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On a wonderful warm summer evening at Little Bear, in Evergreen, CO, we had a great time chatting with Jason Walsmith and Mike Butterworth of  The Nadas – an awesome rock / country rock / all around great musical experience band out of Iowa.  Even better, we got our second opportunity to hear this fabulous [...]

When my friend Nick Turner, co-owner of the Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, invited my husband and me to a “Wine and Dine by Candlelight,” we had no idea what a wonderful evening was in our future!  And, while usually focus on music in my reviews, the food here was sooo wonderful, I had to pass it [...]

ACME New Talent Music and Art Showcase Featuring Post Paradise at 7:30 pm If you’re in the northern Colorado area, here’s a great chance to catch the new and upcoming band, Post Paradise – tonight! Hosted by Scene Magazine Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 3:30pm – 11:30pm Venue: Hamilton’s at 214 Linden St, Fort Collins, [...]

Our good friends, acclaimed jazz pianist Mark Sloniker and talented singer Colleen Crosson, have teamed together to create a new musical work called Miracles .. and other works of heart.” Mark and Colleen will be debuting this album at the Fort Collins Lincoln Center where they will be opening for “An Evening with Deepak Chopra” [...]

A few weeks ago, Bob and I saw an new band called Post Paradise open at Hodi’s Half Note in Fort Collins, Colorado (from which we hail).  At this, only their 3rd live show, the group (formed less than six months ago) performed a set of 10 original songs which showing great promise for this fledgling band. As [...]

We spent ALL DAY last Thursday with the amazing Quincy Jones. He probably doesn’t know it, because there were always 200-2000 other people there as well , but WE knew it and it was AWESOME. It was like spending the day in the presence of giants and their ghosts and their shadows as Mr. Jones [...]

It’s always the bands you find by accident that turn out to be the best, as you’ll find by reading further about new music recommendations from NPR vs what we found by stumbling down 6th Street… CFO Bob Carnahan and I arrived here in Austin last Friday to catch SXSW interactive, so even though yesterday [...]

Trumpeter Thomas Marriott put together a fantastic jazz quintet featuring the pure, clear and rich tenor sax tones of the amazing Hadley Caliman.  Marriott‘s deep melodious flugelhorn and rich trumpet tones were perfectly entwined with Caliman‘s when they played together, and yet they played nicely contrasting improvisational solos individually. A little tired of standing venues with [...]