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Fri Feb 7, 2020, 04:13 PM Feb 2020

Bernstock: Denver Musicians Reboot a Bernie Sanders Music Fest



A group of Front Range bands hosted a concert in 2016 to raise money for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. They dubbed it Bernstock.

Sanders didn’t go on to win the Democratic nomination that year, but he’s back and running again in 2020. It seemed like a good reason to bring back Bernstock, which organizers hope will add to Sanders’s momentum and help him win big in the 2020 presidential primary.

“We decided to do Bernstock 2020 on a larger scale and break it down into two different shows,” says event co-organizer Weston Roberts, of the Denver band innerspace. “The Black Sheep will be hosting one event, and Seventh Circle will be hosting the other. We are doing these events to raise money for the Bernie 2020 campaign.”

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“I believe that artists as a collective have historically wanted to see some sort of change in the world, and there are some powerful people out there who want to ensure that change doesn't happen,” Roberts says. “Artists have known and understood that the only way to bring about real change is to bring people together, which is why we do things like write music.”

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https://www.westword.com/music/denver-musicians-throw-bernfest-to-raise-funds-for-bernie-sanders-2020-campaign-11633056




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