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ed chops and a charisma built upon his developing backstory. I first caught chatter of Kipori Woods through promoter Dave Bowman, and literally overnight I had filtered through albums, videos and whatever else I could find from the enigmatic transplant from New Orleans.

My research unearthed that he was schooled under Ellis Marsalis, and used that tutelage to become a vocal/

guitarist double threat who captured such accolades as Offbeat Magazine’s Best New Blues Artist award. Twice.

His seemingly conceptual sophomore album strings together a trekking personal narrative from “The Day I Started Playing the Blues” to “Hard Times” to “Big Black Cadillac.” Still early in his career, Woods’ dexterity on the six-string and uncanny ability to channel authentic sonic identifiers with his singing is actually just the next chapter in a familial lineage.

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MONTROSE – As the warm summer months approach, what could be better than cold, local brews – and colorful interactive public art? This unique combination is already turning heads outside the Horsefly Brewing Co. in downtown Montrose.

Back from a brief hiatus following last summer’s organized art crawls, the ReneWest Interactive Arts organization is working to enhance the downtown Montrose art experience, this time in collaboration with the Horsefly Brewing Co. Six 4-by-10-foot panels have been erected on the east side of the Horsefly building (846 E. Main St.) to give artists a canvas on which to to express themselves. At the be-

ginning of every month, interested artists get a chance to paint the panels, ensuring a lively revolving art show.

ReneWest organizer Sarah Brewer says Horsefly co-owner Phil Friesmith came up with the idea for adding a lot of color to the east end of Main Street.

“He basically said we could use the exterior wall, to try not to be offensive, but do what you want,” Brewer says. “That’s pretty cool. Sometimes you don’t get a lot of artistic freedom, and its nice having that freedom in this.”

The collaboration between Horsefly and Brewer quickly became a reality. On March 7, local artists Krystina Maixner, Anna Johnson, Laura Heck and Brewer painted the project’s first set of paint-

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Hayes Carll and Bob Schneider May 31 at the WOH Their ‘World’s Greatest Living Songwriters of All Time Tour’ Debuts on Newly Remodeled Wright Opera House Stage OURAY – He’s been called a Townes Van Zandt for the younger generation, but that’s a label Austin-based country singer/songwriter Hayes Carll’s shrugs off with characteristic aplomb.

“I guess you could say I write degenerate love songs,” drawls Carll, who comes to the Wright Opera House for its post-Memorial Day reopening (Saturday, May 31). “That, and songs about people who’re wedged between not much and even less; people who see how hopeless it is and somehow make it work anyway.”

The lanky 36-year-old, described by one reviewer as “rock, country, alt-rock,

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alt-country, alt-whatever,” has a wideranging following. His memorable “Another Like You,” Carll’s saucy duet with Cary Ann Hearst, was named American Songwriter’s #1 Song of 2011, and the album it’s on, KMAG YOYO (U.S. military slang for “Kick My Ass, Guys, You’re on Your Own,” wouldn’t you know it) was voted the Americana Music Asso-

ciation’s #1 Album of that year (making best-of lists for Rolling Stone, SPIN and the New York Times, as well).

On tour, Carll and his band, the Gulf Coast Orchestra, draw fans from any number of popular music genres, from rock clubs to honkeytonks to Bonnaroo, Stones Fest, SXSW and NXNE. But on this cross-country spin, Carll is traveling with the equally hard-to-pigeonhole Austin singer/songwriter, Bob Schneider, who critics have compared, wide-rangingly, to Jack White, Ryan Adams and even Leonard Cohen.

With his new album, Burden of Proof, Schneider may soon garner even more far-flung “Some folks might think that I’m taking a big risk musically by getting away from the more easily accessible pop

songs of the earlier records,” he has said, “but to me it seems like a natural progression that is more subconscious than conscious really.”

Schneider’s songs and albums thrive on the element of surprise, and the tracks on Burden of Proof are no exception. The album’s first single, “Unpromised Land,” packs Schneider’s trademark energy into a fierce, rocking anthem. On another track, “Swimming in the Sea,” Schneider gives the Carll a run for the money as a writer of “degenerate love songs.”

Schneider doesn’t dispute that suggestion. agree. “I love love songs that go against the grain of what it means to be in love and how that’s supposed to feel.”

Of love, he says, “It’s rarely a walk in the park for me.” And swimming in the sea is, he says, “something that I’m deathly afraid of.”

The perfect title for what the songwriter says “sort of captures the wonder and terror of being in love and not having any control over it all.”

Check out the duo’s self-titled World’s Greatest Living Songwriters of All Time Tour. It kicked off March 20, in Alexandria, Va., and it comes through the Wright Opera House on Saturday, May 31; doors open at 6:30 p.m., show time is 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $20 in advance, and $25 at the door. For information, please visit thewrightoperahouse.org.

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URBAN ART – Local artists Krystina Maixner, Anna Johnson, Laura Heck and Sarah Brewer were the first to participate in Montrose’s newest, ongoing art project when they painted murals on the east side of the Horsefly Brewing Company. Every month, new artists will bring their talent to the murals for a unique public art experience. (Photos by Gus Jarvis)

ings which quickly, Brewer says, turned some heads.

“A lot of people are really excited about it,” she says. “I have heard from a lot of artists that are really excited about it. Right now there is a really good mix of genres up there.”

Already, Brewer has artists lined up for April.

“We are going to get a real variety of work from the artists,” she says. “Some are scenery artists; others will be more abstract. There will be different perspectives and hopefully a lot of color.”

And while the urban-esque wall art will bring new artistic life to the east end

of Main Street, Brewer hopes the project will bring public interaction, especially when the paintings are being created.

The murals are tentatively scheduled to be painted on the first Friday of every month. Why not grab a pint and watch the artists in action?

“I hope this will show a different side of Montrose’s art scene,” she says. “It will be fun for people to come and view it in the process.”

Call or text Brewer at 970/417-9918 for more information. (She is also accepting any paint that area residents are wishing to dispose of.) Who knows? You could create the next masterpiece on Main Street.

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TELLURIDE – When Mountainfilm Festival Director David Holbrooke talks about the artists participating in the Memorial Day festival’s Artwalk, we must listen.

For example, when he took the job back in 2006, Holbrooke said, “The first person I called was Chris Jordan” (now dubbed

by Wikipedia “the ‘it’ artist of the green movement.”) At that year’s Mountainfilm, the former corporate lawyer showed his at-once beautiful and mind-numbing photographs chronicling the debauchery at the heart of the world’s fast-rising tide of consumerism. The images of society’s discards, from diodes to cell-phone chargers to cigarette butts, challenged viewers to rethink their bad habits and addiction to must-have gadgets. Jordan returned, in 2007, with his similarly paradigm-shifting images of plastic bags polluting the remote Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.

