Colorado High Altitude Concert Series

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When The Stars Come Out, The Stars Come Out.
Our popular Colorado High Altitude Concert Series is back and bigger than ever! Gather under the Colorado stars in a pristine mountain setting, to experience a unique natural meadow amphitheater surrounded by aspen and pines. This year, the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad’s popular High Altitude Concert Series returns beginning July 17th with repeat performances by Michael Martin Murphey, along with various national musical guests every Friday and Saturday through August. Read below for artist information.

The only way you can get to this exclusive Colorado concert setting nestled among the Sangre de Cristo Mountains is on board the Highnote Express train out of Alamosa or La Veta. Select concert tickets are $85 and $95 and include one round-trip ride on the Highnote Express train. Reservations can be made by calling 1-877-726-RAIL.

Alamosa departure time is 3:30 p.m. Alamosa and the San Luis Valley are located in south-central Colorado, about 200 miles south of Denver, 220 miles north of Albuquerque, and 90 miles west of Pueblo. To get to the Alamosa train depot, take HWY 160 into town. Make a right at 6th Street and end at 601 State Avenue.

La Veta departure time is 4 p.m. To get to the La Veta train depot, take Exit 52 off of I-25 at Walsenburg. Take HWY 160 for 11 miles, heading west. Turn left onto HWY 12 for five miles. Slow down for the city limits, cross the train tracks and the pale yellow depot will be on your right.

 

 

Colorado Concert Calendar:

 

 

Thursday, July 17th
Friday, July 18th

Michael Martin Murphey
Ricky Skaggs
The Whites

Ticket Price $95

Friday, August 1st

Michael Martin Murphey
Ian Tyson
Waddie Mitchell

Ticket Price $85

Saturday, August 2nd

Michael Martin Murphey
Baxter Black
Sons of the San Joaquin

Ticket Price $85

Friday, August 8th

Michael Martin Murphey
Don Edwards
Red Steagall

Ticket Price $85

Saturday, August 9th

Michael Martin Murphey
Asleep at the Wheel

Ticket Price $85

Friday, August 15th

Michael Martin Murphey
Riders in the Sky
Austin Lounge Lizards

Ticket Price $85

Saturday, August 16th

Michael Martin Murphey
Larry Gatlin

Ticket Price $95

 

Friday, August 22nd
Saturday August 23rd

Liverpool Legends

Ticket Price $95

 

Colorado Concert Talent:

 

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An inductee in the Western Music Hall of Fame, Murphey has been called America’s “singing cowboy poet.” Michael Martin Murphey is not only the number one, best-selling singer/songwriter of American Cowboy Music, he's one of the world's most respected singer/songwriters in the Pop and Country-Western field. Michael has six gold records and many BMI awards for airplay, including 4 million radio and television plays of WILDFIRE (making it one of the most played songs in history on radio and TV). His music reflects his life and many wide-ranging interests including his passion to preserve the American Cowboy Western History.

He leads a changing lineup of national country music acts:

 

Thursday and Friday July 17th & 18th
Friday and Saturday August 1st & 2nd
Friday and Saturday August 8th & 9th
Friday and Saturday August 15th & 16th

 

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This twelve-time Grammy Award winner continues to do his part to lead the recent roots revival in music. Known affectionately today as bluegrass music's official ambassador, Ricky Skaggs has brought the genre to greater levels of popularity.


Thursday and Friday, July 17th & 18th

 

 

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One of the longer-lived family harmony groups in country music, Buck White (vocals, piano, mandolin) and his daughters Sharon (vocals, guitar) and Cheryl (vocals, bass) officially comprise the group. Originally a bluegrass group, The Whites enjoyed a period as country hitmakers in the '80s, and later concentrated on gospel music.


Thursday and Friday, July 17th & 18th

 

Ian Tyson
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Ian Tyson has long been one of Canada’s most respected singer-songwriters. Spanning three decades, Tyson has forged a trail of musical innovation. Starting with the legendary folk duo of Ian and Sylvia in the 60's, the trail has culminated with the seminal Cowboyography collection reaching platinum status in the mid 90's.


