Fruition & Magoo Concert Kicks Off A Week Of Live Music ~ Mtn Music Mondays @ The Dillon Amp 15Jun26

Jim & I are headed to Telluride but took the opportunity to see some great early season artists @ the Dillon Amp on the way. Magoo opened to a packed house in a venue of little comparison. Magoo is an ascending, excellent alt bluegrass jam band from Denver, and they brought their admirers to Summit. They killed it and we all loved it. I've seen their stuff online but it was my 1st time live. We all means Jim & me as typical but we were very pleased to be joined by our great friends S&D from O; Steve was an excellent chauffeur. I usually lead my friends to the center of the stage at the rail above the fixed seating ~ we bring our own chairs for the grass and end up in position A right behind the sound engineers.

While 1st is friends of course, the Dillon Amp venue and sound are excellent, plus Mondays are FREE! While we dislike the necessary queuing 100 min before the shows (to get position A), as they are GA, we are never disappointed with the vibe, sound, or spot. Dillon Amp is owned by the municipality and it was recently rebuilt nearly equivalently to prior for patrons, but for better bathrooms, real artist green rooms, and a fab sound system... nothing in the mountains competes anymore ~ simply, this is the best for many counties around.

Back to Magoo... really great alt bluegrass with Phish/Dead-like jam songs and other tight playing. Wow. Let's go. And howdy did mostly young patrons turn out with Magoo gear, pajama pants and bikinis, and dance their asses off. My sense is that 'free' was good, 'Magoo' was better, and folks came out to pack the house to see them. It was a very strong and fun set and we were treated to a dobro.

I was mostly alone in this crowd, to have come to see headliner Fruition (though sure I appreciated Magoo immensely as opener). 15 mostly consistent years of genre-bending/avoiding songs with a multi-instrumentalist female leader and mad musicianship all around is a lure. They didn't disappoint on non-genre definition, moving deftly from 40's swing, to blues, to Americana with facility. I loved the set but for a bit of muddling in the vocals... I don't know why. I caught some images and some footage.