In 2010, Holbrooke brought American designer and artist Maya Lin to the festival, both as a speaker at the opening-day symposium on “Extinction,” and as an exhibitor. Lin’s 13-piece installation was titled “What Is Missing?” It chronicled life on the planet, with pieces ranging from a carefully chiseled “Atlas Landscape” to a poured-silver “Colorado River,” with the

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MOUNTAINFILM ARTWALK – Cutting-edge art from Britt Markey (clockwise from top, left), Eugenie Frerichs and Florian Schultz and many more will be exhibited at Telluride galleries, starting Friday, May 23, at 3:30 p.m.

designer/artist’s trademark precision.

This year, Holbrooke has invited National Geographic’s Florian Schultz, who will, he says, exhibit “amazing wild images from the Arctic.”

“He is a bit of a rock star,” Holbrooke says, of the award-winning photographer who is dedicated to the support of conservation efforts to protect endangered ecosystems. Sponsored by the Blue Earth Alliance, his book Yellowstone to Yukon – Freedom to Roam was dubbed one of the “Top Ten Outstanding Books of the Year” by the Independent Book Publishers IPPY Awards, under the category: “Most Likely to Save the Planet;” and several of the images from the book are on display today in the American Museum of Natural History. Schultz is the youngest founding member of the International League of Conservation Photographers, which encourages photographers to use their talents to help create an understanding for the natural world.

Artist Thom Ross will show “cool paintings of the Himalayas,” Holbrooke says, alongside Jenny Loew Anker’s work, in a group show at a not-yet-selected gallery; award-winning travel and fine-art photographer Nevada Wier returns to exhibit; and “living-ice sculptor” Carter Brooks will “rig all these big pieces of ice and you watch them transform, over the course of the weekend.”

Brooks is the brother of former Mountainfilm Assistant Director Cameron Brooks.

Other exhibitors with local connections include photographer Eugenie Frerichs, who lived and worked in Telluride not

quite a decade ago (her brother, Nathan Frerichs, is marketing manager at Telluride Sports). Her month-long online series, titled Photo Diary: The Pacific Northwest Farm Scene (stories and photographs) can be viewed now at the online magazine, Modern Farmer (modernfarmer.com/author/eugenie-frerichs/).

Now, Holbrooke says of Frerichs, “She’s doing a study on wilderness, so we’re very excited about her.

“She used to work at Mountainfilm, and she’s very talented. She’s going to blow people away.”

San Miguel County native Caleb Cain Marcus will exhibit photographs of the world’s fast-shrinking glaciers, published in his book, A Portrait of Ice. At the start, in Patagonia, of his two-year, five-nation project that led to his book (and to the acquisition of three of the prints in the book by the Metropolitan Museum of Art), Cain Marcus writes, “The glacier looked smooth but close up was covered with bumpy shards, which were evidence of its crystal formation. Glaciers are formed from the falling snow. Thousands and thousands of snowflakes melt and recrystallize, becoming denser and denser, passing through a state of coarse white crystals, called firn, before becoming glacier ice.

This transformation from snow to ice can take a hundred years.”

What he doesn’t have to say, because he illustrates it, is that its destruction is much swifter.

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YOUTH ART AT AH HAA – “Snow Leopard,” made from torn magazines, by Soleil Jacobson, then in grade 7 (left); “Faces of War,” by Sylvan Bald, then in grade 8, won Youth Art awards in 2011. (Courtesy images)

On April 3 at Ah Haa, It’s All About Youth Art TELLURIDE – As the 2013-2014 school year winds down, the Telluride arts community is gearing up to commemorate the region’s talented youth and their visual art endeavors through Youth Art Month. Several events are planned during April and into May, including the Ah Haa School’s 12th annual Youth Art Awards, special Youth Art Walk exhibits, and the annual Telluride Public School Art Show in the Palm Lobby.

Much like the National Art Education Association’s Youth Art Month each March, Telluride Youth Art Month aims to promote the importance of art and art education for all children and increase public awareness of and support for art programs directed at youth.

Making art teaches creative expression, inspires self-confidence and develops critical thinking – vital life skills that help promote success in any individual.

For the past 12 year’s, Telluride’s Ah Haa School for the Arts has honored regional middle and high school students’ creativity and artistic talent through its annual Youth Art Awards.

Any 7th-12th grade public, private or home-schooled student with a sincere interest in visual arts – from Telluride and Rico to Nucla and Paradox Valley

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– is encouraged to submit a piece to the juried show. This year’s show will feature work submitted by students from Paradox Valley Charter School, Nucla and Naturita Schools, Norwood School, Telluride Mountain School and Telluride Public School. All submissions (due March 28) will be featured in the Spring Youth Art show in the Daniel Tucker Gallery at The Depot, which opens during Youth Art Walk on Thursday, April 3, 5-7 p.m.

YAA participants will be divided into three age groups – grades 7-8; 9-10; and 11-12 – and a jury will review work based on its originality and strength. Thanks to a grant from Just For Kids Foundation, $50 cash prizes will be awarded to the first place winner in each age category and the grand-prize winner will receive $100 and a professional framing by Wizard Custom Framers and Emporium. Two honorable mentions for each age group will also be named. Winners will be announced during Art Walk on April 3, and work will remain on display until April 24.

Telluride Arts is also participating in the April 3 Youth Art Walk, with special exhibits in its two galleries. Gallery

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Finally, Youth Art Month wraps up with the annual show of work by Telluride Public School students in the

Palm Theater lobby. Featuring pieces produced throughout the school year by students in kindergarten through 12th grade, the show runs May 8-15. The main purpose of the show is to celebrate the artistic growth and exploration that has taken place during the school year.

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Locavores, Rejoice!

ForkFest Comes to Ouray April 25-26 ouray – ForkFest, a two-day reincarnation of the Ouray Culinary Arts Festival harking back to the late 1970s and early 80s, comes to Ouray Friday, April 25-Saturday, April 26.

It promises to be a locavore’s delight!

Organizers have invited local producers of vegetables, meats, cheeses and wines to the event, to showcase what they have – or will have – in the coming months.

The goal: to show the general public how to recreate meals with the food produced within 100 miles of home. “We hope the cooperative efforts of ourselves and the local producers will enable local producers to sell shares of CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture), shares of livestock or for local community gardens to gain some interested participants,” organizers say in a press release. “The idea is to work together for the development of our local economies, both restaurants and growers/ranchers.” The results will be available throughout Ouray on the Friday, April 25 Restaurant Crawl event (tickets cost $20). Participating restaurants in-

clude Maggie’s Kitchen and Ourayale House Brewery, Gold Belt Bar and Grill, Cavallo’s Restaurant, Mouses’s Chocolates and Coffee, the Ouray Brewery, The Bon Ton, the Silver Nugget Cafe, and more others. Each chef will have a 45-minute segment in which to present and demonstrate their chosen dish with the ingredients picked for them to highlight. Prior to the actual demonstrations, chefs will prepare food to give out as samples, when they’re done.

Chefs are also asked to be prepared to work an omelet station on Saturday, April 26, 9-11:30 a.m., at the Public Champagne Breakfast, taking turns at the omelet center stage at the community center (volunteers from the Mesa State Culinary Department will be on hand as well).

