Music
Some unexpected charisma
The Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) will launch its 11th season with a somber, almost mystical classical-era Requiem...
Fearsome gravitational pull
There is only one way to describe Big Gigantic’s success, and it doesn’t require a half-assed play on words. The duo’s highly anticipated show at the Fox Theatre, which sold out months ago nearly within a day, marks exactly two years since producer/saxophonist ...
Todd Snider’s Nashville life creeps into his music
Long since graduated from the anti-heroism of mid-90s, grunge-skeptical, alt-folkie status, Todd Snider has quietly grown into a songwriter of unique vintage, capable of uncorking rickety masterpieces of unsung contenders, sardonic social commentary and offbeat ...
The Dead shall rise
Not that we knew it at the time, but we’re pretty sure the weirdly twice-echoed staccato stomp of “Ants Marching” we heard from our...
Experience music, and glimpse culture from a world away
The University of Colorado College of Music won’t quite take you around the world in 80 minutes, but in one concert of that length, they can take you into musical cultures from the other side of the globe...
Worlds of music
Michael Christie knows what he wants at Boulder’s Colorado Music Festival (CMF). “Variety is most important,” says the festival’s music director. “What we do is look off the beaten track and then throw in some element that’s surprising...
Pickin’ over yonder
Yonder Mountain String Band is one of the Boulder area’s most recent, and resounding, success stories. During the band’s 13-or-so-year history, YMSB — guitarist Adam Aijala, bassist Ben Kauffman, mando player Jeff Austin and banjo player Dave Johnston, who all came ...
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...
Studio savior
It’d be difficult not to hear an echo of Fleet Foxes shaggy Northwestern Pacific folk-pop or Elliott Smith’s strummy melancholia in the delicate chamber-folk beauty of Blind Pilot’s second album, We Are the Tide. The Portland sextet’s September release is a dramatic ...