WORLD-RENOWNED CELLIST FEATURED AT MUSICFEST
Naming a thing helps give the senses a place to aim, but sadly, the phrase “classical music” is a tour de force of negative publicity. The words suggest something inacc
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TELLURIDE BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL: THE HAPPY ENCHILADA
Some four decades since his remarkable debut, John Prine has stayed at the top of his game, both as a performer and songwriter. Recently honored at the Library of Congress by U.S.
SERYN ON MAIN STAGE AT TELLURIDE BLUEGRASS #39
Seryn everywhere you want to be: Main Stage, NightGrass (Palm) and Elks Park The New York Times did a feature on the place a few years ago, when the band Midlake were the poster bo
RIDGWAY’S SHERBINO THEATRE: GAL HOLIDAY AND HONKY TONK REVUE
The beat of authentic, no-frills, Big Easy country music mixed with a strong shot of rockabilly will fill the halls of Ridgway, Colorado’s New Sherbino Theater, Sunday, Jun
TIBETAN POP SINGER TO PERFORM IN MONTROSE
Editor’s note: Telluride and Tibet: two places linked by alliteration and mountain cultures. Tibet was recently celebrated through the work of photographer Phil Borges, whose
HEARTBEAT IN CONCERT AT AH HAA
Beloved a capella group to perform Wednesday, May 23, Ah Haa School for the Arts How to make your heart sing? Heartbeat, an eight woman a cappella group, performs a host of fun tun
TIO DENVER/TALL TALES: “RED” AT CURIOUS THEATRE
Editor’s Note: Our Tall Tales contributor, Mark Stevens, is the author of “Antler Dust” and “Buried by the Roan.” “Buried by the Roan” is
TIO NYC: JUILLIARD GALA HONORS MARY ROGERS GUETTEL
Vincent and Anne Mai (along with filmmaker/pianist Josh Aronson) produce the extraordinary Telluride Musicfest, an event that occurs annually in Telluride in June – this year, st
PLAYWRIGHTS FEST: FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (FINAL)
Editor’s Note: For the past two days, Jennie Franks of the Telluride Playwrights Festival, this year, July 9 – July 15, has blogged about her spring trip to Russia. This
CHICAGO MUSICIAN AT WILKINSON CAFE
The fedora. The hat is one of the calling cards of lovable cads such as Indiana Jones. Michael Jackson also wore a signature fedora, which he used as a prop. Matt Campbell just lik
PLAYWRIGHTS FEST: FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (continued)
Editor’s note: This is part 2 of a three-part series from Jennie Franks of the Telluride Playwrights Festival, which takes place over a week in July. Jennie went to Moscow th
TELLURIDE PLAYWRIGHTS FEST: FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
Editor’s Note: This is the first in the three-part series about a trip Telluride Playwrights Festival artistic director Jennie Franks took to Russia in search of adventure an
JUAN SIDDI FLAMENCO COMES TO TELLURIDE
World-class flamenco group graces the Palm stage Friday, May 4 Romance, passion, majesty and timeless beauty fills the spring air when the Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre Company com
SHERIDAN OPERA HOUSE PRESENTS “STUART LITTLE”
Musical version performed by grades 3 – 5 May 4 – May 6, 6 p.m. nightly Telluride’s young theatrical talent is once again on display in May with the Sheridan Arts Foundatio
JEN JULIA DIRECTS THEATER CAMP FOR KIDS
With mud season in full swing, it’s time to start looking to the summer season, when Telluride’s younger citizens get to enjoy all the wonderful extracurricular activities
SOH:THIS MUST BE THE BAND
A Talking Heads tribute group jams at the Sheridan Opera House Saturday To celebrate the end of the 2011/2012 ski season, the Sheridan Arts Foundation proudly presents This Must Be
TELLURIDE PLAYWRIGHTS FEST: SPRING (THEATRE) FEVER
Spring is a busy time for the Telluride Playwrights Festival. While everyone is getting their last minute snow licks in, we are down to reading the final selections for our sixth a
TIO DENVER: “BECKY SHAW”AT CURIOUS THEATRE
Raise you hands if you have ever been in any of following situations: • A blind date that went south in a hurry • Shades of “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” dressed t
TELLURIDE CHORALE SOCIETY PRESENTS SPRINGSING
The warmer weather and longer days of spring make many of us want to break out in song. Check out the best spring singers at this year’s annual SpringSing. The concert, on March
SHERIDAN OPERA HOUSE: DONOVAN
Surf rock. What’s not to like about it, especially as the snow piles high. The days grow longer and warmer, and Telluriders’ thoughts inevitably turn to the beach. And the laid
THE EXTREME STUNT DOGS
Telluride has its own collection of performers and tricksters. But coming to town this Thursday, March 22nd is something a little different: Stunt Dogs. The Extreme Stunt Dog Perfo
TELLURIDE THEATRE: BURLESQUE
Everything’s coming up Sasha. We are talking about the one and only Ms. Cucciniello, artistic director of the (relatively) newly formed Telluride Theatre. The nonprofit is th
“THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE”
It has been a joy to discover there are still good, new musicals being produced that capture modern life. For musicals to work, they have to have both excellent narrative and stron
SHERIDAN OPERA HOUSE: BLITZEN TRAPPER
To delve into the music of Blitzen Trapper is to explore the sound of escape. Escape from the past, escape from a no-hope town, escape from whatever holds a soul down. It is some o