Chefs’ and Food Producers’ demonstrations (10 a.m.-5 p.m.), at the Ouray School Gym (free admission, and a Wine and Cheese Tasting takes place at the Ouray Community Center, 5-7 p.m. ($10). Single tickets are available for all events; $45 covers entry to events all weekend.

BUCKHORN GARDENS – Produce from the Colona farm will be on the menu at ForkFest, a two-day foodie event in Ouray, Friday, April 25-Saturday, April 26.

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Local food producers on hand Saturday include Buckhorn Gardens, the Ridgway Community Garden, the Valley Food Partnership, Tomten Farm, Straw Hat Farm Market and Kitchen Store, Harman Gardens of Colorado, Moo Co., 34 Degree Crackers, and Mt. View and Mesa Wines.

Tickets go on sale Friday, April 11, at Mouse’s Chocolates, Khristopher’s Culinare, Cimarron Coffee and Books and www.weehawkenarts.org Please call 970/970/31-0150 or visit weehawkenarts.org for more information.

The Massard Foundation granted Weehawken $1,000 to underwrite this event.

Mark Fischer Poetry Prize telluride – Telluride Arts hosts the Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, named in the memory of Telluride’s much-loved poet, lawyer, skier and raconteur Mark Fischer, a daring experimenter who combined a polyglot’s command of languages with a quirky sense of humor and a passion for obtuse words.

In that spirit, prizes are awarded to entries that best exhibit the qualities of originality, novelty, complex meaning, linguistic skill and wit – the wilder the better. All styles and content matter are accepted and will be represented at the reading.

The prize is open to poets living in Arizona, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico. The judging is blind; no personal information is attached to the poems.

The judge makes decisions based on the overall quality of the work.

Submissions for the 16th Annual Mark Fischer Poetry Prize are due Wednesday, April 30; please visit telluridearts.org/ mark-fischer-poetry-prize/ for guidelines and information. Awards of $200 first prize, $150 second prize, and $100 third prize, and $50 honorable mention will be presented at a celebratory reading in Telluride in May.

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of nature,” Gus Jarvis wrote in The Watch just prior to its premiere at SXSW in March. “The film, three years in making, has proven the duo’s most challenging yet rewarding project since Red Gold, which won the Audience Award at the 2008 Telluride Mountainfilm Festival.”

And so, as always, this year’s mindexpanding Mountainfilm Artwalk will set the stage for the always stimulating festival, with its exhibits that festivalgoers will be returning to, in between films and symposia and socializing, over the course of Memorial Day Weekend.

This year’s Mountainfilm Artwalk takes place Friday, May 23, 3:30-6:30 p.m., in Telluride galleries.

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Deep Creek studio; works by Telluride artists Britt Markey and Flair Robinson (who is designing this year’s awards) will be shown, and poster artist Maggie Taylor will exhibit.

Telluride photographer and filmmaker Ben Knight, fresh from the premiere of his latest film (with Travis Rummel), DamNation, at South by Southwest, will exhibit photographs from the making of the duo’s newest film. “DamNation explores the rivers and landscapes that have been altered by dams as well as changing values in society, from the conquest and control of rivers to realizing human society is a part 6 • WATCH LISTEN SHOW april/may 2014

Tallent, Urist to Bring Laughs to Two Rascals MONTROSE – Once again, Two Rascals Brewery – with a big assist from Canyon Creek Bed and Breakfast – will be home to another night of laughter, when standup comedians Sam Tallent and Aaron Urist take the microphone on Saturday, April 5, at 7 p.m.

“It’s always a 21-and-over show,” says booker Kendra Morrow, who works with an entertainment company based in Los Angeles to keep a steady stream of up-and-coming comedians rotating through Montrose. “You have no idea what you are going to get. It’s been so much fun to experience something you would normally get in the big city.”

Urist, who opens the April 5 show at Two Rascals, has been performing comedy for three years. He has opened for Ralphy May and Reggie Watts, and logged performances in 30 states and counting.

Headlining the April 5 show is Tallent, who the Vail Daily proclaimed as “OMG funny.” Tallent delivers a unique performance every night. A regular in Denver’s top clubs, he has worked with many big names, including TJ Miller, Josh Blue, Finesse Mitchell and Joe Rogan.

Tallent is a local radio favorite as well, appearing on the Uncle Nasty Show, the Chuck Roy Show and Marijuana Radio.

Twice a finalist in the prestigious Comedy Works New Faces Contest, he is also one of Colorado’s top improvisers, named Best Sketch Comedian by the Bovine Metropolis Theater.

Tallent was an official selection for the Laugh Track Comedy Festival and the Denver Post Underground Music Showcase (their reviewer dubbed him “...one of Denver’s best”). His lightning quick wit and massive stage pres-

Jack Mueller at Arroyo Tuesday, April 1 telluride – It’s no joke – Tuesday, April 1, ushers in National Poetry Month.

To celebrate that fact, the Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Club features legendary North Beach poet (and Log Hill Village recluse) Jack Mueller, Tuesday, April 1, at 6 p.m. at Arroyo.

Raised in Philadelphia, Penn., and Louisville, Ky., Mueller moved to North Beach and became a fixture in the San Francisco literary scene of the 1960s-70s. A revered reader and performer at Bay Area poetry venues, he founded the Union of Street Poets, and convened a symposium on poetics and ethnobotany at Kule Loklo in Marin. He served as chairman and executive director of the National Poetry Association, and was CEO of the International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen, Tex. He has published five books of poetry and two books of

drawings (his latest collection, just out, is Amor Fati. Writing for ZyZZyva, the West Coast literary magazine, Maggie Milner praises Mueller’s “paradox poetics” and notes that he asks the “big, unanswerable questions,” then goes on “to propose new terms for our human condition, to reach, to wish.”

Mueller will be interviewed on KOTO-FM’s Access program at 4 p.m. on April 1.

April’s theme for the open gourd circle will be Fools.

Tish Ramirez from the Navajo Nation will be the featured poet for the first Tuesday in May at Arroyo.

ACE of Norwood sponsors a Gourd Circle reading at the Livery on the last Thursday of each month. Visit www. aceofnorwood.org.

Call 970/729-0220 for more info. Or visit the Telluride Literary Arts website, tellurideliteraryarts.weebly.com

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ence have made him a crowd favorite in bars, clubs and colleges across the country. Tallent is a member of the Fine Gentlemans Club comedy collective, responsible for Denver’s premier weekly comedy showcase, Too Much Fun!, which takes place every Wednesday at the Rockaway Tavern.

It was two years ago that Morrow decided that Montrose needed something different for a date night. She contacted an entertainment company out of Los Angeles that does bookings, and worked out a deal whereby two touring comedians would make a stop at Canyon Creek in Montrose during the summer months.

Now, with Canyon Creek’s garden cold and snowy, she partners with Two Rascals to provide a cozy comedy venue.

