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Thursday, August 23,2012
A certain kind of kin
Yonder Mountain String Band’s festival appeals to the loyalists
Fourteen years ago, Yonder Mountain String Band formed over a Guinness in a bar in Nederland, according to a tale spun by guitarist Adam Aijala.
Thursday, August 23,2012
NedFest Schedule 2012
Schedule of bands for NedFest 2012 in Nederland, Colo. Aug. 24-26.
Thursday, August 23,2012
NedFest reboots
One-time volunteers split up Mike Torpie's job among six people and move on
In most of the real world, festivals are typically mini-businesses pieced together by committee, but NedFest was always Michigan Mike´s baby.
Thursday, August 16,2012
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.
Thursday, August 16,2012
Still playing folk guitar
Stephen Stills, now touring with Crosby and Nash, almost played bass for Jimi Hendrix
If Stephen Stills isn´t doing cartwheels across the stage and jumping off of amplifiers this summer on his tour with Crosby, Stills & Nash, he´ll have a good excuse.
Thursday, August 16,2012
Pilgrims of the stage
Hunting for the source of folk music's power at Planet Bluegrass in Lyons, CO
For me, folk music is a drug, a truth serum of sorts. It has the ability to make me see my life for not only what it is but also what it could and should be. I suspect I’m not alone.
Thursday, August 9,2012
Musical Olympics
Andrew Bird recovers after stumbling on hurdles
If life’s a race, it’s certainly the hurdles. An experienced racer, Andrew Bird´s been going around the track since the mid-’90s, when he ran with acts like the “Hell”-ish Squirrel Nut Zippers and Bowl of Fire.
Thursday, August 9,2012
Laurie Morvan burns in blue
Guitarist is part axe-slinger, part electrical engineer
California blues guitarist Laurie Morvan and her band are in that place right now where they draw two-paragraph mentions in local newspapers, generous but usually short features, CD reviews in small-circ blues magazines, and generally positive festival appearance reviews.
Thursday, August 2,2012
Mighty fifths to end the summer
Colorado Music Festival explores seminal work of contemporary, classical composers
The 2012 Colorado Music Festival (CMF) surges to its conclusion this week with concerts Thursday and Friday by the Festival Orchestra — one of the best I have heard in recent years at CMF — conducted by Michael Christie.
Thursday, August 2,2012
Stomp that thang
West Water Outlaws carry Boulder’s blues-rock torch
Blake Rooker, lead singer and guitarist from the Boulder-based West Water Outlaws, responds a little cautiously when we press him to share some highlights from the band’s recent swing through the steamy Southeast, a sure sign that the big noise/big beat blues-rock quartet was probably doing the dive-bar mini-tour thing right.
