Music
Once a year on the prairie
Boulder’s orchestras like to present nature in their programming. In Kansas, they like to present their programming in nature.
Symphony in the Flint Hills is...
All about Herbie
Keyboardist Joey Porter remembers the first time he encountered Herbie Hancock — or, to be more precise, the first time he mainlined Hancock’s feral funk stylings after the pianist had left Miles Davis’ legendary quintet in 1968...
CU NOW presents scenes from Tom Cipullo’s comedy ‘Hobson’s Choice’
Leigh Holman, director of the University of Colorado Eklund Opera Theater, has made Boulder a mecca for composers.
Every June for the past 10 years,...
More than just bluegrass
When you look at it, it’s called a ‘bluegrass festival,’ but it’s a wide-open music festival,” says mandolin great Sam Bush. “I’ve seen everything from Little Feat to Paco de Lucia to Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson to Bill Monroe to Ralph Stanley. Just last year they ...
Mark Vann Benefit celebrates eight years of charity
Very few banjo players possess enough talent to influence a music scene so powerfully as the late Leftover Salmon banjoist Mark Vann. But when Vann lost his battle with melanoma in 2002 at age 39, some of his fellow bandmates came up with an idea to memorialize their...
Twerking across the country
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...
The occasionally menacing, sometimes uplifting, often minimalistic but never pretentious rock...
Perhaps Stuart Braithwaite speaks for all musicians when he reveals the secret to Mogwai’s longevity:
“Probably fear of regular employment,” he says, his Scottish accent...
Liberation for all
America, it’s been said, has entered a new era of racism, one with no racists. We live in a time, in a nation, where...
Deep in the grain
Talking with guitarist/songwriter Oliver Wood about his collaboration with brother Chris Wood last week, we couldn’t help but summon the legacy of (in)famous brother gigs in pop music history. The Davies … the Gallaghers … the Knopflers … Well, OK, it was the knock...
Knocking down dominoes
On Jan. 6, Jeff Kassel and Jake Lobel looked out over the crowd at the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge. The electronic dance music producing...
Boulder Bach Festival Schedule
Kids for Bach concert Sunday, Feb. 12, at 2 p.m., Boulder Public Library...
Silent film and oratorio comprise Pro Musica Colorado program
Cynthia Katsarelis has conducted many concerts, but her next program with the Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra is unique and exciting in many ways...
