Friday December 11
A Colorado Christmas II
Featuring Dick Orleans

Sponsored by the CAC at Aspen Lodge Ranch Resort
6120 Hwy. 7, just south of Estes Park
7:30 PM Curtain Time
Join the Cultural Arts Council at the beautiful Aspen Lodge Ranch Resort for a special holiday concert featuring Christmas, winter, and original songs.

A Colorado Christmas II is set for Friday December 11 in the Longs Peak Room at the Main Lodge of the Aspen Lodge Ranch Resort. This annual CAC concert features renowned Estes Park singer song-writer Dick Orleans. A favorite among the local music scene, Orleans will perform a variety of holiday and inspirational music selections, as you sit in the cozy setting of the grand log structure among the crackling fire in the lodge's stone fireplace.

The evening begins at 5:00 PM with dinner in The Aspen Grill Restaurant at Aspen Lodge. Dinner will be off the regular menu, and is at an additional cost to the concert.

Seating times are limited, and advance reservations are recommended.

Doors for the concert will open at 7:00 PM in the main lodge with a Cash Bar, and the concert begins at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children 12 and under.

The concert is general admission with limited seating. Tickets go on sale at CAC Fine Art Gallery 11/13/09 located at 423 W. Elkhorn Ave. Estes Park, CO 80517.

Tickets may also be available at the door (subject to availability). To purchase tickets or for more information contact the CAC at 970-586-9203 or info@estesarts.com.

Make a weekend out of it and stay a night or two with a special bed & breakfast rate of $89* for Single or Double. For Dinner & Lodging Reservations call Aspen Lodge at: 970-586-8133 or visit www.aspelodge.net . While you are here in Estes Park, check out our fabulous art scene. Tour the galleries on the Holiday Art Walk, and take home a very special gift or memory of your visit to the Estes Valley.

Singer/song writer, Dick Orleans has been a professional musician for most of his life. In the late 1970s, Orleans traveled the country with his guitar playing as a solitary act and on tour with such folk legends as Glenn Yarbrough.

Though Orleans comes from a long line of settlers that arrived in Colorado in the 1850’s, he grew up on the East Coast and only discovered Estes Park in 1980 while on a tour with Yarbrough. After one summer’s stay, he fell in love with Rocky Mountain National Park and decided to make Estes his home.

For 30 years, Orleans has been singing and playing guitar at one of the many music venues in Estes Park. He also produces music CDs for independent artists and has released several CDs of his own, some of which are recordings of Rocky Mountain National Park’s birds and elk mating rituals.

Orleans, who also has a passion for nature photography is especially adept at capturing the delicate beauty of flowers, butterflies, and hummingbirds in flight.

Through photography and music, Orleans shares with everyone his love of the majestic mountain peaks, forests, fields, tundra and wildlife of Rocky Mountain National Park.