Colorado’s Midwinter Bluegrass Festival Celebrates 40 Years

In most of the Bluegrass world, the beginning of festival season generally happens sometime around Memorial Day. In northern Colorado, however, everyone knows that it begins over President’s Day weekend. That’s when the Midwinter Bluegrass Festival takes place. Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, once again the Midwinter Bluegrass Festival takes over a hotel in north Denver and fills every available space with the sounds of Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots music. From the stage in the ballroom to the atrium to the exercise room, stairwells, and even elevators, you’ll find music everywhere. From its beginnings, the Midwinter Festival has always been a community event. Some compare it to a clubhouse or reunion for the Bluegrass family. There’s always an excitement that buzzes around the hotel on Friday as the first jams start happening and friends old and new who have been cooped up over the cold winter months come together. That family feeling and the abundance of picki