Center for the Arts Evergreen
303-674-0056 | 32003B Ellingwood Trail, Evergreen, CO 80439- P.O. Box 2737 Evergreen, CO 80437 | Mon - Fri 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. | Sat 12 - 5 p.m.
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Summerfest
July 20th & 21st, 10am-5pm

Summerfest is a two-day fine art and craft festival held outdoors in Evergreen, CO, which kicks off Arts Alive Evergreen, a 10-day showcase event featuring the best of Evergreen's visual and performing arts.

Summerfest provides a weekend of fun for the whole family with 125 artist vendors from across the country, local food, music, exciting performances, and a craft area to keep the children entertained. And new for 2013, Center for the Arts Evergreen expands the scope of the festival to include celebrating the craft of beer with a beer tasting event called Palette of Brews, and a two fun competitions Saturday night, Battle of the Bands and Air Guitar Contest.

General admission to the festival is $2 for adults; children are free. It is just a 25 minute drive from downtown Denver. Directions from Denver: take I-70 West to Evergreen Parkway exit #252. Follow Evergreen Parkway/Hwy 74 for 3.5 miles. The festival will be on the left at the intersection of Evergreen Parkway/Hwy 74 & Squaw Pass Rd.

Parking locations include most of the adjacent Buchanan Rec Center lots, the office park lots south of the Buchanan Ponds off of Castle Ct., the RTD lot north of the festival, and the back parking lots at Bergen Village with a shuttle right to the festival. There will be ample signage for parking locations.

No smoking or pets are allowed at the festival site.

Palette of Brews

Evergreen’s very first beer tasting event will feature sixteen Colorado microbreweries serving unlimited tastes to ticket holders as part of Summerfest on July 20th & 21st, 11am to 5pm. The event takes place only five minutes off I-70 in Evergreen at the Buchanan Park Athletic Fields (at Hwy 74 & Squaw Pass Rd.).

Your ticket to the unlimited tastes is only $20 for online advanced sales and $25 at the festival. Tickets information will be available June 1st. The palette of microbreweries includes AC Golden Brewing Company, Avery Brewing, Colorado Cider Company, Fate Brewing Company, Grimm Brothers Brew House, Hardtail Brewing, Hall Brewing, Left Hand Brewing Company, Odell Brewing Company, Oskar Blues, Pateros Creek Brewing Company, Prost Brewing, Strange Brewing, Tivoli Beer Company, Trinity Brewing Company, and Upslope Brewing Company.

Battle of the Bands & Air Guitar Contest

The fun continues into Saturday night from 5:30 to 8:30pm with a brand new music event, Battle of the Bands and Air Guitar Contest. Local bands intermixed with fun, air guitar performers will compete for cash prizes. Cash and prizes to be awarded for first, second and third place for battle of the bands and air guitar contests. Battle Bands will perform live songs with a limit of ten minutes total performance time, original or cover. Air guitar solo or group acts will perform one song with or without real or fake instruments to one song.

Winners will be determined by crowd reaction and a judge panel. Brings your friends and tell everyone you know to attend!  Come hungry, vendors will be serving delicious foods. There will be beer and wine available for sale as well.