A Bass Music Festival Born Around a Campfire
Heavy Low End, Thin Mountain Air
August 13-16, 2026 | Hartsel, Colorado
Badger is a bass music festival in the oldest sense of the phrase — not a brand activation with a stage bolted on, but a gathering of people who feel frequencies in their teeth and consider that a love language. It grew out of Badger Bass Camp and never lost the campfire.
At 9,000 feet, sub-bass behaves differently. The thin desert air moves under your sternum, drops land heavier, and the whole valley turns into a speaker cabinet. Deep dubstep, drum & bass, experimental low end, and everything else that wobbles — tuned for a sky with no ceiling.
This isn't a festival you attend. It's one you help build — scene-built, artist-calibrated, and stubbornly un-corporate. Show up with your goodest vibes, your strangest gear, and an appetite for sound you can stand inside of. Enjoy the transmission.
✦ New This Year ✦
Thursday, August 13 — Perseid Meteor Shower Pre-Party
Arrive a night early and open the weekend under a new-moon sky at the peak of the Perseid meteor shower — one of the darkest skies in Colorado. A dance party beneath the Milky Way, then ambient soundscapes as the stars take over.
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When
August 13-16, 2026
Fri - Sun
+ Aug 13 Meteor Shower Pre-Party
Where
Hartsel, Colorado
~90 min from Denver
Experience
Car Camping
Under the stars
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