Featured Bands:

Constitution Post Paradise The Honey Gitters
Peace Officer Musketeer Gripweed Trichome

Mentoring & Supporting Bands

SpokesBUZZ wants to acknowledge our Supporting Bands. The Holler!, Common Anomaly and The Lindsey O'Brien Band. These Fort Collins bands are qualified as emerging SpokesBUZZ bands. They are booked for SpokesBUZZ events, understand the organization's culture, maintain the values we admire and as opportunity opens in next year's class, they are the first we will look at to fill the slots. 

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Musketeer Gripweed

Musketeer Gripweed is rambling, rolling, grooving, good times music. Their songs roll like the hills of the Midwest. They groove & climb like the Rocky Mountains where they are created, and they ramble like Ole Miss herself. In a word, Gripweed’s music is America in all its wild glory. Underneath the depression in these hard times, underneath the bullet fast lifestyles we live today there is still an America that is real and free, that is calling us all back to live more simply and to care enough to bring others along with us on that journey. It’s time for a REVIVAL, and Musketeer Gripweed will make you TESTIFY!”

 

 

 

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Post Paradise

Post Paradise, Spokesbuzz
If you’ve been hanging around the Northern Colorado rock scene for the past year or so, odds are you’ve heard about a band who has been taking venues by storm and amassing a generous buzz with the locals. With their innovative songwriting, unique instrumentation, and unforgettable live show, the cello-driven rock band Post Paradise is a fairly unmistakable outfit. Soaring vocals and guitar by frontman Nick Starr Duarte share the melodies of their indie rock compositions with the lead cello parts of Amy Morgan. Phil Spencer on bass and Craig Babineau on drums and percussion round out the lineup adding the energetic, yet tasteful rhythm section. Finally, the newest addition to the group, lead guitarist Erik Babineau, adds an element of excitement to the overall feel of the shows.

 

 






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The Honey Gitters

This eccentric quartet is not your ordinary bluegrass band. With shades of early Americana fused with electric new-grass, The Honey Gitters have astounded and confounded audiences with their sound, featuring a heavy bass line accompanied by the electric banjo. Honey-givers as well as Honey Gitters, the boys always share their fresh local honey with audiences to raise awareness, and hopefully someday trounce the dreaded Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD.

 

 

 

 

 

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Peace Officer

Peace Officer is a live-band hip hop crew from Fort Collins, Colorado, playing their own brand of socially conscious dub-oriented music. Using the heavy drum and bass groove as their vehicle, Peace Officer's emcees strive to entertain and educate, with tales of life, struggle, passion, and politics. The current line-up has been working on their craft since fall of 2007, honing a sound they like to call "Dub-Hop" - hip hop lyrics and consciousness with live, dub-inspired beats.

 

 

 

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Trichome

Since their inception in 2005, Trichome has branched out to make a heavy dent on the already phenomenal Colorado music scene. With unique lyrics from lead singer Evan Daldegan, the driving bass lines of Dave Frediani, the piercing guitar lines from Matt Newhard, the powerful presence of Mike Windham on tenor sax and keyboards, it makes for an explosive front line. Add in the passion of Matt Schooley on percussion and Jeff Dejohn on the drums and there is a full sound that is nothing less than transcendental.

 

 

 

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Constitution

Constitution is Matt (P-Mann) Mahern on guitar, Darren Radach on Mandolin and tenor banjo, Ben Prytherch on upright bass and Pete Knudson on drums. Constitution’s music is not unlike a good story. Sometimes serious, sometimes humorous – the whole time passionate – you'll be glad you took the time to check it out. Described as Americana Soul, Constitution will have you humming their tunes and wondering, “When is the next time I’ll get to hear it?” Hopefully the answer is soon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Euforquestra:

Originally from Iowa City, IA, Eufórquestra (pronounced: yoo • FOHR • keh • struh, think Euphoria+Orchestra) relocated to Fort Collins, CO in August 2008 and has made a splash on the Colorado music scene with its progressive, genre-crossing funk fusions and a relentless tour schedule.

In October 2009, the band released their third studio album, Soup, a collection of 11 tracks that captures the band at new heights in terms of songwriting, energy and production. In an effort to spread the album far and wide as an independent artist, the band decided to give the album away for free online at www.euforquestra.com. With over 1,300 downloads in its first week the word is spreading!

With three full length albums to their name and a relentless tour schedule (over 100 shows per year), Eufórquestra has created a presence on the national scene, performing all over the U.S. at clubs, concert halls, community events, and festivals, such as Wakarusa, Summer Camp, 80/35 (Des Moines, IA), Sweet Pea Festival (Bozeman, MT), NedFest (Nederland, CO), Montana Beer Festival (Bozeman, MT) and Iowa City Jazz Festival.  In addition, Eufórquestra hosts their own festival, Camp Euforia, every year in July, just outside of Iowa City, in Lone Tree, IA.

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Supporting Bands:

The Holler!

Common Anomaly

 The Lindsey O'Brien Band
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