Music

David A. Jaffe’s new Violin Concerto grew out of a friendship between the composer and a Colorado violinist. Karen Bentley Pollick, who lives in Evergreen,...

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,...

On Weekend Du Mort, when Boulder’s Dead Thing comes out in earnest to jiggle its head and look at its hands and dig the tie-dye...

When actor Kiefer Sutherland first thought of demoing songs he had written, he wasn’t planning to be the person releasing them. “I had written them awhile...

Brace yourself, the Twerk Tour is coming. But, have no fear, this is a twerk tour sans, well, twerking. Instead of that strange form of upside down shaking, or what some call dancing, this tour features the musical combination of two eclectic, funk jam bands: Twiddle...

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...

Most musicians found their activities curtailed during the pandemic. For the Indigo Girls, the past two years have been a particularly busy season. The duo...

Antonio Vivaldi is the most familiar and unfamiliar of major composers. Classical music enthusiasts may know just a handful of his more than 500...

The Colorado Music Festival has never shied from daring programming or bold ventures. Now in its 45th year, the six-week summer concert series at...

Boulder’s Seicento Baroque Ensemble celebrates its 10th anniversary this weekend (April 22–24) by performing a piece that is both familiar—and not. The piece is Magnificat...

Dissonance isn’t exactly the first word that comes to mind when you think about Nickel Creek. But the progressive bluegrass outfit’s latest offering, Celebrants...

If you had access to MTV in the early 2000s, you likely witnessed the era of high-energy, raucous young men who lived by a...