Caribou Ranch: Music central part of Nederland [Colorado] property’s future, owners say

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UPDATE 1/23/15
The legendary Caribou Ranch property, iconic for its place in music recording history, has sold for $32.5 million, according to public records.

Music producer Jim Guercio and his family sold the 1,600-acre property to Indian Peaks Holdings LLC, which just filed as an entity with the Colorado Secretary of State’s office last month.
Indian Peaks Holdings LLC — is part of the Walton family, descendents of the founders of Walmart more…

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Caribou Control Room
Caribou Control Room, as it was

As private valley lands on the sales block, Guercio family envisions preservation, possibilities

From The Daily Camera, Boulder, Colorado
By Alicia Wallace Camera Business Writer
POSTED: 08/03/2013 02:16:23 PM MDT | UPDATED: ABOUT A YEAR AGO

NEDERLAND — In its heyday during the 1970s and early ’80s, Caribou Ranch — tucked in a lush valley three miles north of this mountain town — was the “creative monastery” for some of the biggest names in the music business.

Songs such as “Philadelphia Freedom,” “Shining Star” and “New York State of Mind” were penned in Caribou’s cabins and on the ranch’s grounds.

More than 150 artists — including John Lennon, Michael Jackson and The Beach Boys — would record at Caribou’s state-of-the-art music studio before a fire silenced the barn-based recording operation on a cold day in March of ’85.

A quarter-century later, Caribou is on the brink of potentially the biggest change to come to the Peak to Peak Highway property since 1971, when James Guercio, a young and idealistic Chicago music producer, settled here to establish one of the first destination recording studios.

Efforts are underway to reopen the studio and vault Caribou to “Sundance” status read more…

There is an auction of The Caribou Ranch memorabilia this week in Denver. The following video tells all about it.

What: Caribou Ranch memorabilia auction
When: Saturday, January 24, 3 p.m.
Where: Denver Design Center East Building, 595 S. Broadway, Denver

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National Western Stock Show

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First Published on: Jan 11, 2015 @ 19:28

The National Western Stock Show
PHOTO COURTESY OF NW VOLUNTEER PHOTOGRAPHER, HANS WATSON

The National Western Stock Show is held every January at the National Western Complex in Denver, Colorado. Wikipedia
Address: 4655 Humboldt Street, Denver, CO 80216

Opens January 10, 2015 and runs for 15 days.

“The National Western Stock Show takes place during the month of January in Denver, Colorado. The 16-day show serves as an entertainment arena, hosting one of the world’s richest regular season professional rodeos, the “Super Bowl” of Livestock Shows, nationally recognized Horse Shows and Colorado’s largest Western Trade Show.” Read more from The National Western Stock Show’s website

Phone numbers
303-296-NWSS
303-296-6977
303-292-1708

Address
National Western
4655 Humboldt St.
Denver, CO 80216

Purchase tickets for The National Western Stock Show

Tickets for the 2015 National Western Stock Show go on sale Now.
The National Western Stock Show Official Website

Bloody Ludlow — Long Buried in Myth and Neglect, the Story of Colorado’s Deadly Coal War Is Worth Remembering

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Ludlow Massacre
Ludlow Massacre

From Westword Magazine
Story by alan.prendergast@westword.com

It’s a lonely place now, a forlorn and mostly forgotten spot a half-mile west of the interstate and twelve miles north of Trinidad. Flanked by cottonwoods, surrounded by windswept prairie studded with piñon and tumbleweeds, it has an unfinished look, like a roadside attraction somebody started to build and then abandoned. Continue reading

January 2015: The Full Wolf Moon

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The Full Wolf Moon will be 100% full Jan 4 at 8:54 P.M. Las Vegas time.

Full Moon Names
January is the month of the Full Wolf Moon. It appeared when wolves howled in hunger outside the villages. It is also known as the Old Moon. To some Native American tribes, this was the Snow Moon, but most applied that name to the next full Moon, in February.

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