BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Colorado Chautauqua - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.chautauqua.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Colorado Chautauqua REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20230312T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20231105T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20240310T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20241103T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20250309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20251102T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20260308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20261101T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250926T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250926T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250325T155840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250828T175447Z UID:35611-1758915000-1758915000@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Nate Smith with Special Guest Dandu DESCRIPTION:Presented by Z2 Entertainment & KBCO\n   \nDoor time: 6:30\nShow time: 7:30 \nNate Smith\nNate Smith is a drummer\, composer\, & producer from Chesapeake\, Virginia. His visceral\, instinctive\, and deep-rooted style of drumming has led to three GRAMMY® nominations and work with esteemed artists\, including: Pat Metheny\, Dave Holland\, Brittany Howard\, Van Hunt\, The Fearless Flyers\, Norah Jones\, and Somi. Smith fuses his original compositions with an eclectic mix of music\, including everything from jazz to R&B to hip-hop to pop. His latest album\, Kinfolk 2: See The Birds (released September 2021 on Edition Records) is the highly anticipated follow-up to his 2017 GRAMMY® Award-nominated album\, Kinfolk: Postcards From Everywhere. In recent years\, Smith’s viral videos have been viewed by millions of people\, underscoring his popularity as one of the most influential drummers of his generation. \n \nDandu\n \nTICKET PRICES ARE INCLUSIVE OF FEES. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/nate-smith/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Nate-Smith-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250915T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250915T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250218T145839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T182731Z UID:34957-1757964600-1757964600@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Mat Kearney - Headlights Home Tour with Special Guest Steinza DESCRIPTION:Low Ticket Alert!\n\nPresented by Z2 Entertainment & KBCO\n   \nDoor time: 6:30\nShow time: 7:30 \nVIP Experience Packages\nLimited Availability! \nAcoustic VIP Experience\nPackage includes: \n\nEarly entry into the venue\nAcoustic 2-3 song performance\nQ&A session with Mat Kearney\nGroup Photo\nCommemorative Headlights Home Tour VIP Laminate\nExclusive\, signed screen-printed VIP poster\nCrowd-free merch shopping\nPremium Seat\n*VIP Experience will take place one (1) hour before doors.\n\n\nEarly Entry VIP Experience\nPackage includes: \n\nEarly entry into the venue\nCrowd-free merch shopping\nPremium Seat\nExclusive\, signed screen-printed VIP poster\nCommemorative Headlights Home Tour VIP Laminate\n\nOver his career\, Kearney has released seven studio LPs\, claimed the #1 spot on iTunes\, topped multiple Billboard charts\, made four entries into the Hot 100\, and amassed over 2.5 BILLION global streams. Kearney\, a Multi-Platinum songwriter and producer\, has performed live on TODAY Show\, Ellen\, The Tonight Show\, Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel Live! and has garnered raves from USA Today\, Entertainment Weekly\, People\, Billboard\, PARADE and Marie Claire. He also has an incredible touring history\, sharing the road with everyone from John Mayer to NEEDTOBREATHE. \n \nTICKET PRICES ARE INCLUSIVE OF FEES. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/mat-kearney-headlights-home-tour/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Mat-Kearney-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250914T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250914T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250415T155551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T210344Z UID:36804-1757878200-1757878200@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Hermanos Gutiérrez with Special Guest Marem Ladson DESCRIPTION:Presented by Z2 Entertainment & KBCO\n   \nDoor time: 6:30\nShow time: 7:30 \nHermanos Gutiérrez\nLeaving behind the desert for the cosmos\, Hermanos Gutiérrez present a new sound world on their Sonido Cósmico\, brimming with Latin mystique and otherworldly guitar interplay that “shimmers with hallucinogenic energy” (Rolling Stone). Deep\, infinite\, and spiritual\, the new album is an odyssey through lush musical soundscapes\, imbued with the soulful heritage of Hermanos Gutiérrez\, and artfully produced by Dan Auerbach. \n \nMarem Ladson\nIn the depths of Marem Ladson’s music lies a profound exploration of her cross-cultural identity\, intertwining her unique approach to lyrical and introspective songwriting with influences from folk\, pop\, and Spanish traditional music. Born in Spain and based in New York\, “her sumptuous hooks and sweetly lilting vocals seem to form a language unto themselves” (Stephen Thompson\, NPR Music). \nHailing from Galicia in northern Spain\, Marem sought solace from an early age in the written word\, penning short stories and poems that served as windows into her internal world. It was not long before she discovered the transformative power of music\, teaching herself to play the guitar and transforming her literary creations into heartfelt songs. It was through music that she sought to understand herself\, seeking connection and a true sense of belonging. In Galicia\, she found a close-knit community of musicians at Café Torgal\, a small indie music venue that birthed her artistic awakening. It was there that she immersed herself in the music of artists like Damien Jurado\, Matthew E. White\, and Lee Renaldo\, while also stepping onto the stage for her first live performances. In 2018\, she released her self-titled debut album\, which led to extensive touring in Spain and Portugal\, sharing stages with renowned acts like Cat Power and Laura Gibson. \nNow based in New York City\, Marem’s latest EP\, “Baby Light\,” is a significant meditation on unresolved trauma and its impact on her personal existence. Singing in both English and Spanish\, it showcases a folk-pop fueled by the rawest of emotions and the duality of her bicultural heritage\, thus crafting a sound that is all her own. These songs intricately weave pain\, anger\, loss\, and hope\, illuminating the brilliance that emerges amidst life’s kaleidoscope of emotions. \nAt the heart of “Baby Light” lies Marem Ladson’s poignant exploration of identity. Growing up\, she grappled with the absence of her biological father—a Senegalese man who ventured to Spain in the 1990s\, only to disappear from her life when she was just a child. This lingering void left her searching for answers\, carrying with her a sense of unknowing and resentment. Through her EP\, Marem embarks on a soul-searching journey\, confronting her past\, piecing together her story\, and exposing the hidden layers of sadness that conceal a fiery undercurrent of anger. The songs of “Baby Light” serve as both a refuge and a crucible\, creating a space for Marem to embrace the complexities of her diverse cultural tapestry\, while endeavoring to break free from generational trauma. \n \nTICKET PRICES ARE INCLUSIVE OF FEES. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/hermanos-gutierrez-2/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hermanos-Gutiérrez-square-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250913T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250913T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250408T155843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250909T194054Z UID:35278-1757791800-1757791800@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Hermanos Gutiérrez with Special Guest Marem Ladson - SOLD OUT! DESCRIPTION:Presented by Z2 Entertainment & KBCO\n   \nDoor time: 6:30\nShow time: 7:30 \nHermanos Gutiérrez\nLeaving behind the desert for the cosmos\, Hermanos Gutiérrez present a new sound world on their Sonido Cósmico\, brimming with Latin mystique and otherworldly guitar interplay that “shimmers with hallucinogenic energy” (Rolling Stone). Deep\, infinite\, and spiritual\, the new album is an odyssey through lush musical soundscapes\, imbued with the soulful heritage of Hermanos Gutiérrez\, and artfully produced by Dan Auerbach. \n \nMarem Ladson\nIn the depths of Marem Ladson’s music lies a profound exploration of her cross-cultural identity\, intertwining her unique approach to lyrical and introspective songwriting with influences from folk\, pop\, and Spanish traditional music. Born in Spain and based in New York\, “her sumptuous hooks and sweetly lilting vocals seem to form a language unto themselves” (Stephen Thompson\, NPR Music). \nHailing from Galicia in northern Spain\, Marem sought solace from an early age in the written word\, penning short stories and poems that served as windows into her internal world. It was not long before she discovered the transformative power of music\, teaching herself to play the guitar and transforming her literary creations into heartfelt songs. It was through music that she sought to understand herself\, seeking connection and a true sense of belonging. In Galicia\, she found a close-knit community of musicians at Café Torgal\, a small indie music venue that birthed her artistic awakening. It was there that she immersed herself in the music of artists like Damien Jurado\, Matthew E. White\, and Lee Renaldo\, while also stepping onto the stage for her first live performances. In 2018\, she released her self-titled debut album\, which led to extensive touring in Spain and Portugal\, sharing stages with renowned acts like Cat Power and Laura Gibson. \nNow based in New York City\, Marem’s latest EP\, “Baby Light\,” is a significant meditation on unresolved trauma and its impact on her personal existence. Singing in both English and Spanish\, it showcases a folk-pop fueled by the rawest of emotions and the duality of her bicultural heritage\, thus crafting a sound that is all her own. These songs intricately weave pain\, anger\, loss\, and hope\, illuminating the brilliance that emerges amidst life’s kaleidoscope of emotions. \nAt the heart of “Baby Light” lies Marem Ladson’s poignant exploration of identity. Growing up\, she grappled with the absence of her biological father—a Senegalese man who ventured to Spain in the 1990s\, only to disappear from her life when she was just a child. This lingering void left her searching for answers\, carrying with her a sense of unknowing and resentment. Through her EP\, Marem embarks on a soul-searching journey\, confronting her past\, piecing together her story\, and exposing the hidden layers of sadness that conceal a fiery undercurrent of anger. The songs of “Baby Light” serve as both a refuge and a crucible\, creating a space for Marem to embrace the complexities of her diverse cultural tapestry\, while endeavoring to break free from generational trauma. \n \nTICKET PRICES ARE INCLUSIVE OF FEES. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/hermanos-gutierrez/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hermanos-Gutiérrez-square-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250912T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250912T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250415T155548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T211154Z UID:36676-1757705400-1757705400@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Arooj Aftab with Emma Rose + Sound of Honey DESCRIPTION:Presented by Z2 Entertainment & KBCO\n   \nDoor time: 6:30\nShow time: 7:30 \nArooj Aftab\nDeclared “the coolest rock star in the world right now\,” by UNCUT magazine\, Arooj Aftab has earned her position at the vanguard of creative music for her embrace of risk and nonconformity. In 2024\, she released her fourth solo album\, Night Reign (Verve)\, to universal acclaim\, earning a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Jazz Album\, while the song “Raat Ki Rani” was tabbed for Best Global Music Performance. \nThe album expands on the musical universe Aftab has created over the years. Night Reign features an all-star cast of musicians (Cautious Clay\, Vijay Iyer\, Elvis Costello\, James Franceis\, Moor Mother\, Joel Ross)\, united beneath the steady\, brilliant hand of the queen of the night. As put by the Wall Street Journal\, “[Night Reign’s] beauty is self-evident\, and it stands on its own” which helps explain its inclusion across so many Best of 2024 album lists. \nNight Reign’s predecessor\, Vulture Prince\, ushered Aftab into the cultural zeitgeist\, including a place on President Barack Obama’s Summer 2021 playlist. Recognition for the record propelled her to a Best New Artist Grammy nomination in 2022 and a win for the song “Mohabbat.” The following year she collaborated with Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily on a “masterclass in space\,” the improvisational Love in Exile (Verve 2023)\, also Grammy-nominated and winner of a 2023 Edison Jazz award. \nAftab spent her adolescent years in Lahore\, Pakistan\, the birthplace of her music-loving parents. Her viral cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” at age 18 aided in her passage to study jazz at Berklee College of Music in Boston\, while Brooklyn\, New York would be her next and most fertile workshop for creation of her genre-defying music. \nOver the last few years\, she has delivered “rapturous performances” at major venues and international festivals including Primavera\, Glastonbury\, Coachella\, Le Guess Who? (which she curated)\, and both Newport and Montreal Jazz. She has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\, NPR’s Tiny Desk\, Later with Jools Holland\, Brodie and Mahogany sessions. Aftab has been featured in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, Pitchfork\, Rolling Stone\, The Financial Times\, The Quietus\, and Time\, to name a few. She is a 2023 United States Artists Fellow and recipient of the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Music. \n \nEmma Rose + Sound of Honey\nWhere there’s honey\, there’s a buzz. This rings true for the Colorado-based band\, Sound of Honey. Emma Rose (formerly of Big Richard) has been steeped in the music scene since she entered this world. Raised by two talented musicians and with a natural knack for songwriting\, Rose has spent the last few years fine-tuning her quiver of indie-soul-folk songs with only the finest pollen that the spring flowers have to offer. Rich\, crystalline vocal melodies weave themselves through a sweet sonic landscape created with the help of Tobias Bank (Whippoorwill\, Frail Talk) on drums\, percussion\, and backup vocals\, Matt Cantor on bass\, and Enmanuel Alexander on electric guitar. Together\, their warm hues\, sultry harmonies\, and gentle tones create an experience of overall mellow- sparking curiosity of oneself and the emotions that come with diving into the human experience.  URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/arooj-aftab/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Arooj-Aftab-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250911T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250911T190000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250325T155837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250505T152128Z UID:35616-1757617200-1757617200@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Ani DiFranco with Special Guest Tune-Yards DESCRIPTION:Low Ticket Alert!\n\nPresented by Z2 Entertainment\, Maven Productions\, & KBCO\n \nDoor time: 6:00\nShow time: 7:00 \nThese days\, every artist’s album needs to have a story. The music can’t speak for itself. \nBut after 22 records\, why can’t Ani DiFranco’s work speak for itself? Yes\, her forthcoming album is shaped by stories — ones about reproductive freedom\, the double-edged sword of the pandemic\, identity\, and ever-evolving belief systems that have shaped each of its 11 songs. There are songs that were written in 2011 and in 2022; some for musicals\, others for children’s books. The album isn’t linear\, but it is inherently teeming with DiFranco’s spirit. \nIt was paramount to the folk-feminist hero that listeners not be saddled with preconceived notions while diving into her 23rd album Unprecedented Sh!t. “I believe there is a rhyme and a reason as to why these songs have come together in this way now and I want people to experience this album as a journey\, a piece of art\, without being influenced by a cacophony of surrounding narratives.” \nWhile many of DiFranco’s albums were made more insularly\, she’s opened herself up to collaboration in recent years. For 21 of DiFranco’s 22 albums\, she opted to self-produce. With Unprecedented Sh!t\, she wanted to try working with a producer and tapped BJ Burton\, who produced one of her favorite albums\, Bon Iver’s 22\, A Million. With Burton’s help\, largely from afar\, they created soundscapes often using only DiFranco’s voice and guitar as the raw materials and manipulating them with effects and filters. “I really wanted to lean into the power of machines in a way that I never have before\, so BJ and I communicating through many layers of them in order to collaborate\, seemed apropos. This record was made almost entirely by me and BJ alone\, bouncing things back and forth.” \nThe title Unprecedented Sh!t is not only representative of how much of a sonic departure the 11-track album is from Ani’s other work but also a political and social commentary on the current state of the world. “We find ourselves in unprecedented times in many ways\, faced with unprecedented challenges. So\, our responses to them and our discourse around them\, need to rise to that level.” \nThe lead single of Unprecedented Sh!t\, “Baby Roe” — an anxious folk number that explodes into an industrial-tinged crescendo — embodies that ethos. Inspired by Joshua Prager’s literary masterpiece The Family Roe: An American Story which digs into the history of how abortion became a strategic tool for the right to gain power\, “Baby Roe” widens the lens with which abortion rights are viewed to include an existential awareness of non-duality. Of the song\, DiFranco says\, “In Prager’s book we meet all the characters involved in Roe V. Wade\, including the adult child of Norma McCorvey (aka Jane Roe)\, born and adopted-off in the course of her mother’s quest for the right to a legal abortion. Baby Roe\, unaware of her role in history until she was an adult\, remains\, nonetheless\, in support of a woman’s right to choose. As I would be. Life is much longer than the ego would have us believe. It transcends the body\, any individual body\, and is infinite in fact. Consciousness need not be born into any specific body at any specific time to be manifesting to its fullest. This is one of the ego’s many illusions.” \nThe crushing weight of patriarchal systems on the female psyche and the complicity of women in their own oppression are focal points of the psych-folk number “You Forgot to Speak.” “Between first sleep and second sleep / I stare into the dark / and I can feel there are two of me / so I put um both on the ark\,” Di Franco sings with a dreamy lilt. “New Bible” is a rallying cry for a new world order centered around DiFranco’s gravelly vocals: “I think we should have a new bible / that just says: mother earth /and I think men should stand down when women give birth.” \nOn “Virus\,” a symphony of sensual jazz\, hand-drumming\, and Nine Inch Nails-style guitar drops\, which samples her 1995 classic “32 Flavors\,” DiFranco navigates