“We can’t do it outside in the winter, so we decided to team up with Two Rascals this winter,” Morrow said.

The April 5 comedy night is the last “winter” show of the season; the outdoors comedy returns to the Canyon Creek Bed and Breakfast’s garden on May 3 at 8 p.m.

Tickets for the April 5 show can be bought at the door for $15 (and at canyoncreekbedandbreakfast.com). Two Rascals Brewing Co. is located at 147 N. First Street in Montrose.

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Welcome to Wonderland Montrose – The Montrose Pavilion will spring to life with the madcap citizens of Wonderland for one night only when Weehawken Dance presents its spring dance performance on Wednesday, April 16, starting at 6 p.m.

Alice in Wonderland: A Dance Fantasy follows the storyline of Lewis Carroll’s beloved and slightly twisted children’s tale that sends young Alice down a rabbit hole and into the “curiouser and curiouser” world of Wonderland.

“Audiences are sure to enjoy the familiar storyline, combined with the talent of over 95 local children from Ridgway, Ouray, Montrose and Cedaredge,” said Weehawken Executive Director Ashley King. “Weehawken’s performances are considerably more than just a dance recital. They are a full-blown production, worthy of a night out on the town – for all ages.”

Weehawken’s “Alice” debuted at the

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Wright Opera House five years ago and is reprised this year with an all-new cast, set and score. The Montrose Pavilion, with its vast stage, opens up a whole new world of possibilities for re-creating the psychedelic dreamscapes of Wonderland where the spectacle will unfold.

Four young dancers of different ages and sizes (River Manley, Rae Sustana, Autumn Sagal and Riley Dickerson) will inhabit the role of Alice as she travels through a maze of misadventures, led by the faithful yet elusive White Rabbit (Mackenzie Gibbs), while encountering a panoply of kooky characters and situations.

“It makes it really fun for the audience” to have four Alices, Pyeatte said. “It is hilarious, when they switch places and Alice grows or shrinks.” Pyeatte also likes the idea that the four girls will “share the glory” of the iconic lead role.

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‘ALICE IN WONDERLAND: A DANCE FANTASY’ – The one-night-only Weekhawken spring dance performance based on the beloved Lewis Carroll tale takes place Wednesday, April 16, at the Montrose Pavilion. Dancers in Weehawken’s Alice, on stage at at the Wright Opera House in 2009. The show is reprised this year with an all-new cast, set and score. (Courtesy photo)

Cat (Emma Gould), the Mad Hatter (Morgan Wright), the Dormouse (Megan Kienapfel), the March Hare (Natalie Hogan), the Caterpillar (Nisha Evans), Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum (Emma Wallin and Kendall Mueller), and the maleficent Queen of Hearts (Hunter Clapsadl).

For Pyeatte, reprising Alice has helped

her to appreciate how far the Weehawken Dance program has come in the past five years. “At that time we didn’t have very many strong dancers – it was only our second spring recital,” Pyeatte recalled. Back then, she relied on adult dancers (includsee alice on next p age

New Museum Exhibit Probes Origins of Mountain Names B y S a mantha W r ight

ouray – Imagine if Mt. Sneffels was not called Mt. Sneffels. But for a political twist of fate, it might have been called Blaine Peak.

From 1869 to 1879 there were four great surveys of the West. These were conducted by John Wesley Powell, Clarence King, Ferdinand Hayden and George Wheeler. In 1874, the Wheeler and Hayden surveys overlapped in the San Juan Mountains, each naming many of the iconic mountains in this area.

Wheeler’s was a U.S. Army survey, and Hayden’s was a congressional survey.

“They kind of vied with each other,” explained Don Paulson, curator of the Ouray County Historical Museum, and the man behind a new exhibit opening there on April 17, “How the Mountains Got Their Names.”

In 1879, the US government decided to consolidate the four surveys. “There was a big fight – should it be an Army survey or a congressional survey,” Paulson said.

Proponents of the congressional survey eventually won out, creating the U.S. Geological Survey, and naming Hayden as its first director. But not before Wheeler christened Ouray County’s iconic 14er “Blaine Peak,” in an effort to curry favor with congress and then-Speaker of

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the House, James Gillespie Blaine.

In the end, most of the names that Wheeler gave to the peaks of the Uncompahgre were lost in the misty couloirs of time, while those from Hayden’s survey (including Mt. Sneffels, so named by Hayden’s chief geologist Frederick M. Endlich, for the Icelandic volcano Snaefell in Jules Verne’s novel, Journey to the Center of the Earth) remain emblazoned on official USGS quads to this day.

“But we do have a Blaine Mountain today,” Paulson pointed out. “It’s a little hill, right in front of Sneffels.

And Blaine Basin. Both come from the Wheeler survey.”

Hayden emerged from his endeavors with his own name ascribed to two iconic peaks in the area. The massive Hayden Mountain looms above Ouray with its five high points, topping out at 13,206’. His name is also memorialized in Hayden Peak (12,987’) in the Sneffels Range.

Paulson became intrigued with the naming of local mountains several years ago, when he wrote a series of three articles on the topic. Then came the book, “Peaks of the Uncompahgre,” which features Paulson’s research with photographs by Jeff Burch of Telluride.

Last summer, Paulson spoke on the subject of the naming of local mountains as part of the Ouray County Historical

Society’s “Evenings in History” summer lecture series.

And now comes the new museum exhibit. It will feature 24 posters, discussing the naming of the mountains of the Cimarrons and Sneffels ranges, as well as peaks between Ouray and Red Mountain Pass, with photographs of each featured mountain, taken by Paulson.

As he prepares for the exhibit, Paulson is still learning new things every day.

For example, just last week, he stumbled across the origins of Dunsinane, a peak near Redcliff and Precipice in the Cimarron Range.

The mountain was christened as such in 1965 by a group of hikers from the Colorado Mountain Club who were camping on the West Fork of the Cimarron River for their summer outing. They learned that the peak was still unnamed, and sat around the campfire one evening, making up a name for it – Dunsinane – after Macbeth’s castle.

Their application to the USGS to officially name the peak included quotes from Shakespeare’s play, describing the castle.

“How the Mountains Got Their Names” will be on display at the Ouray County Historical Museum’s rotating exhibit room through November 2014. The museum is located at 420 Sixth Avenue in Ouray. (ouraycountyhistoricalsociety. com, 970/325-4576)

At the Sherbino: Jazz, Poetry, and Sherb Speaks

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ridgway – The historic Sherbino Theater celebrates its 100th birthday next year. “The theater will be one of the most up-to-date on the Western Slope,” the Ouray Herald reported in August of 1915, “with comfortable chairs, best of lighting features, perfect ventilation and an ideal floor for dancing.” From the time that it opened, until 2009, the Sherbino never closed its doors. Today it is resurgent: revived, renovated, and likely busier than ever. April and May are quiet months in mountain towns such as Ouray, Telluride and Ridgway. Yet the Sherbino boasts a full roster of programming. What follows is what’s on – but this is only as of press time. Chances are, more events will soon be added (register for the theater’s weekly email at sherbinotheater.com to keep up to date).

