Music
Grateful reincarnation
In advance of three sold out shows in Colorado this month, there are a couple of things you need to know about Joe Russo’s...
It is what it is
Shifting gears” is one of those colloquialisms that, once hatched as an automotive term, has slithered its way into the irretrievably tainted waters of...
A new beginning
It’s clear in Sarah Anderson’s voice: the vocalist and trumpeter of Denver-based band Paper Bird is clearly a little nervous. It’s three days after...
Travels with Trace
Midday in Brooklyn, and Trace Bundy is chilling after a “pretty much sold out” show the night before when Boulder Weekly catches up with...
How to transcend time
Less than 2,000 people live in the unincorporated community of Trona, California, nestled against the western edge of a dry lake bed southwest of...
Boulder Chamber Orchestra presents music grown from friendship
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,...
‘Always carry gaff tape’ and other lessons learned by Courtney Barnett
Notoriety came quickly for Courtney Barnett. After releasing her first full-length album Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit in March...
Boulder Phil ventures into classical repertoire
The Boulder Philharmonic is set to enter less familiar territory: Mozart and Beethoven.
Is that surprising? “Classical pieces are a little bit of a departure...
Haydn’s happy creation
There are lightning and thunder, leaping tigers and creeping serpents.
All of that and more is portrayed musically in The Creation by Joseph Haydn, but conductor...
Adventures in geography and gender
Two of Boulder’s choral groups will separately spend the weekend exploring geography and gender.
Happily, both programs will be given twice in the Boulder area....
Luther Dickinson’s songbook
It’d be a mistake to regard Luther Dickinson’s Blues & Ballads — A Folksinger’s Songbook: Volumes I & II as a career retrospective, even...
Music for the people, by the people
There is a tendency to want to compare The Felice Brothers to the past — to say they sound like The Band, Bob Dylan...
