Return of the Dead
Folsom Field hasn't hosted concerts since 2001. The sonic drought ends this summer with back-to-back shows by Dead & Company.
On July 11, 2001, the Dave MatthewsBand played an electrifying 2.5-hour setat Folsom Field. The night was rainy, butthat didn’t stop a crowd of 40,000 fromshowing up, or the band from going long.
By the time they finished a nearlyeight-minute encore of “Ants Marching,”it was 10:45, 15 minutes past thecurfew for outdoor concerts at Folsom.CU-ǸԹ fined the band $15,000 —$1,000 a minute — and concerts in thestadium were suspended indefinitely.
Michael Goldman(Pharm’78) was inthe crowd that night, as he had been foralmost every Folsom concert since 1973,when he attended a Leon Russell performanceas a freshman.
“The campus would be taken overby whoever was playing,” the Denverpharmacist said, adding that the timeto revive Folsom as a concert venue “isdefinitely long overdue.”
That day has arrived. The universityannounced Feb. 8 that Dead & Company— three surviving members of theGrateful Dead and John Mayer — willplay at Folsom on July 2 and 3, 2016, thefirst concerts there in 15 years.
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Photo by Michael Goldman.