The Live from Mt. CB music series will return for the summer of 2013 with an exciting lineup of amazing musicians.
Come celebrate Gunnison County’s local talent! The Empty Bottle Blues Band from Crested Butte and the Opal Moon Band from Gunnison finish out the final Alpenglow of the season. Take two strong fistfuls of Freddie King and Muddy Waters. Stir them up with smatterings of the Rolling Stones, Allman Brothers and Eric Clapton. Season with original lyrics and songs whose subject matter swirls around the blues like a swamp around cypress – namely women. Throw in some J.J. Cale for good measure. Finally, take one bottle of bourbon. Empty it. This is the spicy gumbo that is The Empty Bottle Blues Band and they will fire you up like a hot southern night from the slow rockin’ blues to the git down n’ boogie blues. The local spice is Aaron Tomcak on bass, Tommy Rudder on drums, Frank Mesiti on guitar and vocals, Tyler Lucas on guitar, and Chuck McKenrick on keyboards. The Opal Moon Band is a honky tonk and Western group playing an eclectic variety of country and western, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll. Their motto is “If you request it, we’ll play it, or something like it!” The Opal Moon Bands is Evelyn Roper, vocals and guitar; Dio Musquiz Jr, bass; Sean Turner, guitar and vocals; and Mike Alex, drums. 
The Center for the Arts in Crested Butte, CO is proud to present comedian Paula Poundstone in concert Sunday, August 11th. 25 years ago Paula Poundstone climbed on a Greyhound bus and traveled across the country -- stopping in at open mic nights at comedy clubs as she went. A high school drop-out, she went on to become one of the great humorists of our time. You can hear her through your laughter as a regular panelist on NPR's popular rascal of a weekly news quiz show, Wait Wait� Don't Tell Me. She tours regularly, performing standup comedy across the country, causing Bob Zany with the Boston Globe to write: "Poundstone can regale an audience for several hours with her distinctive brand of wry, intelligent and witty comedy." Audience members may put it a little less elegantly: "I peed my pants." While there is no doubt that Poundstone is funny, the thing that probably separates her from the pack of comics working today and that has made her a legend among comics and audiences alike is her ability to be spontaneous with a crowd. Poundstone says: "No two shows I do are the same. It's not that I don't repeat material. I do. 
Saturdays - Gunnison Farmers’ Market, Virginia Ave & Main St.