the paradoxical nature of the pandemic\, which brought both healing and suffering. “I was given permission to stay home with my family\, so it was an incredible gift on that level. It was also a gift to the planet\, for our species to shut up and sit down for a minute. Of course\, it was also an incredible struggle for humans\, full of pain and suffering.” “Spinning Room” visits the related subject of an earth besieged by human pollution and exploitation and seems to come from the voice of nature and the voice of the individual at the same time. Within the world of the song\, these voices are presented as one and the same\, inseparable. \nAgainst a backdrop of finger-picked guitar\, “More or Less Free” explores the dynamic of a friendship with someone who is serving life in prison and how they exist throughout the world. “I never thought that I was special / been that way since we were kids / there’s a million people that are like me / in this world\, stuck doin bids.” \nInspired by Ed Yong’s tome about perception An Immense World\, DiFranco contemplates the lives her 1960s army boots have lived and explores the concept of subjective realities in “Boots of a Soldier.” “Wherever these boots have been\, wherever they walked\, now they’re on my feet and they’re walking my life. If only I could know the story these boots could tell! It boggles the mind\, the radically different umwelts playing out around us at any given moment. This animal\, this tree\, this guitar I am holding\, these boots. The multiplicity of perspectives and stories are unfathomable.” \nWhat is at the heart of the album is its final track\, “The Knowing\,” a tender\, existential lullaby that inspired DiFranco’s eponymous 2023 children’s book and explores and affirms the importance of selfhood while conveying how the concept can be limiting. In a lot of ways\, DiFranco believes if there’s an overarching message to come from her record\, it’s in this song; the idea that we can harness the power and value of identity without being limited to it. Identity is a tool perhaps\, for understanding and affirming diversity\, but beyond that\, it is an illusion\, and our true nature exists on a level wholly more primary than any of the stories we tell. \nDiFranco has been known as a feminist icon and pioneer of DIY for nearly 35 years. Since founding her record label Righteous Babe Records in 1990\, she has released 22 albums\, traversing folk\, punk\, hip-hop\, soul\, and electronic genres and addressing a range of autobiographical\, political\, and social issues. While her first four albums Ani DiFranco (1990)\, Not So Soft (1991)\, and Imperfectly (1992)\, Puddle Dive (1993)\, harnessed a more raw sound\, Out Of Range (1994)\, Not A Pretty Girl (1995) and Dilate (1996) were more rooted in DiFranco’s folk ethos. She released eight more albums over the next 10 years\, earning a Grammy Award for her 2003 album Evolve and numerous nominations. Her most recent albums include 2008’s Red Letter Year and 2017’s Binary. Most recently\, fans have been thrilled by 2021’s Revolutionary Love and the 25th Anniversary Edition reissues of both her iconic 1997 live album Living In Clip and 1998’s Little Plastic Castle\, via Righteous Babe Records in 2023. \nDiFranco is also a poet\, author\, and Broadway performer. She released a collection of poems and paintings titled Verses in 2007. Her memoir No Walls and the Recurring Dream was a New York Times Top 10 best seller in 2019\, and her children’s books The Knowing and Show Up and Vote are out now. DiFranco also recently completed a 5-month run on Broadway as ‘Persephone’ in the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical\, Hadestown. \n \nTICKET PRICES ARE INCLUSIVE OF FEES. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/ani-difranco-tune-yards-2/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ani-DiFranco-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250910T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250910T190000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250325T155827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250505T152110Z UID:35613-1757530800-1757530800@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Ani DiFranco with Special Guest Tune-Yards DESCRIPTION:Low Ticket Alert!\n\nPresented by Z2 Entertainment\, Maven Productions\, & KBCO\n \nDoor time: 6:00\nShow time: 7:00 \nThese days\, every artist’s album needs to have a story. The music can’t speak for itself. \nBut after 22 records\, why can’t Ani DiFranco’s work speak for itself? Yes\, her forthcoming album is shaped by stories — ones about reproductive freedom\, the double-edged sword of the pandemic\, identity\, and ever-evolving belief systems that have shaped each of its 11 songs. There are songs that were written in 2011 and in 2022; some for musicals\, others for children’s books. The album isn’t linear\, but it is inherently teeming with DiFranco’s spirit. \nIt was paramount to the folk-feminist hero that listeners not be saddled with preconceived notions while diving into her 23rd album Unprecedented Sh!t. “I believe there is a rhyme and a reason as to why these songs have come together in this way now and I want people to experience this album as a journey\, a piece of art\, without being influenced by a cacophony of surrounding narratives.” \nWhile many of DiFranco’s albums were made more insularly\, she’s opened herself up to collaboration in recent years. For 21 of DiFranco’s 22 albums\, she opted to self-produce. With Unprecedented Sh!t\, she wanted to try working with a producer and tapped BJ Burton\, who produced one of her favorite albums\, Bon Iver’s 22\, A Million. With Burton’s help\, largely from afar\, they created soundscapes often using only DiFranco’s voice and guitar as the raw materials and manipulating them with effects and filters. “I really wanted to lean into the power of machines in a way that I never have before\, so BJ and I communicating through many layers of them in order to collaborate\, seemed apropos. This record was made almost entirely by me and BJ alone\, bouncing things back and forth.” \nThe title Unprecedented Sh!t is not only representative of how much of a sonic departure the 11-track album is from Ani’s other work but also a political and social commentary on the current state of the world. “We find ourselves in unprecedented times in many ways\, faced with unprecedented challenges. So\, our responses to them and our discourse around them\, need to rise to that level.” \nThe lead single of Unprecedented Sh!t\, “Baby Roe” — an anxious folk number that explodes into an industrial-tinged crescendo — embodies that ethos. Inspired by Joshua Prager’s literary masterpiece The Family Roe: An American Story which digs into the history of how abortion became a strategic tool for the right to gain power\, “Baby Roe” widens the lens with which abortion rights are viewed to include an existential awareness of non-duality. Of the song\, DiFranco says\, “In Prager’s book we meet all the characters involved in Roe V. Wade\, including the adult child of Norma McCorvey (aka Jane Roe)\, born and adopted-off in the course of her mother’s quest for the right to a legal abortion. Baby Roe\, unaware of her role in history until she was an adult\, remains\, nonetheless\, in support of a woman’s right to choose. As I would be. Life is much longer than the ego would have us believe. It transcends the body\, any individual body\, and is infinite in fact. Consciousness need not be born into any specific body at any specific time to be manifesting to its fullest. This is one of the ego’s many illusions.” \nThe crushing weight of patriarchal systems on the female psyche and the complicity of women in their own oppression are focal points of the psych-folk number “You Forgot to Speak.” “Between first sleep and second sleep / I stare into the dark / and I can feel there are two of me / so I put um both on the ark\,” Di Franco sings with a dreamy lilt. “New Bible” is a rallying cry for a new world order centered around DiFranco’s gravelly vocals: “I think we should have a new bible / that just says: mother earth /and I think men should stand down when women give birth.” \nOn “Virus\,” a symphony of sensual jazz\, hand-drumming\, and Nine Inch Nails-style guitar drops\, which samples her 1995 classic “32 Flavors\,” DiFranco navigates the paradoxical nature of the pandemic\, which brought both healing and suffering. “I was given permission to stay home with my family\, so it was an incredible gift on that level. It was also a gift to the planet\, for our species to shut up and sit down for a minute. Of course\, it was also an incredible struggle for humans\, full of pain and suffering.” “Spinning Room” visits the related subject of an earth besieged by human pollution and exploitation and seems to come from the voice of nature and the voice of the individual at the same time. Within the world of the song\, these voices are presented as one and the same\, inseparable. \nAgainst a backdrop of finger-picked guitar\, “More or Less Free” explores the dynamic of a friendship with someone who is serving life in prison and how they exist throughout the world. “I never thought that I was special / been that way since we were kids / there’s a million people that are like me / in this world\, stuck doin bids.” \nInspired by Ed Yong’s tome about perception An Immense World\, DiFranco contemplates the lives her 1960s army boots have lived and explores the concept of subjective realities in “Boots of a Soldier.” “Wherever these boots have been\, wherever they walked\, now they’re on my feet and they’re walking my life. If only I could know the story these boots could tell! It boggles the mind\, the radically different umwelts playing out around us at any given moment. This animal\, this tree\, this guitar I am holding\, these boots. The multiplicity of perspectives and stories are unfathomable.” \nWhat is at the heart of the album is its final track\, “The Knowing\,” a tender\, existential lullaby that inspired DiFranco’s eponymous 2023 children’s book and explores and affirms the importance of selfhood while conveying how the concept can be limiting. In a lot of ways\, DiFranco believes if there’s an overarching message to come from her record\, it’s in this song; the idea that we can harness the power and value of identity without being limited to it. Identity is a tool perhaps\, for understanding and affirming diversity\, but beyond that\, it is an illusion\, and our true nature exists on a level wholly more primary than any of the stories we tell. \nDiFranco has been known as a feminist icon and pioneer of DIY for nearly 35 years. Since founding her record label Righteous Babe Records in 1990\, she has released 22 albums\, traversing folk\, punk\, hip-hop\, soul\, and electronic genres and addressing a range of autobiographical\, political\, and social issues. While her first four albums Ani DiFranco (1990)\, Not So Soft (1991)\, and Imperfectly (1992)\, Puddle Dive (1993)\, harnessed a more raw sound\, Out Of Range (1994)\, Not A Pretty Girl (1995) and Dilate (1996) were more rooted in DiFranco’s folk ethos. She released eight more albums over the next 10 years\, earning a Grammy Award for her 2003 album Evolve and numerous nominations. Her most recent albums include 2008’s Red Letter Year and 2017’s Binary. Most recently\, fans have been thrilled by 2021’s Revolutionary Love and the 25th Anniversary Edition reissues of both her iconic 1997 live album Living In Clip and 1998’s Little Plastic Castle\, via Righteous Babe Records in 2023. \nDiFranco is also a poet\, author\, and Broadway performer. She released a collection of poems and paintings titled Verses in 2007. Her memoir No Walls and the Recurring Dream was a New York Times Top 10 best seller in 2019\, and her children’s books The Knowing and Show Up and Vote are out now. DiFranco also recently completed a 5-month run on Broadway as ‘Persephone’ in the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical\, Hadestown. \n \nTICKET PRICES ARE INCLUSIVE OF FEES. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/ani-difranco-tune-yards/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ani-DiFranco-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250805T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250805T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250603T155832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250805T213420Z UID:37253-1754422200-1754422200@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Waxahatchee with Brennan Wedl - SOLD OUT! DESCRIPTION:Presented by Z2 Entertainment & KBCO\n   \nDoor time: 6:30\nShow time: 7:30 \nWaxahatchee\nOne of the hardest-working singer-songwriters in the game is named Katie Crutchfield. She was born in Alabama\, grew up near Waxahatchee Creek. Skipped town and struck out on her own as Waxahatchee. That was over a decade ago. Crutchfield says she never knew the road would lead her here\, but after six critically acclaimed albums\, she’s never felt more confident in herself as an artist. While her sound has evolved from lo-fi folk to lush alt-tinged country\, her voice has always remained the same. Honest and close\, poetic with Southern lilting. Much like Carson McCullers’s Mick Kelly\, determined in her desires and convictions\, ready to tell whoever will listen. \nAnd after years of being sober and stable in Kansas City–after years of sacrificing herself to her work and the road–Crutchfield has arrived at her most potent songwriting yet. On her new album\, Tigers Blood\, Crutchfield emerges as a powerhouse–an ethnologist of the self–forever dedicated to revisiting her wins and losses. But now she’s arriving at revelations and she ain’t holding them back. \nCrutchfield says that she wrote most of the songs on ‘Tigers Blood’ during a “hot hand spell\,” while on tour in the end of 2022. And when it came time to record\, Crutchfield returned to her trusted producer Brad Cook\, who brought her sound to a groundbreaking turning point on 2020’s Saint Cloud. \nThey hunkered down at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo\, Texas–a border town known for cotton and pecans–and searched for another turn\, waited for a sign. Initially\, MJ Lenderman\, Southern indie-rock wunderkind (much like Crutchfield when she started out)\, came to play electric guitar and sing on “Right Back To It.” But as soon as they tracked it\, Cook told Lenderman he had to stay for the rest of the album. And he did. \n“Right Back To It” is ‘Tigers Blood’’s lead single. A nod to country duets like Gram and Emmylou\, winding over a steadfast banjo from Phil Cook. Together\, Crutchfield and Lenderman harmonize on the chorus: “I’ve been yours for so long/We come right back to it/I let my mind run wild/Don’t know why I do it/But you just settle in/Like a song with no end.” Crutchfield says it’s the first real love song she’s ever written. \nThe song “Bored” opens with blase drum beats from Spencer Tweedy that crash under Crutchfield as she throws her voice high: “I can get along/ My spine’s a rotted two by four/Barely hanging on/My benevolence just hits the floor.” Lenderman’s scuzzy riffs and Nick Bockrath’s climbing pedal steel add power to the album’s most ‘Southern Rock’ a la Drive-By Truckers moment. \n“365” is a story of recognition told from a hard-won place of self-acceptance/forgiveness. Crutchfield initially started writing it for Wynonna Judd\, with whom she has written and performed in the past\, until the lyrics started hitting closer and closer to home. The writer Annie Ernaux says\, “Writing is to fight forgetting.” Like Lucinda Williams\, Crutchfield’s lyrics are memoir. Throughout ‘Tigers Blood’\, Crutchfield is addressing a “you\,” but the ‘you’ in “365” evokes raw closeness\, vulnerability. “Ya ain’t had much luck but grace is/In the eye of the beholder/And I had my own ideas but/I carried you on my shoulders\, anyways.” \n“365” is essentially ‘Tigers Blood’’s aria about addiction\, with little to no accompaniment to Crutchfield’s voice. Her backing band is hushed\, as if the spotlight’s coming down on her\, alone on the stage\, giving her testimony. Crutchfield slings her voice with arresting precision\, reaching its highest harmony on the whole album. “So when you kill\, I kill/And when you ache\, I ache/And we both haunt this old lifeless town/And when you fail\, I fail/ When you fly\, I fly/And it’s a long way to come back down.” \n“365” circles back to the beginning of ‘Tigers Blood\,’ where Crutchfield’s words ring clear as a bell. Album opener “3 Sisters” starts with Crutchfield singing over hymn-like piano chords: “I pick you up inside a hopeless prayer/I see you beholden to nothing/I make a living crying it ain’t fair/And not budging.” ‘Tigers Blood’ is Crutchfield at her most confident and resilient. Staring straight at the truth\, forgiving but not forgetting\, not batting an eye. \nBrennan Wedl\nNashville’s Brennan Wedl delivers sweetly lilting country one minute\, and crashing rock the next\, dialing in a sound she refers to as “grunge country”. Her knack for encapsulating the moment has been apparent since co-founding the teen Boston band Dazey & The Scouts in 2017 and through their viral resurgence in 2020 as a new audience found themselves drawn to the allure of their earnest and relatable songwriting. As Wedl tours into 2025\, her newest compositions and captivating live show prove that she remains viscerally attached to her emotional core and an acutely gifted narrator of life’s highs and lows. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/waxahatchee/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Waxahatchee-Square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250802T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250802T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250527T165821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250530T160021Z UID:37242-1754163000-1754163000@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Leo Kottke + Julian Lage DESCRIPTION:Presented by Z2 Entertainment & KBCO\n   \nDoor time: 6:30\nShow time: 7:30 \nLeo Kottke\nAcoustic guitarist Leo Kottke was born in Athens\, Georgia\, but left town after a year and a half. Raised in 12 different states\, he absorbed a variety of musical influences as a child\, flirting with both violin and trombone\, before abandoning Stravinsky for the guitar at age 11. \nAfter adding a love for the country-blues of Mississippi John Hurt to the music of John Phillip Sousa and Preston Epps\, Kottke joined the Navy underage\, to be underwater\, and eventually lost some hearing shooting at lightbulbs in the Atlantic while serving on the USS Halfbeak\, a diesel submarine. \nKottke had previously entered college at the U of Missouri\, dropping out after a year to hitchhike across the country to South Carolina\, then to New London and into the Navy\, with his twelve string. “The trip was not something I enjoyed\,” he has said\, “I was broke and met too many interesting people.” \nDischarged in 1964\, he settled in the Twin Cities area and became a fixture at Minneapolis’ Scholar Coffeehouse\, which had been home to Bob Dylan and John Koerner. He issued his 1968 recording debut LP Twelve String Blues\, recorded on a Viking quarter-inch tape recorder\, for the Scholar’s tiny Oblivion label. (The label released one other LP by The Langston Hughes Memorial Eclectic Jazz Band.) \nAfter sending tapes to guitarist John Fahey\, Kottke was signed to Fahey’s Takoma label\, releasing what has come to be called the Armadillo record. Fahey and his manager Denny Bruce soon secured a production deal for Kottke with Capitol Records. \nKottke’s 1971 major-label debut\, “Mudlark\,” positioned him somewhat uneasily in the singer/songwriter vein\, despite his own wishes to remain an instrumental performer. Still\, despite arguments with label heads as well as with Bruce\, Kottke flourished during his tenure on Capitol\, as records like 1972’s “Greenhouse” and 1973’s live “My Feet Are Smiling” and “Ice Water” found him branching out with guest musicians and honing his guitar technique. \nWith 1975’s Chewing Pine\, Kottke reached the U.S. Top 30 for the second time; he also gained an international following thanks to his continuing tours in Europe and Australia. \nHis collaboration with Phish bassist Mike Gordon\, “Clone\,” caught audiences’ attention in 2002. Kottke and Gordon followed with a recording in the Bahamas called “Sixty Six Steps\,” produced by Leo’s old friend and Prince producer David Z. \nKottke has been awarded two Grammy nominations; a Doctorate in Music Performance by the Peck School of Music at the U of Wisconsin\, Milwaukee; and a Certificate of Significant Achievement in Not Playing the Trombone from the U of Texas at Brownsville with Texas Southmost College. \n \nJulian Lage\nHailed as one of the most prodigious guitarists of his generation and “highest category of improvising musicians” (New Yorker)\, Julian Lage has spent more than a decade searching through the myriad strains of American musical history via impeccable technique\, free association and a spirit of infinite possibility. The California-born New York-based musician boasts a prolific resume on his own accord in addition to collaborating with Gary Burton and John Zorn\, as well as duo projects with Nels Cline\, Chris Eldridge and Fred Hersch\, among others. \n \nTICKET PRICES ARE INCLUSIVE OF FEES. