Music
Your imaginary friend
Most musicians want to be known. Some even want photos of their faces plastered across the covers of high-profile music magazines and lining the walls of teenagers’ bedrooms. The allure of “celebrity” often fuels the desire to keep creating. Slow Magic, however, is ...
A beloved staple of the holiday season in a new medium
It’s a Wonderful Life, a new opera by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, started its performance life with a workshop at CU...
Soloists together onstage at last with the Boulder Philharmonic
Jennifer Frautschi and Erik Ruske rarely get to perform together.
The married couple are both highly successful musicians, but she plays the violin and he...
Career change
Plenty of young musicians decide to put college on hold to take a shot at having a career writing songs and performing...
Delta blues
The great Mississippi River flood of 1927 began when more than 100 levees broke early in the year. It resulted in more than 27,000 square miles of land being flooded, lasted for almost eight months, and is the most destructive flood in the history of the United ...
Tommy Castro faces a midlife crisis
Guitarist/songwriter Tommy Castro, one of the West Coast blues scene’s hardest-working and most ferociously engaging figures, swings back into Boulder tonight for a midweek gig at the Outlook. For a guy who plays the Blues Cruise once or twice a year and ...
Boulder’s holiday musical banquet serves ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful,’ ‘Fire...
The musical banquet that is the holiday season this year brings us “All Things Bright and Beautiful,” “Holiday Memories,” “Fire and Ice” and Diane...
Veteran perspective
"We’ve neither burned out nor faded away. There must be a third option where you just keep plugging,” offers jovial Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller...
Jazz-Hands
Friday, July 4-5: Boulder Art and Jazz Festival. 10 a.m. Pearl Street Pub & Cellar, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900...
Down the rabbit hole
Kenny Vasoli’s present-day appearance can come as a surprise to some fans. As the former frontman for pop punk band The Starting Line, Vasoli has traded in his skinny jeans and straightened hair for wooden beads and a more relaxed look to match his new music with ...
Snowed into the Fox
Eric Krasno doesn’t know what’s going to happen this weekend. Neither do you. And to hear the Soulive guitarist explain it, that’s what makes Snowlive a must-see event this weekend at the Fox Theatre...
The rebel we need
About a year ago, Tash Sultana had to press pause — the world was eating them alive, consuming the young Australian multi-instrumentalist’s talent as...
