Events

Salted Rose Studios invites you to share your story on camera for TUNED, a community-sourced documentary film about music and mental health. We want to put a mic on your voice to raise the volume on mental health awareness. TUNED will investigate how the gentle, simple, and yet dynamic influence of music can contribute to emotional health. When you arrive at eTown Hall, you’ll be checked in and guided to the main theater for your interview. You can expect a 5-10 minute intimate conversation in an empty theater with only the director, a production assistant, and a two-person camera crew. For more information and to RSVP, please visit: tuned.splashthat.com 

Originally from New York, now dividing his time between Buenos Aires, Argentina and New York’s Hudson Valley, Richard Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories, juxtapose ideas and images, inhabit characters, vividly evoking entire worlds along the way and expanding our sense of just what it is a song may be. From his first record, Sparrow’s Point (1992) to his current release, Careless (September 2016), Shindell has explored the possibilities offered by this most elastic and variable of cultural confections: the song.

Smooth Hound Smith is a foot-stompin’ American roots and rock band founded by Zack Smith and Caitlin Doyle-Smith. Established in 2012, and based in East Nashville, TN, they record and perform a varied and unique style of folky, garage-infused rhythm & blues. Using primal foot percussion, complex, fuzzed-out, finger-picked guitar patterns, warbled harmonicas, tasty harmonies and syncopated tambourine, they are able to create something rugged and visceral: a modern interpretation of early blues, soul, and rock ‘n’ roll music that harkens back to the traditions of hazy front porch folk songs as well as raucous back-alley juke joints.

On New Year’s Day in 2013, Kris Allen and his then-pregnant wife Katy were in a head-on collision that left the singer/songwriter/guitarist with a career-threatening shattered wrist. In the two years that followed, he underwent three surgeries, re-learned how to play guitar (despite regaining just 30 percent movement in the damaged wrist), recorded his third album, and toured relentlessly – including a two-month-long stint that started just one week after his accident. The American Idol season 8 winner ultimately retreated from the whirlwind and immersed himself in a songwriting spell that yielded more than 70 new tracks. Culled from the collection of songs, Allen’s fourth full-length album Letting You In finds the Nashville-based artist delivering his most intimate and dynamic work to date.

In February of 2019 Nick hosted the first ever “Hippy Bluegrass Church” service at eTown Hall – leading everyone through an energetic and thoughtful gathering backed by an amazing cast of bluegrass musicians. What is clear from the response to the few events we have hosted so far is that there is a real need for us to gather in community. Even for those who are in the habit of singing, it is time for us all to raise our voices together. Start the day gathering with friends and other music lovers (of all ages) to sing songs like I’ll Fly Away, A Beautiful Life, I Saw the Light, Angel Band and other staples from the genre. Poetry, good energy, and other offerings will be made along with the music.

With unique compassion and heart, THE HUMAN ELEMENT follows environmental photographer James Balog on his quest to highlight Americans on the frontlines of climate change, inspiring us to re-evaluate our relationship with the natural world. 

Paul McCartney once sang, “Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs” but on David Cook’s latest EP, CHROMANCE, he isn’t one of them.  While he has written his share, he decidedly took a different turn this time out. “I wanted this EP to feel like the darker side of love. I recently found some psychology textbooks from college and read about different forms of love – parental, platonic, romantic, obsessive. When most people, including me, write love songs, it’s usually “you and me against the world,” but I wanted to tap in to the murkier aspects of love people rarely talk about.”

After a SOLD OUT debut run in April of 2019, The Fremonts return to Boulder for an encore performance of The Failure Cabaret.

The Fremonts have been married for eight years and they have the therapy bills to prove it. In this one-hour comedy cabaret, Stephanie Dodd from Fremont, Nebraska (Vocals/Accordion) & Justin Badger from Fremont, California (Vocals/Guitar) perform their original music and tell their story of meeting in New York, performing on Broadway, accidentally moving to Boulder, and doing everything in their power to stay sane and married at the same time. This show was born when Executive Producer, Chuck Porter declared, “hey kids, let’s do a show” after a few beers in a hotel bar. It has a companion piece, a full length album by the same title, which is now available on all of those fancy streaming platforms.

After a SOLD OUT debut run in April of 2019, The Fremonts return to Boulder for an encore performance of The Failure Cabaret.

The Fremonts have been married for eight years and they have the therapy bills to prove it. In this one-hour comedy cabaret, Stephanie Dodd from Fremont, Nebraska (Vocals/Accordion) & Justin Badger from Fremont, California (Vocals/Guitar) perform their original music and tell their story of meeting in New York, performing on Broadway, accidentally moving to Boulder, and doing everything in their power to stay sane and married at the same time. This show was born when Executive Producer, Chuck Porter declared, “hey kids, let’s do a show” after a few beers in a hotel bar. It has a companion piece, a full length album by the same title, which is now available on all of those fancy streaming platforms.

Join us in the eTown Cafe at eTown Hall for Boulder In-the-Round!

Every 1st Wednesday of the month at eTown Hall – 3 songwriters taking turns sharing their songs. Enjoy local original music in a curated community experience, accompanied by live painting. Hosted by Theresa Peterson.