{"id":4846,"date":"2026-08-03T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=4846"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T20:24:24","slug":"music-denver-ska-fest-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/music-denver-ska-fest-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"MUSIC: Denver Ska Fest 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft \" src=\"https:\/\/www.concertarchives.org\/image_uploads\/photo\/image\/1473254\/large_image.jpg\" alt=\"Denver Ska Fest 2026\" width=\"200\" height=\"251\" \/>Denver Ska Fest 2026<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nDate: May 16, 2026<br \/>\nLocation: The Mission Ballroom<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been to quite a few concerts before, but never one where there are two bands playing that I both want to see. Enter Denver Ska Fest 2026, which gave me my first concert experience for <em>Five Iron Frenzy<\/em>, as well as my third or fourth time seeing <em>The Aquabats<\/em> in concert. As a festival-like concert, none of the bands seemed to have any higher billing than any of the others. Each one had a unique way they were tied to the ska genre of music, which made the whole evening quite fun.<\/p>\n<p>The night started off with <em>The Potato Pirates<\/em>. They incorporated bagpipes into their sound in a way that felt natural and punk rock. Their lyrics were less family-friendly than the other acts, but I\u2019ve usually avoided the more punk-ska acts until now. <em>Dance Hall Crashers<\/em> wrapped up the evening. This duo of women was also a unique experience because usually there are more members in a ska band and they\u2019re usually predominantly men. Still, they brought the same high-energy songs that ska is known for.<\/p>\n<p>Having missed <em>Five Iron Frenzy<\/em> in their heyday, I was excited to see one of my favorite bands in concert, finally! They perform almost identically to the way they sound on CD (or vinyl), so I easily kept up with the classics they played\u2014although I did struggle with some of the more recent stuff because I haven\u2019t listened to it nearly as much. What was more interesting was watching <em>The Aquabats<\/em>, who I have only really seen when they moved away from their ska origins. Hearing a bunch of deep cuts with assistance from the other ska bands was something I hadn\u2019t realized I&#8217;d missed out on until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Ska Fest 2026 Date: May 16, 2026 Location: The Mission Ballroom I\u2019ve been to quite a few concerts before, but never one where there are two bands playing that I both want to see. Enter Denver Ska Fest 2026, which gave me my first concert experience for Five Iron Frenzy, as well as my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[4608,4613,4609,4611,163,4610,4612,4616,4614],"class_list":["post-4846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-4608","tag-dance-hall-crashers","tag-denver-ska-fest","tag-five-iron-frenzy","tag-music","tag-ska","tag-the-aquabats","tag-the-mission-ballroom","tag-the-potato-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4849,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions\/4849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}