'Denver has been the best to me,' Andy Frasco says with a grin. 'I really feel like I found a home here.' Catch him August 13 at Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre.
says with a grin."I really feel like I found a home here."
"I've been doing 250 shows a year since I was nineteen; it's been nonstop," he says."When I moved to Denver four years ago, I finally found my community. Ever since I moved to Denver, I felt like this has become the biggest fan base I have, and it feels good. I need to be weird; I could do whatever I want, for the most part, and just have fun, and they support all my weird dreams.
"I just would Craigslist musicians in every town until I found the guys that are now in my band," he says."One guy's from Nantucket. One guy's from Springfield, Missouri. I found one guy in downtown L.A., and then the only guy I've known forever is my sax player, Ernie, but he wasn't playing sax." "I fight with depression every single day," he continues."I drink too much and party a lot, so some mornings are tough. And the only thing that gets me through those days is optimism."
His upcoming show at Red Rocks will be his fourth. His first gig at the legendary venue was when it opened for 200-person capacity shows during the pandemic; it was like playing to a"ghost town," he recalls. But his next shows were the full-fledged Red Rocks experience, even playing in the middle of the crowd during a surprise sit-in with Umphrey's McGee last year after opening for the prog-rock jam band.
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