The nascent Open Bard Poetry series continues to thrive, and Thursday, April 3 its guest presenter is Luis

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He’s published three books of poetry, including, most recently, Of Thee I Sing (2008), which won the American Book Award. Author Angel Vigil says Lopez “has the storyteller’s gift.” His latest work, Andromeda to Vulpecula: 88 Constellation Poems, is out later in April. Aaron Abeyta, from Adams State College, is up next. Perhaps fittingly, one of Abeyta’s works appears dovetail perfectly with Lopez’s Constellation Poems: it’s called Orion Falls. After Abeyta’s appearance, on Thursday, May 3, the Bard takes a break, but only until autumn, when it returns with a new lineup for the 2014-15 Series.

Archaeologist Glade Hadden is the headliner April 10, for the latest installation of Sherb Speaks, the Sherbino’s new lecture series. Hadden, area archaeologist for the Bureau of Land Management’s Uncompahgre Field Office, will offer a brief journey through time – human time, that is – with a look back at 13,000-years’

worth of history, or as he puts it, “lives and cultures reflected in the traces left behind.”

Admission is free, though donations are welcome. Doors and bar open at 6:30; Hadden’s presentation follows at 7 p.m.

The second jazz trio in less than a month arrives April 13, when Jeff Solon and his band mates take the stage. The group plays standards and new original compositions, and places special emphasis on the “dynamics and interplay” that allow for “intimacy, spontaneity and depth.” Which sounds like good improv to us. Performance at 7 p.m.; $15 general admission.

Two ArtBars are on tap, so to speak, at the Sherbino through the theater’s collaboration with Weehawken Arts over the next two months. The talented local ceramicist and teacher Deidra Krois arrives for libations and a lesson April 19, and Jill Rikkers offers instructions on making art with wire objects May 15. In each case, the tariff is $35. That includes a drink, instruction, and all materials necessary.

Class runs from 6-8 p.m.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to oversee millions of acres in one of the wildest places on earth – Denali National Park? Now you can find out.

Ralph Tingey, retired associate regional director of operations and resources at the National Park Service in Alaska, today makes his home at the base of the San

Juans in Ridgway, and lucky us: on May 8, he’ll offer a presentation on life in the cold, the snow and the gray, hard by one of the world’s deadliest peaks and all of those glorious predators. Start time is 7 p.m.

One of the things local arts consortium Weehawken is perhaps best known for is its dances, usually staged at the Wright Opera House or, lately, the Montrose Pavilion (as its dances have grown more ambitious and popular under the direction of choreographer Natasha Pyeatte, more space has been needed). On May 11, Weehawken claims a new venue for one performance only, and presents a special show – Dancing Through the Decades – at the Sherbino at 2 p.m. Many surprises in store, few dollars required: $5 at the door.

They’ve played National Public Radio’s A Prairie Home Companion, and that says plenty: host Garrison Keillor is not only a fine writer, he has excellent taste in music. Halden Wofford and the HiBeams hit the Sherbino late in May with their stylish take on the honky-tonk genre, “a breath of fresh air amidst other wannabe retro acts,” according to Marquee Magazine in Boulder. Wofford’s distinct vocals, the magazine went on, “continue to garner the band well-earned attention.” Catch them Friday, May 23 beginning at 8 p.m.

Admission is $12.

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ing herself) to carry some of the lead roles.

Now, she said, “We have plenty of great dancers to fill the parts.”

Tickets for “Alice” are available at Mouse’s Chocolates in Ouray, Cimarron Coffee and Books in Ridgway, and Tiffany Etc. and the Montrose Pavilion in Montrose. They are priced at $15 for adults, $10 for senior citizens and older students, and $8 for children under the age of 12. Reserved section seats (in rows 1-6) are available by phone at 970/318-0150.

“Since Weehawken’s performances generally sell out and since this show is for one night only, it is important to buy your

tickets in advance,” King said. “Come support Weehawken’s incredible assembly of talented young dancers.”

For more information, call Weehawken Creative Arts: 970-318-0150, visit www. weehawkenarts.org or email at questions@weehawkenarts.org.

Weehawken Creative Arts is a nonprofit arts organization that offers classes and arts opportunities year-round to adults and children alike. The mission of Weehawken Creative Arts is to provide high-quality arts education and programs in personal growth to adults and children. Programs are based in Ridgway and Ouray and are also offered in Silverton and Montrose.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 1 Talking Gourds Poetry Club – The guest is “Legendary North Beach poet and Log Hill Village recluse” Jack Mueller; Arroyo Wine Bar, 6 p.m.

TUESDAY, APRIL 1SUNDAY, APRIL 6 Exhibit Opening and Reception: Modern Mountain Landscapes – Local oil painter Kathryn Vinson Tatum displays her work; The Spa at the Peaks.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 1-FRIDAY, MAY 9 Art Exhibit: Chandler Thayer’s Art – Ridgway Public Library; show runs through May 9. 970/728-3778

THURSDAY, APRIL 3 ArtWalk – Relaxed, festive event spotlighting local art and new exhibits; galleries stay open until 8 p.m. Among this month’s highlights, Gallery 81435 celebrates Youth Art Month with an exhibit of Telluride High School Alumni Art and the Stronghouse Gallery features art from Telluride Academy’s Global Citizen Project. At Lustre, mixed-media artists Michele Scrivner and Brian Billow, partners in life and art, display luminous works focusing on “nature’s horizons,” Ah Haa offers a Spring Youth Art Exhibit and Youth Award Ceremony, and Melange continues its March of the Robots exhibit into April with the addition of new automatons by Bryon Jordon.

Open Bard Poetry Series – CMU’s Luis Lopez guests; Sherbino Theater, 6:30 p.m.

Colorado’s 10th Mountain Division: A Story to Remember – The unique history to Colorado’s 10th Mountain Division during World War II, including a special screening of Fire on the Mountain and a presentation by Johnnie Stevens and Friends of the 10th; sponsored by the Telluride Historical Museum. Sheridan Opera House, 6 p.m.

Open Bard Poetry Series – Luis Lopez of Colorado Mesa University is this month’s guest performer; Sherbino Theater, 6:30 p.m.

FRIDAY, APRIL 4 First Friday Stroll – Monthly art celebration on Montrose Main Street; participating galleries and vendors stay open until 8 p.m. This month’s theme is Adventure. Highlights include an interactive exhibit entitled Adventures in Art from Nepal at Guru’s restaurant, adventure-themed paintings and a

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wildflower photography exhibit by Ramon Reed at Around the Corner Gallery, and A+Y Design Gallery’s display of clever bicycle-themed works

by Tammy Cliche.

KOTO End-of-Season Pink Flamingo Street Dance – Telluride main street; koto.org Luke Gillespie Piano Trio – Award winning pianist performs jazz and classical works; Grand Junction, Colorado Mesa University. Coloradomesa.edu Telluride Theatre Burlesque – The Telluride troupe takes their show to the Crested Butte Arts Center.

