Mumford & Sons are set to play Folsom Field in Boulder at 5 p.m. Saturday, bringing the British band to one of the city’s largest venues for a paid concert that costs $105. For concertgoers planning the day around the show, the timing is fixed: the music starts Saturday evening at 2400 Colorado Ave.
The band’s arrival fits a bigger weekend calendar, but this is the ticketed event that stands apart. Louisville Pride Festival is scheduled for 9 a.m. Saturday in downtown Louisville, and Longmont Pride Festival follows at 3 p.m. Saturday in Roosevelt Park with free, family-friendly activities, while Boulder also has morning events including the Colorado Triathlon, the Eldo Hiker Shuttle and Boulder Airport Day.
Catie Michel, the Denver artist who designed Louisville’s collaborative paint-by-numbers mural, is part of that local Pride lineup, which also includes artists, organizations and community exhibits. Her mural will be one of the visual anchors of Louisville’s inaugural Pride Festival, a contrast to the $105 price tag attached to the Boulder concert and to several other free events listed for the same day.
Mumford & Sons formed in West London in 2008 and moved quickly from small gigs to festival headliners, building a career that has brought Grammys, chart success and collaborations with Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Joni Mitchell and Pharrell Williams. In Boulder, the only question left is attendance: the show is scheduled, the venue is set, and the crowd size at Folsom Field will be the measure of how strongly the band still pulls on a Saturday night.
Queer Circus is also on the weekend calendar, set for 7 p.m. Sunday at Junkyard Social Club in Boulder, but the next confirmed step for Marcus Mumford and the band is the 5 p.m. Saturday performance at Folsom Field.
