Blucifer's First Rodeo

FINALLY 🚨 the BFR DIY Days Wristbands are now available!! 🚨 these all-ages wristbands get you into: 🤘all Thursday 7/23 shows at @d3artswestwood @scmc_denver_diy @squirmgallery and @anteupdenver 🎉 a festival pre-party at Blossom House hosted by @manossagrados 🛸 a brand-new satellite festival on Saturday 7/25 hosted by @d3artswestwood in their NEW expanded space 🧭 a map to all 16 community-hosted Baker neighborhood house shows on Sunday 7/26 🐴 90+ bands over 3 days for just $39 (we don't have fees on our tickets, so $39 means $39) Every show hosted by our DIY partners will be all-ages. And as always: all money after expenses goes to paying artists. ❤️ We've talked with our DIY venue partners, and the shows will also be NOTAFLOF at venues that are always NOTAFLOF! We, as festival organizers, could not be doing this without the DIY spaces, house shows, and community we found as younger folks that got us on our way to where we are now. From the outset of the festival, we wanted to have robust, affordable programming for music fans under 21, as well as programming that reflects the heart of any healthy music community. Denver couldn’t have the scene it has without these DIY spaces. And did you know that one of the ideas when we were starting to plan a festival was for it to be a house show festival? We are so excited about the Baker community coming together to host an amazing, full day of shows on 7/26. The DIY Days wristbands are all-ages but anyone with the DIY spirit is welcome. Link in our bio ikyk. 🐎 let’s ride 🐎 Horse art by @sketchy_aliway Photo by @machkne

Good morning 🌞 we have been having such a blast hanging with y’all these last few months at the amazing events we have been so honored and delighted to host. Yes, we are putting together a SICK music festival for one weekend in July, but live, local music happens all year. We are having so much fun meeting all of you and getting to know the community even better. None of us really knew what to expect setting out on this journey, but what has happened so far has absolutely blown us away. All of us organizing BFR care extremely deeply about the Denver scene, the musicians and artists that make the scene, and every person who supports it. We love making ways for music fans to hang out with musicians and to share one of the most human things we do: play music and make art together. We’d also like to take a second to thank everyone who came to last night’s inaugural BFR artist meetup at @scmc_denver_diy where we saw @holyfoolco speak to @brerness @heynowdana and @dirtonair about what being an artist means to them, how they came into music, and the advice they had for people coming up in the scene here. It was a very special, beautiful night with weirdly very few gimmicks or giant scrolls. Finally (are you still reading) we are dropping our DIY Days wristbands on SATURDAY!!! We delayed it a little because we have something BIG and SPECIAL to announce (that’s kind of our thing now) that we had to get ready for you. Thank you all again for sticking around, sticking with us, showing up to the functions, and coming on this crazy ride with us. Blucifer’s First Rodeo is by artists, for everybody, and we mean everybody every time. Hi Dive scroll pics by @musicofdenver 📸

Another BIG BLUCE ALERT 🫨🐴 BFR is celebrating our SCHEDULE DROP at @hqdenver on May 28 📜 with @colfaxspeedqueen @gestaltbandco and @divacupband 🐎💙🐎 18+, $20 online and at the door! You’ve seen the lineup, you know the dates (July 23-26), but now you will be able to build your schedule live and in person! Get your tickets, bring a friend, build your schedule at the show! Bluce wristband holders: we’ll be hawking discounted shirts only for YOU and commemorative PHYSICAL schedules ONLY at this show! 😈 Stay tuned for more info about our DIY days wristbands (dropping this week 👀) AND for our Sunday (July 26) community-hosted house show bands drop at @bar404broadway on June 7!! Deets tbd 👀👀 We love celebrating the new holiday of BFR with live, local music all year round and we can’t wait to see you there at HQ on May 28 for yet another unmissable show!! Let’s ride! 🐎 Thank you too lovely local artist @artbygilllian for the kickass poster 😭💙🐴

