Music
Wind is blowin’ in paradise
If Paul DeHaven’s first solo album, King of Gold, was a question, then his newest release, Echoes and Overtones, is an answer... of a...
Arise 2016
Strolling down the main vendor concourse on Saturday, the middle day, of ARISE last year, we happened upon a guy who, like us, was...
Pro Musica Colorado looks backward, forward and outward
The next concert by the Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra will look backward, and forward, and outward.
The program, titled “Classical Evolution,” will be presented...
Paper Bird spreads its wings
For any band, breaking out of the hometown turf and onto the national scene is a laborious task. For bands on the Front Range where touring means plowing through hundreds of small-scale, mid-America spots to get to either coast it can be even more difficult to garner...
Beethoven’s path to the future
Violinist/conductor Peter Oundjian served as artistic advisor of the Colorado Music Festival (CMF) for the 2018 season, a position halfway between giving advice and...
‘Bachtoberfest’ concerts are all about Bach, not beer
Boulder’s ever-adventurous Bach Festival embarks on a new season of exploration, with concerts in Boulder Oct. 12 and Longmont Oct. 14.
Boulder Bach Festival music...
Rap with strings attached
I haven’t done the research on this, but I don’t imagine Vivaldi’s “Spring” concerto is the ringback song on your average rapper’s cell phone.But call Jordan Polovina and you’ll see pretty quickly why he and the rest of Whiskey Blanket are not your average rappers....
Ditching the smoke machines
The live music scene in Tokyo (but not so much in smaller cities in Japan) works a little differently than it does here in...
Beyond politics
If you’ve ever heard any of Jason Isbell’s songs, chances are you know what he believes. The acclaimed singer-songwriter is known for being direct,...
The ‘lovechild of funky soul and dirty blues’
Noah John Rondeau was a wellknown hermit of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate, rural New York. Rondeau, who said that he was “not wellsatisfied with the world and its trends,” began his hermitdom in 1929 at age 46, moving to a remote area in the Northeastern woods ...
Country style granola
When Kristina Murray first started performing her country/Americana songs around Boulder County, there simply weren’t many people doing what she does. And to this day, country in Boulder stands out like a three-piece suit at a hoedown...
Shifting forward, backwards and sideways
Kate Stables relishes in duality. It’s the scaffolding around which the Paris-based, U.K.-born banjoist builds much of her new album, Off Off On, her...
