Music

A nice metaphor for life

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Andrew Duhon took one geology class in college, the class we all took; you know, rocks for jocks with the football players. While the...

The journey is the destination

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In a locally published review last winter of their LP Instinct, the generally sympathetic reviewer predicted that this year — 2019 — was going...

Around the world

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There’s a whole world in the sound of Colorado Springs hip-hop duo The Reminders. Not unlike The Clash’s outlook in the early 1980s, the...

Missy Raines is thundering into Boulder

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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...

‘The twain shall meet’ at The Dairy

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"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...

Erik Deutsch’s white night

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Erik Deutsch is in an Airbnb in Rome with his wife Victoria and their puppy. In between playing and traveling, they managed to pick...

Heavy Rotation

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“Weather Girl,” Figueroa  Brazilian-born producer Amon Tobin often assumes a nom de plume for new projects: hip-hop-meets-drum-and-bass as Cujo, heavy bass as Two Fingers, punked...

Professional development

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When Emelise Munoz was young—younger than she is now—passersby would hear her busking down the street, drawn by her deep, soulful voice, surprised to...

Returning to CMF

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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...

Good times for My Chemical Romance

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In a way, the huge achievement that was The Black Parade CD and tour almost caused the guys in My Chemical Romance to forget who they are as a band...

Soloists together onstage at last with the Boulder Philharmonic

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Jennifer Frautschi and Erik Ruske rarely get to perform together. The married couple are both highly successful musicians, but she plays the violin and he...

Forty years of festivation

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As I journeyed through the 216 pages of photos, poster art, past musical lineups and essays that make up Telluride Bluegrass Festival; Forty Years of Festivation, it struck me that the Galapagos Islands and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival have a lot in common. Both ...