Music
Meet the Ivalas Quartet
The Ivalas Quartet only recently arrived in Colorado, but if you follow classical music you will be hearing about them soon.
That’s because they are...
King’s Singers return to Boulder with music familiar and new
Pat Donnachie can hardly wait to get back onstage. With an audience. In Boulder.
As a member of the King’s Singers, Dunachie was accustomed to...
Preparing for the ‘Rapture’
Peter Kater’s never been religious, but he’s had his share of divine experiences.
Mushrooms, LSD, fasting, meditation — the two-time Grammy-winning, classically trained pianist has...
Eric Johnson: Now and then
Depending on who you ask and what day you ask it, having that One Monster Hit is either a blessing or a boat anchor...
Hearing history
You can’t walk into Chautauqua Auditorium without feeling the grand sweep of history thrumming within its walls, according to local musician Nick Forster.
“Just seeing...
‘Subversive, seditious, bawdy proto-feminist’
Conductor Nick Carthy says that Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro is “the first great proto-feminist opera, and on top of that it’s subversive, it’s...
Indie hip hop is dead
Musab, aka Sab the Artist, aka Beyond, has gone through his fair share of personal transformations. He started writing lyrics when he was 9,...
Roots and wings, shadows and light
On his way back from his honeymoon on Vancouver Island in 2018, Antonio Lopez picked up a copy of the “local alternative rag,” The...
The five archers
It’s hard to imagine putting out your first record in the middle of a global pandemic, but then again, it’s hard to imagine entering...
Space oddity
Perhaps the signature sentiment of Jason Pierce’s career as the frontman and sole permanent member of the band Spiritualized can be found on 1997’s...
