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29 Dec Shake your booty into the New Year with The Spinners, live at the Opera House

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[ click play button to hear] 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,...

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28 Dec Sheridan Arts Foundation presents Blood, Sweat & Tears at The Palm

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[ click play button to hear] 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...

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23 Dec Top Brass: Family holiday concert at Opera House Saturday

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[ click play button to hear] 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,...

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15 Dec Introducing Dr. Susannah Smith to the TIO team

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I grew up in and around New York, a place known for ethnic diversity, where a handle like "Smith" is as rare as a street with no traffic or trash. The name smacks of white bread and white linen. Susannah is anything but. She is...

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05 Dec Who is Jen?

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Today she is a wife, mother and beloved director/mentor but growing up, Jen Nyman Julia was a theatre brat. Her parents ran Starflower Productions in her hometown of Winslow, Maine, where actors from all over the country visit to appear in the Nymans’ musicals. 

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04 Dec Sheridan Arts Foundation’s Young People’s Theatre: then and now

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Ten years ago, when a starry-eyed go-getter named Jen Nyman (now Julia) arrived in town to build a young people’s theatre program at the historic Sheridan Opera House, Telluride pulled its Missouri stunt: “Show me, “ we said. Jen did. Big time. Her response to...

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02 Dec The Correa clan, San Vicente and Cauquenes

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Boomers might remember “Leave It to Beaver,” the 1950s sitcom about the perfect all-American family of the Eisenhower years. The program was sweet enough to give a person a toothache, but one thing for sure, the tight little unit worked: lots of white teeth, love,...

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04 Nov Out of Africa: Children’s Choir to perform at Michael D. Palm Theatre

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The news we get out of Africa is generally one-sided and not good. In America, “Africa” spells “t-r-o-u-b-l-e”: AIDS, malaria, genocide, impasse in Zimbabwe, fighting in the Congo, slavery in West Africa. Although the continent is comprised of 54 distinct countries, we tend to think...

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27 Oct More on Madonia

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    Valerie Madonia The notion of dance in Telluride was not new before Valerie Madonia arrived on the scene. In the 1970s, Jeri McAndrews, a New York transplant and modern dancer, settled in town and taught modern, jazz, and ballet in what is now...

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06 Oct George and Beth Gage: Love for their neighbors and for the earth inspires local filmmakers

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Their goal is clear: to entertain and inform. He is in charge of images. Her deal is words. Together George and Beth Gage make highly intelligent, visually seductive documentaries that can make a difference to their neighbors and to the planet.

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