Music

Getting over the obstacles

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Guitarist Matt Flaherty’s been making music in the Boulder/Denver scene for the past 12 years, fronting his own funk-forward rock project Hot Soup, and...

Waiting for birdsongs

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Songwriter Kina Grannis has learned to let songs creep up on her. They always have a way of finding her — even if she’s...

Local Theater Company’s ‘Discount Ghost Stories: Colorado’

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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...

Luigi Cherubini is a gem

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Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini just may be the most influential classical composer you have never heard of. As director of the Paris Conservatoire...

All about Herbie

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Keyboardist Joey Porter remembers the first time he encountered Herbie Hancock — or, to be more precise, the first time he mainlined Hancock’s feral funk stylings after the pianist had left Miles Davis’ legendary quintet in 1968...

Higher power

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When Colorado country-punk icon Slim Cessna drove from his home in South Park recently to be interviewed in Boulder, where he grew up, he...

Love and Haiti

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If mass media is your only window into the Republic of Haiti, mention of the island nation likely conjures a small constellation of sufferings....

Trace Bundy’s day job

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One of Trace Bundy’s latest YouTube videos isn’t actually a new live performance or the latest alchemic solo re-imagining of a beloved cover tune.  A...

Out of the void

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The concept of Shoshin arose from the teachings of 13th-century Buddhist priest and philosopher Dōgen Zenji. Practitioners of the ancient discipline are taught to...

‘Your ears are gonna hurt’

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If our quiet corner of the Front Range has seemed louder in recent years, that’s partly by design. Fueled by its beating black heart in...

A tale of parked cars, cows and bad puns

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It’s unlikely that Planet Bluegrass head honcho Craig Ferguson is going to start wearing a 10-gallon hat and pointy boots any time soon or...

This must be the place

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The stage is empty save for one microphone and a boom box. A man in a gray suit and an acoustic guitar walks up,...