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/leo-kottke-julian-lage-2/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Kottke-Lage-sqaure.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250728T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250728T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250305T165806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250722T162947Z UID:35281-1753731000-1753731000@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Rhiannon Giddens & The Old-Time Revue - SOLD OUT! DESCRIPTION:Presented by Z2 Entertainment & KBCO\n   \nDoor time: 6:30\nShow time: 7:30 \nRhiannon Giddens has made a singular\, iconic career out of stretching her brand of folk music\, with its miles-deep historical roots and contemporary sensibilities\, into just about every field imaginable. A two-time GRAMMY Award-winning singer and multi-instrumentalist\, MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient\, Pulitzer Prize winner\, and composer of opera\, ballet\, and film\, Giddens has centered her work around the mission of lifting up people whose contributions to American musical history have previously been overlooked or erased\, and advocating for a more accurate understanding of the country’s musical origins through art. \nGiddens has released three albums under her own name and two in collaboration with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi\, all on Nonesuch Records. American Railroad\, her first album in collaboration with the Silkroad Ensemble\, was released in November 2024\, and her forthcoming album in collaboration with Justin Robinson\, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow\, will release in April 2025. \nA founding member of the landmark Black string band Carolina Chocolate Drops\, and the all-female banjo supergroup\, Our Native Daughters\, Giddens is as much a curator as a creator. She is the current Artistic Director of the Yo-Yo Ma-founded Silkroad Ensemble\, hosts a TV show on PBS\, My Music with Rhiannon Giddens\, and has hosted two podcasts (Aria Code from New York City’s NPR affiliate station WQXR\, which ran for three seasons\, and American Railroad from Silkroad). Giddens has published two children’s books and written and performed music for the soundtrack of Red Dead Redemption II\, one of the best-selling video games of all time. She appeared as a recurring cast member on ABC’s hit drama Nashville and as a music history expert on Ken Burns’ Country Music series on PBS. In 2025\, she will launch her own music festival in Durham\, NC called Biscuits & Banjos\, to celebrate Black culture outside the mainstream. \nAs Pitchfork once said\, “few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration”—a journey that has led to NPR naming her one of its 25 Most Influential Women Musicians of the 21st Century and to American Songwriter calling her “one of the most important musical minds currently walking the planet.” \n \nTICKET PRICES ARE INCLUSIVE OF FEES. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/rhiannon-giddens/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Rhiannon-Giddens-square-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250726T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250726T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250318T155833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250723T164953Z UID:34955-1753558200-1753558200@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Jesus "Aguaje" Ramos & the Buena Vista Orchestra DESCRIPTION:Tickets Are Flying!\n\nPresented by Z2 Entertainment & KBCO\n   \nDoor time: 6:30\nShow time: 7:30 \nBuena Vista Orchestra Meet & Greet Package: \n– One premium reserved ticket in the first 5 rows\n– Priority entry into the venue\n– Exclusive meet & greet with original members of the Buena Vista Orchestra\n– Personal photograph with original members of the Buena Vista Orchestra\n– Collectible Buena Vista Orchestra tour poster; autographed\n– Buena Vista Orchestra tote bag\n– Commemorative tour laminate and lanyard\n– Limited availability \nJESUS “AGUAJE” RAMOS (born 1951) is a Cuban trombonist\, composer\, arranger and musical director. He is best known as the original orchestra leader\, composer and trombonist of The Buena Vista Social Club. He has also served long stints in world class ensembles Estrellas de Areito and Afro-Cuban Allstars. His musical journey and history is brought into focus throughout the critically acclaimed 1999 documentary “Buena Vista Social Club” \nRamos performed on the World Circuit recordings of The Buena Vista Social Club and Afro-Cuban Allstars and the solo albums of Ibrahim Ferrer\, Ruben Gonzales and Omara Portuondo. He was Gonzales’s musical director and has been touring extensively since 1997 with various Buena Vista Social Club projects. He was a prominent member and musical director of the renowned Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club\, which brought the music of the original Buena Vista Social Club back into international prominence during the incredibly successful ‘Adios’ Tour from 2014-2016. \nThe Buena Vista Orchestra\, under the direction of Ramos and featuring key players from throughout the history of The Buena Vista Social Club\, continued the legacy of the legendary group in 2024 with an exciting new stage production and repertoire pulled from the greatest hits (many of which Ramos composed) and deep-dive cuts. The group embarked on a massive tour across the USA starting in September 2024\, spending 3 months on the road and playing for thousands of fans new and old. Their adventure culminated in the release of USA TOUR 2024 – 12 LIVE RECORDINGS on SSK Records\, the first time in decades the group’s music will be available on CD and vinyl. \nRamos is joined on the 2025 international tour to Canada\, the United Kingdom\, the EU\, Brazil\, and beyond by an all-star ensemble including original BVSC members “Betun” Luis Mariano Valiente Marin (Congas\, Bongo) and Fabían Garcia (Bass). \nTo date\, The Buena Vista Social Club and related projects have global sales that stand at over fifty million\, making it the biggest-selling Cuban music project in history. As one critic put it\, Buena Vista has become “world music’s equivalent of The Dark Side of the Moon.” \nTHE BUENA VISTA ORCHESTRA 2025 \nJESUS “AGUAJE” RAMOS – Trombone\, Vocals LORENA RAMOS DIAZ – Trombone\, Vocals GEIDY CHAPMAN – Vocals \nYURI TEJADA RODRIGUEZ – Vocals \nAMAURY TAMAYO – Trumpet\, Vocals ANDY ABAD ACOSTA – Piano \nFABIAN GARCIA – Bass \nANTONIO RUBIO BORAYO – Timbal\, Percussion \nLUIS “BETUN” MARIANO VALIENTE MARIN – Congas\, Bongo \nMAIKEL OCHAO – Tres \n \nTICKET PRICES ARE INCLUSIVE OF FEES. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/buena-vista-orchestra/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/BVO-square.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250721T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250721T191500 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250318T155856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T182658Z UID:35091-1753125300-1753125300@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Steve Earle Solo & Acoustic: 50 - Fifty Years of Songs and Stories with Buffalo Traffic Jam DESCRIPTION:Low Ticket Alert!\n\nPresented by Z2 Entertainment & KBCO\n   \nDoor time: 6:30\nShow time: 7:15 \nSteve Earle is one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of his generation. A protege of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark\, he quickly became a master storyteller in his own right\, with his songs being recorded by Johnny Cash\, Waylon Jennings\, Joan Baez\, Emmylou Harris\, The Pretenders\, and countless others. 1986 saw the release of his record\, Guitar Town\, which shot to number one on the country charts and is now regarded as a classic of the Americana genre. Most recently\, Earle’s 1988 hit Copperhead Road was made an official state song of Tennessee in 2023. \nSubsequent releases like The Revolution Starts…Now (2004)\, Washington Square Serenade (2007)\, and TOWNES (2009) received consecutive GRAMMY® Awards. Jerry Jeff\, released in 2022\, consisted of Earle’s versions of songs written by Jerry Jeff Walker\, one of his mentors. \nEarle has published both a novel I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011) and Dog House Roses\, a collection of short stories (Houghton Mifflin 2003). \nEarle produced albums for other artists such as Joan Baez (Day After Tomorrow) and Lucinda Williams (Car Wheels on A Gravel Road) \nAs an actor\, Earle has appeared in several films and had recurring roles in the HBO series The Wire and Tremé.  In 2009\, Earle appeared in the off-Broadway play Samara\, for which he also wrote a score that The New York Times described as “exquisitely subliminal.” Earle wrote music for and appeared in Coal Country\, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. Earle is the host of the weekly show Hard Core Troubadour on Sirius Radio’s Outlaw Country channel. \nIn 2020\, Earle was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2023\, Steve was honored by the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music. Steve’s latest album\, “Alone Again (Live)”\, released on July 12th\, 2024. \n \nTICKET PRICES ARE INCLUSIVE OF FEES. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/steve-earle-2/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Steve-Earle-square-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250719T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250719T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250318T155818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250604T204234Z UID:35609-1752953400-1752953400@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Lucinda Williams & Her Band DESCRIPTION:Tickets Are Going Fast!\n\nPresented by Z2 Entertainment & KBCO\n   \nDoor time: 6:30\nShow time: 7:30 \nLucinda Williams’ music has gotten her through her darkest days. It’s been that way since growing up amid family chaos in the Deep South\, as she recounts in her candid new memoir\, Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I told You. Over the past two years\, it’s been the force driving her recovery from a debilitating stroke she suffered on November 17\, 2020\, at age 67. Her masterful\, multi-Grammy-winning songwriting has never deserted her. To wit\, her stunning\, sixteenth studio album\, Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart\, brims over with some of the best work of her career. And though Williams can no longer play her beloved guitar – a constant companion since age 12 – her distinctive vocals sound better than ever. \n\n\n“I’m singing my ass off\,” she told Vanity Fair in February\, following her first European tour since 2019. The love emanating from audiences and her musical family onstage and in the studio exemplify the healing power of music\, says Williams. In 2020\, she spent a week in intensive care\, followed by a month in rehab before returning home. The blood clot on the right side of her brain impaired the left side of her body’s motor skills\, forcing her to relearn some of the most basic of activities\, like walking. In July 2021\, she played her first gig\, opening for Jason Isbell at Red Rocks. She began seated in a wheelchair\, but soon she was upright. “Just the energy of the audiences being so welcoming and warm and the band playing so great and being so supportive gave me so much strength\,” Williams relates. “I figured\, ‘Hell\, all I have to do is stand up there and sing. How hard can that be?” \nSoon after touring with Isbell\, she returned to the studio. “Writing had been part of my rehabilitation\,” says Williams. “It didn’t occur to me to stop and not do anything.” During those long months working with physical therapists and regaining mobility and strength\, Williams turned to notebooks of partial lyrics and jotted down some new ideas. She also began collaborating on songs with her husband\, manager\, and co-producer Tom Overby. The pair’s successful collaborations on several tracks from Williams’ critically acclaimed previous effort\, Good Souls Better Angels (released in 2020 and nominated for two Grammy Awards) opened her up to cowriting  –  “it just expands things\,” Williams says. \nBut post-stroke\, she had to revise her own songwriting process\, since she could no longer play guitar. “My process has always been to come up with some lyrics\, then get the guitar and come up with a melody and some kind of structure\,” Williams relates. “Once I get that\, then I’d go back and edit the lyrics and add more. Pretty much like when you write and revise a story\, except the guitar is added to it. It was very rare that I’d ever write all the lyrics completely without the guitar.” \nAs they worked on new songs\, Williams and Overby enlisted New York singer-songwriter Jesse Malin\, whose 2019 album\, Sunset Kids\, they co-produced. Williams’ longtime road manager\, Travis Stephens\, a veteran guitarist in several Nashville bands\, also jumped in to help. “Like Jesse\, Travis is a singer and a songwriter\, so he threw his bit in and that led to the co-writing of some songs\,” says Williams. “I was comfortable writing with them. Jesse knows me pretty well now\, so he was able to anticipate certain things when we worked together – the same with Tom and Travis. I could contribute the melody and all.” \nRecording sessions began in November 2021 and – as Williams’ strength increased\, continued into 2022. She and Overby rejoined Ray Kennedy\, coproducer and engineer of her landmark Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998)\, with whom she reunited to cut Good Souls Better Angels. In addition to Williams’ longtime touring guitarist Stuart Mathis\, joining the mix were drummer Steve Ferrone (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)\, keyboardist Reese Wynans (the Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble vet who appeared on Essence)\, bassist Steve Mackey (Dolly Parton)\, and pedal steel/guitarist Doug Pettibone\, who played with Williams earlier in her career. “Since I couldn’t teach the band the songs on guitar\, I would sing it to give an idea of the feel and the vibe\,” says Williams. “We’d do it a few times until we got the right groove. It was really challenging because I wasn’t playing guitar. But sometimes when things are challenging like that\, good stuff can come out of it.” \nAnd it certainly did! The band rocks out on the album’s jubilant opening track “Let’s Get the Band Back Together\,” which features a gang of background singers\, including Margo Price and Buddy Miller. Inspired by “that need for community after all the isolation of the pandemic\,” Williams offers\, the song is “about getting old friends together again who’d drifted apart.” Price also joins her on the bluesy protest “This Is Not My Town.” \nThe evocative “New York Comeback” also includes guest vocalists – Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa. A Lucinda Williams fan\, Springsteen joined her onstage in London a few years back\, and he and Scialfa had wanted to contribute to a Williams album for some time. With Wynans on B3 and the Pettibone-Mathis guitar attack\, the musical setting perfectly matches the theme of “Comeback\,” as well as on the catchy story-song “Rock N’ Roll Heart\,” to which Springsteen and Scialfa also contributed vocals. Says Williams\, “Having Bruce and Patti on these songs feels really great. It’s just so cool!” \nAnother musical hero of Williams\, the late Tom Petty is the subject of the elegiac “Stolen Moments.” Williams\, who’d toured with Petty in 1999\, played his last Hollywood Bowl shows before his sudden death in October 2017. “Tom was a down to earth\, sweet\, loving person\, and I miss his music but I miss him more\,” she relates. “I wrote this song after he passed away. I was just heartbroken\, and I’m still reeling.” \nAnother fallen musician\, Bob Stinson\, founding lead guitarist of the Replacements\, inspired “Hum’s Liquor.” “Tom came up with that\,” says Williams\, of her husband\, a Minneapolis native who lived near the liquor store. Overby witnessed from his window Stinson’s daily morning visits\, which eventually cut the former Replacement’s life short. “It haunted me\,” Overby relates\, “and when I read Bob Mehr’s biography of the band and learned about his childhood abuse\, it explained a lot.” Tommy Stinson added vocals to the track\, which “was really emotional\,” says Williams. “We told him it’s a tribute to his brother\,” Overby adds\, and “Tommy loved the song.” (The album is dedicated to Bob Stinson\, “a true rock n roll heart.”) \nWilliams’ own rock n roll life is reflected in several of the album’s most moving ballads.  The bittersweet “Last Call for the Truth” finds her asking for “one more taste of my lost youth\,” while on “Jukebox\,” her corner-bar Wurlitzer with “Patsy Cline and Muddy Waters” offers solace when she’s “going crazy with the sound of my own voice.” Angel Olsen contributes backing vocals on the latter\, and vocalist Siobhan Maher Kennedy appears on the former. The haunting “Where the Song Will Find Me” is beautifully orchestrated with layers of violin and cello\, played and arranged by Lawrence Rothman. And the ode to perseverance\, “Never Gonna Fade Away\,” is – like Williams’ live performances – further testimony to the redemptive power of music. \nThrough all the hardships Williams faced in 2020 – a destructive tornado damaging her new home in Nashville\, being sidelined by the pandemic\, and then the catastrophic stroke – her music kept her going and continues to bring her more laurels. The past year has seen Williams honored by BMI for her songwriting\, her induction into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame\, and a Grammy Week tribute at the Troubadour\, with her songs performed by a diversity of Americana artists. She duetted with Willie Nelson on Billy Joe Shaver’s “Live Forever\,” which won a Grammy in February for Best Country Performance. On her birthday in January she performed at a sold-out show in Belfast\, Ireland. “I was so glad I was there when I turned 70\,” she relates. “The audience sang ‘Happy Birthday\,’ Travis brought a birthday cake out onstage\, and we took it on the bus and all had a piece of cake. Afterwards\, I was so inspired I started writing a song about Northern Ireland.” \nAs she promises on the powerful last track of Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart–one of the best albums of her career–Lucinda Williams is “never gonna fade away.” \n\n\n \nTICKET PRICES ARE INCLUSIVE OF FEES. