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Become a Carbondale Arts Member

How do we do what we do? Your support keeps us thriving. Whether you are a participant, a volunteer, member or artist, your involvement is what keeps Carbondale Arts ticking! Members are our heart and soul and we show our appreciation year-round. Please remember too, your membership helps us provide a FREE Fair, as well as so many great events, high-caliber gallery exhibitions and arts education programs.

The value of every donation, large or small, leaves a lasting impact on what Carbondale Arts is able to offer the community. Please consider donating at carbondalearts.com

Please upload all your fun photos to Instagram and tag @carbondalearts and use hashtags #mountainfair #sharethefair

Find me at Mountain Fair!

Shawn Manwaring Broker/Partner

970.389.6069

Shawn.Manwaring@SIR.com

O 2:30PM COWBOY CORRAL

Come share a rootin’ tootin’ time with the local Cowboy Corral as we bring you all yer ol’ favorite Cowboy Songs, stories of the Old West and a bit of Cowboy Poetry.

G 4:00PM KALETA AND SUPER YAMBA

Originally from Nigeria, now NYC-based Kaleta’s guitar chops earned him decades of touring and recording with Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Lauryn Hill and more. Kaleta has been leading Super Yamba band Since 2017, the group’s shared reverence for raw, psychedelic sounds are inspired by funk, soul and Afrobeat.

OS 4:15PM MEN’S WOOD SPLITTING COMPETITION

The testosterone is heavy in this popular event in which one man will be crowned king. Sign up early as slots fill quickly! A benefit auction of the wood follows. Sign-ups are at the Information Booth. Hosted by Diesel Dan, Kitty Kat Rich, & Ramona Chingona of the Roaring Fork Divas.

G 6:45PM WINNER OF SINGER SONGWRITER PERFORMANCE

The winner of the singer/songwriter competition will get the opportunity to play on the Main Stage before our closing act. Come see who the winner is and support our local musicians!

G 7:00PM SHINYRIBS

Shinyribs defies genres as a sonic melting pot of Texas Blues, New Orleans R&B funk, horn-driven Memphis Soul, country twang, border music, big band swing and rootsrock. The Austin-based sometimes 10-piece supergroup is led by Kevin Russell, the charismatic frontman with colorful suits and extravagant shoes who continuously swaps out an electric guitar for a ukulele and never falls short of creating a cinematic experience.

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Features

Vendor Liaison, Alta Otto, passes off the baton

Alta Otto has been working with Mountain Fair as our Vendor Liaison for eight years, but she’s been coming to Mountain Fair since 1979. She was just 4 months old at her first fair, and continued coming all throughout her childhood, singing with the Earthbeat Choir, volunteering to pick up trash or helping in the Oasis to earn her shirt! She took on the Pie Contest around 2011 and kept that tradition going strong, but passed the torch to her sister Carly DeBeque to become our amazing Vendor Liaison! It’s a job that requires grace, incredible organization, and excellent communication skills and Alta more than checked all of those boxes. Alta is a queen of problemsolving, industrious, positive, always kind and even-keeled. She’s been an incredible support and we will miss her as she passes the baton to another long-time Mountain Fair-lover, Staci Dickerson! Thanks for being on our team Alta and we know you’ll be bringing your special splash of magic volunteering in another area of the fair soon!

The Rainbow Lounge

Mountain Fair welcomes the Rainbow Lounge back for another year of inclusion and community connection. The Rainbow Lounge is a safe space in the heart of mountain fair for LGBTQAI+ individuals and Allies. Information regarding the community outreach and nonprofit work of Gay For Good-Rocky Mountains, AspenOUT and other LGBTQ+ resources in the valley will be available. Additionally, the Rainbow Lounge will have children’s activities all weekend long. A new addition this year is a bilingual (english/ spanish) Drag Queen story time on Saturday at 1pm featuring Ramona Chingona and Thelma Thunderthings. All are welcome in the Rainbow Lounge and we thank their hand working team for keeping it fun, vibrant and open for everyone!

Mountain Fair thanks KDNK for being by our side for 30+ years and live broadcasting the fair for listeners worldwide to transport themselves via airwaves into the soft grass of Sopris Park. Feel the spirit of the fair even if you cannot be with us by tuning into kdnk.org anywhere in the world. Thank you to KDNK staff for keeping the sounds of the fair alive all weekend long!

