Author: John Moore Special to The Denver Gazette
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UMS music festival to return this August
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Underground Music Showcase, the largest continuously held annual music festival in Denver, will return for its 21st year from Aug. 27-29, it was announced Monday. After a hybrid COVID year, the 2021 UMS is being billed as “Back to Broadway,” and back to in-person…
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Raanan named as Phamaly’s new director
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As a kid, Ben Raanan says, “All I wanted to be when I grew up was the artistic director of a disability-centric theatre company.” On Saturday, he got his wish. Denver’s disability-affirmative Phamaly Theatre Company…
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2020 gave Jamiylah Nelson a second chance
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Many people will remember 2020 as the worst year of their lives. Jamiylah Nelson will remember 2020 as the year she went from life In prison … to a second chance at life. It’s a tale straight out of Dickens – who actually plays his…
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A new hire faces new, challenging times
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Idris Goodwin was hired to be a leader for these times. He just could not have known at the time that these times are, well … these times. On Feb. 5, 2020, Goodwin was named the first person of color to lead the century-old Colorado…
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In a twist, COVID-19 creates a few arts jobs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save COVID wiped out as many as 60,000 Colorado arts jobs in the first four months of the pandemic, according to research by the University of Colorado. But now that theater companies are finally getting back…
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Levitt Pavilion Denver announces 70-show concert series starting May 14
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Free live music returns to Ruby Hill Park after a deafening 18-month silence when Levitt Pavilion Denver launches its comeback concert series on May 14. The first 10 events of a planned 70-show 2021 season were announced today, each allowing for up to 3,800 in-person…
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Arvada Center to resume live indoor theater on April 30
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The most significant sign of an eventual return to normal in local performing arts came today when the Arvada Center announced a return to live indoor theater on April 30. The Arvada Center becomes the…
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Jesse Ogas: A long and inspiring journey
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It should come as no surprise that the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation has named Jesse Ogas its 2021 9News Leader of the Year. The CEO and Executive Director of Firefly Autism has had a hand in raising nearly $20 million for Denver-area nonprofits over…
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Violist in CU program wins Grammy
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sunday’s Grammy Awards honored a local viola player when Richard Yongjae O’Neill and conductor David Alan Miller won for Best Classical Instrumental Solo. O’Neill is the newest member of the CU Boulder College of Music’s string faculty. O’Neill, who has been nominated for two previous…
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Colorado poet is voice for this moment
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Bobby LeFebre is Colorado’s voice for this moment. And in this moment, “It’s not enough to be non-racist,” he says. “You have to be anti-racist. There’s a call to action in that.” LeFebre, born and raised in Denver’s Northside, is not like any Colorado Poet…