Here's your community calendar for Wednesday, August 5th, underwritten by Basalt Regional Library, presenting Aspen Music Festival and School Chamber Recitals Thursdays, August 6, 13 and 20, at 5:15PM. Talented students from the festival will perform selected works each week. More info at basalt library dot org.
We've hit the apex point of the week, here's just a sampling of things to keep you busy today…
- Lift Up distributes food & pantry items at the New Castle River Center from 9 to 1 today, as well as the Silt Baseball Fields from 10 to Noon and the Third Street Center from 2:30 to 4:30
- The Wheeler Opera House continues their Traffic Jams series, with the Drunken Hearts playing at 4:30 this afternoon
- The Basalt Library offers a Microsoft Excel Basics class today at 5:30
- CMC in Aspen welcomes grad student Carl Wright for a Community Futures Workshop, that's at 5:30 as well.
- Also at 5:30, the Pitkin County Library's Books & Brews Club meets to discuss "Yesteryear" by Caro Claire Burke
- Typical Ghost kicks off the evening at the Basalt Summer Concert Series starting at 6pm, followed by Eric Slick. KDNK will broadcast all the music if you can't make it in person.
- The Fireside Collective and Moonbeem play live at Two Rivers Park in Glenwood starting at 6:30pm
- Rifle City Council members meet at 7pm this evening at City Hall
- The Lake County Library's Adult Book Club gets together at 7pm
Here's just a couple things to keep in mind for Thursday as well…
- Lift Up returns to Glenwood Catholic Charities from 10:30 to 1:30 tomorrow, the Parachute Family Resource Center from 11:30 to 2:30, and the Aspen Ranger Station from 3 til 5
- And Leadville by Lamplight holds a tour of the historic Evergreen Cemetery tomorrow afternoon at 3pm
Keep your community in the loop about events and programming ideas by emailing calendar@kdnk.org. Check all the latest releases to hit the airwaves by clicking Current Releases under the Music tab at kdnk.org. And it's always nice to bring your vinyl records to a friend's place for a listening party, but make sure not to leave them in the car too long or you might have a Warped Wednesday!