Aspen disc-golf tourney
The third annual Snowmass Autumn Open will be Saturday on Snowmass Mountain. This 18-hole, stroke play disc golf tournament takes competitors up Snowmass Mountain for a day of play and fabulous views. Awards and a tournament party follow on the deck of The Cirque. Lift ticket is included in the entry fee. Registration is at 9 a.m. at the ticket pavilion; the tournament starts at 10 a.m. Call 970-923-0502.
Motherlode Volleyball
The Motherlode Volleyball Classic Tournament presents the 34th anniversary of the largest doubles volleyball event in North America, Aug. 31 through Sept. 4 at Koch Lumbar Park in Aspen. Visit motherlodevolleyball.com.
Mesa Verde guided tour
Mesa Verde is offering ranger-guided horseback tours of Spring House in Mesa Verde National Park. One tour is conducted daily from Sept. 1 to Sept. 30. Each tour is limited to 12 participants; the cost is $195 per person and includes lunch.
Vail Jazz Party
The 12th annual Vail Jazz Party, hosted by the Vail Cascade Resort and Spa, runs Sept. 1-4 and features a blend of mainstream jazz musicians with a variety of up-and-coming jazz artists. Tickets are available online or at the event. Visit vailjazz .org or call 970-479-6146.
Jazz Aspen/Snowmass
The Jazz Aspen/Snowmass Labor Day Festival is Sept. 1-4 in Snowmass’ Town Park. Performers scheduled to appear include Don Henley, LeAnn Rimes, Susan Tedeschi, Kanye West and Matisyahu. Visit jazzaspen.org.
Great Divide art show
The 31st annual Gathering at the Great Divide, a free fine-
arts show, will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 2-4 on Main Street at Wellington in Breckenridge. The show features more than 140 artists with medums including photography, wood, glass, jewelry and pottery. Visit breckartfairs.com.
Honky Tonk Dance
Pickin’ Productions will present a Honky Tonk Dance on Sept. 3 at Memorial Hall in Hotchkiss, featuring music by Halden Wofford and The Hi Beams. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door, and free for children 12 and under. Call 970-527-4791.
Moab Music Festival
The Moab Music Festival, in its signature setting of a Colorado River grotto, begins Sept. 7 with an all-Bach keyboard and strings program, including Bach’s Lute Suite performed by guitarist Marc Teichloz and Bach’s Cantata No. 202, “Weichet Nur Betruebte Schatten” (“Wedding Cantata”) and “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” sung by soprano Lisa Saffer, with festival music director Michael Barrett at the piano. Also on the program are selections from “The Musical Offering,” BWV 1079, performed by violinists Timothy Fain and Karen Gomyo, as well as pianist Anna Polonsky, oboist James Roe, festival artistic director violinist Leslie Tomkins and cellist Tanya Tomkins.
On Sept. 8, fiddler Paul Woodiel and six musicians will take the stage at the open-air pavilion at Sorrel River Ranch for a globe- trotting concert, making stops in Bulgaria, France, Greece, Russia, Ireland, Mexico, Sweden, Armenia and Brazil.
On Sept. 9, the dramatic music of three Russian masters will inaugurate a new tent site, among stony outcroppings and vermillion cliffs bordering the Colorado River. Soprano Lisa Saffer will sing a selection of Rachmaninoff songs. Prokofiev’s Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Major for violin and piano, and Shostakovitch’s soaring Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57 will be performed by Timothy Fain and Anna Polonsky.
On Sept. 10, a benefit concert and dinner in one of the region’s finest homes will feature Michael Barrett and Anna Polonsky at the piano, violinists Timothy Fain and Karen Gomyo, guitarist Marc Teicholz, violinist Leslie Tomkins and cellist Tanya Tomkins as they perform Boccherini’s “Fandango” Quintet and Faure’s Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 45.
Back by popular demand is “Piano Talk With Paul Hersh” on Sept. 13. Hersh plays and illuminates Bach’s monumental “Goldberg Variations” at Star Hall.
Tickets are available at moabmusicfest.org, by calling 435-259-7003 or by mail, P.O. Box 698, Moab, UT 84532.
Compiled by Andrea Labak and Dane Strom.