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/lucinda-williams/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Lucinda-Williams-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250716T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250716T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250401T155848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250627T173110Z UID:35859-1752694200-1752694200@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Jake Shimabukuro DESCRIPTION:Tickets Are Flying!\n\nPresented by Z2 Entertainment & KBCO\n   \nDoor time: 6:30\nShow time: 7:30 \nSince gaining prominence in the early 2000’s\, ukulele marvel Jake Shimabukuro has mesmerized audiences with his innovative and dynamic style\, taking the instrument to dizzying new heights. Over a dozen solo albums\, Shimabukuro has shown a knack for moving effortlessly between genres\, sometimes in the same song. \nAfter being taught the instrument by his mother at age four\, Jake became a local phenom\, performing on his own and in a local group Pure Heart. Early in his solo career he became a YouTube sensation when his cover of George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” went viral. Since then\, Jake has gone on to play the world’s most venerable venues\, from The Hollywood Bowl to Lincoln Center to the Sydney Opera House and The N.O. Jazz Fests and collaborated with some of the world’s greatest musicians\, including Yo-Yo Ma\, Bela Fleck and The Flecktones\, Jimmy Buffett\, Jack Johnson\, Bette Midler\, Ziggy Marley\, Sonny Landreth\, Billy Strings\, Lukas & Willie Nelson and Warren Haynes. Shimabukuro has also won his share of awards and\, just a few years ago he was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as a Member for the National Council on the Arts. \nOne strong thread that runs through much of Shimabukuro’s work is that of collaboration. From the Trio album to Jake & Friends to Grateful and beyond\, Shimabukuro thrives in the ability to feed off and inspire his fellow musicians. \nFor his brand-new project\, Shimabukuro joins forces with his friend\, drumming legend and founding member of Fleetwood Mac\, Mick Fleetwood\, to create a fresh new take on the Blues. “I’ve always wanted to do a Blues album and when Mick and I started talking about working together\, I thought who better to work with than Mick Fleetwood?” The result is something exhilarating and unique\, as these two titans of their instruments reinterpret some of the greatest songs written by some of their favorite songwriters in a Blues setting. \nIt’s a union whose roots go back to the late 1990s when a young Shimabukuro met and played with Fleetwood at the Hawaiian Music Awards ceremony along with singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins. It wasn’t until a few years ago\, that the two were reconnected by a mutual friend at a Fleetwood Mac reunion concert in Nashville. That night\, the seeds of the collaboration were planted at Fleetwood’s suggestion. Not long thereafter the two convened along with Jake’s touring bassist Jackson Waldhoff and keyboard player Michael Grande to start work on a new studio album in Maui. Mark Johnstone from The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band plays keys on two songs\, “Need Your Love So Bad”\, and “Rockin’ In The Free World”. \nOver the course of two 3-day sessions\, the band recorded 9 songs live in the studio. The only track that was not recorded with all of the musicians playing together was Sonny Landreth’s brilliant slide guitar on the Jeff Beck/Stevie Wonder classic “Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers”. This soaring track full of peaks and valleys was a tremendous way to start the album. \nThe interplay between Landreth and Shimabukuro is so seamless\, you’d never know that they did not play together in the same room. The Chemistry is due in large part to the two performing the song together during a recent tour. In addition\, Sonny would often sit in with Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band back when Jake was a member. \nUp next is a truly unique interpretation of the Blues standard\, “Rollin’ N Tumblin’”. The song fades in with a swirling\, delay-drenched psychedelic uke over top of Fleetwood’s tribal drumming pattern\, giving credence to why Jake is often referred to as the “Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele”. Then\, on a dime\, Jake changes his sound and cuts to playing the song’s theme which is echoed nicely by the Hammond Organ. Jake’s playing on the track is experimental and otherworldly\, at times ascending into a psych jazz rock fusion in the most visceral ways. \n“Mick’s energy when he plays is so infectious. He’s such an intense musician. He pushes everyone around him and it’s so inspiring to see his facial expressions and watch his movements and the way he hits the drums\,” says Shimabukuro exuberantly. \nAbout “Kula Blues” Jake explains\, “I’d never written anything that sounded this bluesy or a shuffle\, so I wanted to take a stab at it and have a song where any musician could sit in without needing a chart”. Again\, Jake credits Mick Fleetwood with bringing the track to life. “He just got behind the drums and without even counting it off came charging in. You either jump on the train or get outta the way!” \nA couple of other standouts on the album are “Whiter Shade of Pale” and “Rockin’ in the Free World”. Of the former\, Shimabukuro recalls “I was so in the moment\, I remember just closing my eyes and really forgetting my pedal board and everything and just reacting to Mick and the band.” \nFortuitously\, The Bridge School Benefit\, founded by Neil Young had asked Jake if he would do a cover of “Rockin’ in the Free World” the same week he and Mick were in the studio. The track has an explosive energy that builds to an incendiary psychedelic guitar\, ‘er make that ukulele solo spurred on by Fleetwood’s thunderous drums. \nOne of the things that really comes across speaking to Jake about this record is the ‘spirits in the air’ during the recordings. This is particularly apparent on their rendition of Fleetwood Mac’s “Songbird”. Recorded not long after Christine McVie’s passing\, the band only did one take. You can feel the emotion in the performance. “I remember Mick took a moment of silence after the song ended and you could see that he felt Christine’s presence.” Fleetwood’s tom tom groove provides the heartbeat for Shimabukuro’s floaty\, ethereal uke\, as he moves naturally between fast strumming chords and lilting melodic phrases. “I felt so fortunate to be able to experience that with Mick. It was very powerful to see the effect it had on him.” \nAnother ‘ghost in the machine’ or ‘happy accident’ was the sound of the drums leaking into the ukulele’s electric pickup. Because the musicians were so close together\, you can hear all the drums on the ukulele track. When the fx are going on the uke\, you get this cool subtle layer of the drum fx in the mix\, contributing to the overall vibe and cohesion of the record. \nNot long after the completion of the record\, Maui was devastated by historic wildfires. At the benefit concert in Honolulu Fleetwood once again joined Shimabukuro and the band to perform the songs on Blues Experience for the first time. Before the performance\, Fleetwood gave a powerful and inspirational speech to the community. Shimabukuro expands on this\, “Mick’s like the point guard on a basketball team making everyone around him play better. It’s really incredible. He has such a huge presence\, charisma\, and energy. It was such an honor to do this project together. \n \nTICKET PRICES ARE INCLUSIVE OF FEES. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/jake-shimabukuro/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Jake-Shimabukuro-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250714T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250714T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250307T165856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250701T192835Z UID:35568-1752521400-1752521400@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam with Ivan Pulley - Let It Flow 2025 Tour DESCRIPTION:We regret to share that all of Dave Mason’s 2025 tour dates have been cancelled\, including our show\, due to ongoing health issues. \nWe wish him a full and speedy recovery\, and we thank you for your understanding. Refunds will be issued automatically at the point of sale. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/dave-mason/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Dave-Mason-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250712T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250712T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250128T165017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250602T180727Z UID:34584-1752348600-1752348600@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Tab Benoit with Too Slim and the Taildraggers - I Hear Thunder Tour DESCRIPTION:Tickets Are Flying!\n\nPresented by Z2 Entertainment & KBCO\n   \nDoor time: 6:30\nShow time: 7:30 \nTab Benoit\nI Hear Thunder marks the long-awaited return of four-time Grammy-nominated artist Tab Benoit. Renowned for his distinctive guitar tone and Otis-Redding-esque voice\, Benoit has been a captivating figure in the roots music world for over thirty years. \nTab’s personal growth and advancement as a songwriter and musician have culminated in a benchmark recording. His new self-produced album\, I Hear Thunder\, for his imprint\, Whiskey Bayou Records\, is a testament to his fiery exuberance that first marked his career in 1992. The record not only showcases his artistic brilliance but also his profound commitment to environmental advocacy\, a legacy that extends beyond the stage into the heart of the land that inspires his bluesy soul. \nOn Benoit’s forthcoming national tour\, fans will be delighted to hear the new songs and selected tracks from his vast catalog. Benoit does more than play the blues; he defines its future while paying homage to its rich past. \n \nToo Slim and the Taildraggers\nTim “Too Slim“ Langford is a monster guitarist and unabashed 
blues rocker whose influences run the gamut from Lightnin’ Hopkins\,
 Freddy King\, Duane Allman\, Lynyrd Skynyrd\, and Robin Trower. \nHe is a prolific singer/songwriter whose songs have now 
yielded an impressive 14 studio albums\, 2 solo albums\, and several live CD’s on the Vizztone and his own Underworld Records labels.
 Too Slim and the Taildraggers are Tim “Too Slim” Langford on guitar/vocals\, Zach Kasik on bass/vocals\, and Chris Reiser on drums/vocals. \n Brace Yourself\, the new live release\, is the latest effort in the evolution of their contemporary Blues/Rock sound that has been described as ‘Straight Whiskey Blues with a Southern Rock Beer Chaser’ \nThe Remedy\, their latest studio effort\, debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top Blues Album Chart. ‘High Desert Heat’\, their 2018 release\, charted 11 times in the Billboard Top Blues Album Chart in 2018 and is nominated for Best Blues/Rock album at the 2019 Blues Music awards. High Desert Heat was also featured in heavy rotation on Sirius XM’s B.B. King’s Bluesville. Their 2016 release ‘Blood Moon’ was nominated for Blues Rock Album of the Year at the 2016 Blues Blast Music Awards and was voted Blues Rock Album of the Year at the 2016 Jimi Awards. Blood Moon reached  #6 on the Billboard Top Blues Album Chart in 2016. The 2014 release Anthology was voted #1 Blues Album of the Year by Blues Matters Writers Poll in 2015. The 2013 release ‘Blue Heart’ rose to #3 on the Billboard Top Blues Album Chart and was nominated for Rock/Blues Album of the Year at the 2014 Blues Blast Music Awards. Shiver\, the 2011 release\, was nominated for Rock/Blues Album of the Year by the Blues Foundation’s Blues Music Awards. \nToo Slim and the Taildraggers ever evolving musical direction cannot easily be classified into any box or category.  Tim “Too Slim” Langford has received Lifetime Achievement and Hall Of Fame awards by three Northwest blues societies\, 
as well as more than 40 regional and national music awards. Too Slim and the Taildraggers’ music has also been featured on MTV’s series\, The Real World and Road Rules. \n \nTICKET PRICES ARE INCLUSIVE OF FEES. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/tab-benoit/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Tab-Benoit-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250709T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250709T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250408T155813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250702T181718Z UID:36080-1752089400-1752089400@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Bruce Cockburn DESCRIPTION:Tickets Are Flying!\n\nPresented by Z2 Entertainment & KBCO\n   \nDoor time: 6:30\nShow time: 7:30 \n“Time takes its toll\, but in my soul I’m on a roll\,” Bruce Cockburn sings on his latest studio album\, O Sun O Moon. Smart and catchy\, it’s the kind of memorable line—like “gotta kick at the darkness ’til it bleeds daylight” from his classic song “Lovers in a Dangerous Time”—the world has become used to hearing from Cockburn. \nAn inspired poet and exceptional guitarist\, the award-winning artist has spent his entire career kicking at the darkness with songs that tackle topics from politics and human rights to the environment and spirituality. And he’s not letting up. While other singer-songwriters his age are slowing down\, Cockburn\, on the eve of his 78th birthday\, has released a dozen new compositions as powerful as any he’s written. You could even say his songwriting is on a roll as well. \nExquisitely recorded in Nashville with his longtime producer\, Colin Linden\, O Sun O Moon exudes a newfound simplicity and clarity\, as Cockburn focuses on more spiritual than topical concerns this time around\, looking back and taking stock. “I think it’s a product of age to a certain extent\,” he explains\, “and seeing the approaching horizon.” Then\, lightening the tone\, he adds with a laugh: “I think these are exactly the kind of songs that an old guy writes.” \nOld or not\, Cockburn exhibits a palpable urgency on the opening “On a Roll\,” playing a driving resonator guitar with all the vigor of his veteran blues heroes. Similarly “To Keep the World We Know\,” one of the album’s few explicitly topical numbers\, bristles with Cockburn’s buzzing dulcimer as he and Inuk music star Susan Aglukark\, with whom he co-wrote the song\, sing about the growing threat of global warming. \nStill\, most of the songs strike gentler tones\, from the jazz sway of “Push Come to Shove” and the folky drone of “Into the Now” to the string-laden “Us All” and the hymn-like “Colin Went Down to the Water.” The latter\, one of several songs Cockburn wrote while on a month-long holiday with family on the Hawaiian island of Maui\, describes the drowning of a friend. “It’s not about Colin Linden\,” Cockburn is quick to point out\, “but someone I knew from San Francisco who’d moved to Maui. It was tragic and quite surreal because I got a voicemail message from him when I was in Maui\, saying ‘Welcome to paradise\,’ and then found out afterward that he’d died.” \nSpeaking of surreal\, another song written while in Maui\, the whimsical “King of the Bolero\,” is unlike anything else on the album. Over a woozy clarinet and drunken\, New Orleans-style horns\, Cockburn paints a cartoon portrait of an oversized barroom musician “with a double chin all the way round his neck and a pot belly in the back.” Is it a dream or a figment of his imagination? In a gravelly voice\, Cockburn leaves us guessing as he sings “it’s moon high noon—I’m not in my Bed.” \n“The people I was with in Maui were quite perplexed when they heard that song\,” muses Cockburn. “After hearing the other things I’d written there\, they wondered ‘Where did that come from?’ It really came from out of the blue. I remembered when I was in high school one of my friends made a crack about an old blues singer who used to come through who he said had a double chin in the back. It was a funny thing to hear at the time and it stayed with me. I didn’t want to make it specifically about a black blues guy\, so I mention Minnesota Fats and Fatty Arbuckle as well as Fats Domino and Fats Waller.” \nAs with so many Cockburn albums\, the musicianship on O Sun O Moon is superb. Along with usual suspects Linden on guitar\, Janice Powers on keyboards and Gary Craig on drums\, the album features bassist Viktor Krauss\, drummer Chris Brown\, accordionist Jeff Taylor\, violinist Jenny Scheinman and multi-instrumentalist Jim Hoke. And Cockburn’s guest vocalists include Shawn Colvin\, Buddy Miller as well as mellifluous singers Allison Russell\, Sarah Jarosz and Ann and Regina McCrary\, daughters of gospel great Rev. Samuel McCrary\, one of the founders of the Fairfield Four. The McCrary sisters shine brightest on the title track\, whose full name is “O Sun By Day O Moon By Night.” They sing the euphoric chorus of the song which relates\, during spoken verses\, a dream Cockburn had in which he makes the journey to heaven. “In the dream\, which was really powerful\,” says Cockburn\, “I see myself silhouetted on a ridge with this jar of blood pouring it on the soil. It wasn’t scary or disturbing at all.” Cockburn adds that he wrote the line “and if that sun and moon don’t shine” in the spirit of songs from the folk ballad “Mockingbird” to the blues number “Bo Diddley.” \nThe album’s jazzy closer\, “When You Arrive\,” finds Cockburn confessing to feeling his age when he sings “You’re limping like a three-legged canine\, backbone creaking like a cheap shoe.” But it’s clearly a song of acceptance\, about eventually slipping one’s mortal coil\, as he’s joined on the chorus by all of his guest vocalists\, singing “bells will ring when you arrive.” \nO Sun O Moon includes just one song without vocals\, “Haiku\,” a four-minute showcase of Cockburn’s fleet-fingered guitar work\, where his previous studio recording\, 2019’s Crowing Ignites\, was a collection of all instrumental numbers. In between those albums\, Cockburn\, the Order of Canada recipient\, 13-time Juno Award winner\, and Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee released a 50th anniversary box set\, greatest hits package\, and rarities collection. \nNever one to rest on his laurels—even when\, as he notes\, “time takes its toll\,” Cockburn keeps finding and conquering new challenges\, never repeating himself in the process. “I just don’t want to ever keep doing the same thing\,” he says. “I’m grateful that I can keep on doing anything at this point\,” he adds. “My body doesn’t hold up and perform the way it once did.” \nThat may be so. But the legendary musician has just made his 38th studio album. And it may stand as one of his best of his long and storied career. \n \nTICKET PRICES ARE INCLUSIVE OF FEES. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/bruce-cockburn/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Bruce-Cockburn-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250620T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250620T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250305T165822Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250527T151806Z UID:34791-1750447800-1750447800@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Joseph with Special Guest Covenhoven DESCRIPTION:Presented by Z2 Entertainment & KBCO\n   \nDoor time: 6:30\nShow time: 7:30 \nJoseph\nOregon-bred indie pop sister group Joseph first made waves with their widely lauded 2015 debut album I’m Alone\, No You’re Not\, which featured their hit song “White Flag.” They followed it up with 2019’s Good Luck\, Kid\, marking a bold departure from the dreamlike folk of their debut and landing them at #4 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart. The band continued to push their musical boundaries on 2023’s The Sun\, imbuing a thrilling new energy into each elegantly sculpted track. Over the years\, JOSEPH has attracted the attention of artists such as Billie Eilish and toured with the likes of James Bay\, Amos Lee\, and The Shins\, in addition to taking the stage at major festivals like Coachella\, Bonnaroo\, Austin City Limits\, Glastonbury\, and more. With their signature blend of harmony-driven indie pop and bold experimentation\, Joseph continues to evolve while staying true to the deeply personal themes that have defined their music. Now a duo\, Joseph — Natalie Closner and Meegan Closner — are currently putting the final touches on their next album\, with new music coming in Spring of 2025. \n \nCovenhoven\nCovenhoven is internationally recognized indie artist Joel Van Horne\, a multi-instrumental singer-songwriter whose rich harmonies\, reedy baritone\, and commanding falsetto have found a home with critics and fans since 2013.  \nThrough 4 full-length albums (and a fifth on the way) and 2 EPs\, Covenhoven has forged a signature style; layered acoustic arrangements that roll with momentum into orchestral peaks\, accompanied by lyrics that contrast hard-won wisdom with the inherent hope of the natural world—from Big Sur to his native Colorado. \nCovenhoven’s fifth album “The Color of the Dark” is slated for release on April 11\, 2025 and will feature collaborations with notable musicians and engineer/producers from Colorado and beyond — including Dave Wilton (A Boy and His Kite)\, Brian Joseph (Bon Iver\, Sufjan Stevens)\, Andrew Berlin (Gregory Alan Isakov\, etc.)\, Max Barcelow (Gregory Alan Isakov)\, Sean Carey (Bon Iver)\, etc.   \nCovenhoven’s previous full-length “IV” (2021)\, was his most collaborative and rock forward to date—taking a producing partner in Ben Wysocki (the Fray)\, who also performs on the album. IV features over a dozen musicians including Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov\, Luke Mossman (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)\, and Bluebook’s Julie Davis.  \nBandwagon magazine writes that on IV\, Covenhoven reaches “into chamber pop territory\, and revealing a wider vocal range…sheltered by a gorgeous\, rich string and piano accompaniment\, whisks us above the campfire folk…”   \nCovenhoven’s live performances capture the spirit of his recordings—whether its conjuring cascading loops in his solo shows or backed by a full band—Covenhoven’s sound fills the breadth of outdoor spaces\, auditoriums and club stages. \nRegularly touring the United States\, Covenhoven has shared the stage with Grammy winners and nominees\, Jose Gonzalez\, Gregory Alan Isakov\, S. Carey\, and John Paul White (Civil Wars). Covenhoven has also performed with genre bending artists Lord Huron\, Leif Vollebekk\, Joshua James\, Blind Pilot\, Esme Patterson\, John Craigie\, Daniel Rodriguez (Elephant Revival)\, Shook Twins\, Reed Foehl\, Rainbow Girls\, Joan Shelley\, Sierra Hull\, and host of others.  \nCovenhoven songs have been streamed over 7 million times and reached over 14 million people through television shows including: 13 Reasons Why\, Nashville\, Teen Wolf\, Home Before Dark\, Flaked\, Kevin Probably Saves the World\, and Private Eyes. \nTICKET PRICES ARE INCLUSIVE OF FEES. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/joseph/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Joseph-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250619T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250619T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250128T165020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250527T151749Z UID:34639-1750361400-1750361400@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Béla Fleck\, Edmar Castañeda & Antonio Sánchez Trio DESCRIPTION:Tickets Are Flying!\n\nPresented by Z2 Entertainment & KBCO\n   \nDoor time: 6:30\nShow time: 7:30 \nBanjo. Drums. Harp. Huh? \nTo be sure\, the new all-star trio of Béla Fleck\, harpist Edmar Castañeda and drummer Antonio Sánchez features instrumentation that might safely be called uncommon. Unless\, of course\, you’re already familiar with 18-time Grammy-winner Fleck — the genre-blurring virtuoso who has done more to expand the possibilities of the banjo than any other player in the instrument’s history. From his bluegrass beginnings through his otherworldly Flecktones\, his duo with Chick Corea and his reimagining of Rhapsody in Blue\, Fleck’s work never fails to surprise. What doesn’t surprise is the impeccable caliber of his collaborators — and this new trio includes two of the most gifted musicians of their generation. The harpist\, Casteñada\, hails from Bogotá\, Colombia\, and has led his own bands in addition to sharing projects with such masters as Hiromi\, Paquito D’Rivera and Grégoire Maret. 5-time Grammy-winner Sánchez grew up in Mexico City and built a reputation as one of the great jazz drummers through his work with guitarist Pat Metheny. He’s also been a visionary bandleader\, helming progressive groups like Bad Hombre\, and collaborated with Chick Corea\, Gary Burton\, Charlie Haden\, Michael Brecker and other giants. His Golden Globe-nominated drum-set score for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 2014 film Birdman earned him renown far outside the jazz world. \nPlaying original repertoire\, much of it collaboratively written\, this trio embarks nightly on fearless explorations that audiences will find irresistible — rich with strong melodies\, gorgeous harmony and grooves that twist and turn while feeling fantastic. \nBéla Fleck\nJust in case you aren’t familiar with Béla Fleck\, there are many who say he’s the premiere banjo player in the world. Others claim that Fleck has virtually reinvented the image and the sound of the banjo through a remarkable performing and recording career that has taken him all over the musical map and on a range of solo projects and collaborations. If you are familiar with Fleck\, you know that he just loves to play the banjo\, and put it into unique settings. \nAn eighteen-time Grammy Award-winner\, Fleck has the virtuosic\, jazz-to-classical ingenuity of an iconic instrumentalist and composer with bluegrass roots. For over 30 years\, he has led Béla Fleck and The Flecktones\, the groundbreaking quartet inspired by jazz\, funk\, bluegrass and beyond. From writing three banjo concertos for full symphony orchestra to exploring the banjo’s African roots with the award-winning 2009 documentary Throw Down Your Heart\, many tout that Béla Fleck is the world’s premier banjo player. As Jon Pareles wrote for The New York Times\, “That’s a lot of territory for five strings.” \nCollaborators include Abigail Washburn\, the Brooklyn Rider String Quartet\, Chris Thile\, The Blind Boys of Alabama\, McCoy Tyner\, Zakir Hussain\, Edgar Meyer\, and Rakesh Chaurasia (their latest album As We Speak won two Grammys in 2024). Fleck’s album Rhapsody in Blue was released February 12\, 2024 on the centennial of the work’s premiere in New York City\, and he debuted it at Carnegie Hall with orchestra in May. His Grammy-winning project My Bluegrass Heart\, is named in honor of his friend\, mentor and hero Chick Corea (My Spanish Heart). Béla and Chick toured for many years as a duo and released three acclaimed albums\, including their latest and final duo project\, Remembrance (2024). \nEdmar Casteñada\nUpon arriving in the United States in 1994\, Colombian-born Edmar Castañeda made a name for himself as the preeminent jazz harp virtuoso. Castañeda brings forth a brilliance that beautifully merges the jazz tradition with a diverse set of styles and genres while bringing unbridled attention to a somewhat unfamiliar instrument: the harp. He was ushered into the jazz community by Paquito D’Rivera\, who recognized Castañeda’s passion and took the young harpist under his wing. Castañeda has cemented the harp’s place in jazz with innovative technique and heartfelt creativity from a wealth of formidable collaborations with music titans such as Wynton Marsalis\, Bela Fleck\, John Scofield\, Ricki Lee Jones\, Hiromi\, Pedrito Martinez\, Marcus Miller\, Gonzalo Rubalcaba\, Ivan Lins\, The Yellowjackets\, and Paco De Lucia. \nIn the same breath as the Yo-Yo Ma’s of the world\, Castañeda fearlessly stuns audiences\, musicians\, and critics alike with his incredible talents as a player and composer. NPR’s “Fresh Air” touts\, “…his technique is the real astonishment. Castañeda juggles lead\, rhythm and bass lines\, using a variety of hard and soft string attacks to keep those voices distinct — all without giving up the groove…His amazing technique…raises the bar for every harpist.” The New York Times notes\, “…Castaneda… engage[s] modern jazz in ways that honor…cultural origins\, and [he has] the capacity to astonish by virtue of [his] fingerstyle technique.” Moses Sumney highlights his “5 Favorite NPR “Tiny Desk Concerts” and says\, “My brain cracked open when I first saw this. Some classical instruments are so ingrained in our heads for sounding one way; Edmar restructures what we know of harp\, defiantly expanding the bounds of the instrument.” \nCastañeda follows up seven acclaimed albums with his latest recording project\, Viento Sur\, with a nine-person ensemble of acclaimed global musicians from Switzerland\, Brazil\, Cuba\, Israel\, Chile\, USA\, Argentina\, and Colombia. An array of compositions on Viento Sur are commissioned by American Chamber Music from the “New Jazz Works Grant.” \nCastañeda’s renowned albums as a bandleader are interchanged with awe-inspiring symphonic and big-band works with Wynton Marsalis Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra\, Clássica de Espinho and the São Paulo Jazz Symphony Orchestra\, as well as chamber pieces for the Israel Camerata Jerusalem and the Orquestra Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia. \nAntonio Sánchez\nBorn in Mexico City\, 4-time Grammy Award winner Antonio Sánchez began playing the drums at age five and performed professionally in his early teens in Mexico’s rock\, jazz and latin scenes. \nHe pursued a degree in classical piano at the National Conservatory in Mexico and in 1993 enrolled in Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory\, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in Jazz Studies. \nSince moving to New York City in 1999\, Sánchez has become one of the most sought-after drummers on the international jazz scene. Following 18 years and 9 albums as one of the most revered collaborators with guitarist/composer Pat Metheny\, he also has recorded and performed with many other most prominent artists like Chick Corea\, Gary Burton\, Michael Brecker\, Charlie Haden and Toots Thielmans. \nIn 2014 Sánchez’s popularity soared when he scored Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) which ended up fetching 4 Academy awards (including best picture) and for which Sánchez won a Grammy award. Additional film/tv projects include EPIX network’s Get Shorty and Hippopotamus among others. \nWith more than a dozen recordings as a leader or co-leader\, Sánchez’s recent projects include the acclaimed epic The Meridian Suite and the star studded Three Times Three. He turned his upset over social injustice into a tribute to every immigrant’s journey in his epic musical statement Lines in the Sand. \nSánchez is the recipient of five Grammys\, three Echo Awards\, Golden Globe & BAFTA nominations and has been thrice named Modern Drummer’s “Jazz Drummer of the Year”. He has been featured on the covers of DownBeat\, JazzTimes\, JAZZIZ\, Modern Drummer\, Drum! and Musico Pro — among others. \nSánchez’s new album SHIFT (Bad Hombre Vol. II) on Warner Music features Sánchez playing virtually every instrument on the album — in addition to being its producer. SHIFT features Trent Reznor\, Dave Mathews\, Kimbra\, Ana Tijoux\, Meshell Ndegeocello and more. \nTICKET PRICES ARE INCLUSIVE OF FEES. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/bela-fleck-trio/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Béla-Fleck-Trio-Square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250616T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250616T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250210T165839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250527T151733Z UID:34952-1750102200-1750102200@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - SOLD OUT! DESCRIPTION:Presented by Z2 Entertainment & KBCO\n   \nDoor time: 6:30\nShow time: 7:30 \nGillian Welch\nGillian Welch’s rich and remarkable career spans over twenty-five years\, and she and her musical partner David Rawlings are a pillar of the modern acoustic music world. They have been hailed by Pitchfork as “modern masters of American folk” and “protectors of the American folk song” by Rolling Stone. \nAfter moving to Nashville in the early 1990s\, Welch was launched into the public consciousness when Emmylou Harris recorded a cover of Welch’s “Orphan Girl.” Her career continued to flourish as her 1996 debut Revival\, produced by T Bone Burnett\, was released to critical acclaim. Firmly on the roots music map following the release\, Welch followed up that GRAMMY-nominated album release with 1998’s Hell Among The Yearlings\, a stark duet record with Rawlings\, further solidifying the duo as a force in the folk music scene. \nFor her work as executive producer as well as a performer and songwriter on the eight times platinum O Brother\, Where Art Thou? soundtrack\, Welch was awarded the Album of the Year GRAMMY\, and was simultaneously nominated for her own Time (The Revelator) which Rolling Stone called one of the best albums of the 2000s and is widely considered by critics to be one of the best albums of all time. This release was Welch-Rawlings’ first on their own record label\, Acony Records\, helping to establish the duo’s fierce commitment to independent music. \n2003’s Soul Journey was the pair’s first experimentation with a fuller\, electric sound\, which paved the way for the Dave Rawlings Machine project\, and their first release under Rawlings’ name (A Friend of A Friend\, 2009)\, which was accompanied by a time period of heavy touring and headlining major festivals while biding their time to return to the duet sound the two were traditionally known for. 2011’s The Harrow and The Harvest was nominated for Best Contemporary Folk Album and Best Engineered Album at the GRAMMYs\, and won Artist of the Year (Welch) and was nominated for Instrumentalist of the Year (Rawlings) at the Americana Honors & Awards. The album garnered glowing reviews and topped multiple year-end “Best Of” lists. \nIn celebration of the twenty year anniversary of the Welch-Rawlings partnership\, the two launched an archival branch of Acony Records\, entitled Boots\, dedicated to releasing outtakes\, demos\, bootlegs\, and live recordings from their copious vault. Thus far they have released five albums worth of music with more on the way. \nIn 2018\, Welch was the first musician to receive the Thomas Wolfe Prize for Literature. The award is bestowed by University of North Carolina Chapel Hill’s Department of English & Comparative Literature and recognizes contemporary writers with a distinguished body of work. 2019 saw Welch and Rawlings nominated for an Academy Award for “Best Original Song” where they performed their singing cowboy duet\, written for the most recent Coen brothers’ film\, live on the show. In 2020 the duo released All the Good Times\, the first album under both their names\, and won the GRAMMY for the Best Folk Album. \nRecently\, they were crowned with the Berklee American Masters Award and honored by Americana Music Association with a Lifetime Achievement for Songwriting. \nWelch and Rawlings continue to tour the world in support of their music while simultaneously writing and lending their talents to countless fellow artists’ projects. They are continuously working to release their acclaimed catalog on phonograph records of the highest possible fidelity. \nDavid Rawlings\nSinger. Grammy-nominated songwriter. Producer. Award-winning guitarist. Since kicking off his career with 1996’s Revival — an album billed under Gillian Welch’s name\, but featuring the indispensable co-writing\, harmony-singing and instrumental chops of her musical partner — David Rawlings has woven one of the most acclaimed paths in Americana music. He reaches a new destination with his third solo album\, Poor David’s Almanack\, whose songs point to a frontman who continues walking the fine line between rootsy revivalism and bold innovation. \nThis is a modern folk album that wears its old-school influences on its sleeve. Like Bob Dylan’s early work\, Poor David’s Almanack looks to archetypal songs of the American roots-music catalog for inspiration\, using them as launching points for a wildly original tracklist. The high-lonesome harmonies and acoustic fretwork of “Midnight Train” jumpstart the album on an earthy note\, while “Airplane” — a southern ballad featuring a string section arranged by Rawlings himself — reaches skyward. Rawlings even evokes the call-and-response format of old field songs during the chorus of “Good God a Woman\,” then serenades a lover with the fiddle-fueled\, countryfied “Come Over My House.” Throughout its 10-song tracklist\, Poor David’s Almanack sounds both fresh and familiar\, offering new music rooted in the tradition\, texture and twang of the folk songbook. \n“This is new territory for me\, with songs that stick much closer to classic folk melodies and classic folk structures\,” he explains. “Before\, if I’d wanted to sing a song like ‘Midnight Train\,’ I would’ve covered a traditional song that already exists. This is the first time I looked at myself and thought\, ‘Wait\, if I want to play music like that\, I should make it myself\,’ because I love that kind of music and I want to be a creator of it. I want to try and inject some of myself into that folk bloodstream.” \nA leader of the contemporary folk revival\, Rawlings began releasing albums with Gillian Welch in the mid-’90s\, championing a more acoustic-based sound during the heyday of grunge. For more than two decades since\, he has juggled multiple roles as a frontman\, duo partner\, sideman and behind-the-scenes producer. His vocals can be heard on the Grammy-winning soundtrack to O Brother\, Where Art Thou?\, whose multi-platinum sales and widespread popularity helped introduce old-time folk music to a 21st-century audience\, and his unique approach to the acoustic guitar has influenced a new generation of forward-thinking folkies\, several of whom — including Dawes and Old Crow Medicine Show — have hired Rawlings to produce their own albums. Dawes’ Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith both make appearances on Poor David’s Almanack\, as do multiple members of Old Crow’s past and present lineups\, including Ketch Secor and Willie Watson. On an album filled with some of the brightest lights in Americana music\, though\, Rawlings’ star shines the strongest\, whether he’s singing in a mercurial voice or leading his band through an instrumental section worthy of a front-porch picking party. \nHalf of Poor David’s Almanack was written alone — a first for Rawlings\, who typically co-writes with Gillian Welch — and songs like “Money is the Meat in the Coconut” have already become staples of his live show\, tossed into his setlist days after they were completed. Later\, while recording the album to analog tape at Woodland Studios in East Nashville\, Rawlings experimented with overdubs and other layered effects. Assisting him were a pair of top-shelf engineers: longtime collaborator Matt Andrews and legendary studio hand Ken Scott\, whose work can be heard on landmark albums by the Beatles\, David Bowie\, and Elton John. \nInfluenced by new experiences\, old sounds and classic books (including Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack\, whose title serves as the basis for Rawlings’ own album)\, Poor David’s Almanack nods to its source material without borrowing. It’s a nod to the past and a step toward the future. “Cumberland Gap\,” with its electric guitar solos and coed harmonies\, even evokes the California folk-rock of Fleetwood Mac\, pushing Rawlings into ever-evolving territory. \n“That’s the beautiful thing about this kind of music\,” he says. “It’s supposed to be a chain. Maybe it’s supposed to be a chain that looks like a circle. We’re all looking for our best way to contribute to the great musical landscape. We’re all trying to raise some little part of that building.” \n \nTICKET PRICES ARE INCLUSIVE OF FEES. