Music
Boulder Chamber Orchestra presents music grown from friendship
David A. Jaffe’s new Violin Concerto grew out of a friendship between the composer and a Colorado violinist.
Karen Bentley Pollick, who lives in Evergreen,...
Endless Scene
Bluegrass music is meant to be heard while sitting on a grassy field at a sunny summer festival. That’s the belief of fair-weather bluegrass...
All who wander are not lost
It’s no great concession for any but the most hardened cultural cynic, that most artists working in popular music eventually must explore the limits...
Slideshow: Dead Floyd at the Fox Theatre, Oct. 6
Jeremy Williams was at Thursday's Dead Floyd show at the Fox Theatre. Check out his photos below.
From the schoolyard to the stage
Phrases like “head start” or “early jump” fail to adequately capture the story behind The Big Motif. After all, the seasoned Denver trio average less than 20 years of age among them, yet they’ve been playing together since 2005...
Fearsome gravitational pull
There is only one way to describe Big Gigantic’s success, and it doesn’t require a half-assed play on words. The duo’s highly anticipated show at the Fox Theatre, which sold out months ago nearly within a day, marks exactly two years since producer/saxophonist ...
Yonder Mountain String Band occupies Boulder Theater
A recent feature story in The Atlantic took a funny and insightful look at Yonder Mountain String Band’s Harvest Music Festival, staged a couple of months ago in the Ozark National Forest in Arkansas. The piece was as much about the band-sponsored music festival ...
In session
Travis LaBerge’s family didn’t have a lot growing up, but there was always music in the house. Despite living between paychecks, his parents socked...
‘Sweaty Greeley Soul’
A music pastor and a trumpet player walk into a bar. It’s May of 2013, and Johnny Burroughs — a licensed minister — is...
Ars Nova and Sphere Ensemble team up for self-led concerts
There are choirs that sing without a conductor, and orchestras that do likewise. But combined choral-orchestral concerts usually require a conductor...
From the hills (kind of)
They don’t need drums. They don’t need bass. Sparse, gentle acoustic guitar appears now and then, but on many of their songs the three young, honey-voiced members of the new Vermont alt-folk trio Mountain Man use no musical accompaniment whatsoever. The result is ...
