Opera House: Magic Beans & Kitchen Dwellers

08 Jan Opera House: Magic Beans & Kitchen Dwellers

Telluride’s Sheridan Arts Foundation presents Magic Beans & Kitchen Dwellers live at the Sheridan Opera House on Saturday, January 12, 2019. Tickets are $25 general admission on the floor; $35 reserved seats in the balcony. (A $4 ticketing fee is charged at all ticket outlets.) Tickets are for sale online at www.SheridanOperaHouse.com or by calling 970.728.6363 ext. 5.

Please scroll down for a preview of the Magic Beans.

The Magic Beans (Scott Hachey, Casey Russell, Chris Duffy and Cody Wales) have steadily built upon their national notoriety in a very short period of time with a passion for music that is as infectious as their songs.

Hailing from Denver, the development of the group has been aided by the warm hearth of the Colorado music scene, and quickly setting themselves apart from the pack as one of the state’s premier acts. Magic Beans’ new album, Casino Cabaret, (available March 16th), is titled in homage to the vintage sign that hangs above Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom located in the Five Points area of Denver. The venue has served as the heartbeat of the Denver music scene for decades under different monikers. It is a place where the legends of jazz, soul, and funk found a common stage and it inspired the Magic Beans to craft an album capturing the different styles and genres that can be heard any given night down in Five Points. With Casino Cabaret the band looks to bring the heart, the vibes, and the feelings of those Denver nights coast to coast.

Holing up in the foothills of Colorado at Scanhope Sound studios, Magic Beans looked to build upon their past studio experiences and hone in on the new sound they have been building since their last release. Taking the time to make those songs come to life, adding some brass to their already full sound, and dialing in the tones on analog equipment the band found ways to add layers to the songs in ways not possible to achieve live. From the album opener “Here On Out” featuring the saxophone of Clark Smith (Dynohunter), trumpet of Matt Wilkolak (Michal Menert & Big Gigantic), and rounded out by percussion from frequent collaborator, Will Trask, the band puts forward a full and accessible sound. True to form, the Beans even included some studio interludes taken from recording jam sessions to help tease those moments on the road where the band will lift off and take the songs for a ride.

With appearances in 2018 at some of the scenes’ marquee festivals, a stacked touring schedule and hosting their own Beanstalk Music Festival every June in Colorado, Magic Beans are poised to bust out across the scene and make waves for many years to come.

Bozeman, MT-based bluegrass quartet Kitchen Dwellers are riding the wave of their sophomore release, Ghost in the Bottle, an album produced by Leftover Salmon’s Andy Thorn. The album also features Twiddle’s Mihali Savoulidis, who joined the band in the studio to record the album’s first single “Vision of More.”

Kitchen Dwellers continues to relentlessly tour the country, captivating audiences with their own unique style, dubbed “Galaxy Grass.”

Formed while attending college at Montana State, the group has burst onto the bluegrass scene sharing the stage with acts such as Railroad Earth, Greensky Bluegrass, The Infamous Stringdusters and Twiddle. In recent years the the Kitchen Dwellers have begun to tour nationally, hitting notable venues and festivals around the country including The Brooklyn Bowl, The Fox Theatre, Delfest, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Northwest String Summit, and the Friendly Gathering.

The Sheridan Arts Foundation was founded in 1991 as a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization to preserve the historic Sheridan Opera House as an arts and cultural resource for the Telluride community, to bring quality arts and cultural events to Telluride and to provide local and national youth with access and exposure to the arts through education. The Sheridan Arts Foundation is sponsored in part by grants from the Telluride Foundation, CCAASE and Colorado Creative Industries.