Kaepora

Kaepora was born out of the ashes of your average high school band. Rather than acquire useful, lucrative skills, founding guitarists, Ian “Ugluk” Ferguson and Jim Henry Harkins, spent their college years sharing first-gen smartphone recordings of riffs back and forth between Richmond and Harrisonburg, VA. After graduation, the guitarists packed up Henry’s Volkswagen and hit the road for Denver, where they began playing acoustically on the local open mic circuit.

The group recruited more musicians over the years who were willing to forfeit their integrity to play Kaepora’s low-rent progressive rock and picked up gigs at venues such as Your Mom's House and Cervantes', among others, along the way. Brandishing all the tropes of the unpopular genre and always sporting an awkward, self-conscious sort of grin, Kaepora blisters Denver audiences with their roaring mishmash of metal, country, classic English prog, and even jazz.