Sheridan Arts Foundation: Amy Helm at the Opera House, 9/29!

12 Sep Sheridan Arts Foundation: Amy Helm at the Opera House, 9/29!

Tellurie’s Sheridan Arts Foundation (SAF) presents Amy Helm live in concert on Sunday 29th, 2024, at the historic Sheridan Opera House!

Music starts at 8 p.m ; doors open at 7 p.m.

General admission, $40, standing room; $50 for reserved balcony seating. (A $5 ticketing fee for advanced purchases and a $10 ticketing fee the night of the show will be added.)

Go here for more about the Sheridan Arts Foundation.

And please scroll down for a taste of Amy Helms in action.

Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Amy Helm’s third album, What the Flood Leaves Behind, is her most autobiographical yet, both in content and creation. Out now via Renew Records/BMG, these 10 songs represent a gathering of ideas and experiences, friends and collaborators. Yet, the album also marks a landing, a pause for the traveling musician and mother of two young boys who was seeking clarity in her calling and career.

After making multiple albums and performing in far-flung places, Helm returned home to Woodstock’s Levon Helm Studios — casually known as The Barn — just before the pandemic to record What the Flood Leaves Behind and reclaim a sense of self.

The Barn became what Helm calls “the tuning fork” for the record — an ethereal, elemental component that helped her and musicians Phil Cook (keys, harmonica); Michael Libramento (bass, organ, percussion); Tony Mason (drums); Daniel Littleton (guitar); Stuart Bogie (saxophone); Jordan McLean (trumpet); and Helm’s son Lee Collins (congas), summon courage and comfort.

Additionally, musical polyglot Josh Kaufman (Taylor Swift, The National, Muzz, Bonny Light Horseman) produced and contributed on piano, guitar, and mandolin. Their immediate musical connection helped guide Helm’s powerful, emotive vocals to the forefront of the album.

“We tried to make it about her voice and about the musicians responding to her and not the other way around,” explains Kaufman. “I wanted her to feel like she had that freedom to be herself on the recordings and she just filled up the whole room. Her singing was coming from this deeply rooted place of family and music and wanting to convey a beauty.”

In particular, “Verse 23,” the track from which the album title is derived, that encapsulates the themes of What the Flood Leaves Behind. Written by M.C. Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger), the song serves as a sort of “reckoning,” says Helm, “of the good and the bad and everything in between.”

Throughout the record, Helm sings stories of life’s relentlessness. But like she extrapolates from “Verse 23,” the most productive, and often the most healing response, is to create. As a result, What the Flood Leaves Behind serves as a defiant form of self-expression, as Helm steps fully into her own light.

Sheridan Opera House, 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 Town of Mountain Village, Just for Kids Foundation and Telluride Foundation.