Article Contributed by Gratefulweb
Published on 2026-08-12
97.3 KBCO and Avery Brewing present Leftover Salmon featuring Sam Bush for a two-night run at the Boulder Theater on Friday, November 27 and Saturday, November 28, 2026. Deer Creek Sharpshooters will open the November 27 show, while Tonewood joins the bill on November 28.
Doors open at 6:00 p.m. each night, with the shows beginning at 7:00 p.m. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 14 at 10:00 a.m. General admission tickets and two-day passes will be available. The shows are all ages, with those under 16 required to attend with an adult.
Few bands stick around for thirty-five years. Even fewer bands leave a legacy during that time that marks them as a truly special, once-in-lifetime type band. And no band has done all that and had as much fun as Leftover Salmon.
Since their earliest days as a forward thinking, progressive bluegrass band who had the guts to add drums to the mix and who was unafraid to stir in any number of highly combustible styles into their ever evolving sound, to their role as a pioneer of the modern jamband scene, to their current status as elder-statesmen of the scene who cast a huge influential shadow over every festival they play, Leftover Salmon has been a crucial link in keeping alive the traditional music of the past while at the same time pushing that sound forward with their own weirdly, unique style.
The band now features a lineup that has been together longer than any other in Salmon history and is one of the strongest the legendary band has ever assembled. Built around the core of founding members Drew Emmitt and Vince Herman, the band is now powered by banjo-wiz Andy Thorn and driven by the steady rhythm section of bassist Greg Garrison, drummer Alwyn Robinson, and dobro player and keyboardist Jay Starling.
The current lineup is continuing the long, storied history of Salmon which found them first emerging from the progressive bluegrass world and coming of age as one the original jam bands, before rising to become architects of what has become known as Jamgrass and helping to create a landscape where bands schooled in the traditional rules of bluegrass can break free of those bonds through nontraditional instrumentation and an innate ability to push songs in new psychedelic directions live.
Salmon is a band who for more than thirty-five years has never stood still; they are constantly changing, evolving, and inspiring. If someone wanted to understand what Americana music is they could do no better than to go to a Leftover Salmon show, where they effortlessly glide from a bluegrass number born on the front porch, to the down-and-dirty Cajun swamps with a stop on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, to the hallowed halls of the Ryman in Nashville, before firing one up in the mountains of Colorado.
Leftover Salmon feat. Sam Bush
Boulder Theater
Friday, November 27, 2026
Saturday, November 28, 2026
Doors: 6:00 p.m. | Show: 7:00 p.m.
Special Guests: Deer Creek Sharpshooters (11/27), Tonewood (11/28)
General Admission Tickets | 2 Day Passes
All Ages (under 16 with an adult)
Tickets on sale Friday, August 14 at 10:00 a.m.
