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ATW Agenda: Wintersköl, Gay Ski Week & more

Our picks for the best Aspen area events, Jan. 13-19

FESTIVAL

You can’t keep a good ‘sköl down.

Aspen’s annual toast to the season, Wintersköl, returns for its 71st year with a scaled-back schedule events running Jan. 13 to 16.

The annual awards luncheon has been canceled due to the local coronavirus surge, but the king and queen will still be crowned – educator Beth Wille and Aspen Animal Shelter Director Seth Sachson – and snow sculptures will be on view on the Mill St. pedestrian mall throughout the festival. The annual Apple Strudel Downhill will run at Aspen Highlands on Friday and there will be free ice skating in both Aspen and Snowmass Base Village on Saturday.



The main event is Saturday on Aspen Mountain with the torchlight descent and fireworks at 8 p.m. aspenchamber.org

FESTIVAL

Gay Ski Week is back or 2022, opening on Sunday, Jan. 16 with the traditional mix of mountain du jour skiing, après-skiing and partying through Jan. 23.




Special events in the early days include Drag Queen Bingo with Mariam T at the W Hotel on Tuesday, Jan. 18 ($20 per card) and the annual Fashion & Art Night Out in downtown Aspen on Wednesday, Jan. 19 followed by the Gay Ski Week Benefit at the Caribou Club (sold-out). gayskiweek.com

POP MUSIC

Goth Babe
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Much of this winter’s run of concerts at Belly Up Aspen have been familiar names and local favorites, returning stars celebrating the club’s post-vaccine reopening. Among the most exciting debuts of the season, though, is the Wednesday, Jan. 19 performance by Goth Babe, the stage name for songwriter Griff Washburn. The show is sold out, waitlist open at bellyupaspen.com

POP MUSIC

The always-cozy JAS Café series has moved for this winter into the even more intimate performance space at Here House/Local Coffee on Cooper Ave., giving smaller crowds some hard-to-believe musical experiences. For example, on Friday and Saturday night, the series has Grammy-nominated guitarist Diego Figueiredo, the jazz/bossa nova innovator, with guest Adrian Cunningham. Two shows nightly, 7 and 9:15 p.m. jazzaspensnowmass.org

Aspen Times Weekly

Bar Talk: sway Thai

sway opened its Aspen doors at the beginning of February with nine cocktails on the menu including some options not offered in Austin, such as a Thai coffee martini, fitting in with this mountain town’s espresso martini infatuation.



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