The roster for Hudson Gardens’ 2010 Concert Series is just releasedbut you won’t see Chris Daniels and the Kings play this season as they have for the last 10. Daniels is sick, like really suddenly sick, in a Houston hospital, being treated for AML-M4 (acute myelomonocytic leukemia).
You know Daniels from the Colorado music scene with bands like Magic Music, Spoons and, for the past 26 years, Chris Daniels and the Kings.
I had a drink with Daniels last month. Well, he watched me drink. He’s been dry since the ’80s. Doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, works out at the gym. But just a few weeks later, he tells me, he was feeling bad when driving home to Evergreen and stopped into a clinic. “My white cell count was off the charts,” he says. “They took me right to Denver and now I’m in Houston getting the old spinal tap.”
He’s had blasts of chemotherapy, is kept in a sterile ward — “the bubble” he calls it.
He hopes to be back in Colorado within two months. He hopes he gets better.
“It feels like you’ve fallen off the Earth,” he tells me in a drowsy phone call. “You just have to figure out what you’re going to do. The main thing here is to get well.”
Hundreds of well-wishes are flowing into his Facebook page — where Daniels also updates his condition. We’re all pulling for you, pally.
Lineups.
The Hudson Gardens concert lineup looks solid with The Fab 4, Super Diamond, Flash Cadillac, Eddie Money and The Nacho Men. Go to starting Monday.
The other affordable outdoor music venue is the 1,500-seat Arvada Center Amphitheater — this summer bringing in Cowboy Junkies, Joan Baez, BeauSoliel & Buckwheat Zydeco, John Hiatt & Los Lobos, The Neville Brothers, Asleep at the Wheel. Tix on sale April 2 at .
So sue me.
The wheels of justice turn slowly in Denver media.
Steve Kelley calls to say he has settled with KDVR-Channel 31. The anchor was canned unceremoniously December 2008 from “Good Day Colorado” and he sued. The battle is now over, he says, because, “They came to the table reasonably and we decided to settle.
“I just didn’t think it was in the best interests of me or my family to extend this thing through the summer.”
Kelley can’t talk about the deets of the deal, but he did say he is in serious talks with two entertainment outlets and he hopes to be back on the air soonest.
City spirit.
NY Times columnist David Brooks speaks @ the Investment in Excellence Dinner May 12, tix $200, call Amy Watson 303-919-9690 . . . Read a nice piece on University of Denver’s new lacrosse coach Bill Tierney in the March 22 New Yorker, written by John McPhee. Denver snatched the star coach from Princeton last June after his teams there won six NCAA championships. When he left Princeton for DU, the lacrosse world went “Huh??!!” Look for big things . . . Sez who: “A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.” Mary Wilson Little
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