FoCoMX 2026 - Colorado's Independent Music Festival

It's known as "America's biggest little music festival," and it's coming up this weekend in Fort Collins, Colorado, the best music town you might not yet know about. Each spring the musical festival scene kicks off in a big way around the cool college town of Fort Collins, Colorado, home to Colorado State University. FoCoMX, or the Fort Collins Music Experience, is a two-day, all-Colorado music festival that virtually takes over Old Town Fort Collins with more than 400 bands playing at more than 40 different stages over forty-eight hours. As Fort Collins Musicians Association founder and President Greta Cornett says, "It's the most wonderful time of the year ... when the streets are alive with the sound of local music."

FoCoMX is the reason my wife and I moved to Fort Collins two years ago, and it is a truly one-of-a-kind music extravaganza that highlights the incredibly hip, fun, close-knit town in NoCo, or Northern Colorado. And if you are a music festival fan and have the means, you should not miss an opportunity to experience this very special event.