FRIDAY, APRIL 4SATURDAY, APRIL 5 One Act Opera Night – Colorado Mesa University, Mesa Experimental Theatre; 7:30 p.m. coloradomesa.edu

FRIDAY, APRIL 4-SUNDAY, APRIL 6 Adventure Film Festival, Montrose – Thirty-three films of varying length, screening in six sessions at the Fox Theater Penthouse. The event kicks off Friday night, 5:30-7:30 p.m., with an adventure-themed Main Street Art Walk, with open discussions scheduled for 10 p-12 p.m. at A+Y Design Gallery and Main St. Ice Cream Bar. Saturday night brings a 7-10 p.m. block party with DJs P-Tex and Hotwax and Centennial Plaza (featuring $3 pints from Two Rascals, Colorado Boy and Horsefly and food from Hot Rock BBQ) and a Sunday booksigning with author Luke Mehall at A+Y, and yoga (in a Colorado Yurt Co. yurt in the Event Plaza) with Prana Ambassador Olivia Hsu Saturday and Sunday mornings. Adventure Sessions take place throughout the weekend, as well, at Two Rascals Brewing Co., A+Y Design Gallery, Colorado Yurt Company Yurt in Event Plaza and Around the Corner Art Gallery, featuring climbing writer Luke Mehall, filmmaker Evan Kay, Colorado Yurt Co. Co-founder Dan Kigar and BrightLeaf Founder/CEO Douglas H. Kiesewetter.

FRIDAY, APRIL 4 AND SUNDAY, APRIL 6 David Alderdice, Marcin Arendt & Friends in Concert – An exploration of classical and ethnic folk music with a rhythmic world perspective; in Grand Junction, at First United Methodist Church (Fri., 7:30 p.m.), and at the Montrose Pavilion (Sun., 3 p.m.). junctionconcerts.com

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LIVE AT THE MET – Puccini’s La Boheme shows, in an encore performance, Saturday, April 5, at the Palm Theatre, in Telluride. (Courtesy photo)

SATURDAY, APRIL 5

Metropolitan Opera at the Palm: La Boheme – Live performance of Puccini’s moving story of young love, the mostperformed opera in the Met’s history, directed by one who knows young love well: Franco Zefferelli, who also directed the seminal cinematic version of Romeo and Juliet starring Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting. Anita Hartig stars here as the frail Mimi; Vittorio Grigolo is her passionate lover, Rodolfo. At 11 a.m.

Running time: 3:25. Encore performance April 28. Telluridepalm.com

SUNDAY, APRIL 6 Telluride Ski Resort 2013-1014 Closing Day Pond Skim Closing Party – Revelry at Goronno Ranch (bikinis optional); tellurideskiresort.com

WEDNESDAYS, APRIL 9-16 AND APRIL 26 Pen & Ink Drawing Class – Around the Corner Gallery, 1-4 p.m.

THURSDAY, APRIL 10 An Evening with Glade Hadden – BLM archaeologist for Gunnison Gorge/ Black Canyon National Park offers a presentation on his life’s work; Sherbino Theater, 7-9 p.m. sherbinotheater.com

FRIDAY, APRIL 11 Young Ancients in Concert – The Subdudes’ side project; Turn of the Century Saloon, 8 p.m.

SATURDAY, APRIL 12 Felting with Linda Balas – Around the Corner Gallery, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Moab Art Walk – Stroll through exhibits at downtown locations to view a variety of fine art and handcrafted works, enjoy refreshments, mingle with artists and shop, shop, shop; 6-9 p.m. moabartwalk.com

MONDAY, APRIL 13 Jeff Solon Jazz Trio – Intimate concert featuring jazz standards and original compositions; Sherbino Theater, 7 p.m.

THURSDAY, APRIL 17 Ridgway MoonWalk – South Ridgway neighborhood; 5-8 p.m.

Weehawken Dance Presents: Alice in Wonderland – Dancers aged 2.5-18

from Cedaredge to Ouray star in the company’s Winter-Spring performance, one night only, choreographed by Natasha Pyeatte. Reservations highly recommended. Montrose Pavilion, 6-8 p.m. weehawkenarts.org

SATURDAY, APRIL 19 Art Bar in Clay at the Sherbino – Local ceramicist Deidra Krois instructs; 6-8 p.m. weehawkenarts.org

SATURDAYS, APRIL 19-MAY 10 Beginning Drawing – Around the Corner Gallery, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

FRIDAY, APRIL 25 Earth Day Dance with the Stupid Band – Turn of the Century Saloon, 8 p.m.

FRIDAY, APRIL 25-SATURDAY, APRIL 26 Ouray Fork Fest – Farm to table culinary festival featuring Southwest Colorado producers and chefs. $45 for the weekend. weehawkenarts.org

SATURDAY, APRIL 26 Metropolitan Opera at the Palm: Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte – Music director James Levine makes his longawaited return to the Met podium to conduct Mozart’s beloved opera about testing the ties of love. The cast is filled with youthful Met stars (among them: Susanna Phillips, Isabel Leonard, Matthew Polenzani, Rodion Pogossov, and Danielle de Niese, as the scheming Despina). Show time is 11 a.m.; running time, 4:05. No encore performance. telluridepalm.com

MONDAY, APRIL 28 Metropolitan Opera at the Palm: Puccini’s La Boheme – Puccini’s moving story of young love, the mostperformed opera in the Met’s history; 6 p.m. This is an encore performance.

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THURSDAY, MAY 1 Open Bard Poetry Series – Guest performer is Aaron Abeyta from Adams State; Sherbino Theater, 6:30 p.m.

Exhibit Opening: How the Local Mountains Got Their Names – Ouray County Historical Museum.

FRIDAY, MAY 2 First Friday Stroll – The monthly Main Street Montrose event: participating galleries and vendors stay open until 8 p.m. This evening’s theme, in honor Mother’s Day, is Mothers & Daughters.

Canyon Gallery will take motherdaughter photos, and A+Y Design Gallery will exhibit a high school art show accompanied by a duo of mother-daughter musicians.

FRIDAY, MAY 2-SUNDAY, MAY 4 Telluride Young People’s Theater: Fantastic Mr. Fox – The 46th Young People’s Theater full-length musical production, based on the Roald Dahl story, adapted and directed by Jenn Julia, and performed by students in grades 3-5; Sheridan Opera House, 6 p.m. nightly.

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SATURDAY, MAY 3 Wrighteous Jazz Salon – Jazz musician and Ellyn Rucker performs a concert in a private home. Visit the Wright Opera House website (www. thewrightoperahouse.org) for more information.

Western Slope Firkin Ale Festival, 2 Rascals Brewery, 5-11 p.m.

TUESDAY, MAY 6 Talking Gourd Poetry Club – Monthly reading with a guest writer; Arroyo, 6 p.m.

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Beginning Watercolor – Around the Corner Gallery, 1-4 p.m.

