La Dolce Vita

Espanol in Olde Town Arvada
2025-06-03 09:30 - 11:00 (America/Denver)
Hablamos español en un lugar genial. Let’s meet in Olde Town Arvada. This renovated historic center is full of great restaurants and shops (including the best bakery around). We’ll meet at the La Dolce Vita coffee shop at 5756 Olde Wadsworth Blvd. There is plenty of parking at a public lot on Grant and Webster just one block east. Also the G Line fast tracks train stops here as well and is just a short walk away from the coffee shop. All levels of Spanish are welcome, however a basic conversational level would be helpful. We’ll meet on Tuesdays from 9:30 am to 11 am.

BlueCana Roberta Holbrook
2025-06-01 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-05-04 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-06 10:00 - 13:00
Roberta Holbrook followed her music dream early with a successful career on the road singing and playing in clubs. She is pleased once again to be focusing on playing music full-time. Together with sweet harmonies, guitars, and keyboards. Roberta keeps the audience engaged as she performs a variety of songs that include Americana, Blues, Folk, Classic Rock and more. Roberta agrees that the Denver area has a strong family of welcoming, generous, supportive and talented musicians and is grateful for the sense of community she has found here.

Fae Wiedenhoeft and Pennies on the Track
2025-05-31 19:00 - 22:00
Join local favorites, Pennies on the Track, for a small band reunion, featuring the original lineup of PENNIES on the TRACKincluding Arvada’s own Neil Sperandeo at 7pm. facebook.com/penniesonthetrack
At 8pm, join award winning, singer songwriter Fae Wiedenhoeft, from Seattle, WA, for a collection of Celtic, Folk, Maritime, and Americana music. facebook.com/faesings
By Donation
Support your local coffee shops and artists!

Dam Jam
2025-05-25 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-05-11 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-04-27 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-04-13 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-03-30 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-03-16 13:30 - 15:30
The format will be everyone gets to lead a song and we will go around to each person, also maybe passing a mic, but no plug-in otherwise. All folk style instruments are welcome. Get your folk music lists ready and we will try to keep the era of music to 70’s and older but most songs are welcome, even acoustic versions of newer material. All levels of play are welcome (try to keep with the chords/notes/rhythm of the songs. Performance songs are also welcome.
If you do not have an acoustic instrument we might have an extra. Message the host for more info.
Please remember we will have two hours to play so try to keep the song breaks to a minimum. This is inside to keep in mind there will be limited space but no limit on players.
Let’s also support La Dolce Vita and get lunch, snacks, drinks, or deserts and of course coffee (mmmm so good).
Let’s all have fun and DAM JAM!!!

Be Be
2025-05-25 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-27 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-23 10:00 - 13:00
Be Be, a Colorado song writer / musician, performs at the Arvada coffee shop La Dolche Vita on the 4th Sunday of each month. Whereas, she used to play the Banjo with Moses Walker in this time slot, she now gets to play guitar and sing a myriad of songs she’s written over the past several decades. “I get to play my favorite songs from 10 am till 1 pm, and when that time is up I still haven’t played all the songs I’ve written.”If you were to take the following songwriters and blend them all together you would get to hear the type of music that Be writes. James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Justin Hayward, Dolly Parton, Paul McCartney, Jessie Colin Young, Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot and many more. These are songs that never have been produced and are for a future generation.Periodically Be also integrates her sets with recordings of Moses and plays Banjo in memory of him. Although an accomplished musician she is also the author of, The Be Attitudes, A Woman’s View of The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran and her latest book called The Great Urantia Agreement which highlights an important quote from the URANTIA Book.Be, a Vietnam Navy Veteran is also a Doctor of Divinity is and an ordained minister through the Church of the Universal Light. She has read the URANTIA Book page by page and cover to cover 10 times and if you know anything about the URANTIA Book you’ll know that is quite an amazing feat.Be Be is the inventor and manufacturer of the Suspendulum®, an Aerial Dance Tripod which affords aerial dancers all over the world to perform their silk dancing while hanging from the Suspendulum®. The rig is in over 22 countries.Please come out to enjoy some very beautiful and meaningful songs as well as musical poetry which stimulate the imagination

Cellist Daria Joanna
2025-05-18 10:00 - 13:00
Cellist, composer and teacher Daria Joanna studied cello with one of Europe’s most renowned cellists and conductors, Kazimierz Wilkomirski. She received her Master of Arts in Cello Performance from the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland. Her extensive repertoire ranges from classical to jazz and from popular to world music.

Open Mic
2025-05-17 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-05-03 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-04-19 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-04-05 19:00 - 22:00
Become part of the the La Dolce Vita performing community! Join us for an open mic. on the first and third Saturday of the month between 7:00 and 10:00 PM. Bring your instrument, voice, your poetry or comedy routine (keep it clean) and we’ll provide the PA, a very welcoming and supportive audience and of course, great coffee, teas, pastries and sandwiches. Signup at 6:00 PM. If you have a mic please bring that. Don’t play? Bring your friends and hang out. We can promise great music, great food and a great time

Death Cafe
2025-05-11 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-13 11:00 - 13:00
Death Cafe creates a safe space for people to explore personal thoughts and feelings about mortality, death, the dying process, near death experiences, the afterlife, spirits, or whatever the thoughts of death may be and how we and our culture deals with death.

