Category: Louisville

Boulder, Lafayette, Landscape and Garden, Louisville, Real Estate Tips

Tips for a Quick Home Sale

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HGTV offers 10 tips to make your home just a little more inviting to potential home buyers. With these quick and (mostly) inexpensive fixes, your home is likelier to sell when you need it to.

Outside: Buy a new “Welcome” mat, replace faded house numbers and spruce up the landscaping.

Inside: Clean until everything sparkles, from floor to ceiling fans. Clean off those counters and put out fresh flowers.

Good luck! And be sure to give me a call if you need a contractor to help you with those repairs.

Louisville

Louisville Downtown Street Faire

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The Boulder area abounds with free concerts all summer. Louisville has another that we haven’t reported on yet: The Louisville Downtown Street Faire!   This fun family event takes place on Fridays from 5-10pm through August 17, 2012 in beautiful Downtown Louisville CO.  Bring a picnic or try some local food and cold drinks. There will be activities for the kiddos and local crafts to check out.

Here’s the 2012 lineup, along with descriptions from LDBA. Music starts at 6:30:

  • June 22 The Samples

    Back by popular demand, it’s going to be a Boulder County kind of night as local boy made good Sean Kelly and band will play the unique reggae-flavored songs that make them one of the best loved musical ensembles to ever come out of Boulder.

  • JUNE 29 The Nighthawks

    The Street Faire talent search takes a rare trip to the East Coast to bring you rhythm’n’blues legends, The Nighthawks. The Washington DC based quartet will bring a groove-laden sound to the Steinbaugh with their unique take on American roots music.

  • JULY 6 The Groove Hawgs

    And now for something completely different. Join us for a 4th-of-July-weekend party with 103.5 morning personalities Lewis and Floorwax playing the role of their musical alter egos, The Groove Hawgs. It’s all just for fun—and fun for all.

  • JULY 13 The New Riders of the Purple Sage

    American. Originals. When the double-helix cosmic-highway San Francisco Sound merged with Country, these guys were THERE. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s the real pedal-steel deal: please give a big Street Faire welcome to David Nelson, Buddy Cage and the New Riders of the Purple Sage.

  • JULY 20 Marcia Ball

    Back by popular demand, for her fourth consecutive year, please welcome, from N’awlins, the lady with the legs, the in*******credible piano player, and possibly the nicest person to ever grace the Steinbaugh stage—the great Marcia Ball. Her band is pretty good too.

  • JULY 27 The Smithereens

    Another East Coast band? How you doin’? These FM radio hit makers, (“Blood and Roses”, “Only a Memory”, “A Girl Like You”) play music for the joy of it, and joy is highly contagious. In addition to their great originals, they do amazing covers of some decent bands, like the Beatles and the Who. This is going to be fun.

  • AUGUST 3 Tab Benoit

    Were you at the Faire for Tab’s show last summer? If you were, you know. If not, do not miss this—we’re talking a power trio experience extraordinaire. The Faire seems to bring out the best in all our Louisiana musicians. Or maybe it’s the other way round.

  • AUGUST 10 Gregg Rolie Band

    Join us for a very special evening with the Santana and Journey co-founder and his all-star band. This show will be all about the songs Gregg wrote and sang for the original Santana, including covering their masterwork, Abraxas.

  • AUGUST 17 Emmitt-Nershi Band

    It’s a Newgrass kind of thing. Join Louisville native Drew Emmitt of Leftover Salmon and Bill Nershi of String Cheese Incident for an only-at-the-Faire night of jaw-dropping musicianship and good jam-band vibes, man.

Boulder, Lafayette, Louisville

Welcome Summer in Style

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Summer arrives in the Boulder area on June 21.  If you wish to celebrate the solstice, we have a couple of events for you!

First:  Boulder B-Cycle will host a Solstice bike ride on June 21, beginning at 5:32 p.m. to coincide with the start of the summer solstice. Riders who ride the entire system on June 21 will be eligible to win prizes. Depending on your route, this feat may take 1.5 to 3 hours.

