Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom will host Denver Comes Alive next year. Slated to take place Friday, January 8, and Saturday, January 9, the event will also celebrate founding promoter Live for Live Music’s 15th anniversary. The Comes Alive Band—featuring Eric Krasno (Soulive), George Porter Jr. (The Meters), Ivan Neville (Dumpstaphunk), Tony Hall (Dumpstaphunk) and Nikki Glaspie (Dumpstaphunk)—will serve as the weekend’s house band while Mtn Lion, boasting Adam Deitch (Lettuce), Adam “Shmeeans” Smirnoff (Lettuce), and Garrett Sayers (Lettuce) and Joey Porter, will provide support duties.
Deitch, Smirnoff, Robert Randolph, Maggie Rose, Joey Porter, Eric “Benny” Bloom (Lettuce), Skerik, Lyle Divinsky, Jeremy Salken (Big Gigantic) and Dominic Lalli (Big Gigantic) will also join the Comes Alive Band at various points during the festivities on Friday while Deitch, Smirnoff, Bloom, Sayers, Joey Porter, Cory Henry, Skerik Kanika Moore and Divinsky will take part in the celebration on Saturday.
In addition, DJ Logic will offer a late-night set on night one while Aron Magner and Cloudchord’s Deadtronica will play into the early morning on night two. Denver Comes Alive grew out of Live for Live Music’s Brooklyn Comes Alive, which debuted in 2015.
