Our February meeting will be held on Monday, the 23rd at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom. Our guest speaker will be local musician Bret Dallas, who makes extra money busking on the streets of Denver. But one day he went out to his backyard storage shed to find that it had been broken into and all of his music gear, plus many other items, had been stolen. Of course the insurance company refused to pay up. And the Lakewood Police said, “We’re sorry but “Good luck”, fellow.”
So Bret took matters into his own hands and got most of his stuff back except the treasured photos and a few other mementos of his life. Tune in to hear how he did it, the go-round he went with the insurance company (y’all need to hear this!), and the work he did to find his stuff.
Few Burglaries are Solved in Colorado Each Year. Here’s How One Lakewood Musician Got His Stuff Back Anyway
By Zack Newman, The Colorado Sun
When Bret Dallas went to the shed outside of his Lakewood home to follow his routine and lift weights one October morning, the 46-year-old could not believe what he saw. Or didn’t see.
“I felt like I got hit in the gut,” Dallas said. “Because I just opened my shed and there was just empty space where everything used to be.”
Dallas has spent at least 10 years performing on the streets of Denver. In that shed were all of his tools of the busking trade including thousands of dollars worth of electric guitars, speakers and pedals. The incident reports from the Lakewood Police Department also listed stolen bikes and tools.
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https://coloradosun.com/2025/12/03/colorado-burglary-data-lakewood-musician/
The meeting will be moderated by Jamie Krutz with Todd Caron moderating the Chat Room!
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Monday, March 23rd at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom: Our guest speaker will be Nick Sullivan who owned The Keep for 11 years, started a publishing company, Consonance Publishing, that has had quite a few sync licensing agreements, an artist, a producer/engineer who worked with Los Lobos, as well a Colorado native from Steamboat Springs. He will speak about our current situation that our community faces with their music as well as how to be more engaged with what it takes to have some success in today’s market place. This meeting will be moderated by Clark Hagan, COMBO’s sound engineer and consultant board member.
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Monday, April 20th, at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom: Rob Mullins. Colorado original, Grammy-nominated pianist/composer (mainly Jazz, but can do any genre) actively performing at sold-out gigs under just his name, and very active in publishing/music education. He just surpassed a million streams, and something we thought was particularly cool is that more NEW listeners are downloading his older album, Soundscape, than they did back when it was a chart topper a couple of decades ago (he has 43 albums). Our thanks to Kirsten Texler of Audacious Mgmt., https://www.audaciousmanagement.com for setting this speaker up!