Colorado Music Hall of Fame, Presented by Comfort Dental, Hosts The Class of 2018 Induction Celebration “LIVE AND ON THE AIR”
October 15, 2018
97.3 KBCO and Chuck Morris with a Cavalcade of Musical Appearances
DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Colorado Music Hall of Fame presented by Comfort Dental will host
its next induction event Monday, December 3, 2018 at the
historic Paramount Theatre. The induction of 97.3 KBCO and legendary
concert promoter and artist manager Chuck Morris will be accompanied by
a cavalcade of musical appearances from Amos Lee, Todd Park Mohr (Big
Head Todd) & The Monsters, Isaac Slade and friends from the Fray, Bill
Nershi and members of The String Cheese Incident, Vince Herman and Drew
Emmitt from Leftover Salmon, Jeff Hanna and some members of the Nitty
Gritty Dirt Band, Leo Kottke along with backing band Chris Daniels & The
Kings, plus more surprises to be announced.
This seminal evening will include a “Chuck Roast” of inductee Chuck
Morris hosted by The Honorable Governor John Hickenlooper, who
commented, “Chuck Morris is one of those prominent figures who helped
transform the Colorado music and concert scene into one of the biggest
and finest music worlds in the country.”
Tickets go on sale Friday, October 19 at 10am MDT through www.AltitudeTickets.com.
Inductee 97.3 KBCO went on the air in 1977 creating an alternative to
standard rock and pop radio. Programmers and DJs were given freedom to
go beyond the “hit singles” playing “album” tracks and music from
artists as diverse as The Grateful Dead, Bonnie Raitt, Talking Heads,
and Lyle Lovett. 97.3 KBCO, along with a handful of stations around the
country, created a format now called “Adult-Album-Alternative” (or
Triple A) radio. The format was so successful that Billboard added a
Triple A Chart in 2005 and every year the Triple A Radio Convention is
held in Boulder hosted by KBCO.
Along with the countless awards and innovative programming like “KBCO
Sunday Sunrise” and “KBCO Local Edition” this year the station is
celebrating its 30th Anniversary with “KBCO Studio C, CD”
thirty years of live recordings benefiting The Boulder County Aids
Project and Food Bank of the Rockies. Countless artists like Amos Lee,
Dave Matthews and Todd Park Mohr (Big Head Todd) & The Monsters owe
their careers to the men and women who programmed and played their music
long before pop radio gave them a chance.
Inductee Chuck Morris was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from
Queens College at the age of 20. After graduation, Morris started a PhD
program in Political Science at CU Boulder in 1965. In 1968 Morris
decided to drop out of graduate school to follow his love of music.
First at the Sink and then at Tulagi’s (that he co-owned) on the hill in
Boulder, Morris made his mark at booking up-and-coming talent that would
become the stars of tomorrow.
Hosting artists from the Eagles, Bonnie Raitt, The Doobie Brothers, ZZ
Top to Linda Ronstadt, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band to Muddy Waters and
hundreds more, Tulagi’s was the launching pad for Morris’s 48-year
career as Colorado’s most prolific concert promoter and artist manager.
Morris opened Ebbets Field in Denver that included a New Year’s Eve
performance by Steve Martin who took the entire audience out for coffee
in a snowstorm. Following Ebbets Field, which brought in first tours of
Dan Fogelberg, Jimmy Buffet, Emmylou Harris, Tommy Bolin and Energy,
among others, Chuck joined Feyline as Senior vice President of Promotion
for 10 years.
Next Morris joined forces with the company of famed concert promoter
Bill Graham to create a Morris/SFX company that re-imagined the old
Mammoth Gardens into The Fillmore. Through Morris’s management work for
the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and their tour of Russia in support of the
Anschutz Western Art Collection debut, Chuck developed a close working
relationship with Colorado’s Phil Anschutz.
That friendship resulted in AEG Rocky Mountains, with Morris at the
helm. It has become the largest concert promotion company in our State’s
history putting on more than 800 shows per year at venues from the Pepsi
Center to Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre and more than 110 shows at Red
Rocks in the summer of 2018.
Morris also built one of Colorado’s most successful artist management
firms with clients that included Lyle Lovett, Todd Park Mohr (Big Head
Todd) & The Monsters, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Leo Kottke, to name
only a few.
This CMHOF evening will feature video tributes, interviews and
performances. The pre-concert gala (a dinner and meet-and-greet with the
performers) will also include a historic array of exhibits and archival
photographs, to be relocated in the CMHOF’s home at the world-renowned
Red Rocks Amphitheatre Trading Post.
The Colorado Music Hall of Fame, presented by Comfort Dental, is a
non-profit organization. Its mission is to honor those individuals who
have made outstanding contributions, to preserve and protect historical
artifacts, and to educate the public regarding everything that is great
about our Colorado music.
Previous inductees include John Denver and Red Rocks Amphitheatre; Harry
Tuft of the Denver Folklore Center and promoter Barry Fey of Family Dog
fame; the Astronauts, Sugarloaf, Flash Cadillac and KIMN radio; folk
legend Judy Collins, the Serendipity Singers, Bob Lind and Chris
Daniels; Stephen Stills/Manassas, Firefall, Poco and the Nitty Gritty
Dirt Band and more.
This induction concert is produced by AEG Presents and the historic
Paramount Theatre. Reserved tickets and premium gala seating with
pre-show hors d’oeuvres & cocktails available through
AltitudeTickets.com – additional information can be obtained on the
Hall’s website, https://cmhof.org/.
EDITORS NOTE: High Res Images HERE
Contacts
CMHOF National Publicist:
Lobeline Communications
Phil Lobel,
310-271-1551 ext. 13
phil@lobeline.com
or
AEG
Presents Rocky Mountains:
Sara Williams, 720.931.8700
swilliams@aegpresents.com
or
CMHOF
Director:
Chris Daniels, 720-837-4332
Chris@CMHOF.org