Events

Join us for an evening of musical souvenirs from Russia, England, Hong Kong, and Italy!  Our Pre-Concert event will include hors d’oeuvres, drinks, and a presentation from Composer, Kai-Young Chan, visiting from Hong Kong. The evening will feature internationally acclaimed artists Jamie Clark, Alex Gonzalez, Celia Hatton, Gamal Khamis, Kerry Kavalo, Kenny Lee, Natalie Lin, Morten Lyngs, Benjamin Park, Sophie Scolnik-Brower, Deborah Song, and Patrick Yim.

In honor of Immigrant Heritage Month and Independence Day, Motus Theater presents two unique UndocuMonologues performances! Join us to listen to jazz great Robert Johnson offering a musical response to powerful stories from the heart by undocumented community leaders on the frontline of U.S. immigration policy. Johnson, who sang with Stan Getz and Stevie Wonder, will be accompanied by the pianist Adam Bodine.

In honor of Immigrant Heritage Month and Independence Day, Motus Theater presents two unique UndocuMonologues performances! Join us to listen to jazz great Robert Johnson offering a musical response to powerful stories from the heart by undocumented community leaders on the frontline of U.S. immigration policy. Johnson, who sang with Stan Getz and Stevie Wonder, will be accompanied by the pianist Adam Bodine.

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.

When you listen to Over the Rhine, the supremely talented musical couple comprised of Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler, you quickly fall under the spell of Karin’s timeless voice “which has the power to stop the world in its tracks” (Performing Songwriter). But then the songs start hitting you. Paste magazine writes, “Over the Rhine creates true confessional masterpieces that know neither border nor boundary” and included Bergquist and Detweiler in their list of 100 Best Living Songwriters. Rolling Stone recently wrote, Over the Rhine is a band “with no sign of fatigue, whose moment has finally arrived.” That’s quite a sentiment for a band celebrating 30 years of writing, recording, and life on the road.

“Are You Open?” Seth Walker sings on his transfixing new album of the same title. More than just a question, it’s a challenge, an invitation, a dare. “To me, being open means being vulnerable and exposed,” explains Walker, “but that’s where the little nuggets of creative gold come from. I never planned an overall concept for this record, but each of these songs seemed to spin out from asking myself that one simple question.”

It’s 25 years since West Australian sisters Donna and Vikki Simpson (now Vikki Thorn) joined forces with Josh Cunningham to create one of the country’s best-loved bands. That cover shot, taken near Cunningham’s home on the NSW south coast, marks The Waifs’ quarter of a century together, but it’s also a nod to Australia itself, its nature and its people, essential ingredients in the extraordinary body of work The Waifs have created in that time.

PopMatters says you can’t define The Accidentals by comparison to any one band, comparing them to a mash up of influences including, “The Beatles, Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, Led Zeppelin, Ani Difranco, Neko Case, Brandi Carlile, etc.” NPR says “they display equal interest in the focused musical forms of indie rock and pop and the expansive potential of orchestral arrangements, jam band open-endedness and impressionistic singer-songwriter expression,” adding, “they might be the most compelling songwriters of our time.”

Spend any amount of time with Damien Jurado and he’s going to talk with you about movies. Speaking about the films that influenced his 14th album, the solitary masterwork In the Shape of a Storm, Jurado tosses out a list of favorites—American Graffiti, Paris, Texas, The Last Picture Show—films in which settings serve as silent, omniscient characters. But inquire about the curious way he writes songs, the hazy manner by which he seems to channel them from beyond the beyond, and the cinematic reference point he reaches for is a surprising one. “You ever see that movie Ghost? Whoopi Goldberg’s character, Oda Mae Brown—that’s who I am. These spirits are showing up at her door, jumping into her body. That’s how I feel. I don’t know what’s coming out of me…I just show up and deliver it.”

There is an absence of light, before the light. A simple bare stage in the waning gloaming, and I can see Darrell make his way to a lone microphone. He is here to shine that light on matters of the heart─the grit, grease, gristle, and most importantly, the marrow beneath the breastbone.

A Montreal-born Grenadian-Canadian, Kaia Kater grew up between two worlds: her family’s deep ties to folk music and the years she spent soaking up Appalachian music in West Virginia.