Aspen Music Festival (Music Tent)
The main venue of one of America's top summer classical music festivals. Visitors can sit on the lawn outside the tent to hear rehearsals and performances for free.
The Aspen Music Festival and School was founded in 1949 and is one of America's most important summer classical music festivals. Over about eight weeks each year it stages hundreds of concerts, bringing together world-class soloists and young music students. The main venue is a tent concert hall seating about 2,000, beside the Aspen Meadows campus in the west part of town, designed by architect Harry Teague. Those without tickets can sit on the lawn outside the tent and listen for free, and many bring picnics. Nearby, the Aspen Institute campus has buildings and sculptures by Herbert Bayer, a Bauhaus artist. Outside the festival season the tent is closed, but visitors can stroll around the grounds.
Opening hours
During the festival, follow the programme
Nearby sights
- Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (Hallam Lake)
- Downtown Aspen
- Aspen Art Museum
- Wheeler Opera House
- John Denver Sanctuary
- Smuggler Mountain Trail
- Aspen Mountain (Ajax) & Silver Queen Gondola
- Aspen Highlands