Music
Marco Benevento’s vision quest
Marco Benevento lives in Woodstock, New York, with his wife and kids, some farm animals, and Fred Short.
Well, to be precise, Fred isn’t exactly...
Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ tailored for the Christmas season
It’s been 276 years, and people are still talking about Handel’s Messiah.
Of course, it’s one of the best-known and best-loved pieces ever written, but...
Going through phases
Lindsey Stirling could not have experienced a more abrupt and dramatic stop to her music activities than what happened when the pandemic hit in...
Boulder Phil’s ‘Mozart and More’ features Anderson & Roe Piano Duo
Music director Michael Butterman will be both conductor and soloist at the Boulder Philharmonic’s next concert, Saturday (Jan. 25) in Macky Auditorium.
His solo turn...
Dirt-on-the-ground type of journey
Bruce Cockburn’s last album, Small Source of Comfort, came out six years ago. But Cockburn had good reasons to back up his absence; he...
Boulder band Envy Alo introduces boogaloo fusion and new vocals
It’s been two years since the Boulder-based band Envy Alo dropped their first album, One Time, but the soulful rock/funk band hasn’t stopped working,...
Cue the strings
With a career-long embrace of unlikely instruments like the theremin, sousaphone and bouzouki, Colorado folk outfit DeVotchKa has never been the sort of rock...
The Yawpers: Going through changes
A slew of changes has rocked Nate Cook’s world this past year...
The natural arc of rebellion
What an age! Everyone is dying, everything is dying, and the earth is dying also, eaten up by the sun and the wind. I...
‘Worth the wait’
Of the many local performing arts heartaches stemming from the pandemic lockdown, few in the classical world stung quite like the cancellation of Gustav...
Music for the people, by the people
There is a tendency to want to compare The Felice Brothers to the past — to say they sound like The Band, Bob Dylan...
Nutcrackers, a complete ‘Messiah,’ and everything classical for the holidays
Trying to get to all of the holiday musical events in Boulder will turn you into a real-world equivalent of Lewis Carroll’s White Rabbit:...
