TRINIDAD — On a quiet Monday night in Trinidad, Suzanne Magnuson is bartending the Trinidad Lounge — nicknamed the ‘Dad Lounge — the spot she co-owns with her partner Curt Wallach. She’s dragged a TV on a stand to the back of the room and flipped on the Broncos game. A small crowd shows up to watch; most leave by halftime.

Each time the screendoor creaks open and people come and go, Magnuson raises her eyes and fills the space between the bar and the door with a first name.

“Hey, Ben.”

“Hello, Matt.”

“See you, Tom.”

She knows their drink orders and where they just wrapped up a shift.

Because that’s what it takes to make it in Trinidad, and Magnuson and Wallach are there to make it. Or, at least, to make something.

This weekend that something is the Fancy Spider Music Festival , a

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