Music
Fame is not the goal
In a way, Hanson has been laying the foundation for their upcoming orchestrally driven album, String Theory, since the “MMMBop” days.
That was 21 years...
King of hearts
Darryl Purpose isn’t used to failure. He’s recorded eight stunning albums of folk music, enjoys a close relationship with his daughter, owns two beautiful...
The welcome unpredictability of Shakey Graves
"I don’t really wear a lot of suspenders anymore,” Alejandro Rose-Garcia, aka Shakey Graves, tells me from a small town in British Columbia with “a...
From a whisper to a scream
Boz Scaggs calls the trio of albums he’s released beginning with 2013’s Memphis a trilogy. These releases — Memphis, 2015’s A Fool To Care...
The language of the people
In 1990, a lawyer named Craig Ferguson found himself in a hotel room in Chicago dreaming of a new phase of his life, one...
Magic in the acoustic guitar
We don’t know, and wouldn’t ask, if Andy McKee was a church-going kind of guy. But preparing for our interview, we came across a...
All who wander are not lost
It’s no great concession for any but the most hardened cultural cynic, that most artists working in popular music eventually must explore the limits...
Act accordingly: ARISE up
There was a time, if you can believe it, when Paul Bassis — co-founder of the extremely woke, half music, half co-creative ARISE Festival,...
Festival finale
Peter Oundjian, the internationally recognized artistic advisor of the Colorado Music Festival, will be in residence for the festival’s final days, through Saturday, Aug....
A nice metaphor for life
Andrew Duhon took one geology class in college, the class we all took; you know, rocks for jocks with the football players. While the...
Waiting for birdsongs
Songwriter Kina Grannis has learned to let songs creep up on her. They always have a way of finding her — even if she’s...
CMF artistic advisor Peter Oundjian will lead concerts with Bernstein theme
Peter Oundjian is the most distinguished musician to lead the Colorado Music Festival (CMF) in its 43 seasons.
Since Jean-Marie Zeitouni stepped down as music...