🐎🚨 Saddle up: this is our FULL lineup drop for our DIY venues and South Broadway venues on July 23-25. 🚨🐎 We are so thrilled with the 160 bands we have for you, all from right here in Colorado. Thank you again to our amazing NINE venue partners who participated in our bar crawl last night 🐴 We had a great time showing the community a bunch of Broadway bars coming to musical life the weekend of YOUR festival! A few things to know: 🐴 We’re stoked to finalize our house show booking suggestions for the community hosted house shows on July 26 and announce over 50 (!) more acts playing at a fun June 7 brunch at @bar404broadway 🐴 We are throwing a kickass build-your-Bluce schedule party at @hqdenver on May 28 with @divacupband @gestaltbandco and @colfaxspeedqueen 🐴 We’re releasing DIY passes for Thursday all ages shows and a map of Sunday house shows next week, with a pool first on sale for 2 Day Wristband holders for 2 days! Check your email! Nothing feels better than making art TOGETHER for EVERYBODY, and we can’t thank you enough for joining us on this ride! 😭 Let’s make a rodeo Denver will always remember! 🐎

You’re invited 💌 to Blucifer’s First Bar Crawl and THIRD LINEUP DROP this Friday, May 1!! This is gonna be the biggest drop yet, with over 90 new bands! Here’s the plan: 🥁 There will be a jazz marching band. 🐴 It will march. You should march with it. 🎺 Our friends on @south.broadway.denver told us it was OK to play the trumpet, so there will be at least one trumpet. 🐓 We will gather at Music City Hot Chicken at 9PM, and the band will lead the bar crawl down the street in an informal parade on the sidewalk, announcing bands between bars. (Maybe even inside your bar, if you want?). We will walk all the way to our friends at Li’l Devils Lounge, stopping by Saint Mary’s, Sputnik, The L, Dougherty’s, Irish Rover, Adrift, and Illegal Pete’s. And here’s the bar crawl part: 1. The 90+ band third lineup poster will be made of two 8.5 x 11 sheets. 2. To get a half-poster, bar crawlers will need to purchase a Blucifer-themed shot from a participating bar. To get both halves, bar crawlers will need to get a second drink at a different bar. There will be N/A options for the Bluce shot too 💙 You do not need to get a drink at every bar to get the poster 💥 3. What is a “Blucifer-themed shot?” We suggested blue Gatorade with tequila, but it will be up to our friends at the bars. Some people on the BFR team are insisting that the “official” Blucifer shot is blue Gatorade and a pickle shot. Other members of the team think that’s disgusting. This is called “democracy.” We want the bar crawl to be an introduction to our venue partners who are not always venues all year. Come down to South Broadway, bring a friend, and follow the parade 💙 sound good? Good. Let’s ride! 🐎💙🐎

🚨HUGE news (and cropped news): 🚨Blucifer’s First T-Shirt is now available online!! Get your screen-printed BFR: By Artists For Everybody tee or crop top before they sell out!! Thank you to @buckfiddycostcodawg for printing these right here in Denver and to @chngeurpassword.official for the logo design 🐴💙🐴 hit that link in our bio to get yours! 🎟️🎟️🎟️ Wristband holders!! Get DISCOUNTED shirts through your attendee portal! Link to the portal in bio (all you need is your email)! 🎟️🎟️🎟️ (Artists, we'll have discounted merch for y'all as well! Artist portal coming very soon! 🎸) If you live far away, we will ship you your shirt! If you live around town, you have the option to pick up your shirt in person at select BFR events and locales over the next few months. We will have several runs of merch, but, as Dan Reeder said, once they’re gone, they’re gone 🐎 As you can see from the pics, we had such a blast at Record Store Day at Wax Trax with @ritmocascabel and @frutabrutal and @teamnonexistent 🐎 It was so great to meet a whole bunch of you and run into old friends and listen to an afternoon of live, local music. As our fearless co-leader Mike said, the only thing better than recorded music is live music! 💙🐴💙 Keep an eye out for more info about a May 1 third lineup drop bar crawl 👀🐴 and for our third tier of wristbands for all-ages DIY shows 👀Let’s ride! 🐎

