Laramie Music

The British folk rock band Mumford and Sons has announced that they will play a concert at the Gryphon Theatre, in Laramie, on August 21st.

The Snowy Range Music Festival has added their headliner for Sunday and it's a fantastic flashback to the 80's. Huey Lewis And The News will perform at the Albany County Fairgrounds on Sunday, Sept. 2 at 11 a.m.

Graduation in Laramie is about to kick off and the town will soon be in full celebration mode from Thursday til Sunday. What better way to celebrate an end and the beginning, as well as enjoy friends and family, than to saunter on down to the Cowboy Saloon on South Second Street.

For $4, you can get a respectable meal from the dollar menu. You can get some clothes, maybe some games, or an old VHS at the Salvation Army. OR- for only $4 this Saturday, you can see a great lineup of four bands, including two from Laramie at Suite 107.

A band of misfits have been bringing their brand of floor-stomping Celtic punk rock to venues all over Southern California and beyond for the past 4 years, and now they are headed to Laramie. This Saturday, March 3rd, The Mighty Regis will perform at the Laramie Plains Civic Center's Gryphon Theater. Doors open at 6:30 PM and the show gets started around 7:30 PM. Tickets can be purchased online for $14 each or at the door for $17.

Well, it's March 1st. But, more importantly, it's the first Thursday of the month. Night Heron Books in beautiful downtown Laramie has instituted a regularly scheduled Bluegrass Jam on the first Thursday of the month.

The University of Wyoming welcomes a truley unique band to campus for a free performance tonight. If you wan to check out their style before going to the concert watch the video below. Fort Collins based musical group SHEL will be performing a free at 8 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 8, in the University of Wyoming Union Ballroom.

When I first heard that One Ton Pig was playing at the Laramie Plains Civic Center I was honestly a little bit confused, not knowing that they are a band out of Jackson, Wyoming. One Ton Pig is know for their Chicken-Fried-Prison-Music, which appears to be a style somewhat closely related to Country as the Civic Center told us that if people are into Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Jerry Reed, Del McCoury, or Johnny Cash, they will love the Pig!

A new form of nightlife is springing up in Laramie: comedy. Seven University of Wyoming students have banned together to form an improv comedy group that offers free performances open to the public.

While American Idol may be sweeping the nation, UW Idol is sweeping the campus. Over 300 people packed themselves into the Union Ballroom last Friday night to witness the initial, open-call auditions for UW Idol. One hundred students were each allowed to sing a thirty second a cappella excerpt from a song of their choice.