Family-friendly music, eats and art
Friday-Sunday. Summer is festival season in Colorado, and this weekend continues the packed slate of events we’ve come to expect. Families can check out live music and tangle with food trucks at Lone Tree’s Backyard Beats and Street Eats, 6-9 p.m. at Sweetwater Park (8300 Sweetwater Road) on Saturday, Aug. 13. The kid-friendly event is selling tasting bracelets for $15, but entry to live honkytonk tunes from Extra Gold and Buckstein is free. 720-509-1000 or lonetreeartscenter.org.
The Breckenridge International Festival of the Arts runs Aug. 12-21 at the Riverwalk Arts Center, with free and ticketed performances from groups like Pilobolus (contemporary dance, in residence) and various musicians, artists and exhibitors around town. (breckcreate.org/BIFA).
The Colorado Prairie Music Festival’s programming is also back after a two-year hiatus. This summer it’s a single event featuring country’s William Clark Green and Kylie Frey at the Lincoln County Fair and Rodeo on Saturday, Aug. 13, in Hugo. Gates open at 4 p.m., with music starting at 5:30 p.m. coloradoprairiemusicfest.com
All in the Phamaly with “Rocky Horror”
Friday-Sept. 4. Denver’s Phamaly Theatre Co., the country’s longest-running theater focusing on disabled performers and creatives, is going the cult-movie route with its latest, fully produced, stage-musical version of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”
“I love this idea (in ‘Rocky Horror’) that being strange or different is not only OK, it’s something to be celebrated,” artistic director Ben Raanan told The Denver Post this week. “We’re not pandering or watering it down. If anything, we’re going weirder and darker.”
The show, which opens Friday, Aug. 12, and runs through Sept. 1, is playing Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center at 721 Santa Fe Drive in Denver. Interactive, non-interactive and sensory-friendly performances are available. Tickets: $30 at phamaly.org.
Peaches marks 20 years of “Teaches”
Wednesday. Most decidedly not family-friendly is the sizzling return of Peaches, the electro art-punk whose sex-soaked live performances and outrageous costumes offer savage critiques of traditional gender roles and culture.
Leaving sweaty and hoarse-voiced from a Peaches concert is a common experience, and her Wednesday, Aug. 17, concert at Summit Music Hall in LoDo promises to be another lusty triumph of feminist camaraderie. Her seminal album “The Teaches of Peaches” is celebrating its 20-year anniversary, so expect lots of selections from that unprintably-named track list.
Doors open at 7 p.m. at 1902 Blake St. in Denver. Tickets: $35 via livenation.com.