Did you miss our last kickass show? Well, lucky for you, we have another one in the pipe! We are partnering with @waxtraxdenver THIS SATURDAY, April 18, for Record Store Day, featuring music on the sidewalk by @ritmocascabel & @frutabrutal & @teamnonexistent 🐴🎈🐴 Consider it a little sneaky peeky of what we have lined up for you this July on South Broadway! Our organizers will be there slinging wristbands and new shirts (!), answering questions, and making rousing speeches about our vibrant community 🐎📜🐎 come on down to Cap Hill to buy some records, listen to music, and meet some local legends. BFR believes local culture should thrive all the time, not JUST one weekend in the summer. So we’re hyped to partner with independent venues and creative businesses that support live, local music and art year-round!

Is it just me or does our poster look longer? 👀 Congrats to the 33 new bands in our 2nd lineup drop!!! 🐴🔮🐴 We are so excited about these fabulous artists and we can’t wait to see them July 23-26 🐎💙🐎 It was so great to see everyone last night at @hidive_denver so excited about Bluce and artists making a festival for everybody 💙🐴💙 We are getting close to being halfway sold-out of 2-day Wristbands!! Get urs before they’re gone 🎟️👀🎟️ On our beloved @south.broadway.denver July 24-25, we’ve got 14 venues, 150+ bands, crazy surprises, and more every day! 😭 Our DIY All-Ages wristband is dropping with our third lineup mysteriously soon! Lfg 🥊 Thank you so much to @alanamarsmusic and @sisterneapolitan and @starkstateofmind for hosting the lineup drop 🕯️ and thank you to @kels.e.ray and for creating our 38 foot long scroll 📜 and to @chngeurpassword.official for our amazing poster design AND to @buckfiddycostcodawg for printing our first BFR t-shirts 💙 It’s so beautiful to ride Bluce to life with the collective power of artists working together to build a holiday for live, local music! Tell your Denver cousins and dentists: gonna be the party of the summer!! 🎈

Bluce buds, guess what? 🔮 We are ONE WEEK away from our 2nd LINEUP DROP!! Get to @hidive_denver on Friday, April 10 for an all-local show, featuring @alanamarsmusic , @sisterneapolitan and @starkstateofmind 🕯️ Music starts at 8pm! 🔮🎠🔮 Blucifer’s First Rodeo will be presenting our next ~30 bands and the very first BFR t-shirt will be available for purchase! Remember: EVERY Bluce dollar after expenses goes to paying the artists playing the fest. You will ALSO be able to buy your 2-day pass in person from our organizers (if you haven’t bought one already)! Get your tickets now through the link in our bio or Hi Dive’s. Thank you again to our wonderful friend, Alana Mars, who is letting us squeeze into her going away show 💔 We love our local musicians even when they leave us! BFR is made by local musicians for everybody: we’re an ever-expanding team of working artists putting this together as volunteers around our full-time jobs. We’re trying to throw a holiday at the end of July—spotlighting DIY venues, house shows, and our beloved South Broadway—to show Denver how easy and affordable and fun it is to come to live, local music at DIY and independent venues all the time! 🐴💙🐴 We’re so honored and energized by how much this has been resonating with y’all! From ticket sales to venues and sponsors hitting us up, to eager house show hosts, to 700 folks submitting to play and help! When we’ve talked to folks IRL, folks we’ve never even met, folks who aren’t even “in the scene,” it’s crazy how many people have told us how happy they are that a summer festival is coming back to South Broadway—and that it’s organized by artists. See you 4/10! See you on the streets that make live, local music happen year-round! Let’s ride 💙🐎💙

