Insiders often bring a picnic and blanket for a pre-concert dinner on the grassy lawn, and many cluster behind the auditorium and listen to the sounds of brass and strings that waft through the wooden walls. The Lyric Theatre features CU's graduate and undergraduate vocal students from the College of Music. She Loves Me . This independent dance group presents classes, workshops and performances at the university and other spaces throughout Boulder in the summer. Three hundred students join them, with more than 35 performing and teaching artists.
Admission varies with each event.
This festival is essentially one big party, celebrating the arts and cultural diversity. The variety offered includes dance, art exhibits, a children's talent show, live music performances, a health expo, ethnic food and more. The festival, often held the weekend preceding the Fourth of July, generally starts early Friday afternoon, runs all day on Saturday and winds down on Sunday. An overture of real thunder often ends just before the planned fireworks begin. The public gatherings are grand, but so is a quiet, foothills nook.