“For more than 30 of our 40 years making waves in Carbondale, KDNK has broadcast Mountain Fair live from start to finish. Tired, hot and maybe cranky? Go home, take a cold bath and relax in the shade of your favorite cottonwood … but keep your dial or device on KDNK to hear music from the Gazebo stage before you head back to Sopris Park. Or tune in to hear your friends’ and neighbors’ latest shenanigans. Or maybe an interview with the man running for governor. Or the amusing double entendres of the women’s (and men’s) wood splitting commentators. You might hear a season’s greeting from the Mother of Mountain Fair. Or you might catch the drum circle, or the blessing that opens every fair, or a possibly tipsy pie judge describing the winning pie. Carbondale expats all over the world stream us at KDNK.org every year for the Mountain

Fair broadcast just to remember the good old days. Not only is it KDNK’s sacred duty to have fun, it’s our sacred duty to bring all that fun to you over the airwaves. Our mission is to connect community members to one another and the world. KDNK’s live broadcast of the Carbondale Mountain Fair is community radio at its best.” - Luke Nestler, former Music Director and unofficial historian, KDNK Community Access Radio.

Get Raffle Tickets!

Buying raffle tickets is one of the best ways to support Carbondale Arts programming!

We have many fantastic packages supported by many local businesses, stop by the Raffle Booth to learn more. Buy early and often.

1st Grand Prize: Into the Wild donors: Value $3348

Kona DEW HD eBike from Aloha Mountain Cyclery High Society SUP board package

$100 gift certificate to Sopris Liquor & Wine

$750 cash from Carbondale Arts

2nd Grand Prize: Aspen Ski Co Slopeside: Value $2884

Certificate for two 2-day lift tickets: good at at any Aspen Ski Company's Four Mountain Resorts through the 2023/2024 ski season

Certificate for a one-night stay at the Limelight Snowmass + $100 gift certificate for the lounge, restrictions apply

$150 certificate for Ajax Tavern at The Little Nell Hotel

2 two-day rental packages with Four Mountain Sports Helly Hanson Women's Aphelia Lifaloft Jacket

Silent Auction

The Silent Auction is a labor of love by many of our arts and crafts vendors, as well as local businesses, who believe in arts programming year-round. Many of the items in the auction are donated by Mountain Fair vendors. This is a great place to check out the array of talent we have at the fair, as well as find wonderful deals and help Carbondale Arts. If you see any of the participating vendors, thank them. We couldn’t do this fair without them! Bidding opens Friday at noon, and closes at 2pm on Sunday. The last hour of bidding is known as the “Power Hour”, this is when the bidding gets hot! Pick up for successful bids from 2-6pm at the Silent Auction tent.

THANK YOU TO OUR CURRENT SUNSCRIBERS:

Barbara Adams

Mary Kate Adams

Kelley Amdur

Eric Anderson

Jane Bachrach

Kathy & Carter Barger

Bartlett

Rob Benedetti

Kathleen Bradley

Carrie & Keith Brand

Michael Brown

Michelle & Ed Buchman

Raleigh Burleigh

Daniel Benavent

Michael Brown

Debbie & Marc Bruell

Todd Chamberlin

Patricia Chew

Kay Clarke

Brian Colley

Barbara Collins

Cathy Cooney

Susie Darrow

Peter Davidoff

Larry Day

Donna & Jerome Dayton

Barbara Dills

Dana Ellis

Sue Engelhardt

Tucker Farris

Christina Flynn

Denise Fogerty

Walter Gallacher

Jillian Gibbs

Will Grandbois

Mary Groome

Ann Harris

Allyn Harvey

Heather Henry

Edward Holub

Eilene Ish

Greg & Sean Jeung

Leslie & Patrick Johnson

Susan Jordan

Wewer & Steve Keohane

Sarah Klingelheber

Colin & Alice Laird

Megan Larsen

Terry & Bill Lee + Perich

Blake Leonard

Laurie Loeb

Jeffrey Loomis

Rita Marsh

Tristan Mead

Tim & Donna McFlynn

Hannah Hunt Moeller

Sally & Frank Norwood

Michelle Page

Matthew Patera

Tom Penzel

Gail Petry

Illene Pevec

Liz Phillips

Donna Phelps & Bruce

Pearson

Ken Pletcher

Rivers Dentistry

Terri & David Ritchie

Joel Rittvo

Jessi Rochel

Tommy Sands

Aly Sanguily

Eric Smith

Terri Slivka

James Steindler

Wendy Stewart

Danny Stone

Kenny Teitler

Andrew Travers

Hank VanBerlo & Shelle deBeque

Gayle Wells

Kate Friesen & Peter Westcott

Jan Williams

John Wilson

Annie Worley

Elizabeth Wysong