Women’s Art at Chautauqua
Lecture & Discussion by Chautauqua Historian Kate Gerard
6:30 PM
Chautauqua Community House – RMCC (downstairs)
FREE
The Colorado Chautauqua has inspired artists for more than 120 years. Join Colorado Chautauqua Archivist Kate Gerard for a survey of works by women, depicting Chautauqua, past and present, in various media. Some of the artists will be in attendance.
*Enter the RMCC room via the downstairs door on the north side of the Community House.
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Artist Spotlight: Peggy Purkhosrow
Peggy Purkhosrow is a Boulder-based artist, designer producing sculpture, drawings, and jewelry. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Metal from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Fine Arts in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art in...
Béla Fleck My Bluegrass Heart – SOLD OUT!
featuring Sierra Hull, Billy Contreras, Justin Moses, Shaun Richardson, & Mark Schatz
Door Time: 6:30 PM
Showtime: 7:30 PM
Over the last four decades, Béla Fleck has made a point of boldly going where no banjo player has gone before, a musical journey that has earned him 15 Grammys in nine different fields, including Country, Pop, Jazz, Instrumental, Classical and World Music. But his roots are in bluegrass, and that’s where he returns with his first bluegrass tour in 24 years, My Bluegrass Heart.
My Bluegrass Heart is the third chapter of a trilogy which began with the 1988 album, Drive, and continued in 1991 with The Bluegrass Sessions. Fleck’s band will spotlight a multi-generational gamut of the best of bluegrass players, all sporting a myriad of Grammy Awards and nominations, as well as gigantic piles of IBMA awards for their instruments: fiddler Billy Contreras, mandolinist Sierra Hull, multi-instrumentalist Justin Moses, guitarist Shaun Richardson, and bassist/multi-instrumentalist Mark Schatz.
My Bluegrass Heart is available now from BMG; learn more at BelaFleck.com!
Just in case you aren’t familiar with Béla Fleck, there are many who say he’s the premiere banjo player in the world. Others claim that Fleck has virtually reinvented the image and the sound of the banjo through a remarkable performing and recording career that has taken him all over the musical map and on a range of solo projects and collaborations. If you are familiar with Fleck, you know that he just loves to play the banjo, and put it into unique settings. A fifteen-time Grammy Award-winner, Fleck has the virtuosic, jazz-to-classical ingenuity of an iconic instrumentalist and composer with bluegrass roots. His collaborations range from his ground-breaking standard-setting ensemble Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a staggeringly broad array of musical experiments. From writing concertos for full symphony orchestra, exploring the banjo’s African roots, and collaborating with Indian musical royalty Zakir Hussain and Rakesh Churasia with Edgar Meyer, to performing as a folk duo with wife Abigail Washburn, and jazz duos with Chick Corea, many tout that Béla Fleck is the world’s premier banjo player. As Jon Pareles wrote for The New York Times, “That’s a lot of territory for five strings.”
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