Music

Classical mashups

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  You might be surprised that Lyons, best known as a national center for folk and bluegrass with its RockyGrass and Rocky Mt. Folk festivals, the RockyGrass Academy and dozens of other events through the year, has now become the home of a classical chamber music ...

Guest conductors launch 2018 Colorado Music Festival

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The Colorado Music Festival, facing another year without a permanent music director, opens with two weeks of concerts led by guest conductors Marcelo Lehninger...

From ‘the old country,’ with love

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The sounds filling Denver’s Mercury Café at the end of each month may come from Colorado musicians, but the traditions behind them traveled a...

Influenced by the master

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Beethoven runs through it...

GasPops channel Petty

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Seemed a curious thing that Clay Rose and the Gasoline Lollipops should be doing a Tom Petty complete-album for New Year’s Eve at the...

Bluegrass and all that jazz

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Music fans are forgiven if they thought there were multiple virtuosos over two generations named John Jorgenson. After all, it’s a fairly common Nordic...

For A Far Cry, ‘Memory’ has many meanings

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A Far Cry, a self-directed string ensemble of 17 players headquartered in Boston, will play “Memory” Saturday (Feb. 8) in Macky Auditorium. No, not the...

Laugh until it hurts

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Like much of how singer-songwriter Stefan Babcock deals with the relentless pressures of life, the opening interlude on his band PUP’s latest album started...

Concerts: April 18-25

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ON THE BILL: Fresh off their Boulder show with Minnesota’s Humbird earlier this month, FoCo indie-folk outfit Frail Talk take the stage for a hometown gig as part of...

Eulogy of self

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Composers who write their own musical eulogies do not usually create jolly pieces. Dmitri Shostakovich, who suffered various forms of personal and artistic oppression throughout...

The Infamous Stringdusters push themselves and the genre

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The Infamous Stringdusters’ website includes what might seem like a bold statement from the group. It says simply: “The Future of Bluegrass.” In talking to...

The composition of carbon

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  The reason why Ryan Fechter, the bassist for Denver/ Boulder-based indie-rock band Carbon Choir, makes music is a unique one...