Music
Dead Weather electrify the Ogden
The Dead Weather wowed a packed house at the Ogden Theatre Saturday night (July 17) with a stellar performance and infectious stage presence...
Americana deluxe
When Rob Ickes takes the stage at Boulder’s Chautauqua Community House with Trey Hensley on Dec. 4, the first few rows will likely be...
Ending with a bang
The Boulder Philharmonic ends a spectacular season Saturday with the spectacular orchestral fireworks of Respighi’s Pines of Rome.
The 2016–17 season saw sell-out performances, a...
In the nick of time, Boulder Symphony will bring listeners ‘Out...
It wasn’t really planned that way, but the Boulder Symphony’s next concert arrives just in the nick of time...
Mighty fifths to end the summer
The 2012 Colorado Music Festival (CMF) surges to its conclusion this week with concerts Thursday and Friday by the Festival Orchestra — one of the best I have heard in recent years at CMF — conducted by Michael Christie...
The gravitational pull of Zimmer
Two black holes circling each other deep in space, going round and round until they finally collide. The impact sends waves rippling out into...
REVIEW AND SLIDESHOW: Dovekins at Astroland
Boulder-Denver gyspy-folk band Dovekins played to a packed room at Astroland last night. It was a night of folk melodies at Boulder's only do-it-yourself venue, as Dovekins' performance was preceded by acoustic sets by Paper Bird's Esme "Tiger" Collins, Denver ...
That familiar feeling
Musicologists may argue about how to define folk music, but let us offer this simple suggestion: Folk music is a feeling more than a...
Women in classical music
Sometimes a cliché is true.
For example, for women entering the field of classical music, there’s some good news and some bad news.
First the...
Danny Shafer: Keeping it simple
Penning ambiguous lyrics seems to have become a trend among many of today’s respected artists. So that’s why when an artist like Danny Shafer builds a successful career — even if it’s locally — on well-written simplicity, it feels like a refreshing change of pace...
Local Theater Company’s ‘Discount Ghost Stories: Colorado’
Whether they’re tossed aside carelessly or discarded maliciously, some pieces of history just get lost.
Like the story of Florence Molloy and Mabel MacLeay, who...


















