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Scene Stealers | April 2025

April 27, 2025 Like 0 Associate Editor

Shelvis and the Roustabouts @ Nissi’s, May 1st, 2025 Don’t miss out, daddio, because Denver’s own Shelvis and the Roustabouts are coming to shake, rattle, and roll Lafayette with their trademark brand of rockabilly and Americana. Voted Denver’s Best Band…

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Chuck Sitero of High Lonesome is Playing for World Peace | Spotlight

March 29, 2025 3 0 Julie River

“When I came up in bluegrass, it was only white dudes,” explains Chuck Sitero, founding member of Lyons, Colorado-based bluegrass outfit High Lonesome. “It was nobody that was gay, it was nobody that was Black, it was nobody that was…

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Denver Bluegrass Band, Big Richard, Takes the Stage | Spotlight

January 16, 2025 1 0 Mary-Beth Skylis

This Valentine’s Day, Big Richard will take the Boulder Theater stage to celebrate love with traditional bluegrass and old-time tunes. The four-piece band joined forces in 2021 for a festival and has stuck together ever since. Now, Bonnie Sims, Joy…

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Duncan Coker | Spotlight

October 1, 2024 1 0 Mary-Beth Skylis

Local Musician, Duncan Coker, Leans into the Red Dirt Genre in His First Album

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Cary Morin Honors Life in Crow Tribe Country and Works of Western Artist in New Album

March 1, 2024 Like 0 Shen Wu Tan

Nature is often said to be the source of inspiration for many artists. For Cary Morin, an Indigenous fingerstyle guitarist and songwriter based in Fort Collins, inspiration struck him while on a perch overlooking the Colorado River at Rancho Del…

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Innocence Lost: The Infamous Stringdusters New Album Goes Toward The Fray | Interview

November 4, 2021 Like 0 editor

Award winning bluegrassband The Infamous Stringdusters has just released their first single since 2018. “Toward the Fray” is the title track. Silver Sepmeier interviews and previews their upcoming show, Nov 12th, at Mission Ballroom.

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A brief chat with Ragged Union Bluegrass

October 28, 2014 Like 0 Brett Calwood

Local bluegrass band Ragged Union Bluegrass, based in Golden, will be playing four local shows through Halloween and November, and more in December. Seems like as good a reason as any to have a chat with founder Geoff Union.

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Down to the River to Play

August 19, 2011 Like 0 Andra Coberly

It’s raining, but the bands play on. Smattered about the Planet Bluegrass Ranch as an early afternoon shower interrupts their lunch break, the musicians are either too happy to care or too focused to realize their parade is being rained…

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The Bolder Life: The Dos and Don’ts of RockyGrass

July 28, 2011 Like 0 Tyra Sutak

As a long-time resident of Lyons, I could write for days on all of the RockyGrass Festival “experiences” that I’ve seen and had myself. As a kid, (in a time long, long ago), I used to play hide-and-seek in the…