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Rare Bird Band

Rare Bird Band

2022 CRFW Fund grantee. Identified from an August 2023 grant-cycle email in which Jane Anne Ferguson refers to "the Rare Bird Band that we funded last year" — meaning their 2022 award. The plan in the same email contemplated having Rare Bird play at the proposed 2024 CRFW celebration event at the Evans School auditorium.

Research gaps

Web-search status (2026-04-25, Session 13)

Public-web sweeps for `"Rare Bird Band" Denver Colorado music`, `"Rare Bird Band" Denver CRFW Fund grant`, `"Rare Birds" Denver Colorado band 2022`, and `"rare bird band" bandcamp soundcloud` returned no Denver-specific match. Bandcamp surfaces unrelated bands in Orcas Island WA, Richmond VA, Atlanta GA, Columbus OH, and Toronto. Wikipedia surfaces the 1969 English progressive-rock band of the same name. No public web evidence of the Denver-area band that received the 2022 CRFW grant.

This is consistent with the broader pattern Session 12b flagged: small Denver-scene bands often have no public footprint and have to be sourced from Gmail / family correspondence. A future Gmail sweep restricted to August 2022 (the grant-announcement window) is the most likely path to members and confirmation.

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