Leftover Salmon and Kitchen Dwellers have announced a stellar lineup of special guests for the highly anticipated “Memorial Day Pick-Nic” at Colorado’s historic Red Rocks Amphitheatre on May 26, 2025. Joining the celebration are former Leftover Salmon member and Little Feat keyboardist Bill Payne, acclaimed singer-songwriter Nicki Bluhm, Grammy Award-winning fiddler Jason Carter, powerhouse vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Laurie Lewis, eclectic Bermudian singer-songwriter Mishka, and AJ Lee, frontwoman of the award-winning bluegrass and folk group AJ Lee & Blue Summit.
This special performance will commemorate the 35th anniversary of Leftover Salmon, the pioneering “polyethnic Cajun slamgrass” band from Colorado. Both Leftover Salmon and Kitchen Dwellers will perform two sets each, featuring collaborative performances with the special guests and the High Country Horns. The evening will also include an opening performance by Denver’s rising “good folk’n country” group, Clay Street Unit.
Tickets and limited VIP packages are available now:
leftoversalmon.com/tour
kitchendwellers.com/tour
About Leftover Salmon:
Few bands stick around for thirty years. Even fewer bands leave a legacy during that time that marks them as a truly special, once-in-a-lifetime type band. And no band has done all that and had as much fun as Leftover Salmon.
Since their earliest days as a forward-thinking, progressive bluegrass band who had the guts to add drums to the mix and who was unafraid to stir in any number of highly combustible styles into their ever-evolving sound; to their role as a pioneer of the modern jamband scene; to their current status as elder-statesmen of the scene who cast a huge influential shadow over every festival they play, Leftover Salmon has been a crucial link in keeping alive the traditional music of the past while at the same time pushing that sound forward with their own weirdly unique style.
Leftover Salmon is continuing their long, storied history, which found them first emerging from the progressive bluegrass world and coming of age as one of the original jam bands, before rising to become architects of what has become known as Jamgrass and helping to create a landscape where bands schooled in the traditional rules of bluegrass can break free of those bonds through nontraditional instrumentation and an innate ability to push songs in new psychedelic directions live.
Leftover Salmon is a band who, for more than thirty-five years, has never stood still; they are constantly changing, evolving, and inspiring. If someone wanted to understand what Americana music is, they could do no better than to go to a Leftover Salmon show, where they effortlessly glide from a bluegrass number born on the front porch, to the down-and-dirty Cajun swamps with a stop on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, to the hallowed halls of the Ryman in Nashville, before firing one up in the mountains of Colorado.
About Kitchen Dwellers:
Kitchen Dwellers twist bluegrass, folk, and rock through a kaleidoscope of homegrown stories, rich mythology, American west wanderlust, and psychedelic hues. The Montana quartet—Shawn Swain [Mandolin], Torrin Daniels [banjo], Joe Funk [upright bass], and Max Davies [acoustic guitar]—have captivated audiences at hallowed venues such as Red Rocks Amphitheatre and recently performed alongside acts such as Billy Strings and Goose in addition to playing festivals such as Telluride Bluegrass, Under The Big Sky, WinterWonderGrass, and more. They’ve released four critically acclaimed albums—Ghost In The Bottle [2017], Muir Maid [2019], Wise River [2022], and Seven Devils [2024]. After amassing 15 million-plus streams, selling out shows, and receiving acclaim from Huffington Post, Relix, American Songwriter, and more.
