Soda Blue
2025-08-09 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-08-17 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-09-21 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-19 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver)
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.

Cellist Monica Sales-Council
2025-08-10 08:00 - 17:00
Come in for some great coffee and food and listen to great music

Open Mic
2025-08-16 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-09-06 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-09-20 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-10-04 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-10-18 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

Dam Jam
2025-08-17 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-08-31 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-09-14 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-09-28 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!!!

Dive Bar Diva
2025-08-23 19:00 - 22:00
Dive Bar Diva is five friends who like making Blues, R&B and Funk inflected music that surprises and makes people want to dance.
On keys is Brian “The Professor” Bucenic who’s background includes jazz studies, funk and straight up rock and roll. Brian is always up for a jam, unless he’s golfing.
On guitar is Edwin Jeffries. Edwin has been a fixture in the Denver club scene for 30-plus years. He’s shared the stage with luminaries such as Tab Benoit and just loves that old-school Chicago Blues.
On bass is Warren Rubin, who by his own admission, just likes being seen with good musicians.
Drums and Vocals are anchored by Trent and Julie Mannina, respectively. Trent and Julie met in local rock band Clusterfunk. Since then, they’ve performed in a number of local bands with Trent anchoring the back line and Julie always engaging the audience with her wit and powerful and soulful vocals.

Be Be
2025-08-24 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-09-28 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-26 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

Spirit Ridge
2025-08-30 19:00 - 22:00
SPIRIT RIDGE is: JJ and MIKEY. Melodic songs. Strong vocal harmonies. Rhythmic interplay. Unique. Enjoyable. Memorable. And darn cute, too!

BlueCana Roberta Holbrook
2025-09-07 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-05 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

The Shredders
2025-09-12 07:00 - 21:00
The Shredders are a four-piece teen rock band bringing high-voltage energy and killer riffs to the stage! They bring a unique twist to classics like Nirvana, Deftones, and Metalica! With explosive, raw, and rebellious sound they are certain to knock your socks off! There one night show is not one you’ll want to miss!

Death Cafe
2025-09-13 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-11 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.

String Song
2025-09-13 19:00 - 22:00
John Dandurand, Gary Michaels, and Cal Bromfield are three multi-instrumentalists and vocalists with decades of experience performing around the country. Their music centers on Folk, Blues and Celtic classics reimagined, along with their own originals. You’ll hear them play on 6 and 12-string guitars, steel slide guitar, mandolin, bass. and dulcimer. Over the years, each of them has shared the stage with greats like Leo Kotke, Taj Mahal, Stefan Grapelli, and Ray Charles.

Cellist Monica Sales-Council
2025-09-14 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-12 10:00 - 13:00

Ellen and Friends
2025-09-27 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 ofthe Pioneers to Edith Piaf. The night was filled with the plaintive cries of, “Mommy, turnthe record over!” Growing up in New York City and New Jersey, her life revolved aroundmusic. 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 Jerseycoffee 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 Georgetown1979, she moved to Steamboat Springs for her first ten Colorado winters. Ellen frontedseveral popular local bands in Steamboat (remember the Cow Pattie and the MeadowMuffins? No one else does either!), before moving to Denver. Music pursuits morphedinto a career in massage therapy, which lead to years in elder care. Ellen nowcombines her love of Seniors with music to entertain, engage and enlighten any groupthat likes to sing, laugh and listen.Ellen’s style combines old Folk favorites, Pop tunes, Sing-alongs and stories. A specialfavorite is the Kingston Trio’s salute to Anne Boleyn, “With Her Head TuckedUnderneath Her Arm;” a song that gives her the same thrills as when her mother playedit for her 63 years ago.

Patty Jackson
2025-10-11 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,

Mike McNeil and Friends
2025-10-25 19:00 - 22:00
Come listen to some great music and have some coffee and food.
