Opiuo & Michal Menert: Two nights of electronic music, 2/11 & 2/12!

07 Feb Opiuo & Michal Menert: Two nights of electronic music, 2/11 & 2/12!

Telluride’s Sheridan Arts Foundation (SAF) presents Opiuo with support from Oklio on Friday, February 11, 2022 and Michal Menert with support from Mikey Thunder on Saturday, February 12, 2022 at the historic Sheridan Opera House. For both shows, doors open at 8 p.m.; show at 9 p.m. Tickets are $25 standing general admission tickets; $35 reserved balcony seat tickets (+ $5 ticketing fee) and $45 double standing general admission ticket to both nights + $5 ticketing fee (saving $10). Tickets are available at www.SheridanOperaHouse.com or by calling 970.728.6363 ext. 4.

Go here for more about the SAF and Opera House, also here.

Opiuo is Oscar Davey-Wraight. Born in the festival paddocks of rural New Zealand, he packed his bags and headed to Australia at the youthful age of 20 to find meaner, greener party pastures. Landing in the grimy, colorful streets of Melbourne, he built an emphatic fan base amongst club and festival goers across the great red land of Australia. Using his positivity as a catalyst for mighty musical enjoyment, he captivated audiences with his extremely unique funkadelic bass-heavy creations.

His 2010 debut album Slurp & Giggle spread like wildfire across the global underground music scene, earning Oscar nominations for best album at the Australian Independent Music Awards. His follow up albums, Meraki in 2014 and Omniversal in 2016, were winners and finalists for the New Zealand Music Awards in the “Electronic Album Of The Year” category respectively, and continued by gaining millions of plays and downloads across all the major musical platforms.

Since then Oscar has gone on to be specifically selected to support the most respected names in electronic music, including Bassnectar, Griz, Pretty Lights and more. He’s headlined the greatest venues in the world, including Red Rocks Amphitheater with his 5-piece live band juggernaut, The Opiuo Band. He has also played every major North American, Australasian and European festival to rave reviews.

Oscar’s highly sought after remix works span artists far and wide from Gwen Stefani to Kimbra, Griz to Pretty Lights, Koan Sound to Infected Mushroom, earning him respect as a truly versatile artist, with no specific genre box to restrict his musical endeavors.

Artist Oklio opens for Opiuo starting at 9 p.m. on Friday.

With From the Sea, Gualala, California-based artist and producer Michal Menert has crafted a musical salve for those suffering from the relentless stream of contemporary reality. The record churns at the intersection of jazz, hip hop, and electronic music; following its own internal rhythm, it ebbs and flows between crystalline clarity and swirling opacity. Uplifting, yet laced with echoes of chaos and friction, From the Sea wraps itself around the listener like a Pacific coast shore break.

A young man steeped in a broad swath of both Eastern and Western musical traditions gives Menert a deep palate from which to draw:

“We too often move through life on autopilot. When we stop and look back, it’s all a blur” explains Menert. “This record is an exploration of how seemingly inconsequential moments ripple through time and haunt us. I want to help people realize that they’re not the only ones confused about how this is all supposed to go down. It’s universal.”

As Menert co-produced the chart-topping Pretty Lights album Taking Up Your Precious Time, it was natural that he was the first artist to join Pretty Lights Music. His debut solo album Dreaming of a Bigger Life was released in 2010, followed by 2012’s mega-LP Even If It Isn’t Right.

In 2015 Menert released Space Jazz, and the debut by his band Michal Menert & the Pretty Fantastics, Menert’s reputation as a live performer continues to grow, as he brings his music to fans nationwide.

Menert has shared the stage with musical luminaries including STS9, Bassnectar, Umphrey’s McGee, and more, and played legendary venues including the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, The Gorge in Washington, and Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

Artist Mikey Thunder opens for Michal Menert on Saturday at 9 p.m.

SAF & Covid:

The Sheridan Arts Foundation values the safety and health of our patrons and staff above all else. Anyone age 12 and up attending a public event at the Sheridan Opera House is now required to bring proof of vaccination OR proof of a negative COVID test taken within 72 hours of the event. Additionally, Molekule air purifiers (including two new medical grade Molekule Pro RX models) and hand sanitizer stations are dispersed throughout the building, and temperature checks are performed at the door.

Ticket purchasers must also agree to the Sheridan Arts Foundation’s COVID waiver, found here.

Sheridan Arts Foundation, more:

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 CCAASE, Colorado Creative Industries, the Telluride Foundation, the Johnson Family Foundation and Just For Kids Foundation.