Cellist Monica Sales Council
2025-05-11 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-13 10:00 - 13:00

Ellen Davis and Patty Jackson
2025-05-10 19:00 - 22:00
Ellen sings “Songs I Learned at My Mother’s Knee, and Other Joints.”
Ellen’s mother used to play records to try to help her sleep; everything from the Sons of
the Pioneers to Edith Piaf. The night was filled with the plaintive cries of, “Mommy, turn
the record over!” Growing up in New York City and New Jersey, her life revolved around
music. She got her first guitar for her 14th birthday, then her cat ate the strings off it.
After purchasing a steel string guitar, she made the rounds of the northern New Jersey
coffee house scene in the 1970s.
After attempting a Fine Arts degree at Penn State, Ellen moved westward to seek fame,
fortune and the Colorado magic promoted by John Denver. Arriving in Georgetown
1979, she moved to Steamboat Springs for her first ten Colorado winters. Ellen fronted
several popular local bands in Steamboat (remember the Cow Pattie and the Meadow
Muffins? No one else does either!), before moving to Denver. Music pursuits morphed
into a career in massage therapy, which lead to years in elder care. Ellen now
combines her love of Seniors with music to entertain, engage and enlighten any group
that likes to sing, laugh and listen.
Ellen’s style combines old Folk favorites, Pop tunes, Sing-alongs and stories. A special
favorite is the Kingston Trio’s salute to Anne Boleyn, “With Her Head Tucked
Underneath Her Arm;” a song that gives her the same thrills as when her mother played
it for her 63 years ago.
Patty Jackson’s angelic voice, her stunning finger style guitar licks, the sweet sound of her ukulele, and the funked-up chords of her minty green baritone guitar. Patty’s musical style is a unique fusion of folk, rock, and country with a touch of jazz. Born in central New York, Patty was given some Joan Baez tickets when she was 15 years old, and that changed the trajectory of her life. She was bitten by the music bug and over the years she formed several bands, cutting her teeth on bar gigs. She soon started playing the college circuit, folk clubs, and coffeehouses in New England and New York with her band, Wildfire. In addition to performing around town, the band also played for Hillary Clinton during her run for senator from New York. In 2004, Patty moved to Colorado and joined Resonance, The Women’s Chorus of Boulder. There she met bandmates who formed the group,

Mike McNeil
2025-04-26 19:00 - 22:00
Come and listen to some great music

Carcaroth
2025-04-25 19:00 - 21:00
Carcaroth is a six-piece band ready to bring the heat with an explosive live performance. Comprised of AJ, Hunter, Stephen, Caden, Michiya, and Bishop, the band delivers a powerful mix of intense renditions of classic rock and metal covers. Known for their high-energy stage presence and raw sound, Carcaroth is sure to rock the crowd with a set that’ll leave you wanting more. Don’t miss this one-night-only show—Carcaroth is here to deliver a performance you won’t forget!
“I am Bishop and I am in 4th grade. I’m excited to be doing rock band this session. My favorite songs are Tool, Weezer, and Perfect Circle.” – Bishop
“Michiya is a guitarist who has been playing for just over a year. His musical interests lean toward heavy, complex bands such as Too, Slipknot, Korn, and Deftones.” – Michiya

Soda Blue
2025-04-20 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-16 10:00 - 13:00
Soda Blue is a dynamic duet comprised of partners Alice Frish and David Fermanich. Friends for over 30 years, Alice and Dave share a chemistry that comes across well on stage. Technically a ‘cover’ musical act with a focus on high energy pop and smokey R&B, their joking and overall sense of fun turns their show into something more than just music.

EndsNOdds
2025-04-12 19:00 - 22:00
If this band were to choose a different name that was equally as fitting, it would have been It’s Been a Long Time Coming. But that’s too long. The Long Run? Taken. EndsNOdds came together slowly and in an unexpected way which is exactly how they arrange their favorite R&B, Americana, Rock, and Pop covers; with thought and creativity, adding unexpected elements in each song making them their own.

Patty Jackson
2025-03-29 19:00 - 22:00
Patty Jackson’s angelic voice, her stunning finger style guitar licks, the sweet sound of her ukulele, and the funked-up chords of her minty green baritone guitar. Patty’s musical style is a unique fusion of folk, rock, and country with a touch of jazz. Born in central New York, Patty was given some Joan Baez tickets when she was 15 years old, and that changed the trajectory of her life. She was bitten by the music bug and over the years she formed several bands, cutting her teeth on bar gigs. She soon started playing the college circuit, folk clubs, and coffeehouses in New England and New York with her band, Wildfire. In addition to performing around town, the band also played for Hillary Clinton during her run for senator from New York. In 2004, Patty moved to Colorado and joined Resonance, The Women’s Chorus of Boulder. There she met bandmates who formed the group,
