"As a community we should be duly proud of the work of all the individuals within the arts environment, for helping us receive this award, which puts Telluride not only in the spotlight, but places us in the leadership of this state, related to the...
[caption id="attachment_31926" align="alignright" width="300"] Luciano[/caption] Music has run deeply throughout Luciano's life. Born Jepther Washington McClymont on October 20, 1964 in Davey Town, a small community located atop a hilly region on the road to Mandeville in the central Jamaican parish of Manchester. Luciano was raised in...
A series of four house concerts begin Wednesday, June 26, through July 7 BOHEMIANS: Beethoven and "bohemianism" share more than an alliterative bond. According to bravura violinist and music historian Maria Bachmann, also artistic director of the Telluride Musicfest, the iconic composer's revolutionary thinking anticipated the nationalism...
The heat's on this summer at the historic Sheridan Opera House, especially since the jewel-box venue begins a year-long celebration of its 100th year in operation. (Its birthday is July 3, 1913. Stories to follow on the Speakeasy Gala July 6.) Among the performers on...
[caption id="attachment_31277" align="alignright" width="300"] Dan Castellenata, in town for the Telluride Playwrights Festival[/caption] Sparky Productions' summer programming begins Tuesday, June 11, at the Palm Theatre, where SPARKy presents "This House" by James Graham. The is a live simulcast of a National Theatre of Great Britain’s theatrical...
Free admission, donations appreciated at the door, reservations suggested for Lord Huron Concert [caption id="attachment_31200" align="alignright" width="176"] Lord Huron[/caption] As part of its annual Wild West Fest 22-year tradition, the Sheridan Arts Foundation hosts its annual benefit concert Friday, June 7, 2013. The event features the Los...
By the time Veronica Novak holds up a piece of paper and asks if the three other adults are comfortable with “the statement,” we know where this is headed. This moment happens just a few seconds after the lights have come up. The play starts mid-scene...
[caption id="attachment_30032" align="alignright" width="300"] Keb' Mo' with The Time Jumpers[/caption] I grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry on a big old battery powered radio; I've spent a lot of my life pickin' and singin' country music; I've traveled all over this country and the...
[caption id="attachment_29888" align="alignright" width="300"] Scene from "People." Image shot by the BBC.[/caption] Tuesday, April 30, 7 p.m., SPARKY Productions presents Alan Bennett’s new play "People" as part of the first NT LIVE program with Telluride's Palm Theatre. NT LIVE is a simulcast, live broadcast of a National...
Editor's Note: Sometimes the truth is strange, stranger than fiction. Sometimes it is fiction. Sometimes it is both. We saw Jon Robin Baitz's "Other Desert Cities," a play about truth, in preview. Denver Center policy prohibits reviews of previews, so I obediently sat on my...
