Music
The shifting narrative of Gen Z
At just 23, Finnish-American nonbinary artist Miki Ratsula is ready to take on transphobia in the music industry—and the culture as a whole—with their...
A nice metaphor for life
Andrew Duhon took one geology class in college, the class we all took; you know, rocks for jocks with the football players. While the...
Blues traveler
What’s the sound of a page turning? For music artist Samantha Fish, the answer comes on her latest album Faster. Released in September 2021,...
Harmonic convergence
Sarah Jarosz always stood out in a crowd even when she was a tiny 12-year-old kid standing on the big stage at the Telluride...
Inspired by a tragic story, ‘Heart of Hungary’ features Edward Dusinberre...
Some stories just have to be told.
That is what composer Jeffrey Nytch thought when he heard about Sandor Feher, a violinist who died on...
Two captains, one ship
On the morning of the Women’s March in January, Tennis lead singer Alaina Moore was at the airport on her way to rehearsal. Slightly...
Natural Wood finish
In the year before COVID, which seems like a really long time ago, Oliver Wood was dividing his time between putting finishing touches on...
Transcendent connections
In late May, Kyle Donovan packed up his guitar and headed south, about a hundred miles west of Austin, to perform in the Kerville...
The many faces of Chree Bagheera
Chree Bagheera honed his obsession in the shadows. Music was present in his household growing up, but Bagheera’s family discouraged a career path in...
‘The twain shall meet’ at The Dairy
"East is East and West is West,” Rudyard Kipling famously wrote, “and never the twain shall meet.”
Kipling never met Reena Esmail. A composer who...
Missy Raines is thundering into Boulder
As a kid in the 1970s, Missy Raines didn’t have a lot of female bluegrass role models.
“I come from a genre that, up until...
Returning to CMF
The Colorado Music Festival hosts the return of two guest conductors for the central portion of the six-week festival, July 11–23.
For orchestral concerts July...
