Tag: Bluegrass
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Some of Colorado’s biggest musicians have humble beginnings at Telluride Bluegrass Festival
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The festival’s newcomer contests have impressive alumni In 2007, Gregory Alan Isakov was looking for a way to fund a trip to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival to enter the event’s songwriting competition, known as the Troubadour Contest. Like many up-and-comers, the Boulder-based indie folk artist, Isakov, had to get creative. “I was sleeping in my…
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Keep On Pluckin’: Denver holds first BanjoFest
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Just miles from the snow-glistening Rockies — the mountains often revered in the tunes of folk and bluegrass — twanging banjos could be heard from the halls of Swallow Hill Music. Charlie Nilan of Denver, front, learns the pitchfork stroke for clawhammer, a playing style for the…
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PHOTOS: Rocky Mountain Folk Festival brings community back together in Lyons after fire
Several thousand took in a wide bill of bluegrass and other artists at the Rocky Mountain Folk Festival in Lyons, Colo. this past weekend. Some bar vendors donated all of their tips to fire relief in the wake of the Stone Canyon Fire that claimed one life and five structures the previous week.
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Year-round gardening: What’s up with turf?
If you love your bluegrass lawn, you might feel a bit pressured these days. Water shortages are leading many to replace turf with less thirsty options. It might be helpful to rethink why and how we use turf to maximize the benefit provided by lawns, and not use grass where it isn’t a good choice.…
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Are Colorado homeowners stalling out on conservation?
The summer days of 2019 in Castle Rock were hot and endless. School teacher Kirsten Schuman, pregnant with her second child, wearily watered her suburban yard only to see it go brown almost immediately, week after week. But then a friend told her about a new city contest to win an $11,000 yard makeover, one…