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Decades – A special retrospective; 2 p.m. weehawkenarts.org

TUESDAY, MAY 13 Ridgway Moonwalk – Studio tour of creatives in the Solar Ranch neighborhood; 6-9 p.m.

THURSDAY, MAY 15 ArtBar at the Sherbino – Wire objects with Jill Rikkers; 6-8 p.m. A $35 fee buys a drink, all supplies necessary and instruction.

FRIDAY, MAY 16SATURDAY, JUNE 28 Top Jewels: National Jewelry Design Exhibition – Durango Arts Center.

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SATURDAY, MAY 17 Opening Reception: Photographers in Autumn – Shooters of Autumn in Ouray County, the Ouray County Historical Museum ’s latest exhibit are feted; at the Museum, 2-4 p.m.

TUESDAY, MAY 20 Twenty By Telluride: Mountainfilm Edition – Brisk, engaging slideshow presentations by top creatives from Mountainfilm, presented by Telluride Arts and (usually) held in the Sheridan Hotel Bar. Visit telluridearts.org for more information.

TUESDAY, MAY 20 Tommy Castro & the Painkillers in Concert – San Francisco blues-based band; Turn of the Century Saloon, 7 p.m.

FRIDAY, MAY 23 Halden Wofford and the Hi Beams – Stylish throwback take on the honkytonk genre; Sherbino Theater, 8 p.m.

Admission: $12. Sherbinotheater.com

FRIDAY, MAY 23-MONDAY, MAY 26 Telluride Mountainfilm – The staff at Telluride Mountainfilm selects roughly 75 films every year We select approximately 75 films each year from around the world, curated alongside guest presentations, a symposium, parties, intimate talks, book signings and musical events to create an event like no other.

The festival begins Friday morning with an all-day symposium, and is followed by the Friday afternoon Gallery Walk (3:30-6:30 p.m.) Films and presentations begin Friday night, and run through Monday afternoon. The Closing Picnic & Awards Ceremony closes out the annual festival on Monday afternoon.

For more information on these events, please visit mountainfilm.org, and select the “Events” tab.

SATURDAY, MAY 24SUNDAY, MAY 25 Moab Arts Festival – The festival turns 21 this year, and adds beer and wine to the festivities as it comes of age.

Over 100 quality artists display art in the Swanny City Park. Entertainment is scheduled throughout the weekend with a children’s tent full of activity. moabartsfestival.org

Sherb Speaks: Ralph Tingey – Denali National Park Superintendent, on managing more than six million acres, including North America’s highest peak; Sherbino Theater, 7 p.m. Doors and bar open at 6:30 p.m. sherbinotheater.com

FRIDAY, MAY 9-SATURDAY, MAY 10 Montrose Wine Festival – Grand tasting on the big lawn; Montrose Pavilion, 2 p.m. Visitmontrose.com

SATURDAY, MAY 10 Metropolian Opera at the Palm: Rossini’s La Cenerentola – A peerless pair of Rossini virtuosos – mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, in a vocal tour de force, and high-flying tenor Juan Diego Florez as her Prince Charming – team up. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads the effervescent score. Palm Theatre, 11 a.m. Running time: 3:40. No encore performance. Telluridepalm.com R Moab Art Walk – Stroll through exhibits at downtown locations to view a variety of fine art and handcrafted works, enjoy refreshments, mingle with artists and shop, shop, shop; 6-9 p.m. moabartwalk.com Susan Walton Song Swap House Concert – Sherbino Theater.

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SUNDAY, MAY 11 Weehawken Company Dance Performance: Dancing Through the

GREATEST AMERICAN SONGS – Will be sung at the Wright Opera House Saturday, May 31, by Hayes Carll and Bob Schneider who are, in the words of of one reviewer, “rock, country, alt-rock, alt-country, alt-whatever.”

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SATURDAY, MAY 31

TOMMY CASTRO AND THE PAINKILLERS – The San Francisco blues band plays Turn of the Century Saloon, Tuesday, May 20. (Curtesy photo)

Hayes Carll & Bob Schneider in Concert – The Wright Opera House reopens after several months’ renovation with this musician duo, on their Greatest American Songs tour; wrightoperahouse.org

RACC – SAN JUAN SHUFFLE Gourmet’s delight: fundraiser; visit a selection of Ridgway bars and restaurants to sample local specialties; 2-9 p.m; 150 Racecourse Rd. 970/626-5014

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beat sheet Telluride Earphunk, Thu., Apr. 3, Fly Me to the Moon Saloon, 10 p.m., $5 Whitewater Ramble with Sweetwater String Band, Fri., Apr. 4, Fly Me to the Moon Saloon, 10 p.m., $10 Euforquestra, Sat., Apr. 5, Fly Me to the Moon Saloon, 10 p.m., $10 Ridgway Jeff Solon Trio, Sun., Apr. 13, Sherbino Theater, 7:30 p.m.

Montrose Hayden Wofford and the HiBeams, Fri., May 23, Sherbino Theater, 8 p.m., $12 Joe Ely with David Ramierz, Mon., Mar. 31, Turn of the Century Saloon, 7 p.m., $35 Young Ancients with Donny & Glenn, Fri., Apr. 11, Turn of the Century Saloon, 8 p.m., $15 Grand Junction Sitched Up Heart with Neo Geo, The Nearly Deads and Sole Aggression, Tue., Apr. 1, Mesa Theater, 8 p.m., $10/$13 Three 6 Mafia (N.K.A. The Mafia Six) with Ekoh, The Middle Men, John Rogan, Fri., Apr. 4, Cruisers Bar, 9 p.m.

The Nick Pants Band, Sat., Apr. 5, Cruisers Bar, 9 p.m.

Leie Lux and HeAdChAnG3, Mon., Apr. 7, Mesa Theater, 8 p.m., $22/$25 Screaming For Silence with Concrete Effect and Augmented, Tue., Apr. 8, Mesa Theater, 7:30 p.m., $10/$13 Desert Moon, Fri., Apr. 11, Cruisers Bar, 9 p.m.

Flat Top Reed, Sat., Apr. 12, Cruisers Bar, 9 p.m.

Hemlock, Fri., Apr. 18, Mesa Theater, 9:30 p.m., $12/$15 BitterCreek, Fri., Apr. 18, Cruisers Bar, 9 p.m.

Pirate Locomotive, Sat., Apr. 19, Cruisers Bar, 9 p.m.

Zolopht and the Destroyers, Sat. Apr. 26, Cruisers Bar, 9 p.m.

Darin Caine and the Hellhound Express, Fri., May 2, Cruisers Bar, 9 p.m.

The Freeway Revival, Sat., May 3, Cruisers Bar, 9 p.m.

