[click "Play" to hear Karrin Allyson interview] Karrin Allyson's voice sounds as if it has been warmed over charcoal. Her pliable instruments changes in a blink from honey to sass.The Telluride Society for Jazz has brought Karrin back...
For these ladies, it was all about finding their inner glitter and getting down. We get down with them at Telluride's Sheridan Opera House, Saturday, 24 January, at 7 p.m.The irrepressible Mark Galbo, the Pied Piper of the Telluride Mountain School’s Rock and Roll Academy,...
Mark Galbo (can we now call him an impresario?) of Telluride's Rock and Roll Academy gave TIO's Susan Viebrock an interview about the adult bands which will perform at the Sheridan Opera House, Saturday, 24 January 2009. ...
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No jive. No spin. The Spinners were fixtures in the heyday of the music industry, one of the greatest soul groups of the era (1970s/1980s) before “download” stole the show.
A veritable hit machine, The Spinners' lush silky sound, clam tight harmonies, and funky underpinnings defined Philly Soul – although the group’s roots lay in Detroit and doo-wop.
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No sweat. The band just keeps on keepin’ on despite the fact its founding members, among them, Al Kooper, Bobby Colomby, David Clayton-Thomas and Steve Katz, are part of rock lore.
Rather than being a personality cult, Blood, Sweat & Tears longevity comes down to its music, hit such as “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy,” “Spinning Wheel,” and “When I Die” with universal themes and a cross-generational sound.
Since B S & T formed in New York in 1967, the many faces of the band are, by now, a blur. However what the band came to be known as from the get-go remains the group’s signature style: a fusion known as “jazz-rock.”
In China, acrobats are revered as much as opera singers in the West.
The ancient art form dates back well over 2,000 years. Historical records provide evidence for the development of Chinese acrobats as far back as the Xia Dynasty 4,000 years ago. Records also suggest acrobatics did not become wildly popular, however, until the emperor embraced the discipline as court entertainment, about 2,500 years ago.
During the Han Dynasty (207 B.C. – 220 A.D.), acrobatics flourished and the wide variety of juggling, tumbling and magic acts came to be known as the “Hundred Entertainments.” Legend has it that when the Emperor Wu Di invited a group of foreign dignitaries to witness a performance, his guests were so impressed they agreed to enter into military alliances with their august host.
A man performs a headstand atop a very tall tower of chairs, and a woman balances a lamp as she twists upside down on a pedestal, her body bending like hot pizza dough, limbs merging.This is not Ripley’s “Believe It or Not.” It is the...
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Brass-tacks: On Saturday, December 27, the historic Sheridan Opera House presents the Holiday Brass Quintet, all members of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. The ensemble includes Patrick Tillery and Dan Kuehn on trumpet, David Brussel, French horn, Mike Dunn, tuba, and Paul Naslund, trombone.
Paul likes to toot his horn about his long history with Telluride.
[Click the play button to hear] When Dickens wrote his “ghostly little tale,” he could not know that A Christmas Carol would become one of the most beloved holiday traditions of all time. The Nebraska Theatre Caravan is...
In the following video clip, Jesse James Martin, Ashley Boling, and Paul Jones talk about the crazy characters they play in director Jeb Berrier’s Christmas romp “Bob’s Holiday Office Party,” based on a warped trinity of spilled cheeseballs, sublimated lust, and frustrated longing. In addition,...
