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Museum hosts inaugural plein air event with annual fundraiser
Friday, Aug. 8, 2008
On Monday morning, artists from across Colorado will show up at the Steamboat Art Museum, get as many canvasses as they want stamped with a museum logo, and head off into the wilderness — or along cleared trails — to paint.
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Arts calendar for Aug. 8
Friday, Aug. 8, 2008
Ongoing
➤ Artists’ Gallery of Steamboat presents “Artists’ Rodeo,” featuring paintings by R.C. Dieckhoff, pottery by Barb Gregoire and Western photography by Judy Jones. Call 879-4744.
Read story.Margaret Hair: Count on getting quoted
Friday, Aug. 8, 2008
In reporting, I have a couple of very fixable regrets: I never took keyboarding in high school, and I have never owned a voice recorder that hooks up to a phone.
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Steamboat dancers say African styles let them celebrate life
Friday, Aug. 8, 2008
When Quincy Davisson moved to Steamboat Springs in February, the first group of friends or like-minded souls she found was backed by a line of djembe players drumming in rhythm, taking solace in a semi-weekly session of African dance.
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The subdudes hold on to New Orleans, even in Colorado
Friday, Aug. 8, 2008
It’s 11:50 a.m. New Orleans time, and after 20 minutes of talking, Jimmy Messa admits he’s finally woken up.
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The Bellamy Brothers keep gaining fans, 33 years in
Friday, Aug. 8, 2008
The Bellamy Brothers are huge in Europe.
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Tom Ross: Performers’ hands speak volumes at Strings
Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008
When we strolled into the Strings Pavilion on Saturday night, I fully expected Heidi Krutzen’s harp to present a musical experience like none I’d ever encountered. And I was pretty certain that Mike Garson’s premiere of a piece of music created expressly for Strings with vocalist Nnenna Freelon would stretch the boundaries of what we know as the lullaby.
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11-year-old sells jewelry at Farmers Market
Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008
Cassie Wilhelm rocks a streak of blue dye in her blondish hair and has a soft spot for lime-green shoes. Cassie also has a social conscience: A couple of weeks ago, she started selling homemade jewelry at Steamboat Springs’ weekly Farmers Market for charity. Her profits will go to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the American Heart Association. Read story.
Lullaby for strings
Festival to premiere crossover commission by an industry pro
Friday, Aug. 1, 2008
Fifty years into his music career, keyboardist Mike Garson is relatively certain his catalog of 4,400 compositions is in the running for the most prolific of any composer, living or dead.
Read story.Margaret Hair: Getting used to you, finally
Friday, Aug. 1, 2008
A year ago today, I had the following conversation (more or less) with my former boss:
Dennis Gavin, owner of the Skylight Exchange, an illustrious back alley bookstore/record store/sandwich shop: “How was Colorado?”
Read story.Cross Canadian Ragweed stays true to its rough edges
Friday, Aug. 1, 2008
Cross Canadian Ragweed is signed to a label in Nashville, Tenn. But other than having higher-quality press photos than most rollicking red dirt rock bands, there isn’t much that ties the band to the glistening world of pop country.
Read story.Two local shows open with focuses on nature and Western life
Friday, Aug. 1, 2008
Despite producing work that is deliberate and confident, local artists and collaborators Julie Anderson and Nancy Jeffrey take an unexpectedly timid approach to sharing it.
Read story.Attend the tale of ‘Sweeney Todd’
Perry-Mansfield production challenges students and audience
Friday, Aug. 1, 2008
A half-hour before one of their final run-throughs of the play, the cast of “Sweeney Todd” is learning how to die.
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