15 songs about Colorado to celebrate 3/03 Day proper
What does 3/03 Day mean to you? Is it a celebration of heritage, a boastful event in which one runs around town honoring native Colorado blood? Or is it a new phenomenon — one you’ve recently managed to figure out alongside many others — and wish to claim as your own?
It doesn’t really matter if you’re one of the 130-million people who have relocated to the area in the past 12 months, or exist uneasily as one of the 57 people left who were actually born here: Let’s celebrate March 3rd — a day to revel in everything Mile High and beyond — with these 15 songs (some local artists, some not) that have everything to do with Colorado*.
*Fun Fact: Colorado is a Spanish adjective that means “red.” The early Spanish explorers in the Rocky Mountain region named a river they found, the Rio Colorado, for the reddish silt the water carried down from the mountains. And now you know …
