Performing Arts

Imagine the sound if a D-flawless diamond could sing. Or Baccarat crystal. Or a Colorado blue sky after a cold front has passed through. Or a mountain spring after snow melt. After 50+ years, the crystalline voice has lost none of its legendary clarity: Judy...

The Jacob Fried Jazz Odyssey with Mark Southerland on sax  performs tonight, Wednesday Have you ever snapped your fingers so hard you grew calluses? Have you ever seen someone play two saxophones at the same time? Have you ever seen "The Sugar Thieves"? Me neither. But...

Some reviewers describe David Wilcox as a fuller-bodied James Taylor. Others describe him as a musician who carries a certain inner light. However you describe him, what matters most is his music and the way it carries you away. Wilcox’s music is the kind you...

Raising Money in thanks for Telluride’s One to One, with Joint Point When Jenn Riley’s husband was diagnosed with terminal cancer, she knew needed a distraction for her six year old son. She hunted around for a mentor in Ridgway, where she and her family lived...

When we think about the sounds of Colorado and the Southwest, “reggae” may be the last thing to come to mind, and yet one of the best American reggae bands was home-grown in Fort Collins. The six-piece roots reggae band, DubSkin, is the featured band at...

One of the things that makes us laugh is a subversion of logic. Case in point: the infamous Monty Python sketch about a cross-dressing lumberjack. Another subversion of logic is just about everything that pops out of actor/comedian Rob Corddry's mouth – at least when he...

It's has to be one of the greatest things to happen to bluegrass since the mandolin: Drew Emmitt and Bill Nershi teamed up to form the Emmitt-Nershi Band. And here's more good news: Their quartet plays the Llama on Sunday, February 12. Nershi, a former longtime...

It’s time to break out the glowsticks. Ana Sia, aka “Princess Slay-ah,” one of the most renowned modern DJs on the West Coast, is heading our way. She is scheduled to perform in town at The Llama on Saturday, February 4. With her unique hip-hop-infused blend...

Editor's note: Telluride Theatre is in the midst of a creating a circle of supporter so that the brand new company, created on the bones of Squidshow and the Telluride REP, can  produce great theatre in the region throughout the year. Telluride Inside… and Out...

A  Sheridan Arts Foundation’s Young People’s Theater production for grades 9 – 12 I mean really. If you are a kid living in New York forced to relocate to that black hole in the middle of  America, namely – and no offense here, I am riffing...