Founded in 2001, The UMS is an annual three-day celebration of music featuring hundreds of bands across multiple venues.
73 ‘gigs’
2024
Whiskey From Strangers, Live @ Buntport Theater
As our album-release is overtaken by a Denver mythology, Dan and Sondra and Miriam have to contend with friendship, loss, identity, memory, and a cursed pool that makes men soft.
2023
Strange Bird, Queer Bird @ Buntport Theater
A playful and intimate exploration of love, comfort, and home in a world on fire.
Global Pandemic
2019
Music & Poetry Showcase @ The Bakery
PRF BBQ Denver @ The Bakery
gig @ Lion’s Lair
2018
gig @ Ross-Cherry Creek Library
Not the UMS @ Remixed Gifts
JANE/EYRE @ The Bakery
We are not here to flatter egotism, or prop up humbug; we are merely telling the [queer] story. We value what is good in the book; but we believe in the existence of other, and more vivid kinds of goodness.
Wolf, Woman, Man (with Dancers) @ The Bakery
gig @ Lion’s Lair
2017
Punk for Positive Change (AIDS Benefit) @ Surfside 7
Dsm-73: Queer Rock Night @ Moon Room at Summit Music Hall
Bands With Benefits @ Mutiny Information Cafe
gig @ 7th Circle Music Collective
gig @ Lion’s Lair
Weird Wednesday! @ 3 Kings Tavern
gig @ Syntax Physic Opera
gig @ Globe Hall
Claudzilla Curated Musical Mayhem @ Skylark Lounge
Anti-UMS Fest @ 1010 Workshop
Queer in the Headlights, Pride Party @ Larimer Lounge
gig @ Lost Lake
ACLU Benefit @ The Bakery
2016
2016 True West Award @ Denver Center for the Performing Arts
A stage adaptation of my novel, Riding SideSaddle*, created with Buntport Theater and Teacup Gorilla.
Empowerment Benefit Show @ Deer Pile
FACEMAN’s 100 Year Storm @ The Oriental Theater
Halloween House Party
gig @ Globe Hall
gig @ Syntax Physic Opera
Sunday BBQ Series @ Larimer Lounge
gig @ Lion’s Lair
Beat Soft Pop Album Release @ Lost Lake Lounge
Afternoon House Party
MoonConf @ Galvanize Boulder
gig @ Lion’s Lair
gig @ The Squire Lounge
10 Myths on the Proper Application of Beauty Projects @ Buntport Theater
A stage adaptation of my novel, Riding SideSaddle*, created with Buntport Theater and Teacup Gorilla.
gig @ 7th Circle Music Collective
gig @ 7th Circle Music Collective
2015
gig @ Lion’s Lair
gig @ Lion’s Lair
Holes / SideSaddle Midwest Tour @ Gabe’s Iowa City
A hybrid evening of music & story
Holes / SideSaddle Midwest Tour @ High Noon Saloon
Holes / SideSaddle Midwest Tour @ Art House
Holes / SideSaddle Midwest Tour @ Red Line Tap
Holes / SideSaddle Midwest Tour @ Red Herring Lounge
Holes / SideSaddle Midwest Tour @ Private Beach Party
Holes / SideSaddle Midwest Tour @ Eighth Street Taproom
Holes / SideSaddle Midwest Tour @ Kirby’s Beer Store
Species of the Stars @ The Bakery
We’re excited to be part of the single release for Species of the Stars by our good friends Open to the Hound!
Departure Tour @ Tennyson’s Tap
gig @ G***y House Cafe
gig @ Merchant’s Mile High Saloon
Gorilla Hound Party @ The Bakery
Denver Indie/Alt Fest @ Merchant’s Mile High Saloon
2014
gig @ Larimer Lounge
gig @ Lion’s Lair
gig @ Pikes Peak Brewing Co.
Mile High Erotic Spoken Word (#4) @ The Bakery
Bouldering Poets Two Year Anniversary @ Trident Booksellers & Cafe
gig @ Pikes Peak Brewing Co.
gig @ Larimer Lounge
2013
Bad Shadow Affair @ Lost Lake Lounge
gig @ Toad Tavern
gig @ Larimer Lounge
gig @ Herman’s Hideaway
gig @ Zach’s Garage
Bouldering Poets @ 303 Vodka
2012
Leon Presents a Reading Series #6
2010
Fundraiser @ The Packing House
Missa Populi @ PackingHouse Center for the Arts
Combining the sacrifice, transcendence, blood, and circumstance of the Catholic Mass with history, live music, science, dance, literature, and pop culture to find a wholly modern communion experience. What we have left is our selves, broken and battered, but surviving together.