and having a Refrigerated Friday!