SHERIDAN — The grandeur of the Bighorn Mountains will again provide the backdrop for the Bighorn REA Summer Concert Series set to kick off June 26 at the Antelope Butte Mountain Recreation Area.

The Saturday concert is the first of three hosted by the Antelope Butte Foundation, with events also set for July 24 and Aug. 21.

Ironically, ABF development coordinator Nikki Ulug said the COVID-19 pandemic, while tragic, was a positive force in helping shape the format of the current concert series.

Previously, the nonprofit group had looked to host one larger concert event during the summer in an effort to continue to draw area residents and outdoor enthusiasts to the former resort, which was closed in 2004 but reopened after the ABF was established in 2011.

“With the COVID restrictions, we were limited to 250 people at an event,” Ulug said.

That led the ABF to split one event into what they thought would be three smaller concerts.

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