Music

Learning the trance

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In November 2010, Otis Taylor, Boulder’s grizzled guitar-wielding and banjo-slinging statesman of the blues, found himself with some rare time off between bouts of playing his signature trance blues in Europe. The 11-time Blues Music Awards nominee decided to bring ...

Revisiting a classic

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The Who’s rock opera Tommy is now more than 40 years old. But one won’t hear Who singer Roger Daltrey accepting the notion that this piece of music, or for that matter, Who music in general, is something that falls into the realm of nostalgia or oldies...

Kind of blue

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If you hear an entrancing rhythm coming from eTown Hall or the Boulder Outlook Hotel this weekend, don’t fight it. Instead, grab an instrument — or anything you have that can make a sound — and follow the sound. These sirens aren’t trying to wreck your ship; they ...

Rogue Wave’s show redeemed by final minutes

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The set was kind of funny at first. There were two drum sets next to each other, eight guitars on a rack in the back, a keyboard, and a few more guitars sprinkled on the stage for good measure. It almost looked like the front window at a music store...

BCO offers classical option for New Year’s Eve

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Bahman Saless and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra offered their first New Year’s Eve concert two years ago. Saless saw an open niche and decided to fill it...

Still protesting

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Joan Baez is one of the leading protest singers of the past 50 years and one of the most outspoken activists on behalf of enough causes to fill a notebook, including peace, civil rights, women’s rights and human rights...

Final week at CMF features aspects of love

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Important Update: Due to health issues, Jennifer Koh has had to cancel her appearance for the August 3 concert.  We are thrilled that Adele Anthony  has stepped in to replace her. Adele began playing the violin at the age of 2 1/2 in Tasmania. She studied with Beryl...

The final countdown

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Ska music has a rough-and-tumble energy. The energy comes easily for Hatrick Penry, whose members have an average age of 19. Like all things, though, eventually the music comes to an end, and Hatrick Penry will be playing its last show as a band at the Fox Theatre on...

Goin’ swimmin’

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When people say they eat, breathe and sleep something they love, it is usually hyperbole; not so with Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst, the husband-and-wife duo who make up the Charleston, S.C.-based Shovels & Rope. When it came to the making of their new album, ...

Things with wings

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The narrative goes something like this: You have your whole life to prepare for your first album, and usually less than a year to prepare for your second...

Large happenings for Big Gigantic

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What sort of huge, raucous event could warrant switching the moniker of one the most iconic stages on the planet? Something Big Gigantic...