Music
Summer sounds
Colorado`s summer music festivals have folded up their tents. School is starting, but the weather tells us that fall hasn’t arrived yet. And thanks to Boulder’s Dairy Center for the Arts and the chamber music consortium Astraios, audiences can have one last ...
Missy Raines is thundering into Boulder
As a kid in the 1970s, Missy Raines didn’t have a lot of female bluegrass role models.
“I come from a genre that, up until...
The many lives of a young Vagabon
"I’m talking to you like you’re my therapist,” Laeticia Tamko says toward the end of our sprawling phone conversation. She’s open, yes, but it’s...
Wish We Were Floyd bring Pink Floyd classics back to life
Maybe it’s an occupational hazard, but it can be a little...
Jazz in threes
Joshua Redman is drawn to collaboration. For his entire career, the tenor saxophonist has surrounded himself with the best musicians in modern jazz, creating a true give-and-take on the bandstand and breaking out of the standard leader-accompanist mold. Redman, who ...
Super slash
If you’ve been waiting to see jazz/ funk/rock group Garage A Trois in concert, you’ll have to forgive the quartet for being so busy. After all, each member is spinning multiple plates, which is why they’re so popular in the first place. Yet Skerik wouldn’t have it ...
A most delicate anguish
When David Bowie died, Seu Jorge found himself in a unique position to pay tribute, even though he hardly knew the man and his...
Souls remembered and forgotton
ON JANUARY 25, 2006, police officials in North London executed orders to repossess a bedsit, essentially an efficiency apartment, for which rent had gone intolerably in arrears. With no reply to knocks, the police broke in the double locked front door and found the ...
Boulder band Envy Alo introduces boogaloo fusion and new vocals
It’s been two years since the Boulder-based band Envy Alo dropped their first album, One Time, but the soulful rock/funk band hasn’t stopped working,...
Infinite Space: Boulder Phil plays music about stars and astronomers and...
The Boulder Philharmonic calls its 2018–19 season Open Space, and will begin its classical programming focusing on the openest space of all. Under the...
Bach and Mahler Festivals expand their programming
Colorado MahlerFest and the Boulder Bach Festival, longstanding institutions in Boulder, have major events Friday through Sunday, May 19-21.
Both festivals started with annual performances...
