It’s mid morning on a Sunday, and I’m driving through the high northern Arizona desert. The crackling of the radio only quiets on the National Public Radio station. I let it play. They are talking about Sarah Jarosz and her new album. The single House of Mercy is played, and her hauntingly beautiful voice stays…
Tag: Concerts
the youth of American Music
I could hear the music wafting from the park across the street, and the food trucks were lining up for the lunch time crowd. I snag a greasy blue cheese and bacon burger, find some shade at the base of a tree, and enjoy some free music from the youth of Nashville. Music, I dare…
Bluegrass at the Boyce
I wanted to get back to the Boyce Arboretum after going there for the first time with my parents a couple of weeks before so I could take some time to get quality pictures, and hike the upper trail. Then I found out that with the ten dollar admission price, a bluegrass concert by a couple…
a night with Bela Fleck & the Denver Symphony
I want a banjo playing bluegrass music as my ashes are being carried by the wind over a cliff. I hope the people there will raise a glass of vanilla beer and cheer. Let the turn table spin Bela Fleck and the Denver Symphony as my wake continues. Try on a gas mask, see how…
Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers
I tucked in my shirt, straightened my tie,and caught a cursory glance of myself in the mirror. Time to hail a taxi and head to The Kennedy Center for the performing arts. Big city life in an onslaught of twinkling lights and towering buildings of history puts me at ease. I step out of the…
Singers/Songwriters
Comparing apples to oranges is akin to musicians to singer/songwriters. Both are good, yet each is in a class all their own. I was able to witness two incredible singer/songwriters this weekend, with their raw emotions flooding the venue in a blanket of heightened emotions. In hipster glasses, a black hat and rolled up jeans,…
Yonder
You’ve heard the story…someone pulls out a map, points their finger blindly at a place, then decides to go there… I do that, but with music. I’d never heard of Yonder Mountain String Band before, but a Friday night summer concert in Colorado’s infamous Red Rocks amphitheater is something I can’t pass up. The bluegrass…
Greensky Bluegrass
Within the first minute of playing, I tap the blind girl in front of me on the shoulder… “Who are these guys?” After a few inaudible mumblings, some smiles and repeated face licks from her service dog Sage, I get the answer. “Greensky Bluegrass! Aren’t they awesome!” It was progressive bluegrass music played in a…
Jesus, etc
I request a song on Wilco’s website, knowing it will most likely be played, but without any personal acknowledgement. I ask anyway, for her. “his goal, in life, was to be an echo…” August the 18th, in the year of 2015, I sit back with a Maasai blanket wrapped around my shoulders, and wait…
Time for Three
Everyone likes it when you get so much more than what you were expecting. For me, what I thought would be a quiet evening of classical music turned into one of my favorite concert going experiences. When Red Butte Gardens announced a “Time for Three with the Utah Symphony” show, I bought a ticket due…
time to go Phishing
He slowly makes his way through the rolling green hills of Wisconsin, humming a tune and admiring the views in the middle of nowhere. The sign points to turn left. “Alpine Valley Music Theater“. In the parking lot a threesome of colorful characters weave in front of his car. He smiles and thinks “it must…
Alabama Shakes
There was no doubt that the four of us would be at the Alabama Shakes show this summer in the SLC. I didn’t know, of course, that it would be our last concert together for quite a while now that the countdown to leaving Utah is on. So last Tuesday ended up being a time…