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Keystone’s Bacon & Beer Festival Celebrates 13th Anniversary With More Bacon, Bourbon, And Music Than Ever Before
The 2024 Keystone Bacon and Bourbon Festival brought a dozen different food vendors, alongside four bacon companies, and 15 bourbon and spirits attendees to the mountains. Pairing with all this bourbon and bacon, guests were treated to an impressive band line-up. Twelve rock bands played over the festival weekend including Summit’s own CB3 and O’Connor Brothers Band, the world’s premier KISS Tribute Band STRUTTER, and the Bacon and Bourbon Festival staple AC/DC tribute band Hell’s Belles. In total there were three festival stages placed throughout River Run Village.
Puccini’s “Girl” Finds Her “Golden West” In Central City
The first real “spaghetti western” came long before the films of Sergio Leone and the scores of Enrico Morricone. The title rightfully belongs to Giacomo Puccini’s 1910 opera The Girl of the Golden West (La fanciulla del West). No previous dramatic work by an Italian creator had made such a commitment to the portrayal of the American frontier in the mid-19th Century.
Central City serves up a trio of musical treats
Puccini’s seldom-performed ‘Girl of the Golden West’ is a festival highlight this summer. Every summer a little musical miracle takes place in the Colorado mountains. No, it’s not the famed Aspen Musical Festival or Bravo! Vail. It’s the Central City Opera Festival which proves, among other things, that you don’t need superstar names to create transcendently beautiful productions that remain engraved in the memory for years.
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