St Julien Hotel & Spa

The St Julien Hotel & Spa on Walnut Street in downtown Boulder hosts live music in the lobby up to five nights a week, Tuesday through Saturday. The 80-person setting works well for acoustic and small-group formats that pair with the hotel's refined atmosphere, giving the space a genuine lounge-plus-live-music identity across the week. For guests, it is a comfortable and civilized Boulder pick for an evening built around drinks and music; for artists, the recurring weekday schedule and hotel-lobby setting make for a very different kind of gig than the standard bar circuit.