Steve's Guitars Information and History | Live Music Every Friday Night

Open Every Friday Night for Live Music. Located in Carbondale, Colorado. 970-963-3304

Steve's Guitars opened for business in Carbondale back in 1993. Since then, our intimate, music-listening room has hosted over 500 shows and presented hundreds of talented musicians coming from all over the states and foreign lands.

Our mission is to promote good live music in a room where the top priority is the music. We are not a bar, restaurant or non-profit with other agendas. We just wanted to provide the best possible place for musicians to display their songs. And, we have done so for many years. We hope to continue doing so into the distant future.

It's a great place to play and listen to live music and is ideal for both performers and the audience.

One of the side benefits of providing live music every week is our interaction with the local community. People of all ages are welcome and it's great to have senior citizens mix with babies in the audience.

You can bring in your own beverage of choice and enjoy it in a non-smoking, house-concert type setting. We have never needed a bouncer yet and it's like throwing a good party with your friends and neighbors, every week.

Email is the best way to communicate or call the store at 970-963-3304.

To All Our Fans and Supporters:

We have some very good news for all of you who love live music at Steve's Guitars. Since our first public appeal for help last Spring, we have worked hard to make our unique music-listening room a business that can flourish in this great town. Our efforts have been successful and we now feel brave enough to sign a long-term lease with our Aspen-based landlords.

This is a big step in keeping live music coming to historic, downtown Carbondale and wonderful news to us. We wouldn't have made this commitment without the love and support you have given us, especially over the past year.

Since last Spring, our shop has been used nearly 150 times for live music, non-profit meetings, local fundraiser's, comedy, conferences, healing courses, birthday parties, band rehearsals and more. It is a great space for live music and is also proving to be a perfect spot for many other community events that we love to support. Like tomorrow, when KDNK will present a live broadcast during the afternoon as part of their latest membership drive. Tune in at 3pm to hear Euforchestra playing live for our wonderful local radio station.

We plan to continue presenting musicians from all over the valley and all points beyond. The agents have found us and we are booking great acts from all over the country and, even, other countries. We love the Dinkel Building as it provides a direct link to the "Old Western" days of the 1890's in Carbondale. Presenting live music in the old bank with its ancient vault right behind the stage gives a special touch to our shows. The high ceilings and thick walls make for incredible acoustics that are enjoyed by both musicians and the audience.

It has always been a pleasure hearing live music in our listening room and we look forward to continuing doing so. We are very pleased that our first public appeal for help received a strong response from the community. Our shop is important to many of you for a wide variety of reasons and it's true that it does take "a village" to keep it going. We thank everyone who has helped keep our musical adventure alive and thriving.

We are happy to say that no other public appeals for help are anticipated. You can stop worrying about our future survival and just come out and enjoy the shows with us. That feels good to say and we hope it is good news for everyone who has enjoyed our store.

Presenting musicians in a great venue where "the music" is the top priority can be very challenging to sustain in our rapidly changing valley. With your support, Steve's Guitars can continue to provide live music for all our friends and fans in the best music-listening room around. See you at the next show.

Musically Yours,

Steve, Mary Margaret and Shannon