Telluride's Nugget Theatre resumes with "The Princess and the Frog" and "The Blind Side" for the week of January 1-7. That's 2010, folks. How did we get to 2010 so soon?
For information on the two films, see last week's Nuggets. For reviews and trailers, see the Nugget website. For showtimes, see below.
Bruce Gomez was the very first artist Will and Hilary Thompson, owners of the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, signed for their stable when they opened their new gallery on Main Street (130 East Colorado) in 1985. Will Thompson first saw Bruce's work in a Denver gallery, but the timing was not right to work with a pastel artist. Will was buying and selling original graphics exclusively, but he recalled thinking: "This kid really has something."
by Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerMake me more breath than gasp,more glide than grunt, more thrust than thud. Slide me, fly me, soar and coast me, skim and skate me. Rush and whoosh me. Give me wings in my feet, give me race in my thighs, give...
Everything old is new again New Year's Eve at Telluride's historic Sheridan Opera House. The gala celebration is a walk down memory lane – "50 years of Motown featuring The Marvelettes & Cornell Gunter Coasters" – plus small eats, champagne, and party favors.
In the white picket fence Eisenhower era, America had all the trappings of rama-lama-ding-dong innocence, but the headlines suggested otherwise: Communist witch hunts, polio, the hydrogen bomb, the Korean War, racial segregation, James Dean and "Rebel Without a Cause," Jack Kerouac's "On the Road." Oh, and Doris Day and Ed Sullivan.
Wednesday, December 30, 7 p.m., Telluride's Michael D. Palm Theatre holds its end-of-year fundraiser. Sharing the stage for the fun and games will be members of the Telluride Choral Society and Mark Galbo's Rock and Roll Academy, not to mention the star of the show, George Gray – rather, George's alter ego resplendent in a sequined jumpsuit, paying tribute to none other than The King.
1997 was a banner year for the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. The star-spangled line-up featured Guy Clark, Patty Griffin, David Crosby, Bela Fleck and The Flecktones, Leftover Salmon, Shawn Colvin and, the headliner, the Man in Black, Johnny Cash. It was Fort Knox backstage when Cash's caravan rolled in. It was New Year's Eve and the Fourth of July when the superstar hit the stage rocking.
Telluride's Sheridan Arts Foundation continues its bad ass holiday concert series at the Opera House, December 28, 8:00 pm, with a performance by The Meters Experience with Leo Nocentelli, a legend discovered by a legend.
On December 29, the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art opens a show of new work by jeweler Cheryl Rydmark. The jeweler is renowned locally for her now famous asymmetrical arrangement of sterling silver beads, gold, leaf-like charms, and small diamonds, worn by a trend-setting group of Telluride ladies like a sorority necklace.
Her latest release, "Shawn Colvin Live," was nominated for a Grammy for best Contemporary Folk Album. Shawn Colvin appears live at Telluride's historic Sheridan Opera House on Sunday, December 27, 8 p.m.
Colvin was born in Vermillion, South Dakota, a small college town just south of Sioux Falls. At age 10, she picked up her brother's Harmony four-string guitar and bought the plain vanilla Mel Bay chord books. At 13, she confiscated a classical gut instrument her father meant to give her mother. Colvin's first recording session occurred in high school, when she was also singing the role of Anna in "The King and I." She made her first public appearance on campus at the University of Illinois at age 15.
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