Contact B-Cycle for details and starting point: info@boulderbcycle.com

Second: Join a musical journey through the solstice.  Here is their description: Celebrate the fullness of our lives in the bright light of Midsummer and honor the EarthMother in her time of fruitful abundance!

Join us in sending a wave of healing energy to the planet through joyous sound vibration.  A magical evening of gratitude with drumming, meditation, toning, chanting, music and ecstatic dance, woven into a rockin’ celebration!

Thursday, June 21st, 7-9pm, Temple in the Sky, 1145 Timberlane in Boulder

Click here for more details and to RSVP.

Louisville

Louisville Concerts in the Park

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Summer concerts in the park start this Thursday, June 21, 2012 at the Community Park (951 Bella Vista Dr) in beautiful Louisville CO.

June 21 kicks off with the Strangebyrds at 7pm.

The rest of the summer lines up like this:

June 28: John Common and Blinding Flashes of LIght

July 12: 2 Dog Tuesday

July 19: PKB (Pete Kartsounes Band)

Concerts are free and a perfect opportunity for a picnic!

Boulder, Food and Drink, Lafayette, Louisville

More Summer Concerts

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Today’s summer concert update takes place in the cute little town of Niwot, CO, between Boulder and Longmont.

Niwot’s FREE Summer Concert Series Rock-N-Rails takes place on Thursday evenings at 5:30 with music starting at 6:45pm at the Whistle Stop Park (corner of 1st and Murray) 

Artisans and kid’s activities, as well as food and cold drinks are available. Come dance with your neighbors next to the tracks!

 

2012 Niwot ROCK N RAILS Summer Concert Schedule

June 21 – Jockamo

June 28 – Chase N The Dream

July 5 – Chris Daniels & The Kings

July 12 – One On One

July 19 – Last Men on Earth

July 26 – Halden Wofford &The Hi*Beams

Aug 2 –  Bop Skizzum

Aug 9 –  Face

Aug 16 – The Hazel Miller Band

Aug 23 – Rebecca Folsom

Aug 30 – The Ugli Stick

Sept 6 – “Niwot’s Own”:

Pete Wernick & FLEXIGRASS ~  5:30 – 6:15 p.m.
On Fire  ~ 6:30 – 7:15 p.m.
Tony Trahan & The BlueKrewe  ~ 7:30 – 8:45 p.m.

Boulder, Lafayette, Louisville

Airport Day!

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The Seventh Annual Airport Day is Saturday, June 16, 2012 

The event takes place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m with a parachuting demonstration at noon.

You’ll see World War II planes, antique planes, aerobatic planes, a military helicopter, gliders and much more.  The aircraft will be on stationary display so you can look inside, ask questions of the pilots and take photos.  There will also be fire/rescue trucks, food vend0rs, ice cream, and rides in both a helicopter and an open-cockpit bi-plane.
Hot air balloon launch
If you’re up early, come check out a hot air balloon launch between 6:30 and 7 a.m.  The balloons will be located in the grass, east of the terminal building.
Admission and parking are completely FREE!
Boulder, Lafayette, Louisville, Real Estate Tips

Think Small… Mortgages?

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Now that 15 year fixed rate mortgages have dipped below 3% (last Thursdays survey found the average to be 2.97%), it may be tempting to refi down from your 30 year mortgage.  This recent RIS Media article can show you some of the pros and cons of this decision.  Check it out!

Boulder, Fitness and Sports, Lafayette, Louisville

Get Outside!

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Saturday June 9, 2012 is National Get Outdoors Day.  You know what that means: let’s get outside!  Bike ride, walk in the neighborhood, eat some ice cream on the patio – go do it!

Boulder, Fitness and Sports, Lafayette, Louisville

Chicks on Bikes

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Calling all women interested in bike commuting!

Whether you’re already riding to work or starting to think about commuting by bike, Chicks on Bikes will get you off on the right pedal. You’ll learn the right gear for you and your bike, practice bike skills then take a ride on the local path system to learn the ins and outs.

When: Saturday, June 16th, 9:00-11:00a.m.
Where: 2805 Wilderness Pl Ste 1000
Boulder, CO 80301

Don’t forget your bike!