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What: Yamn
When: 8 p.m. Thursday
Where: Riverwalk Center, Breckenridge
Notes: This is an all-ages show, and, yes, the band will break so people can see the town's fireworks at 9 p.m.
Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 day of the show, available at www.yamnit.com, Affordable Music in Dillon and Space Cowboy in Breckenridge
When: 8 p.m. Thursday
Where: Riverwalk Center, Breckenridge
Notes: This is an all-ages show, and, yes, the band will break so people can see the town's fireworks at 9 p.m.
Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 day of the show, available at www.yamnit.com, Affordable Music in Dillon and Space Cowboy in Breckenridge
As hippie Merry Prankster Ken Kasey says, “You're either on the bus, or off the bus.” For Yamn, being on the bus has paid off well.
The four-member band lived on a bus for much of 2007 and January, 2008, touring the Northwest and generally making the free skier parking lot off Airport Road in Breckenridge home base in the summer of 2007 (as well as couch surfing and taking odd jobs). During fall, 2007, they moved into a cabin in Mayhill, N.M., to rehearse for their debut album, which they recorded in Nashville, Tenn., in November, 2007. A month later, Jambands.com named Yamn the New Groove of the Month.
Though the musicians met in Summit County in 2005 and 2006, the current incarnation of Yamn began in January, 2007, with the addition of bass player David Duart (aka Dewey). These days, they all live together — in a real home — in Denver.
“Yamn moved to Denver to build a name for itself in the city and amongst the music scene in the Front Range,” Duart said. “Also the cost of living in Denver is much cheaper than Summit, so for so-called struggling musicians, this is rather helpful.”
The homegrown progressive jam band fuses its three-set, electro-transfusion-dance-rock New Year's Eve gig with an electrifying light show Thursday in an unprecedented concert that goes until 2 a.m. Hearthstone Catering will provide the alcohol until the last note sounds. The Riverwalk never has hosted a New Year's Eve concert before, so Yamn intends on making it memorable. The members have rented $30,000 worth of lights, on top of their current rig.
“It is by far the largest production of lights we have ever put on as a band,” Duart said.
Not bad for an outfit that has moved up from playing New Year's Eve 2007 at the intimate Wolf Rock in Keystone, to three20south last year to the approximately 900-person capacity of the Riverwalk Center this year.
“The past year has been nothing but Yamn's passion: playing many live shows and leaving concert-goers with the sense they have just experienced more than a set list,” Duart said. “Yamn feeds music-hungry Coloradans with the full rock show experience at even the smallest of venues ... From funk beats to full-blown trance fusion jams, Yamn will leave any fan with awestruck senses and sizzling nerve endings.”
The four-member band lived on a bus for much of 2007 and January, 2008, touring the Northwest and generally making the free skier parking lot off Airport Road in Breckenridge home base in the summer of 2007 (as well as couch surfing and taking odd jobs). During fall, 2007, they moved into a cabin in Mayhill, N.M., to rehearse for their debut album, which they recorded in Nashville, Tenn., in November, 2007. A month later, Jambands.com named Yamn the New Groove of the Month.
Though the musicians met in Summit County in 2005 and 2006, the current incarnation of Yamn began in January, 2007, with the addition of bass player David Duart (aka Dewey). These days, they all live together — in a real home — in Denver.
“Yamn moved to Denver to build a name for itself in the city and amongst the music scene in the Front Range,” Duart said. “Also the cost of living in Denver is much cheaper than Summit, so for so-called struggling musicians, this is rather helpful.”
The homegrown progressive jam band fuses its three-set, electro-transfusion-dance-rock New Year's Eve gig with an electrifying light show Thursday in an unprecedented concert that goes until 2 a.m. Hearthstone Catering will provide the alcohol until the last note sounds. The Riverwalk never has hosted a New Year's Eve concert before, so Yamn intends on making it memorable. The members have rented $30,000 worth of lights, on top of their current rig.
“It is by far the largest production of lights we have ever put on as a band,” Duart said.
Not bad for an outfit that has moved up from playing New Year's Eve 2007 at the intimate Wolf Rock in Keystone, to three20south last year to the approximately 900-person capacity of the Riverwalk Center this year.
“The past year has been nothing but Yamn's passion: playing many live shows and leaving concert-goers with the sense they have just experienced more than a set list,” Duart said. “Yamn feeds music-hungry Coloradans with the full rock show experience at even the smallest of venues ... From funk beats to full-blown trance fusion jams, Yamn will leave any fan with awestruck senses and sizzling nerve endings.”
