Colorado Music Hall of Fame’s night of charity ––a gala and dinner to induct music legends Barry Fey of Family Dog (and Feyline) fame and the Denver Folklore Center’s Harry Tuft––is being relocated to the Stadium Club at Folsom Field in Boulder on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 at 3:00 p.m.
Seating for the event is limited! Tickets are now available online at: www.coloradomusichalloffame.org

With the upgrade to the Stadium Club, attendees will be afforded the spectacular west-facing view of the Rockies, providing a larger, more elegant banquet facility on the University of Colorado campus.
As the sun descends below the Flatirons, the afternoon will feature performances by Firefall, Otis Taylor and Grubstake with special guests Chris Daniels, Rob Drabkin and Dick Weissman, while patrons enjoy a delicious Italian feast courtesy of Pasta Jay’s.

The gala will also include a historical array of exhibits and archival photographs which will then be relocated to the CMHOF’s new home on the second level of the 1stBank Center in Broomfield.

Nick Forster of etown and Hot Rize fame will give the induction speech for Tuft, and celebrity veterinarian and comedian Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald will do same for Fey.

“The Colorado Music Hall of Fame, a non-profit organization that benefits the CU School of Music, honors those individuals who have made outstanding contributions, preserves and protects historical artifacts, and educates the public regarding everything that’s great about our state’s music,” says Chuck Morris, CMHOF’s chairman of the board.” John Denver and Red Rocks Amphitheatre were the inaugural inductees to the CMHOF last April.

Fresh from Chicago and a stint in the Marine Corps, 27-year-old Barry Fey began his extraordinary career as one of rock’s most prolific promoters by opening the Family Dog concert hall in 1967, debuting with Big Brother & the Holding Company fronted by singer Janis Joplin. In ten months of its existence, the venue gained national attention as did Fey’s knack for booking the right bands at the right time. With such acts on its stage as Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and the Grateful Dead, the Family Dog established Denver as a “must-play” market for decades to come. Fey’s company Feyline Presents came into being soon thereafter, promoting top-grossing tours for the Who and the Rolling Stones, and his “Summer of Stars” at Red Rocks Amphitheatre became his signature series. Fey also rescued classical music in Denver with the creation of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and his old-timers baseball games set the table for major league baseball in Denver.

It has been said that all acoustic musicians worth their salt have made the pilgrimage to Harry Tuft’s Denver Folklore Center to buy a guitar or soak up knowledge from the dean of Colorado’s folk scene. In 1960, Tuft traveled from his native Philadelphia to Colorado to ski, landing a jack-of-all-trades job at the Holy Cat in Georgetown. He ran into Hal Neustaedter, the owner of the Exodus, Denver’s premier folk club, who suggested Tuft might want to start a Folklore Center in Denver, which he did in March of 1962. Tuft brought many folk artists to Colorado, including Joan Baez’s appearance at Red Rocks after the Beatles’ date in 1964. A multi-instrumentalist, Tuft formed Grubstake in 1972 and made several albums with his band mates Steve Abbott and Jack Stanesco; he has recorded as a solo artist as well.

General admission tickets are available for $75.00 and will include the mouth-watering meal. Limited premium “Gold Circle” tickets are priced at $175.00, with added bonuses of an autographed copy of Fey’s new book “Backstage Past,” a copy of Tuft’s latest CD “Treasures Untold,” a pair of tickets to a 2012 CU football game and two 1stBank Center shows (subject to availability). Tickets at www.coloradomusichalloffame.org and also at Pasta Jay’s in Boulder (1001 Pearl St.) and Lone Tree (9226 Park Meadows Dr.), Twist and Shout (2508 E. Colfax Ave. in Denver) and the Denver Folklore Center (1893 S. Pearl St. in Denver).