This might just be our first rodeo, but we think music is best when it’s made by real people in REAL LIFE! So real life is also your first chance to get 2-Day Wristbands TODAY at our venue partner @waxtraxdenver Broadway Bazaar from 12-8pm!! 🚨🐴🚨 The 2-Day Wristband gets you into every show at South Broadway partner venues on July 24-25! That’s 100+ bands and 10+ venues for $59. 100 hot dogs 100 bands? Don’t let us stop you 🌭 2-Day Wristbands will then go on sale online at 8pm tonight. BUT, if you get down to Broadway today, you can pick up a cool BFR sticker (with art by @killer__rick and design by @buckfiddycostcodawg 🔮) and check out all the great, local music available to take home with you at Wax Trax 🐎💫🐎 If you are an artist or volunteer who applied through our online form, make sure you check your email for info on how to get a discounted wristband. Once again, we can’t even believe how quickly our All-Access Wristbands sold out and that’s thanks to YOU, our fabulous community. Live, local music would not exist without you riding for it! As working artists and all volunteers, we are so proud and grateful to be encouraged by so many people in the scene and beyond here in Denver. Blucifer’s First Rodeo: by artists, for everybody! 💙🐴💙 Big thanks again to @killer__rick for the amazing art and @buckfiddycostcodawg for the flyer design 💫

🦄 gotta stay loose to hang on 🦄 hi this is Mike from @clementine_was_right , one of the lead organizers!! first, THANK YOU to ~700 (!) folks who submitted to PLAY and VOLUNTEER at Blucifer’s First Rodeo July 23-26!!! 😤❤️ we sent a loooong email to applicants, so check your spam if you didn’t see it!! then take an aspirin, drink some gatorade, and plz read the whole thing this beautiful Saturday morning (shhhh it’s still morning 🫩) :::::::::::::::::::: THE BLUCE SCOOP ::::::::::::::: 1~~~ many of y’all said “put me in, coach” because we all know that live, local music happens year round and that it takes EVERYBODY to make music live!! 💪 we’re all working artists putting this together as volunteers, so we’ve been hustling to activate the mosh pit, so to speak, and we’ve got a 🚨🚨 CONCRETE THING YOU CAN DO 🚨🚨: @studio.sjg drew this sick and mysterious flyer (❤️), and if you wanna TAKE SOME AND TAPE THEM UP PLACES, we’ve got some at @waxtraxdenver Broadway Baazar, and soon at ALL our venue partners, once we drop them off, starting with @hidive_denver tonight where i just so happen to be playing a show with my band @clementine_was_right (ughh can't believe i plugged my own show, now you see why the team only lets me post on the weekend 🥲) if you tape up a flyer, take a picture, and tag us on socials, we’ll give you a special thank you gift!!!! 🥹🎪 might be a sticker, a guest list spot, a doughnut, maybe all three 🍤 ~~~~~ ➡️➡️➡️➡️ this caption is TOO LONG so i’m gonna put other important dates in the comments!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ but snag your $69 all-access wristbands now before they sell out!! that’s for 4 days of fest: DIY Thursday, Broadway Friday/Saturday, and the house shows we're supporting on Sunday!! they're 69% sold out 🤯 next will be Friday/Saturday wristbands at $59!! those go on sale 4/10, exclusively at @waxtraxdenver Broadway Baazar for the first day, & will get you into EVERY show on Friday and Saturday of the fest!!!! ~~~~ 🦄 we love y’all so much for the trust and enthusiasm and we’re doing our best to honor YOU!! let’s all invite Denver to a holiday for live local music!!! by artists for everybody!!!! LET’S RIDE 😤🦄😤🦄😤🦄

Great news! Blucifer’s First Rodeo is partnering with Colorado-based nonprofit @holyfoolco 💙🐴💙 We want to make sure all artists who perform at BFR are paid an equitable and generous wage to play. Holy Fool will also be assisting us in organizing hospitality and artist care for all the bands during the weekend of the festival. Donations made to Blucifer’s First Rodeo via Holy Fool are tax-deductible and 100% of your donation will go directly to supporting working artists. To donate, head to the link in our bio or go to bluciferfest.com/donate 🐎💙🐎 We’re stoked to partner with an organization created by fellow working artists who share our vision of a Denver music community led BY ARTISTS FOR EVERYBODY! Holy Fool was started by artists and patrons who partner to create a world where working musicians can thrive. Their mission is to provide encouragement, peer coaching, and strategizing ways to help musicians who are not yet financially independent. They lend resources, equipment, and offer micro-grants to musicians in need. Hit that link in bio for more info or to donate!! A little bit goes a long way. 📸: @lk.konkoli.visuals