Music
Stopping the clock
We asked Steve Morse — indisputably one of the planet’s most accomplished guitarists — if there were still parts of his own technique that...
‘Underrated masterpiece’
Antonín Dvořák has written some of the most, and least, familiar works in the classical music repertoire.
On the one hand are the “New World”...
Animal lover
There is some glory, although not much, in being informally regarded as the greatest sideman guitarist of the last 40 years.
But in the case...
Erykah Badu, Janelle Monae rock Denver’s Fillmore
Erykah Badu is just about a month into her Out My Mind, Just in Time Tour with rotating opening acts that so far have included N.E.R.D., Bilal, Lupe Fiasco, B.O.B. and Maxwell. But for most of the tour, including the Denver show at the Fillmore Auditorium on June 16...
Call of the wild
Andy Thorn has always walked a fine line between tradition and experimentation. Even as a kid in bluegrass-obsessed North Carolina, watching banjo greats chop...
Scotland sojourn: Pro Musica Colorado retraces Mendelssohn’s misty journey
"It’s really amazing to me how atmospheric this wonderful composition is...
Winning musicianship
To be completely candid, we missed most of the Grammy Awards a couple of weeks ago, except for the segment where the ever camera-shy Madonna seemed to be commanding a legion of worshipping satyrs, a spectacle made only more surreal with the sound off at our local gym...
Forty years of festivation
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 ...
Did you hear they’re young?
If there was ever an overstated comment about Michigan-based three piece The Accidentals, it’s that they’re so young. String instrumentalists Savannah Buist and Katie...


















