Performing Arts

with the Dirty Bourbon River Show [caption id="attachment_28674" align="alignright" width="300"] Vagabond Opera[/caption] The Sheridan Opera House is an opera house in name only. We rarely present actual opera on our historic stage. But on Thursday, March 14, a bohemian Portland, Oregon band performs in concert. Vagabond Opera,...

[caption id="attachment_28207" align="alignright" width="200"] MICA[/caption] Cabaret at The Steaming Friday, March 1 at 9 p.m. In existence for nine years as an annual gay-targeted ski event, Telluride Gay Ski Week has become one of the most popular gay ski weeks in the country. What was once one...

The Sheridan Arts Foundation is proud to present an encore performance by Colorado jam band Leftover Salmon. The group plays the Sheridan Opera House on Tuesday, February 26 and Wednesday, February, 27. Leftover Salmon was formed by a lucky accident in 1989, arising from the flatirons...

[caption id="attachment_28064" align="alignright" width="275"] Martin Sexton[/caption] The Sheridan Arts Foundation is proud to present folk rocker Martin Sexton live on the Sheridan Opera House stage on Friday, Feb. 22. The doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the show will begin at 8 p.m. About the artist: Fall Like...

[caption id="attachment_27901" align="alignright" width="300"] Nosostros[/caption] At the 2012 Telluride Jazz Festival, Nosotros delighted everyone with the performance of the weekend in both Town Park and at The Fly Me To The Moon Saloon. Nosotros put on such great performances that they received the most write-ins for...

[caption id="attachment_27927" align="alignright" width="215"] Caitlin Cannon[/caption] Describe their sound as Alt-C Dream Pop or Modern Americana: Arranged with sweet harmonies reminiscent of that Golden Age Hollywood era, against rousing grooves and gritty rhythms. It's Shirley Temple in Twin Peaks meets Dolly Parton at a 50's sock...

You can set your clock by it. Same time every year the (2005) Grammy-winning folk and bluegrass pioneer Tim O'Brien returns to town to hang with his dear friends David and Karen Lamb, owners of the Telluride Music Company. The threesome have known each other since...

On Valentine's Day, we suggest an early dinner at your favorite local watering hole and laughs for dessert. As sure as Cupid's arrow, barbs tossed from the stage of the historic Sheridan Opera House are guaranteed to hit their mark – us – when the...

[caption id="attachment_27470" align="alignright" width="236"] Monophonics[/caption] Telluride Blues & Brews Festival brings back the funk with Monophonics. The music is Saturday, February 9, doors, 9:30 p.m., show time, 10 p.m., Telluride Elk’s Lodge, 472 W. Pacific Avenue. Over the past seven years, Monophonics have staked their claim as...

Anyone who has ever seen a play written by Telluride Theatre's artistic director Sasha Sullivan knows her timing is perfect. The company's upcoming production is no exception: it illustrates the arc of the gay movement from closet to the soapbox where a newly inaugurated president...