Music
Boulder Symphony comes full circle
The Boulder Symphony has returned from its Front Range migration...
MahlerFest XXXI includes chamber and orchestra concerts with a focus on...
The 31st MahlerFest is all about late artistic transformations.
The 2018 festival begins Monday, May 14, and culminates Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20,...
Getting on the Dechen Hawk plan
He sits alone by the window of The Laughing Goat. A laptop, lunch and red wine are in front of him and conversation with another table happens to his left...
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...
Looking at time
One late night last year M. Ward dreamt he was sitting in a smoky blues club watching Chuck Berry perform on the stage. In...
Rick Rubinesque
Fans that head to The Avett Brothers for any of the shows during its three night stint at Red Rocks Friday, July 11 through Sunday, July 13 expecting the kind of stripped-down, acoustic performance that was the group’s trademark will be in for a surprise...
‘Fantastique’ opening
Boulder’s Colorado Music Festival (CMF) opens its 2016 season June 30 at Chautauqua Auditorium, and no one is more excited than music director Jean-Marie...
Sharon Van Etten finds road to happiness passes through ‘Tramp’
Completing an album can be like a life passage, closing one chapter and opening another. The third chapter in Sharon Van Etten’s recorded history, Tramp’s a haunting record that pushes out beyond the minimalist, emotionally raw folk of Van Etten’s first two albums. ...
The dark side of Poor Moon’s beautiful whimsy
The Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House, which headlines the Boulder Theater on Sunday with some auxiliary musicians, has been steadily touring since its inception in 2004. The group’s silky indierock, as much Nico-era Velvet Underground as Euro-pop in the vein of ...
It will be ukuleles and a Broadway witch for the holidays
Ah, the holiday season. That wonderful time for your favorite carols, colored lights, egg nog and — ukuleles?
Sure enough, it’s all part of the...
Blues to make you dance
Around the same time Robert Johnson was emerging from the crossroads with his newfound guitar-picking skills, wailing about how all his love was in vain, blues music was going through a transformation of its own. The genre was spreading from its humble beginnings on ...
Gazing into the future
When a once-great band decides to give it another go after years of inactivity, the news is often met with a mixture of exhilaration...
