A digest of good stuff from your friends at
1. SNOWBALL’S CHANCE IN DENVER
SnowBall founder Chad Donnelly said scheduling, weather, transportation and lodging issues prevented SnowBall from returning to Grand Park outside of Winter Park in Fraser Valley, where it was held last year. This year, takes place at Sports Authority Field in Denver.
2. DENVER MUSIC TO ENJOY RIGHT. NOW.
Esme Patterson’s “Woman to Woman” concept album has her responding to famous songs about women — from the subject’s perspective. In “Never Chase a Man,” , she takes on the role of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene.” This pretty well ends my own hopes of a man-to-man record that I’d planned to kick off with songs from the points of view of and . Meanwhile, another Denver band, The Knew, performed at the Second Story Garage up in Boulder recently, and you can watch and listen to their catchy, energetic rock .
3. MUSIC TO ENJOY IN DENVER… SOON
Speaking of The Knew, we know where they’ll be in late July — The . Real Estate, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Baths, the Men, Cayucas, Roadkill Ghost Choir — and presumably — will all be at this summer’s UMS on S. Broadway. The is available at Reverb.
4. SEX AND POWER
They’re both on display in an erotic, powerful play about power plays. As the play begins, playwright Thomas Novachek is complaining to his fiancée on the phone about the actresses he’s thus far seen for the female lead in his latest. He’s adapted Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s 1870’s novel “Venus in Furs,” about the relationship of Wanda von Dunayev and Severn von Kushemski and sadomasochism.
5. TRULY COLORADAN CLASSICAL
Community music ensembles rarely get the chance to commission new classical works — but this week, . The Denver Philharmonic unveils Jeffrey Nytch’s Symphony No 1: “Formations” about the geological history of the Rocky Mountains tomorrow. On April 6, the Colorado Wind Ensemble follows with a premiere of its own, featuring a short, six-minute creation by composer Steven Bryant.
6. “GAME OF THRONES” WATCH PARTIES
My Facebook feed is loaded with people taking quizzes to find out which “Game of Thrones” house they’d be in if literally nothing in the world were as it is today, which tells me that . Get together with your fellow lusty dragon enthusiasts (I have not watched “Game of Thrones;” is this what it is about?) at a local bar. .
7. APRIL FOOLS’ DAY COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR
And thank goodness for that. The internet has really gotten out of hand, hasn’t it? Still, these particular mini-pranks — really, they’re more like gags, not pranks, right? — in and were pretty good. Mainly, it’s the follow-through that we like. Did you see something that actually made you laugh on April 1? Let us know at .
Until next week,
