Music

Twenty-for years ago, Robert Olson went for a walk at the Dillon Reservoir. His wife was in a rehearsal at the Breckenridge Music Festival, so he took a book along...

It wasn’t really planned that way, but the Boulder Symphony’s next concert arrives just in the nick of time...

There’s some undeniable peril in tapping a rock song reference to name your band. The casual listener may mistake you for a tribute band (and conversely, if you are a tribute band, you’re more or less compelled to do it), and the obsessive-retentive types are likely ...

Thursday, March 6: The Appleseed Collective. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303- 440-4628...

Tyler Grant has a National Flatpicking Championship under his belt, solo releases and a resume stacked with names of artists he’s worked with. Yet, even through his successes during his time in mythical Nashville, Tenn., the guitarist was always waiting for a chance ...

In their 15th year as a group, Umphrey’s McGee is coming to Colorado to play shows on June 7 at Red Rocks Ampitheatre and June 8 at Chautauqua Auditorium. Boulder Weekly caught up with keyboardist/vocalist Joel Cummins to talk about the upcoming Colorado shows, ...

When Martin Sexton sings these days, he’s trying to make a difference, bringing attention to pervasive social and political issues while bringing a diverse audience together...

Like millions of Americans who lived through the 1960s, my home was filled with Walter Cronkite’s nightly narration of the events of the day. It seemed the struggle for civil rights was at the center of every newscast only to be replaced at times by the bloody ...

Dafnis Pietro was born in Santa Clara, Cuba, in 1974, and he didn’t take long to become immersed in the rich Afrocuban musical tradition of his homeland...

When vibraphone player Greg Harris took his New World Citizen Quartet out to play a couple of months ago, opening for Baaba Maal at the L2 Arts and Culture Center in Denver, he positioned himself behind a Gyil (pronounced JEE-lee), a 14-key xylophone indigenous to ...

A couple years ago, after Joshua Goldberg, the community and events manager of Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing Company, donated free cases of beer to an event for Intercambio — an immigrant advocacy organization that promotes understanding across cultures through ...

To hear Khouri Austin tell it, nobody in The Foodchain sat up one day and said, “Let’s start a band...