Today. Cowboy Christmas. Farmers and country music fans know that Michael Martin Murphey cherishes Colorado and its Western heritage. The veteran cowboy laureate and Western Music Hall of Famer has played benefit concerts here for ranchers hard hit by last winter’s blizzards. Murphey’s concert tonight in Greeley comes on a lighter note: His annual Cowboy Christmas Ball honors the decades-old tradition and features yule songs and hits from Murphey’s four-decade career. Union Colony Civic Center, Greeley; tonight 7:30 p.m. $18-$75. 800-315-2787 or . John Wenzel
Sunday. Music. Evanescence has sold more than 15 million CDs the world over. And the blend of pop yearning, symphonic bombast and gothic sensibilities has made the group one of the biggest bands on FM radio. Singer Amy Lee has the chops to manage this ship, too. As fans will see on Sunday when Lee fronts her band’s show at Magness Arena on the University of Denver campus, Lee is a talented and charismatic frontwoman. Like her music or not, it’s tough to deny the power of her voice. And she also cuts an impressive figure on the stage, directing her band’s catalog of overwrought pop-gothic songs with the needed grace and earnestness. Ricardo Baca.
Tuesday. Film. Mort Guffman is coming to see the show, flamboyant director Corky St. Clair tells his amateur actors in “Waiting for Guffman.” “We may be going to Broadway!” Mockumentary master Christopher Guest and faves Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy and Parker Posey are all here to put on a show for the 150th anniversary celebration of Blaine, Mo. Hide your Maria Muldaur songs. This loving roast of community theater screens at the Central Branch of the Denver Public Library, part of its “Backstory” film series. Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., Level B2 Conference Center.
