Music
Digging in the vaults
Pasadena´s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is not usual résumé material for orchestral maestros. But Bahman Saless, who leads the Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) in concerts Friday, Feb. 11, and Saturday, Feb. 12, is not your usual maestro...
The tradition lives on
Perhaps the most beautiful thing about bluegrass music — more beautiful, even, than a southern accent over a banjo twang — is the way the genre blurs the line between audience and performer. Songs are passed down and shared and swapped so freely that it’s often hard ...
A mix of operas large and small drives the season at...
Pelham Pearce, general/artistic director of Central City Opera (CCO), insists, “there is method to my madness!”
The madness is expecting audiences to attend opera high...
YMSB — One Bite at a Time
Someone once said that managing your brand isn’t always easy, but it’s always easier than managing your customer...
Looking back to look ahead
Whether Eric Earley is writing about it or talking about it, any discussion of the music he makes for Blitzen Trapper presents an uneasy exercise. He states an answer then verbally erases it — a songwriter uncertain of how to objectively speak of his craft. Earley ...
Jimmy Herring’s 5 of 7
"You work when ya’ can.”
Jimmy Herring isn’t one of those guys to sit back and recharge batteries. At least not yet. Widespread Panic rolls...
Review: Counting Crows at Red Rocks, Oct. 12
It’s been just more than 20 years since Counting Crows released its first studio album, August and Everything After, and still the group opened an Oct. 12 performance to a sold-out Red Rocks Ampitheatre audience with a track off that first record, “Sullivan Street...
Splash down
A few years ago, Sarah Brightman was planning to make a re-entry into the earthly world after a trip to space. That adventure did...
Blues is the route
The music started about 40 years ago at a party at Mary Flower’s house in Denver. Singer Mollie O’Brien recalls the gathering in 1980...
The ’dudes are back in town
A year and a half ago, we had a chance to chat with John Magnie and Steve Amedee to get a little background on their work with singer/songwriter Rebecca Folsom, who was just getting ready to release her new album Reunion. During the course of that conversation, we ...
True love and music
Nicki Bluhm has a lot going for her. Her country-rock vocals recall the rootsy strut of Linda Ronstadt, while sweet and smooth like a crème brûlée. Her guitarist/husband Tim Bluhm is leader of longtime Bay Area indie-folk icons The Mother Hips, providing a built-...