Killswitch Engage with Battlecross and Nothing More, Wed., May 28, Mesa Theater, 8 p.m., $27/$30 Tech N9ne with Freddie Gibbs, Kriss Kaliko, Jarren Benton, Psych Ward Druggies and Poppa Capp, Wed., Jun. 11, Mesa Theater, 7:30 p.m., $34/$38 Wayne Static of Static X with Thira, Fri., June 20, Mesa Theater, 9 p.m., $25

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Durango Celefunktion 2014 featuring See-I, The Magic Beans and Juicy Money, Fri., Mar. 28, Animas City Theater, 9 p.m., $20/25 Euforquestra, Fri., Apr. 4, Animas City Theater, 10 p.m., $15 Whitewater Ramble with The Bear Hand Killers, Sat., Apr. 19, Animas City Theater, 10 p.m., $10 Sir Mix-a-Lot with special guest, Thu., Apr. 17, Animas City Theater, 9 p.m., $25/$30 Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation, Fri., Apr. 25, Animas City Theater, $25/$30 Youngblood Brass Band, Thu. May 1, Animas City Theater, 9:30 p.m., $12 Grieves, Fri., May 9, Animas City Theater, 9:00 p.m., $15 Metalachi, Tue., Jun. 17, Animas City Theater, 9:30 p.m., $10

MIXED MEDIA – Partners in life and in artistic endeavors, Michele Scrivner and Brian Billow capture nature’s horizons in their mixed media work on exhibit at Lustre Gallery for April Artwalk. Says Scrivner: “The art I create conveys a sense of earthiness juxtaposed with a contemporary edge. My work represents the elements of earth, sky and water. I blur the line between the elements to illustrate the trickle-down effect: what is done to one, impacts the other.” (Courtesy photo)

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Richard and Doc Cheatham, Woods was immersed in the grit and glamour of the music business early on. His first onstage appearance was with renowned gospel greats Raymond Myles and the Zion Harmonizers. From there he jumped into his own funk outfit, where he expanded his range before finding his calling with the blues.

Equal parts B.B. King and Jimi Hendrix (he’s opened for B.B.), Woods can ignite the frets during whirlwind solos or slow it down into extended note-bands on blues ballads. His reputation led to sharing the stage with Crescent City greats like the Neville Brothers, Kermit Ruffins and Trombone Shorty, and touring with Dumpstaphunk for almost two years.

Galactic drummer Stanton Moore played at Woods’ CD release party, and he is no stranger to iconic venues like Café Brazil, House of Blues, and The Maple Leaf. Easily put, he is a young veteran stringsmith raised in America’s greatest music town with the resume to prove his worth on stage.

Wanting to get a personal perspective on the Western Slope’s new hope for ramping up the local beat, Woods took the time to connect on his history and plans for the future.

Everyone is dying to know what the catalyst was that caused you to leave New Orleans for Montrose?

Two beautiful young baby girls.

My daughters brought me here. They were very sick, but have been better since I have been here. No, I am not married [laughs]. I left a regular Wednesday jazz hotel gig and regular road dates and gigs five days a week to be here for them. But being a blues, funk and jazz man from New Orleans, I will always be true to the music.

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sion of the local music scene and surrounding music community in the Western Slope?

The music scene is by far not as big as back in New Orleans. I love the jam band and singer/songwriter feel here.

I love that. I hope that I can help make it better by making it a place musicians want to hangout and play. And where people can have a place to hear great music everyday of the week.

Any plans for putting together a band locally or getting some gigs lined up?

I have my eye on two musician in the Western Slope that I would like to form a band with so far – create a world class sound and band right from here. I do plan to record with that band and maybe tour with that project. I can help by bringing big city experience to the local scene. I played a Mardi Gras party at the Horsefly Brewery and will be back there for a show on April 5. I think they love me here [laughs]. I am also going to be on the Durango Blues Train coming up soon, and maybe even at Telluride Brews & Blues word has it. I hope to play in other towns in the area soon as well. KVNF voted me number three favorite a week ago. I am happy about that.

How about any new writing/recording projects you can shed some light on?

I have been writing a lot since I’ve been here. Sometimes I ride in the mountains and get inspired. This town and the aesthetic are perfect for a man like me.

Can you tell us a little more about the music learning process for you early on under your grandfather?

When I was 5, he would tell me stories about Guitar Slim and him doing shows. He said I was going to be great and have many girls. Watching

him play was like living in a dream and now I am living it. He was always dressed well and a true gentleman.

He gave me my first Mercedes. Playing with him at Cafe Brazil and then at Snug Harbors was so awesome.

He said, “Boy you sound like T-Bone Walker.” He taught me through his lifestyle, and on stage.

Stylistically speaking, who were some of your influences early on, and how would you describe your sound now?

As early on as 5 to 8 years old, I would listen to Guitar Slim and P Funk records. Later on it was George Benson and the Mighty Clouds of Joy. My style is funky, jazz and touches on rocking blues. Looking forward, I also hope to add that singer/songwriter and jam band style to my to my repertoire.

Tell us about your stint with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, a fan favorite act in Telluride.

Times with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band where like heaven on earth musically. I love them guys. I played Telluride and in the region a lot between 2007 and 2008 – about a year in a half.

I toured in the tour bus, I met many honeys, and I fell in and out of love while with them [laughs]. I would sing one song, “Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On,” at some shows. It was the perfect band to play blues, jazz, and funk with. I hope to make a band from here with that concept in mind.

I will be in the Big Easy for the entire thing this year, but will you also head back home for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival?

Yes! I will head back to New Orleans for Jazz Fest to perform at private event and attend my oldest daughter’s graduation. She has a 4.2 grade point average and a full scholarship to college. I guess I make great kids, too [laughs].

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From a Poetry Brothel at the Steaming Bean to a Literary Pub Crawl...

LITERATI – Authorss Amy Irvine McHarg (left) and Craig Childs are part of a developing new Telluride Literary Arts Festival. To stay abreast of festival plans, visit http://tellurideliteraryarts.weebly.com/literary-festival.html. (Courtesy photos)

Burlesque with Craig Childs, Amy McHarg and friends, a Talking Gourds Sharing Circle with Jack Mueller, a Book Lovers Bash, a Grand Finale Brunch and the announcement of the Mark Fischer Prize. Arizona native Craig Childs (right), the author of numerous influential and best-selling books, including House of Rain (2007), The Animal Dialogue (2007), and Apocalyptic Planet (2012), Childs has written about the day he realized he was destined for an unusual path.

“I put on my good boots and buttondown, loaded my arms with papers I’d written and opened the door on the waiting room where intent young men and women sat wearing neatly pressed business outfits. Like me, they were waiting for their future to happen. At that instant, I spilled every paper I had, a beautiful white cascade. Scooping my life’s work off the floor as every person sat and stared, I realized I was in the wrong room. I excused myself out the door and exited the job fair.” The essays

of San Miguel County resident and Utah native Amy Irvine McHarg (right) have appeared in Orion, Climbing, High Desert Journal, Triquarterly and in numerous Western, nature and environmental anthologies. Her second book, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land received both the Orion Book Award and Colorado Book Award. Her forthcoming book, Terra Firma, grapples with the archetypal world of dreams and their relevance to the physical waking world.

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