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/gillian-welch-david-rawlings/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Gillian-Welch-David-Rawlings-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250614T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250614T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20250128T165051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250527T151716Z UID:34703-1749929400-1749929400@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Judy Collins DESCRIPTION:Low Ticket Alert!\n\nPresented by Z2 Entertainment & KBCO\n   \nDoor time: 6:30\nShow time: 7:30 \nIn her 50-plus years in music\, Judy Collins has always exhibited impeccable taste in songcraft. On her landmark 1967 album\, Wildflowers\, she curated a stunning collection featuring originals alongside songs by not-yet household names such as Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen\, and adventurous selections by Jacques Brel and Francesco Landini. Her discerning palette\, and her literary gifts\, have enabled her to evolve into a poetic\, storyteller songwriter. Now\, in her 6th decade as a singer and songwriter\, Judy is experiencing a profound level of growth and prolific creativity. \nThe cultural treasure’s 55th release\,  Spellbound\, out February 25\, 2022\, finds Judy enjoying an artistic renaissance. The 13-song album is a special entry in her oeuvre. It marks the first time ever she wrote all the songs on one of her albums. It features 12 new recently-written modern folk songs\, and a bonus track of her evergreen\, “The Blizzard.” Spellbound is an introspective and impressionistic album. It unfolds as if Judy curated a museum exhibit of her life\, and welcomed us into a retrospective of her most formative moments\, some big and public\, and some intensely personal and intimate. \n“They say after the plague came the Renaissance\,” Judy says with a good-natured laugh\, loosely referencing the pandemic. “The truth is\, I didn’t do an album like this sooner because I had other projects on my mind. This album was necessary for me to keep creative—it was the next piece of the puzzle.” She continues: “Now felt like the perfect time to make this record because\, after all that’s happened in the world\, we need something beautiful and inspirational to lift us up.” \nIn Judy’s eloquently written liner notes\, she dedicates Spellbound to folk masters Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. On the album\, she furthers their traditions of generously sharing their lives\, loves\, and personal reflection. Also\, in her notes\, Judy relates the origins of her songwriting—a story some know\, and a testament to how gloriously unpredictable art and the muse are. Story goes that in 1966 Leonard Cohen made a special trip to Judy’s apartment to play her his song\, “Suzanne\,” and\, while there\, asked her why she wasn’t writing her own songs. Her response was to sit down at her Steinway that very day and write\, “Since You’ve Asked.” Judy has been writing ever since then. \nA lifetime and 54 years of songwriting elegantly come forth from Spellbound. The album revisits the thrilling 1960s Greenwich Village years; recreates breathtaking moments in the wilds of Colorado during Judy’s childhood; snapshots her hellraising years; and frames quiet moments of nature from just a few years back. The title references a formative time in Judy’s life when her pure love of the outdoors lured her close to becoming a park ranger. Lyrically\, the songs are impressionistic and evocatively emotional. “I strove to capture what I see with lyrics\, and bring particular times to life\,” she says of the album’s painterly and personal songwriting. \nWhile she celebrates many passages in life with her lyrics\, her vocals sound untouched by time. Judy’s singing on Spellbound shines pristinely as she eases from warm low-register vocals to soaring high tones\, as if no time has elapsed since her singing mesmerized a generation on Wildflowers. “That’s a combination of good fortune\, extreme luck\, and hard work and discipline\,” she reveals. “I do a lot to protect and take care of my voice\, and I practice every day—you have to or you lose it.” \nThe majestical track\, “So Alive\,” is an exhilarating time capsule of a song that documents the dazzling excitement and possibility of 1960s folk boom in Greenwich Village. “So Alive” establishes the album’s sublimely detailed production aesthetic which features a palette of acoustic guitar\, textured electric guitar\, piano\, keys\, lyrical bass lines\, brushed drums\, and Judy’s angelic vocals. The sweetly nostalgic\, “When I was a Girl in Colorado\,” pines for those pre-fame years when Judy’s life centered around seasonal outdoor joys. \nJudy’s flair for literature\, poetry\, and her commitment to social activism shine forth on the stirring “Thomas Merton.” Merton was an author and a monk who spent most of his adult life in a monastery around Louisville\, Kentucky. He was also a potent force in the anti-war movement\, and there have been theories that his death was a murder. Judy addresses this juicy possibility with engrossing storytelling and poetic phrases. One potent passage reads: He dreamed of being an eagle with wings he would fly/from the west and north and the east/Thru rain and sleet and wind and snow/He’d find a way to bring us peace/Long after he was buried/Upon his death concealed/The evidence of bullet holes finally was revealed. The smoldering ballad\, “Arizona\,” showcases Judy’s achingly beautiful vocal floating over a piano ballad lavished with ethereal ambience and layers of heavenly harmony vocals. \nIn the studio Judy worked with a trusted family of musicians\, including co-producer Alan Silverman and singer-songwriter-guitarist Ari Hest. Ari has worked closely with Judy for years\, and\, in 2016\, Judy and Ari were nominated for a “Best Of Folk Album” Grammy for their duet album\, Silver Skies Blue. In the studio the core group of musicians on the album are multi-instrumentalist Thad DeBrock (Duncan Sheik\, Nelly\, Jonas Brothers)\, bassist Zev Katz (Marc Anthony\, Elton John\, Billy Joel)\, and drummer Doug Yowell (Suzanne Vega\, Joe Jackson\, Duncan Sheik) – additional musicians on album are detailed within the album’s liner notes.  \nIn a life and a career brimming with milestone moments\, Spellbound is a high watermark of artistry and personal evolution. Though Judy has been writing for half a century\, her new album ushers in an era of unbridled creativity. “I always knew I was going to be a late bloomer\,” she says\, cracking up with laughter. \nTICKET PRICES ARE INCLUSIVE OF FEES. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/judy-collins/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Judy-Collins-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20241003T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20241003T190000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20240604T155839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240917T172538Z UID:29303-1727982000-1727982000@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Billy Bragg - The Roaring Forty USA Tour 2024 with Sturtz DESCRIPTION:Tickets Are Flying!\nPresented by KBCO\n \nDoor time: 6:00 \nShow time: 7:00 \nBilly Bragg\nIn 2023 Billy Bragg is celebrating a remarkable 40 years as Britain’s favourite folk singer\, songwriter and campaigner. To mark this significant landmark\, he has released an acclaimed career-spanning box set ‘The Roaring Forty’ and has played to sell-out crowds across the world. In November he performed his most famous song ‘A New England’ on Later With Jools Holland almost exactly 40 years to the day that he debuted the song on The Tube (also presented by one Jools Holland!). \nGalvanised in the late 70s by The Clash and an aversion to the austere policies of Margaret Thatcher\, Billy set out to inspire political engagement and empathy. He has performed numerous benefit shows for the miners\, the Labour party\, CND\, the jobless and many more\, and has run the Left Field political stage at Glastonbury for the last 20 years. \nBilly has released 11 solo studio albums\, three albums of Woody Guthrie lyrics set to contemporary music by Billy and Wilco (the Mermaid Avenue albums) and one album with Joe Henry. He released a mini album Bridges Not Walls in 2017. His latest studio album\, the acclaimed ‘The Million Things That Never Happened’ came out in 2021. \nBilly Bragg added best-selling author to his CV with the success of his acclaimed 2017 book Roots\, Radicals & Rockers – How Skiffle Changed The World. He has written two books of political analysis –  The Progressive Patriot: A Search For Belonging (2006) and The Three Dimensions of Freedom (2019). \nBilly won the Outstanding Contribution To British Music Award at the prestigious Ivors Awards in 2018. Born and raised in Barking\, East London\, Billy has a street named after him in his home town – Bragg Close. This year Billy has been honoured with a pavement plaque on the Camden Music Walk Of Fame (previous recipients include Madness\, Amy Winehouse\, The Who\, David Bowie\, and The Kinks) \n \nSturtz\nSturtz’s music stands out for its distinctive\, soothing instrumental and vocal harmonies. The acoustic quartet – Andrew Sturtz [vocals\, guitar]\, Jim Herlihy [banjo]\, Courtlyn Carpenter [cello]\, and Will Kuepper [bass] – falls somewhere at the intersection of folk and soul\, with lead singer Andrew Sturtz’s melodic vocals soaring over the lower string instrumentals. Sturtz is based in Boulder\, CO\, and has toured across the U.S. opening for groups like the Eli Young Band\, Trout Steak Revival\, Lillie Mae\, the Band of Heathens\, and Smooth Hound Smith. NPR’s All Songs Considered described the band as “a reassuring breath of fresh air that pulls me back to simpler times” in their April 2020 blog. Sturtz released their debut album You’ve Done this Before in August 2021\, and now they are hard at work touring on this album and writing songs for their next album. When they’re not playing music\, you’ll probably find them milling flour\, farming\, laying in a creek\, or eating native foliage.  URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/billy-bragg/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Billy-Bragg-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20241001T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20241001T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20240507T155824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240917T172505Z UID:28669-1727811000-1727811000@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Al Di Meola Electric Band DESCRIPTION:Tickets Are Flying!\nPresented by KBCO \n \nDoor time: 6:30 \nShow time: 7:30 \n\nVIP Package Available – Al Di Meola Meet & Greet Experience:\nPackage includes:\nOne (1) Event Ticket\nMeet & Greet + Photo with Al Di Meola\nPre-Show Conversation and Q & A with Al Di Meola\nSoundcheck Viewing Access\nOne (1) Commemorative VIP Laminate\nOne (1) Exclusive Merch Gift\nPriority Merch Shopping Access (where applicable) \n  \nAl Di Meola\, a bonafide living Guitar Legend inducted into the Gallery of Greats is among the top guitarists of our time. His ongoing fascination with complex rhythmic syncopation combined with provocative lyrical melodies and sophisticated harmony has been at the heart of his music throughout a celebrated career that has spanned four decades and earned him critical accolades\, four gold albums\, two platinum albums\, more than six million in record sales worldwide\, five German gold albums\, and various awards including an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Berklee College of Music\, the Honorary Miles Davis Award presented by the Montreal Jazz Festival\, a BBC Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Sir George Martin in 2008\, Hungarian Foundation for Performing Arts Lyra Award\, and numerous Grammy nominations and awards. Al is the recipient of the most prestigious guitar awards ever given\, a total of 12 awards from Guitar Player Magazine polls and as a result\, was inducted into their Gallery of Greats. \nNot only a guitar hero\, but a prolific composer\, he has amassed over 30 albums as a leader while collaborating on a dozen or so others with the likes of the fusion supergroup Return to Forever(with Chick Corea\, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White)\, the celebrated acoustic Guitar Trio featuring fellow virtuosos John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia\, and the Rite of Strings trio with bassist Clarke and violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. And while his dazzling technique on both acoustic and electric guitars has afforded him regal status among the hordes of fretboard fanatics who regularly flock to his concerts\, the depth of Di Meola’s writing along with the soulfulness and the inherent lyricism of his guitaristic expression have won him legions of fans worldwide beyond the guitar aficionado set. \nA pioneer of blending world music and jazz\, going back to early Latin-tinged fusion outings like 1976’s Land of the Midnight Sun\, 1977’s Elegant Gypsy and 1978’s Casino\, the guitar great continues to explore the rich influence of flamenco\, tango\, Middle Eastern\, Brazilian and African music with his World Sinfonia\, an ambitious pan-global group that he formed in 1991. Their exhilarating world music fusion has been documented on such releases as 2000’s The Grande Passion (featuring the Toronto Symphony Orchestra)\, 2007’s Live in London\, 2011’s Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody and the stunning 2012 DVD\, Morocco Fantasia (recorded at the Mawazine Festival in Rabat\, Morocco and featuring special guests Said Chraibi on oud\, Abdellah Meri on violin and Tari Ben Ali on percussion). \nGrowing up in Bergenfield\, NJ with the music of The Ventures and The Beatles\, Di Meola naturally gravitated to guitar as a youngster and by his early teens was already an accomplished player. Attaining such impressive skills at such a young age didn’t come easy for Al\, but rather was the result of focused dedication and intensive periods of woodshedding between his junior and senior years in high school. “I used to practice the guitar all night after school and once in college\, 6 – 8 hours per day” he told Down Beat. “And I was trying to find myself\, or find the kind of music that suited where I was going with the guitar.” \nHis earliest role models in jazz included guitarists Tal Farlow and Kenny Burrell. But when he discovered Larry Coryell\, whom Al would later dub “The Godfather of Fusion\,” he was taken with the guitarist’s unprecedented blending of jazz\, blues and rock into one seamless vocabulary on the instrument. “I used to ride the bus from New Jersey to see him at little clubs in Greenwich Village\,” he recalls. “Wherever he was playing\, I’d be there.” In 1972\, Al enrolled at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and by the second semester there began playing in a fusion quartet led by keyboardist Barry Miles. When a gig tape of that band was later passed on to Chick Corea by a friend of Al’s in 1974\, the 19-year-old guitarist was tapped to join Corea’s fusion supergroup Return to Forever. After three landmark recordings with Return to Forever — 1974’s Where Have I Known You Before\, 1975’s Grammy Award winning No Mystery and 1976’s Romantic Warrior — the group disbanded and Al subsequently started up his career as a solo artist. His 1976 debut as a leader\, Land of the Midnight Sun\, was a blazing showcase of his signature chops and Latintinged compositions that featured a stellar cast including drummers Steve Gadd and Lenny White\, bassist Anthony Jackson and Jaco Pastorius\, keyboardists Jan Hammer\, Barry Miles and Chick Corea and percussionist Mingo Lewis. Over the course of six more albums with Columbia Records – Elegant Gypsy\, Casino\, Splendido Hotel\, Electric Rendezvous\, Tour De Force and Scenario – Al established himself as an influential force in contemporary music. 1980 marked the triumph of the acoustic guitar trio with Paco De Lucia and John McLaughlin. Their debut recording on Columbia Records\, Friday Night in San Francisco\, became a landmark recording that surpassed the four million mark in sales. The three virtuosos in the trio toured together from 1980 through 1983\, releasing the studio album Passion\, Grace & Fire in 1982. In 1995\, they reunited for a third recording\, Guitar Trio\, followed by another triumphant world tour. \nIn early 1996\, Di Meola formed a new trio with the violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and RTF bandmate Stanley Clarke called The Rite of Strings. Their self-titled debut was released in 1995. Di Meola subsequently recorded with the likes of opera superstar Luciano Pavarotti\, pop stars Paul Simon\, classical guitarist Manuel Barrueco\, and Italian pop star Pino Daniele. Over the course of his career\, he has also worked and recorded with Phil Collins\, Carlos Santana\, Steve Winwood\, Wayne Shorter\, Tony Williams\, Herbie Hancock\, Gonzalo Rubalcaba\, Milton Naciemento\, Egberto Gismonti\, Stevie Wonder\, Les Paul\, Jimmy Page\, Steve Vai\, Frank Zappa and Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba. \nDi Meola’s 2013 release “All Your Life” recorded at Abbey Road Studios was an acoustic tour de force that had him revisiting the music of a seminal influence – The Beatles. “I really credit the Beatles for the reason why I play guitar\,” he says. “That was a major catalyst for me to want to learn music\, so their impact was pretty strong.” A virtual one-man show of virtuosity\, it features the guitar great interpreting 14 familiar Beatles tunes in the stripped-down setting of strictly acoustic guitar. \nIn 2015 he released Elysium\, which finds the guitar great blending the lush tones of his nylon string Conde Hermanos acoustic prototype model and a ’71 Les Paul electric (his Return to Forever and Elegant Gypsy axe) in a collection of songs that are at once invigorating and alluring. “It represents a new composition phase for me\, whereby the writing became\, in a sense\, my therapy during a challenging personal transition in my life\,” he said. In the same year he was honored as the 22nd recipient of the Montreal Jazz Festival’s Miles Davis Award\, created in 1994 to honor a great international jazz musician for the entire body of his or her work and for that musician’s influence in regenerating the jazz idiom. \n2018 marked a new era for Al Di Meola: His first of six signed projects with German record label Ear Music\, “OPUS” was released in March. The Grammy award winning virtuoso says: “With Opus I wanted to further my compositional skills as I think that the evolution of this part of my persona has labelled me more composer/guitarist than guitarist/composer. For the first time in my life\, I have written music being happy\, I’m in a wonderful relationship with my wife\, I have a baby girl and a beautiful family that inspires me every day. I believe it shows in the music.” \nA retrospective of Al Di Meola’s nearly 50 year acclaimed career is expressed through his latest Ear Music release of March 2020 “ACROSS THE UNIVERSE” with his virtuosic arrangements and creative interpretations of 14 Beatles songs with a larger scale full production featuring orchestrations balanced with lavish acoustic arrangements and electric guitar. \nCurrent work includes an autobiography and a new solo guitar record of 13 brand new compositions. Al is also very proud to announce the upcoming April 2022 release of “Saturday Night in San Francisco” from the 1980 tour of the Guitar Trio with John McLaughlin and the late Paco de Lucia. \n \n**All package elements will be rendered invalid if resold. Name changes will be issued at the sole discretion of 237 Global. VIP instructions will be sent via email no later than three days (3) prior to the concert. If you do not receive this email three days (3) prior please email info@237global.com. 