A symposium at Fiske Planetarium convened members of Spontanuity, whose psychedelic light show provided visual background for the Dead’s 1969 concert in Boulder.
The Telluride Bluegrass Festival is widely regarded as one of the world’s most important outdoor festivals. Tim Benko, who has shot TBF for more than three decades, shares some of his favorite images.
Singer Jimmy Cliff, reggae music’s first international hitmaker, died November 24, 2025. He was 81.
Steve Mesple has been proud to live in Louisville, Colorado, even if he finds the “local musician” stigma uninspiring. “Heck, even I wouldn’t go to see a band from Louisville,” the guitarist said. Yet Mesple’s music with his band Wind Machine got attention from the entire country.
Townes Van Zandt
A highly influential Texas singer-songwriter, Townes Van Zandt enrolled at the University of Colorado in 1962; in the spring of his sophomore year, his parents, who were living in Houston, flew to Boulder to bring him back home. The wild, tragic cult artist later wrote and recorded while splitting his time between Texas, Tennessee and the… more ≫
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