Live review: The Mountainside Mardi Gras Music Festival feat. Dr. John, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Dumpstaphunk, Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Papa Grows Funk, George Porter Jr. and others @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Dumpstaphunk was one of the many highlights at the Mountainside Mardi Gras Music Festival at Red Rocks last week. Last weekend’s New Orleans-palooza at Red Rocks was essentially a private party for Colorado’s funk devotees. Maybe 1,000 New Orleans music lovers rallied Saturday at the all-day Mountainside Mardis Gras Music Festival , a dismal showing by any account. But there wasn’t a toe-dipping, funk-curious visitor in the house. The dense, sweating crowd leaping and swaying around the sta

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