In the ’90s, the Peak Lounge became an integral part of the heritage of live music in Denver, a cozy performance space for listeners of 96.5 KXPK—“The Peak.”
An early-1960s winter spent playing a coffeehouse on Boulder’s University Hill began a two-time Hall of Fame career.
Chip Garofalo, a Denver native, built an impressive photography portfolio of artists who performed at KCUV radio, which he shares with the Colorado Music Experience. He is the president of GARO Productions and Media, Inc.
Guitarist and songwriter Gary Rossington, the last surviving original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, died March 5, 2023. He was 71.
Since making their recorded debut in 1993 with a self-titled EP, the Apples in Stereo forged a career in summer-y, sweetened pop music. Founder Robert Schneider, his wife and drummer Hilarie Sidney, rhythm guitarist John Hill and bassist Eric Allen were zealous students of the tradition’s standard elements—brisk tempos, brief run times, fuzzed-out guitars and trebly vocals.
Peter Kater
Of German birth and descent, composer and pianist Peter Kater moved to Boulder in 1977 at the age of 18, finding stimulation in the beautiful terrain of the Rocky Mountains, “the movements and wholeness of the Earth.” He began a six-year period of improvisational playing at the Mezzanine at Hotel Boulderado and the Broker Inn. His music… more ≫
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