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URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/al-di-meola-electric-band/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Al-Di-Meola-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240929T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240929T190000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20240514T165808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240917T172451Z UID:28831-1727636400-1727636400@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Los Lobos - 50th Anniversary with special guest Cousin Curtiss DESCRIPTION:Low Ticket Alert!\nPresented by KBCO\n \nDoor time: 6:00 \nShow time: 7:00 \nIt’s a matter of time. 50 years to be exact. And in that time Los Lobos have created an unprecedented body of work\, a legacy of greatness. The numbers are staggering: 100+ gigs a year for five decades running\, crossing millions of miles to rock millions of fans. And that’s just at the live shows. In between they’ve recorded 17 studio albums\, 7 live LPs\, 3 compilations\, 2 EPs\, 2 DVDs\, and contributed 40+ guest appearances on their friends’ recordings—all garnering 4 Grammys\, an Austin City Limits Hall of Fame induction\, the ALMA Ritchie Valens Pioneer Award\, NEA and Hispanic Heritage Foundation Honors\, Congressional recognitions\, plus countless “Keys to the City” and “Los Lobos Day” celebrations. And those are just a few of the highlights. But beyond all the hoopla and applause (and the source of it all\, really) is the tremendous heart. Rather\, hearts. Cinco corazones. Five blood brothers who have dedicated their off-stage time to helping others\, working for peace and justice\, penning some of the most literate and important music of their time\, transforming the hard cries from the East L.A. barrio into songs of hope\, tales of common folk finding ways to endure. The young wolves were weaned on late-night radio’s soul\, R&B\, and doo-wop. Were cured through the African-American currents of the blues\, jazz\, and rock ‘n’ roll. An amalgam. As proud Chicanos\, their songs have always glistened with the distillation from their Mexican and Latin American roots—nourished by Norteña and rancheras\, buoyed by bolero and cumbias\, soaring on the rhythms of son huasteco and son jarocho. Los Lobos have helped spread the rich diversity of cultures across every continent\, throughout the global community. Kids in Antwerp now know about Aztlán. Residents of Luxor and Ghana are crooning Lalo Guerrero. People from Laos and Bulgaria are belting “La Bamba”—all thanks to The Wolves as cultural ambassadors. Talk about a living legacy. Talk about a productive half century. And in the true rebel spirit\, they did it all on their own terms\, against formula. For the ages. To our delight. Quite simply\, they are one of the tightest\, one of the best\, one of the most prolific bands ever. And\, amazingly\, with the original founding members as the pack the entire time. Unprecedented. As their liner notes put it\, quite simply: “Los Lobos still are David Hidalgo\, Louie Pérez\, Jr.\, Cesar Rosas\, Conrad Lozano\, Steve Berlin.” URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/los-lobos/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Home Feature,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Los-Lobos-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240907T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240907T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20240611T155838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240904T175618Z UID:29131-1725737400-1725737400@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Ozomatli with Los Mocochetes DESCRIPTION:Tickets Are Flying!\nPresented by KBCO\n \nDoor time: 6:30 \nShow time: 7:30 \nIf the city of Los Angeles had a soundtrack\, it would be Ozomatli’s music. Since forming in 1995\, the lineup’s collaborative\, energetic blend of multi-cultural music and activism has earned the band three GRAMMYs®\, four Hollywood Bowl shows\, a TED Talk and much more. But more importantly\, Ozo has inspired and energized listeners worldwide. Even at gigs in locales including Burma and Mongolia\, Ozomatli’s messages and music\, sung in both Spanish and English\, need no translation. Circa 2022\, Ozo’s new songs\, stronger-than-ever brotherhood and the potent emotional impetus behind Marching On further cements the legacy begun with the band’s 1998 self-titled debut. \nLike The Doors\, X\, Los Lobos\, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and other L.A.-based artists who take cues from the city and also reflect and unearth its movements\, Ozomatli and Marching On reaches from the curbs to the high-rises. With musician/producer David Garza (Fiona Apple\, Sparta) producing in pre-pandemic 2020 at El Paso’s Sonic Ranch\, Ozo were honored with esteemed musical guests who contributed to the 11-song album. \nOn “Fellas” Ozo is joined by J.J. Fad and Lisa Lisa. “We were working on a song that was almost like an ‘80s song with acoustic instruments\,” explains Ulises Bella. “But also 808 [drum machine] music.” Uli had recently seen Lisa Lisa live—”such a great singer\, tight band\, so many hits!”—and a series of fortuitous social media interactions found Lisa Lisa and Uli in touch\, resulting in her star turn on the track. Then\, even though they hadn’t recorded in more than 30 years\, influential ‘80s female freestylers J.J Fad (“Supersonic”) eagerly jumped on the chance to work with Ozo and Lisa Lisa on “Fellas.” \nFor “Mi Destino\,” sung in both English and Spanish\, Ozo were stoked to connect with B-Real\, as Cypress Hill and Ozo had been on each other’s radars for decades. It was a DM that put B-Real in contact with Ozo. “And literally every step after that\, the stars were aligned\,” Uli says. “Unicorns were fucking dancing and somehow it all worked out and he got on ‘Mi Destino\,’ and we also got Gaby Moreno on the track. It was definitely a deep kind of thing we’ve been needing and wanting and marinating on\, and then it manifests.” \nOf soulful Guatemalan singer-songwriter Moreno\, guitarist Raúl Pacheco observes: “She just came up with this whole other kind of a style on it\, really beautiful and spiritual.” \n“It’s super-cool that we got really iconic\, impactful women of that era and beyond on our record\,” adds Uli. \nThe 11 songs are a unified blend of the members’ influences and ideas. Or\, as founding members Jiro Yamaguchi and Uli explain: “You drive down Sunset Boulevard and turn off your stereo and roll down your windows and all the music that comes out of each and every different car\, whether it’s salsa\, cumbia\, merengue\, Hip Hop\, funk or whatever\, it’s that crazy blend that’s going on between that cacophony of sound is Ozomatli\, y’know?” \nThe Marching On journey was ideally suited for producer Garza\, himself a musician familiar with Ozo’s Latin\, hip hop\, and rock music with salsa\, jazz\, funk\, and world music influences. Being away from home allowed the band to focus tightly. “Sonic Ranch is an incredible location with four studios. You live on site\, you are fed every day\, so it’s totally geared toward whatever shows up in terms of creating music\,” Raúl explains. “It was centering; just art- and music-making\, us just trying to say ‘yes’ to David’s requests and our ideas. So\, there’s a very unified sense to this album\, even though we’re all so different\, which you can also feel.” \nMarching On features Uli’s lead vocal debut on the song “Mula.” “Part of the inspiration was us being right there next to the border and hearing all these stories from people who were working nearby and at the studio\,” he recalls. “It was just crazy shit they’ve encountered\, with the history of El Paso and how violent it can be\, and the disappearance of women.” On the creepy noir story-song\, Uli says he went for the “Chicano\, Tom Waits-wise\,” take on the tune. “’Mula’ is pretty dark and messed-up.” \nWhile the basic tracks were all completed at Sonic Ranch\, due to the pandemic\, other parts of the record were completed remotely. Despite the often-terrifying uncertainty of the world during this time\, ultimately Ozo were able to complete Marching On\, which turned out to be an almost prescient song and album title.  As the lyrics to the track clarify: “Yeah we keep marching till the justice reigns / And the world sings the freedom’s song / Yeah we keep marching while the battle rages / As the new generations born / Till we right the wrongs.” \nFor a band who thrive on touring and connection\, much of 2020 “felt bleak\,” Ozo unable to share their musical and socio-political passions on tour. “We did a couple online concerts\, but watching a show is not ever going to be the same as being at the show\,” says Uli. “There’s only so much you can party on your couch in your living room with your dog.” \nFinishing Marching On was difficult emotionally and logistically\, but Ozo rose to the task. Tracking some vocals at home\, Raúl discovered\, “I learned so much. I got better in that process because I’m being challenged.” \nNo matter the circumstances\, Ozomatil are driven: Driven to make themselves\, their music and the world a better place. And that begins at home—which\, for Ozo\, is music and lyrics. “The song is kind of like a sacred responsibility\,” concludes Raúl. “It takes hard core passion to push whatever the song is to the best it could be. I take it very personally.” \nOf the vividly stunning album cover for Marching On\, Raúl explains\, “This figure represents the origin of the human race\, an earthly mother who over time continues to store\, carry\, and share collective knowledge. She shares this knowledge through many faces and many pairs of eyes\, representing all the varying cultures of the world\, they are all from the same body\, the same source. This mother figure\, like the human race\, is choosing to continue to move forward\, she compels us to keep Marching On and remember our collective connectedness.” \nOzomatli’s commitment to social justice is ongoing. Their 2019 single “Libertad\,” with founding members Chali 2na (Jurassic 5) & Cut Chemist\, was the first collaborative release together since Ozomatli’s 1998 debut album. It highlighted the struggle of Latin workers in the U.S. who sacrifice everything to help family on the other side of the border wall. Ozomati’s ongoing work in the world has not gone unnoticed. In 2008 the U.S. State Department appointed the band United States Cultural Ambassadors; in 2009 and 2010 they performed for President Barack Obama. And hometown honors came in 2013 when April 23 was deemed “Ozomatli Day” in perpetuity. \nIn some ways\, Ozomatli’s raison d’etre is summed up in “Mi Destino’s” lyrics: “To put it plain and simple there’s no halt in the walk / Destined for future lessons unbelievable thoughts / We are the navigators and the journey the clock / Set all the gears in motion to pop.” \nOzomatli want everyone to join them\, on the dance floor\, in the mosh pit\, in the trenches\, just “one more” time\, if they would\, as they sing on Marching On’s fifth track: “De que estás agradecido / Cual es tu mission / Levántate con fuerza / Una vez más por favor.” URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/ozomatli/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Ozomatli-Square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240831T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240831T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20240416T155802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240820T201046Z UID:28396-1725132600-1725132600@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:The Robert Cray Band - Groovin' for 50 Years with special guest Nic Clark DESCRIPTION:Low Ticket Alert!\nPresented by KBCO\n \nDoor time: 6:30 \nShow time: 7:30 \nBlues icon. Soul man. Rock and roller. Robert Cray is all these things – and more. The Georgia- born\, Washington-raised musician first picked up a guitar after seeing The Beatles on TV then\, having witnessed Jimi Hendrix perform in Seattle\, determined that his destiny would also follow a similar path. And so he has: across the past half century Robert Cray’s developed into one of American music’s most singular artists. \n“I guess you’d have to say that we were lucky\,” reflects Cray on his life in music\, “because\, growing up in the 1960s\, the different music played on the radio really opened us up. I mean\, we even had Albert Collins play our high School graduation party.” \nFrom forming a teenage garage band\, through to striding the stage alongside several of the world’s greatest guitarists\, Robert Cray’s story is one of struggle and commitment. Struggle and commitment that led to Cray enjoying phenomenal success – selling millions of albums and countless concert tickets\, winning five Grammy Awards\, being inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame\, recipient of the Americana Music Lifetime Achievement Award\, designing two signature model Fender guitars – yet for Robert what’s always mattered most is the music. Every note he plays counts\, every song he sings is delivered as if it is his last: integrity and intensity are what has guided Cray’s musical career. He has never cheapened his output or delivered a substandard performance. \nIndeed\, his commitment to making music of the highest standard has won Cray both a loyal audience and the respect of many of popular music’s most legendary figures. \nThink about it: Robert Cray has shared stage and/or studio with the likes of John Lee Hooker\, Muddy Waters\, B.B. King\, Buddy Guy\, Chuck Berry\, Albert Collins\, The Rolling Stones\, Eric Clapton\, Tina Turner\, Stevie Ray Vaughan\, the Memphis Horns and Hi Rhythm Section. Cray’s stinging guitar playing and soulful voice\, his skills as a band leader and performer\, mark him as keeper of the flame for American roots music\, an artist who never fails to deliver. \n“We were so lucky just be able to see them\,” says Cray of trading guitar licks on stage with legends of blues\, rock and soul\, “let alone share the stage with them – what an experience!” \nCray’s rise to the top was\, like his music\, a slow burn\, he first building a following in small towns across the Pacific Northwest. Even before Cray had a record deal he enjoyed local hero status – so much so in 1978 he was cast (as a musician) in Animal House\, the blockbuster comedy that made John Belushi famous. 1978 was also the year Cray recorded his debut album\, Who’s Been Talkin’\, although Tomato Records’ internal problems held up Talkin’s release until 1980. And then\, just as Talkin’ was winning great reviews\, Tomato collapsed into bankruptcy. Got the blues? Young Robert certainly could have claimed he had them. But Cray isn’t given to complaining\, instead he persevered\, committed then\, as he is now\, to taking his music to the people. \nAfter Tomato became music biz ketchup\, Cray and his band – today consisting of Richard Cousins (bass guitar – there since high school days)\, Dover Weinberg (keyboards) and George Sluppick (drums) – used the momentum the album gave them to play further afield. By now Cray was buddies with a young guitarist from Texas: Stevie Ray Vaughan. \n“We played in 1979 at the San Francisco Blues Festival\,” recalls Cray\, “and I watched Stevie’s show and he’s just smoking. Afterwards Richard and I went up and chatted with him and we just hit it off. Stevie was great – if we were in Austin he’d always come and join us on stage.” \nSigning to Hightone\, Cray’s 1983 album Bad Influence established him internationally: he was invited to play Carnegie Hall\, toured Europe\, later finding Eric Clapton recording Bad Influence’s title track.1985 saw Cray’s False Accusations album increase his standing as the foremost singer of blues noir songs\, while that year’s Showdown! – a sizzling collaboration with guitarists’ Albert Collins and Johnny Copeland – won Robert huge acclaim from blues musicians and fans: the new guy’s the real deal! Signing to Mercury Records\, Cray’s 1986 album Strong Persuader ensured he became the first blues/soul musician to breakthrough in the MTV era. \nStrong Persuader won Cray rave reviews from pop and rock critics\, topped charts worldwide\, saw Cray grace the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and winning the Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Recording in 1988. Strong Persuader\, with its songs of infidelity\, guilt and unease\, while not in any sense conventional Top 40 music\, proved so strong an album it broke through barriers\, sold millions of copies and would prove extremely influential. Cray’s breakthrough allowed both young and older blues and soul musicians to gain wide attention and radio play: John Lee Hooker’s career resurrection came soon after with The Healer\, and Robert plays on that seminal album. \n“It was great to be able to travel around the world\,” says Cray of Strong Persuader’s success. “It afforded us a lot of great opportunities that we were lucky to experience.” \nCray’s being modest here: suddenly he found himself the hottest guitarist working – Tina Turner invited Robert to support her huge European tour (every night\, after playing with his band\, Cray would join Tina on stage to play A Change Is Gonna Come)\, then Keith Richards called\, requesting Cray join the band backing Chuck Berry for Taylor Hackford’s celebratory feature length documentary Hail Hail Rock ‘N’ Roll. Here Cray not only got to play with the mercurial Berry (+Linda Ronstadt and Etta James\, amongst many notable artists)\, he also formed a friendship with Steve Jordan\, then drummer for the project and Richards’ solo band. \nNow internationally famous\, Cray found himself in intense demand: he toured with the Stones and Eric Clapton\, played with B.B King and Buddy Guy (both of whom were inspirations)\, headlined noted music festivals – these included Glastonbury in the UK and Crossroads Guitar Festival in the US – and kept developing his sound over a selection of strong albums across the 1990s. Cray’s songwriting has addressed ageing\, love\, loneliness\, domestic turmoil and US politics\, while his music’s expansive vision found the likes of Cajun accordion legend Jo-El Sonnier and Memphis Horns’ trumpet and saxophone masters Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love guesting on his albums. \nAs an artist Robert Cray’s aged like fine wine – his voice has developed a greater range and \nexpressiveness\, this he’s put to use on masterful interpretations of such Southern soul standards as I Forgot To Be Your Lover (William Bell)\, Your Good Thing Is About To End (Mable John) and Nobody’s Fault But Mine (Otis Redding). At the same time\, Cray’s guitar playing now possesses an additional depth\, a growl that can hint at a caress then signal emotional upheaval. \nHis recent run of albums – 2014’s In My Soul\, 2017’s Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm and 2020’s masterful That’s What I Heard (all produced by Steve Jordan: now the Stones’ drummer) – are amongst the very finest he’s made. Every song here is deeply felt\, whether an agonised song of loss\, an angry protest number\, or a dance tune that gets audiences pumping (My Baby Likes To Boogaloo is great funky fun). \nAcross five decades Robert Cray has created a richly inclusive American music\, revitalising both blues and soul while rocking hard with the very best. To achieve 50 years in the music industry and still be as fresh and committed as when starting out is an achievement few can boast of but Cray can: he has released 19 studio albums\, every one replete with his extremely distinctive songs\, won five Grammy Awards and continues to make music that sounds like no one but Robert Cray. “All these years we have been fortunate to do what we love doing\, playing the music we love playing\,” says Cray with a smile. “I couldn’t ask for anything more.” URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/robert-cray-50th-anniversary-tour/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Robert-Cray-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240822T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240822T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20240514T155810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240820T201107Z UID:28667-1724355000-1724355000@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Peter Rowan with Sam Grisman Project playing music from Old and In The Way ... and more! DESCRIPTION:Low Ticket Alert!