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This 19-year-old is Opening a Country Bar With ‘grandpa’ Music in Five Points
By Kyle Harris, Denverite | What started as a teenager sharing his love of country music and aesthetics on social media has become a new country bar in Five Points. When Colton Patterson was a 16-year-old Columbine High School student, he started posting music clips and hand-drawn homages to old country singers and culture to Instagram.
He felt pretty alone in liking that brand of Americana and didn’t imagine many people would relate, or even notice.
“I thought people didn’t like a lot of the music that I did and the much older grandpa style of music,” Patterson told Denverite. “But now it’s really snowballed and attracted the right people and a really core audience for us that likes old Americana country music and new Red Dirt country.”
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Go here to read more of this young entrepreneur’s take on the “business of music”:
https://denverite.com/2026/04/03/broken-bow-western-bar-dance-hall-five-points-opening/