Friday, August 1st

Waddie Mitchell
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Best known as the “Buckaroo Poet,” Waddie Mitchell entertains in the art of spinnin’ tales in rhyme and meter that has come to be called cowboy poetry. He has performed internationally for audiences from Los Angeles to New York, Zurich to Melbourne, and all points in between with television appearances ranging from The Tonight Show, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, TNN, The History Channel, PBS, and BBC.

Friday, August 1st



Baxter Black
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Baxter Black can be followed nationwide through his column, National Public Radio, public appearances, television and also through his books, cd's, videos and commercial radio. There is considerably more to Baxter than just an entertainer. He is the real thing, because, as he says, "It's hard to be what you aren't."

Saturday, August 2nd

 

 


Sons of the San Joaquin
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The upbeat, airtight, three-part family harmonies of the Sons of the San Joaquin are being heard in a lot more places these days. A family trio composed of brothers, Joe and Jack Hannah, and Joe’s son, Lon, they sing western music, songs which celebrate the life and work and the geographical setting of the American Cowboy. The Sons have been inducted into the WMA Western Music Hall of Fame.

Saturday, August 2nd

 

Don Edwards
liverpool legends colorado train Don Edwards continues to build a recorded legacy enriching our vision of the American West. In its tales of the day-to-day lives and emotions of those who lived it, his ballads paint a sweeping landscape of both the mind and heart, keeping alive the sights, sounds and feelings of this most American contribution to culture and art.
The quality of this cowboy balladeer's music stems from the fact that he is so much more than a singer. Bobby Weaver of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, summed Edwards's importance as "...the best purveyor of cowboy music in America today."

Friday August 8

 

 

Red Steagall

liverpool legends colorado train The entertainment career of Red Steagall has covered a period of 35 years and has spanned the globe from Australia to the Middle East, to South America and to the Far East. He has performed for heads of state including a special party for President Reagan at the White House in 1983. Although Red Steagall is best known for his wonderful Texas Swing dance music, Red is beloved by Texas cowboys for the quiet times they have spent with him around chuck wagon campfires.

Friday August 8



Asleep at the Wheel
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Over the course of the last 36 years Benson and the Wheel have boldly defied the fickle lures of the mainstream -- and thrived -- by sticking to their noble cause of keeping that distinctly American of art forms, western swing, alive and kicking. Along the way, they've entertained thousands and won praise and admiration from everyone from Willie Nelson to Bob Dylan, George Strait to Van Morrison.

Saturday, August 9th

Riders in the Sky
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As a classic cowboy quartet, the trail has led them to heights they could have never predicted. Riders have chalked up over 5400 concert appearances in all 50 states and 10 countries, appearing in venues everywhere. But the animated character that history will most certainly link to Riders In The Sky is the loveable cowboy Woody, as Riders performed “Woody’s Round Up” in “Toy Story 2,” with the album of the same name garnering Riders their first Grammy Award in 2001 for “Best Musical Album for Children.”

Friday, August 15th

Austin Lounge Lizards
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The Austin Lounge Lizards have delighted audiences from Texas to California, from Canada to the U.K., with their inventive style of satirical folk, country and bluegrass. Trademarks of a Lizards song are highly literate, sharply pointed lyrics that poke fun at politics, love, religion and the culture in general.


Friday, August 15th

Larry Gatlin
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Larry Gatlin's talents has brought him many rewards along his journey: international fame, a stint on Broadway, a string of #1 records for the Gatlin Brothers and a room full of major industry awards (including a GRAMMY) glittering on sun washed walls back home in Texas.


Saturday, August 16th

 

Liverpool Legends
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Liverpool Legends are four talented musicians and actors who were hand-picked by Louise Harrison – sister of the late George Harrison of The Beatles – to recreate the band that changed the face of music forever.

Members of Liverpool Legends have toured the world, playing in historic venues such as Carnegie Hall, The Cavern Club in Liverpool, recording at the famed Abbey Road Studios in London and performing with Denny Laine (co-founder of Wings with Paul McCartney), Pete Best (the original Beatles drummer) and the Boston Pops.

They appeared on The Travel Channel's "Beatlemania Britain" and headlined "International Beatles Week" in Liverpool where 100,000 Beatles fans jammed Victoria Street to hear them in concert.

 

Friday and Saturday, August 22nd & 23rd

 

 

All concert ticket sales are final.

Reservations can be made by calling 1-877-726-RAIL.

 
     

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