Review of long-awaited debut full-length CD from former Elephant Revival band founder Daniel Rodriguez
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Labor Day weekend: Lyons restaurants open and CO special events
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Give me the mountains! The high, rugged mountains!
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A poem by vance french.
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A Memorial Day poem in memory of Cristina Trapani-Scott's uncle, Staff Sergeant Carl Butera, in honor of all fallen soldiers.
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Even young poets' feelings come out when those feelings are strong enough.
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This lovely recording is a pleasure to listen to, especially in these trying times.
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CCI’s vision is "to support and expand the impact of creative industries, artists and entrepreneurs, connecting communities to advance a thriving and vibrant Colorado."
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The Selected Poems of Kentuckian Wendell Berry gathers one hundred poems written between 1957 and 1996, including this timely piece.
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The bright lights of the four-day 47th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival have been fully extinguished for the first time since the festival's 1974 debut. The festival's coordinator, Craig Ferguson, enlightened us on Facebook, and The Telluride Daily Planet has confirmed it. Postponements and other options were explored, but sadly, the
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The Farmette team is optimistic that their dinners, slated to start in July, will roll-out as planned.
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Tonight's live 'Flyin’ High' release - a private shelter-in-place Stylie dance party.
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We’re on lock down. You know, the virus thing. Now, I’ve got lots of time to write. But I’ve been fighting the sadness of temporarily closing down the Warrior StoryField to isolate.
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Unfortunately the world we find ourselves in today is a much stranger place than that. This summer is not going to be business as usual.
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Denver artist Jennifer Steck offers free online art classes.
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"We will get through this. Some days we're strong and creative. Others days we have doubts," local artist Becky Jacobson explains.
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Things may have changed quickly but one thing remains constant; music is alive and well.
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"Our Community, a Silver Lining," reminds poet, Martin Soosloff. Photo: Chrystal DeCoster
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Max Ehrmann's poem, Desiderata, may offer what many of us might need right now.
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Free acoustic-based music at Oskar Blues returns on Sundays from 5-8 p.m. starting March 15.
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This Saturday March 14, Take Down the Door closes the High Street Concerts' season.
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Rachel Tallent is ringing in the new decade with an art exhibit at the Stone Cup.
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Tandem art shows launched by the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission
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Lyons' own Joe Kuckla has finally produced his eponymous debut recording with his band Irons In The Fire, consisting of David Richey on electric guitar and vocals; Colin Mahoney, drums and percussion; Amy Harron, vocals; and Scott “Wallard” Johnson on bass. Special guests include Jake Simpson on fiddle, Charlie Rose
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Last Wednesday, seven eighth grade band students from Lyons Middle Senior High School participated in the Saint Vrain Valley School District (SVVSD) Honor Band Concert. This event is a special opportunity for eighth grade band students who attend middle schools in the district. Rehearsals took place at both Longs Peak
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Rogers Hall was supercharged with the toe-tappin’ talents of Jackson Earles and Blue Canyon Boys.
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Right here in Lyons is the opportunity to learn the jam skills to help you grow as a musician. Our own K.C. Groves is offering a series of four four-hour workshops to help players "play real music with easy chords, gentle tempos, and friendly people." The workshop uses the method
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I have known winter
Intimately,
the way it creeps up
quietly while I am sleeping
and lays its silence not in white
like you might expect
but in strokes of pale
blue.
The Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission (LAHC) and the Town of Lyons are thrilled to announce their "Call for Artists" for entries in a public art collection now known as the heARTS of LYONS - an outdoor art collection -- all over town. We wish to judiciously expand this current
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Artists Sally King of Lyons, Nicholas Emery of Nederland, and Nathan Koral of Denver will gather Saturday, Feb. 1, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Gallery Now, 401 Main Street in Lyons, for one night to share work inspired by a river trip they took together through the Grand
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Mother Nature cooperated just in time for the first Winter Wonderland show of the season.
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Larry Cohan was my brother. He passed away September 8, 2019 at the young age of 64. In the last decade of his life, he painted in earnest. After the flooding in 2013, his painting took him to a new and vibrant place. In the months following the flood, he
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Bella la Crema, the world’s first butter bar, is nestled in Lyons’ historic downtown district. Many of us in town have indulged in their luscious Mayan Chocolate Muse spread, or have tried a slice of fresh bread with the spicy Ode to Neruda. Bella la Crema opened in September of
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The year of perfect vision
Clear interpretative reactions to the nuances life deals
Like a poker hand
Never knowing what you're gonna get
Straight, two pair, king high, full house, royal flush?
For artist Magali Fournier, the act of painting is a journey. She doesn’t have a particular outcome in mind, but she prefers it that way.
“I just don’t know what I’m going to be doing,” she said. “I like that. I let the present moment determine the work.”
The result is
Another great musical tradition is continuing in Lyons at LaVern Johnson Park. Three Saturday afternoons this winter from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm, the town will be hosting three different bands and offering complimentary skate rental and hot chocolate at the kiosk next to the skating rink. This will be
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I saw you
quick like
grocery store checkout
as I bagged the gluttony
rolling down the chute
holding up the line on
some waxy vegetable
without barcode sticker
you had shadows
The Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission (LAHC) is excited to announce that it will now be managing two tandem quarterly art show series in 2020: The continuing Quarterly Town Hall Art Show series and the new Quarterly Lyons Regional Library Show series.
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Beihai, a large trade-based port on China's southwest coast near the Vietnamese border, is reported to be one of the fastest-growing ecotourism cities on the planet. It is steeped in maritime silk road legacies; saturated with ancient gardens, islands, white sand beaches, and pagodas; and punctuated with artistic marvels like
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