Music
Elyse Miller surprises with ‘Paperdoll’
Paperdoll, Fort Collins singer-songwriter Elyse Miller’s debut effort, is an unusual entry in the seemingly endless catalog of soft, somewhat sardonic music made by acoustic guitar-wielding musicians so ubiquitous in our nation’s coffee shops and open mics...
Learning the trance
In November 2010, Otis Taylor, Boulder’s grizzled guitar-wielding and banjo-slinging statesman of the blues, found himself with some rare time off between bouts of playing his signature trance blues in Europe. The 11-time Blues Music Awards nominee decided to bring ...
A common theme
Listening to a young band can be as fun as opening the door of an outhouse. Unfocused songwriting and lackluster instrumentation, spoon-fed by the blind adoration of equally young, equally uninformed fans, can make for an unpleasant experience, to put it mildy...
Jazz from unusual places
It will be a Charlie Brown Christmas when the Turtle Island Quartet and jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton take the stage at Macky Auditorium at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15...
This bird has flown
The wooden birds on the cover of violinist K. Ishibashi’s new album, Omoiyari, hold a tiny sliver of Colorado history — tiny, but powerful.
You...
Apropos, at least for the moment
Andrew Bird has his own reality TV show. Which seems uncharacteristic for the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist known for his whimsical lyrics and perfectly...
Asylum Street Spankers find salvation
For those who haven’t had the pleasure, South By Southwest (otherwise known as SXSW) is the yearly arts festival held over the last week of winter down in Austin. Initially a music convention prowled by eager publicists trying to keep their underpaying jobs, burned ...
An orchestra’s VIP
If you have attended a classical orchestra concert, you’ve seen the concertmaster.
He or she enters after the rest of the orchestra is onstage, to...
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...

