\nPresented by KBCO\n \nDoor time: 6:30 \nShow time: 7:30 \nPeter Rowan\nGrammy-­‐award winner and six-­‐time Grammy nominee\, Peter Rowan is a singer-­‐songwriter with a career spanning over five decades. From his early years playing under the tutelage of Bluegrass veteran Bill Monroe\, to his time in Old & In the Way and breakout as a solo musician and bandleader\, Rowan has built a devoted\, international fan base through a solid stream of records\, collaborative projects\, and constant touring. \nBorn in Wayland\, Massachusetts to a musical family\, Rowan learned to play guitar from his uncle. He spent his teenage years absorbing the sights and sounds of the Hillbilly Ranch\, a legendary Country music nightclub in Boston frequented by old-­‐ time acts like the Lilly Brothers and Tex Ritter. In 1956 Peter Rowan formed his first band\, the Cupids\, while still in high school. \nFollowing three years in college\, Rowan left academia and decided to pursue a life in music. Rowan began his professional career in 1963 as the singer\, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for the Bluegrass Boys\, led by the founding father of bluegrass\, Bill Monroe. “One thing I started to like about the Monroe style was that there was a lot more blues in it than other styles of bluegrass\,” reflects Rowan. “It was darker. It had more of an edge to it. And yet it still had the ballad tradition in it\, and I loved that.” \nThe late ‘60s and early 70’s saw Rowan involved in a number of rock\, folk and bluegrass projects\, including Earth Opera\, Sea Train\, Muleskinner\, and the Rowans\, where he played alongside brothers Chris and Lorin Rowan. After the Rowan Brothers disbanded\, Rowan\, David Grisman\, Jerry Garcia\, Vassar Clements and John Kahn formed a bluegrass band christened Old & In the Way. It was during this incarnation that Rowan penned the song “Panama Red\,” a subsequent hit for the New Riders of the Purple Sage and a classic ever since. \nRowan subsequently embarked on a well-­‐received solo career in the late ‘70s\, releasing critically acclaimed records such as Dustbowl Children (a Woody-­‐Guthrie style song cycle about the Great Depression)\, Yonder (a record of old-­‐time country music in collaboration with ace dobro player\, Jerry Douglas) and two extraordinarily fine bluegrass albums\, The First Whippoorwill and Bluegrass Boy\, as well as High Lonesome Cowboy\, a recording of traditional and old-­‐time mountain music with Don Edwards and Norman Blake. Rowan’s recent releases-­‐ Quartet\, a recording with the phenomenal Tony Rice and Legacy with the Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band\, coupled with a relentless touring schedule have further endeared Peter Rowan to audiences around the world. \nOn the road\, Rowan performs internationally as a solo singer-­‐songwriter\, while stateside he plays in three bands: the Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band\, a quartet featuring Keith Little\, Mike Witcher and Paul Knight; Big Twang Theory and its Texas Cousin Twang n Groove and rock band The Free Mexican Air Force. \nFollowing on the heels of the celebrated album “Crucial Country: Live at Telluride” and “Legacy”\, his debut for Compass Records\, Peter is recording his second album for Compass\, with members of the current Bluegrass Band plus Chris Henry\, Michael Cleveland\, Bryan Sutton\, Ronnie\, Robbie and Del McCoury\, Jim Lauderdale\, Bobbie Osborne\, JD Crowe\, Jesse McReynolds and more. \nSam Grisman Project\nA Note From Sam– The music that my father David Grisman and his close friend\, Jerry Garcia\, made in the early 90s (in the house that I grew up in) is not only some of the most timeless acoustic music ever recorded\, it also triggers my oldest and fondest musical memories. What I find most inspiring about this material is the way their camaraderie and their love and joy for the music\, simply oozes out of each recording. It is also impressive how deeply they get beneath their favorite songs—whether they are originals\, covers or traditional/old time tunes—and how expertly that material was curated. \nMy goal in starting Sam Grisman Project is to build a platform for my friends and me to showcase our genuine passion and appreciation for the legacy of Dawg and Jerry’s music. By playing some of their beloved repertoire and sharing the original music that our own collective has to offer\, we will also show the impact that this music has had on our own individual musical voices. Ultimately\, there is nothing that makes me happier than playing great songs with my best friends and my hope is to share that happiness with audiences all over!” \nhttps://youtu.be/_UPeow-_bEQ?si=ajDgja3wH6y2uYoa URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/peter-rowan-sam-grisman-project/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Peter-Rowan-Sam-Grisman-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240813T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240813T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20240604T145845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240812T192927Z UID:28194-1723577400-1723577400@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway - Down The Rabbit Hole Tour with Chatham Rabbits DESCRIPTION:Low Ticket Alert!\nPresented by KBCO\n \nDoor time: 6:30 \nShow time: 7:30 \nLimited Availability Molly Tuttle Q & A and Acoustic Performance VIP Upgrade:\nAccess to an exclusive pre-show experience including:\nPre-show acoustic set (2-3 songs)\nQ&A Session with Molly Tuttle\nPoster signed by MollyTuttle\nMerchandise shopping opportunity prior to doors opening to the public\nEarly entry into the venue\nTo purchase this exclusive VIP upgrade\, please visit the artist’s website tour listings page to be directed to the VIP purchase page or click on the link below.\nTickets to the show are NOT included in this upgrade package and all patrons must purchase a ticket before purchasing the upgrade package. \nMolly Tuttle & Golden Highway\n2x-Grammy Award–winning singer\, songwriter\, and musician Molly Tuttle and her band\, Golden Highway\, released their latest album\, City of Gold\, this past July on Nonesuch Records. The Grammy-nominated City of Gold follows Tuttle’s acclaimed 2022 record\, Crooked Tree\, which won Best Bluegrass Album at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards and led NPR Music to call her “a female flat picker extraordinaire with agility\, speed\, and elegance who distinctively brings American roots music into the spotlight\,” adding that the album “marries the improvisatory solos of traditional bluegrass with singer-songwriter sophistication.” Produced by Tuttle and Jerry Douglas and recorded at Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studios\, City of Gold was inspired by Tuttle’s constant touring with Golden Highway these past few years\, during which they have grown together as musicians and performers\, cohering as a band. Reflecting on the project\, Tuttle shares\, “When I was a kid\, we took a field trip to Caloma\, CA\, to learn about the gold rush. I’ll never forget the dusty hills and the grizzled old miner who showed us the nugget around his neck. Just like gold fever\, music has always captivated me\, captured my heart\, and driven me to great lengths to explore its depths. On my new album I dug deep as a songwriter (with Ketch Secor) and co-producer (with Jerry Douglas) and surfaced with a record that celebrates the music of my heart\, my life\, the land where I grew up\, and the stories I heard along the way. I made this record with my band Golden Highway after playing more than 100 shows across the country last year. On the road and in the studio\, we are inspired by artists such as John Hartford\, Gillian Welch\, and Peter Rowan\, to name a few\, whose records are like family albums to us. Just like them\, on this album we chart some new territory along with some old familiar ground. The songs span from breakdowns to ballads\, fairytales and fiddle tunes\, from Yosemite up to the Gold Country and out beyond the mountains. That visit to Coloma\, site of California’s first gold strike\, is where I first heard about El Dorado\, the city of gold. Playing music can take you to a place that is just as precious.” \nRaised in Northern California\, Tuttle moved to Nashville in 2015. In the years since\, she’s been nominated for Best New Artist at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards\, won Album of the Year at the 2023 International Folk Music Awards\, Female Vocalist of the Year at the 2022 International Bluegrass Music Awards\, Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2018 Americana Music Awards\, and Guitar Player of the Year at the IBMAs in both 2017 and 2018\, the first woman to receive the honor. Tuttle has performed around the world\, including shows with Sam Bush\, Béla Fleck\, Hiss Golden Messenger\, Jason Isbell\, Old Crow Medicine Show\, and Dwight Yoakam as well as at several major festivals including Newport Folk Festival and Pilgrimage \n \nChatham Rabbits\nThere is something warm and instantly familiar about the beloved roots duo\, Chatham Rabbits. Partners in music and life\, Chatham Rabbits’ Austin and Sarah McCombie blend their personal histories through deft songwriting and a history that comes from building a life together. Leaning into each other’s strengths\, their songs present a congenial\, collaborative spirit that has captured the pure adoration of fans along the way and earned them praise from Garden & Gun Magazine\, American Songwriter\, and No Depression. \nTheir artistry hinges on a fervent desire to connect with others through the music that first brought the pair together. Steeped in the regional traditions of their North Carolina home\, Chatham Rabbits’ musical pursuits represent a new age of roots music. Chatham Rabbits recorded and released their beloved debut album\, All I Want From You in 2019. This set the standard for their sophomore release The Yoke is Easy\, The Burden is Full—the centerpiece song “Oxen” was named “Top Folk Song of 2020” by Paste Magazine. Nurtured by central North Carolina’s fertile\, influential music scene\, Chatham Rabbits’ sound continues to evolve in their expansive third album\, If You See Me Riding By (2022)\, which was simultaneously released with a television series\, On the Road with Chatham Rabbits\, on PBS-NC. The McCombies ingenuity during the Covid-19 crisis led to the creation of their mobile concert experience\, The Stay at Home Tour\, which took the duo to 194 neighborhoods in 2020-21. The pair is currently recording their fourth album of poignant original songs and continuing to foster their tight-knit fan community across the US. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/molly-tuttle-golden-highway/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Molly-Tuttle-Square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240812T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240812T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20240520T160003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240812T192518Z UID:29114-1723491000-1723491000@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Joss Stone Ellipsis Tour with special guest Nik West DESCRIPTION:Low Ticket Alert!\nPresented by KBCO\n \nDoor time: 6:30 \nShow time: 7:30 \nSoundcheck Q & A Experience with Joss Stone:\nOne (1) Premium Reserved Ticket\nAccess to Pre-Show Soundcheck Performance\nQ & A Session with Joss Stone\nOne (1) Exclusive Gift\nOne (1) Commemorative\, Signed VIP Laminate\nPre-Show Early Merch Shopping (where applicable)\n \nJoss Stone is a Grammy and Brit award-winning artist who released her star-making critically acclaimed debut album\, The Soul Sessions\, in 2003\, aged just 16. Since then\, she has released nine studio albums which have sold over 15 million copies worldwide. \nStone has kept the company of musical royalty\, performing alongside legendary artists such as James Brown\, Herbie Hancock\, Stevie Wonder\, Gladys Knight\, Sting\, Van Morrison and Melissa Etheridge. In addition\, she has collaborated with and contributed to albums for many of the world’s finest musicians\, including Jeff Beck\, Mick Jagger\, and Damien Marley\, and garnered over one billion streams in the US alone. \nStone has been known to experiment with different styles in her own work as well\, and her albums feature an exciting patchwork of various influences\, creating a catalogue characterised by the fusion of her powerhouse soul vocals with reggae\, world music\, and hip-hop soundscapes. \nA double Brit Award and Grammy winning artist\, Joss Stone is without question among the most iconic soul singers of the modern era\, a preternaturally gifted vocalist and songwriter whose remarkable career now spans two decades with no sign of slowing down. From 2003’s internationally acclaimed\, chart-topping debut album\, The Soul Sessions\, to making history with 2004’s RIAA platinum certified Mind Body & Soul as the then-youngest-ever female artist to top the UK Albums Chart. The Kent born\, Devon based artist\, who has recently split her time between the UK and the U.S\, has crafted eight highly accomplished solo albums\, not to mention soundtrack hits\, film and tv appearances\, and collaborations with a who’s-who of music royalty\, including Mick Jagger\, Jeff Beck\, Nas\, Raphael Saadiq\, Sheila E\, and many more. Four more acclaimed albums followed\, Introducing Joss Stone in 2007\, which marked the highest ever entry\, at No.2\, on the US album charts by a British female\, Colour Me Free in 2009 and Soul Sessions 2 in 2012. \nThe year prior\, saw Stone’s fifth album and first full-length collaboration with Dave Stewart\, LP1\, which made a top 10 debut on the overall Billboard 200 upon its July 2011 release — Stone’s third consecutive top 10 album on the U.S.charts. LP1 “conjures the spirit of another supplanted smokey Brit songstress in the steamy South: Dusty in Memphis\,” wrote Paste. “Where Stone stands out — as producer Dave Stewart realises — is in her restraint…In a world where machined dance fodder\, rap-deckled pop and lumbering rawk dominates\, a genuine article of soul music — especially one where the thick bass\, tumbling Wurlitzer and bright guitars set the tone — is a joyous noise\, indeed.” \nLP1 was followed that same year by the arrival of SuperHeavy\, the all-superstar combo comprising Stone\, Stewart\, Mick Jagger\, Damian Marley\, and A.R. Rahman. Co-produced by Stewart and Jagger\, the group’s self-titled debut album was met by acclaim from Rolling Stone\, which declared it to be “terrifically fun…the spirit is dazzling” in a four-starred rave review. \nStone’s seventh studio album\, 2015’s Water For Your Soul\, saw her pushing her artistic boundaries to encompass diverse elements of world music influences. The acclaimed collection debuted at #1 on Billboard‘s “Top Reggae Albums” chart and eventually proved the best-selling current reggae album of 2015\, once again displaying Stone’s uniquely successful gift for bridging musical genres. \nOver the last decade\, in addition to writing and recording new music\, Stone embarked on her audacious Total World Tour in 2014\, performing gigs and collaborating with local artists in over 200 countries. In addition\, she also created The Joss Stone Foundation to work alongside a global network of charities and partners to provide solutions and deliver locally in cultures and communities around the world. She completed this mammoth undertaking in 2019. Following that Stone has launched a successful podcast “A Cuppa Happy\,” along with a her Facebook Live cooking show “Cooking With Joss\,” and in February 2021 she won season two of the smash hit competition series The Masked Singer UK\, dressed as a sausage! In January 2022 she co-headlined a US tour with fellow Brit\, Corinne Bailey Rae\, leading up to the release of her 8th album in February 2022\, the critically acclaimed “Never Forget My Love\,” produced by Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart\, and written by Joss and Dave at Bay Street Studios\, Bahamas and recorded at Blackbird Studios\, Nashville. \nThis was followed in late 2022 by her first ever Xmas album\, ‘Merry Xmas\, Love\,’ released through Steve Greenberg’s S- Curve/Hollywood Records\, reuniting her with the man who signed her for her debut Soul Sessions album. 2022 also saw the momentous arrival of Joss’ second child Shack\, following the birth of her first child\, daughter Violet\, the previous year. \n2023 is already shaping up to be an exciting year with further shows planned and the West End debut of The Time Traveler’s Wife musical\, which she co-wrote music and lyrics for with long time collaborator\, Dave Stewart. \n \n**All package elements will be rendered invalid if resold. 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URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/joss-stone/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Joss-Stone-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240811T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240811T193000 DTSTAMP:20260603T233754 CREATED:20240305T165854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240809T153744Z UID:26783-1723404600-1723404600@www.chautauqua.com SUMMARY:Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers - Spirit Trail: 25th Anniversary DESCRIPTION:Low Ticket Alert!\nPresented by KBCO\n \nDoor time: 6:30 \nShow time: 7:30 \n  \n\n\n\nBased out of Williamsburg\, VA\, Hornsby first rose to national prominence with The Way It Is\, his 1986 Grammy-winning debut album with The Range. The title track became the most-played song on American radio in 1987 while Tupac Shakur’s timeless song “Changes” builds on “The Way It Is” and set the stage for many subsequent versions of the track. In 1991 Hornsby collaborated with Bonnie Raitt\, playing on her iconic hit “I Can’t Make You Love Me.” Additionally\, Hornsby was a part-time member of the Grateful Dead from September 1990 to March 1992\, performing over 100 concerts in America and Europe. The 13-time Grammy nominee has also solidified his status as a highly sought-after collaborator. Hornsby’s own 23 albums have sold over 11 million copies worldwide\, and he has appeared on over 100 records including releases with Bob Dylan\, Don Henley\, the Grateful Dead\, Stevie Nicks\, Ricky Skaggs\, Bob Seger\, Chaka Khan\, Bon Iver\, Brandon Flowers\, Bonnie Raitt\, Sting\, Mavis Staples\, Willie Nelson and more. His most recent studio album\, ‘Flicted\, was released in May ‘22. URL:https://www.chautauqua.com/event/bruce-hornsby/ LOCATION:Chautauqua Auditorium\, 100 Morning Glory Dr.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Summer Concert Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.chautauqua.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Bruce-Hornsby-1080x1080-1.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR