Music
Not another Anita Baker
It’s fine to call Ruthie Foster a blues artist. She only has seven Blues Music Awards sitting on the shelf at home and has...
Bahman Saless and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra celebrate all the holidays
Conductor Bahman Saless and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) have a couple of holiday traditions.
Every year they honor the December holidays as ecumenically as...
A side of rockers, a side of ballads
The Gasoline Lollipops are notoriously difficult to categorize; swimming somewhere between folk, alt-country and punk, the band has taken to shrugging their shoulders as...
Indie hip hop is dead
Musab, aka Sab the Artist, aka Beyond, has gone through his fair share of personal transformations. He started writing lyrics when he was 9,...
Boulder’s holiday musical banquet serves ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful,’ ‘Fire...
The musical banquet that is the holiday season this year brings us “All Things Bright and Beautiful,” “Holiday Memories,” “Fire and Ice” and Diane...
Wood Brothers
The Wood Brothers’ new LP, suggestively titled One Drop of Truth¸ starts its program with a simple acoustic guitar bounce, a bluesy, sundance-in-the-field filigree...
Staying up late
Each week, Carmen Sandim voluntarily forgoes sleep for two nights. Not back to back, of course, because that would be crazy. Still, two nights...
The comeback kid
In September, Gary Numan’s new album, Savage (Songs from a Broken World), entered the U.K. Album Charts at No. 2.
This, Numan’s 22nd album,...
Boulder Symphony presents music inspired by Shakespeare
Devin Patrick Hughes had some tough choices to make.
The conductor of the Boulder Symphony wanted to do a concert celebrating music inspired by Shakespeare,...
‘Mistakes are just things we didn’t mean to play’
By all accounts, Victor Wooten is a great musician. He’s won five Grammy’s, been named one of the top 10 bassists of all time...
Yekwon Sunwoo comes to Boulder
Pianist Yekwon Sunwoo always travels with his music.
“Even if I know the piece well,” he says. While on tour, he adds, “I try to...
It’s a woman’s world
MaryLynn Gillaspie and her sister Gaile had just settled into a hotel room in Tokyo when their tourmate Dizzie Gillespie called. Gaile answered the...
