Billy Bob Thornton and The Boxmasters will perform Friday at Boot Barn Hall. Their latest album, "Help... I'm Alive," was one of three records the group made during the pandemic. They also rec…
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The American Theatre Guild's 2022-2023 season is flush with the Tony Award-winning "Tootsie" and "Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady," the Aretha Franklin tribute "R.E.S.P.E.C.T.," and musicals…
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Territory Days returns to Old Colorado City over Memorial Day weekend after two years of cancellations due to the pandemic. The event honors the rich history of what was first known as Colorad…
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Floyd Tunson's immense mixed-media installation, "Hearts and Minds," is on display beginning Friday at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, which acquired the piece in 2020, …
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Alexandre Renoir, great-grandson to the famous Pierre-Auguste Renoir, one of the founding fathers of Impressionism, will display his paintings at The Broadmoor, along with contemporary painter…
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Capathia Jenkins is a longtime Broadway singer and actor who now travels the world performing hits from Aretha Franklin's songbook alongside symphonies. "Aretha: Queen of Soul," featuring Jenk…
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Kicking off Theatreworks' new 2022-2023 season in September is the comedic musical "Lumberjacks in Love." Among other shows are August Wilson's Tony Award-winning "King Hedley II," set for Apr…
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Colorado Springs resident Walt Larimore, a retired family physician and best-selling author, chronicles the awe-inspiring story of his father, U.S. Army 2nd lieutenant Phil Larimore, and his W…
"The Phantom Thread" is a most beguiling movie, with awe-worthy acting by Daniel Day-Lewis and Vicky Krieps, among others. Set in the '50s, the 2017 Oscar-winning film is the story of Reynolds…
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After hundreds of concerts throughout Southern Colorado, the Veronika String Quartet will say goodbye. And fittingly, they'll go out on a strong female note. Their final season, titled "Muse, …
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Members of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic will perform alongside the 65 musicians in the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony in a program featuring Rossini's "William Tell Overture" and Massene…
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Theatreworks will present Toni Morrison's 1970 debut novel, "The Bluest Eye," adapted for the stage by Lydia R. Diamond. It opens Thursday and runs through May 15 at Ent Center for the Arts. P…
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Colorado Springs Chorale, accompanied by Chamber Orchestra of the Springs, will present "Requiem for the Living" Friday at First United Methodist Church.
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The Colorado Governor's Art Show will open April 23 at the Loveland Museum in Loveland. Sixty Colorado artists will be features in a variety of mediums, including mixed media, sculpture and oi…
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Many Colorado Springs tattoo artists began making art at a young age. Once they received their first tattoo, though, something magical happened, and they felt a pull to use their artistic skil…
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Springs Ensemble Theatre will produce "Life Sucks," a 2018 comedy by Aaron Posner based on Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's 1897 drama, "Uncle Vanya." The show centers around Vanya and the m…
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The Colorado Springs Philharmonic will return to a full season for 2022-2023 after two years of canceled concerts and musician contract negotiations due to the pandemic. This will be a particu…
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The Colorado Springs Philharmonic will once again offer a live cinema event, where the orchestra performs the entire soundtrack to a film as it's screened above and behind the musicians. Audie…
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After announcing his retirement in 2015, country singer Chris Cagle is back on the road, though sparingly. He's making new music and might even put out a record at some point. But for now, he'…
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"The Butterfly Effect," a free interdisciplinary event at Colorado College featuring faculty, students and special guests, will showcase visual art, music, poetry, written works and more theme…
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Dragonfly Aerial Company will present an adaptation of "The Jungle Book," Rudyard Kipling's 1894 collection of stories. Three dozen performers, ages 7 to 50, will perform Saturday and Sunday a…
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In January it was announced Colorado Springs native and longtime jazz saxophonist Tony Exum, Jr., signed a record contract with BSE Recordings. The accomplishment was hard won, after years of …
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Grammy Award-winning Mary Chapin Carpenter will perform July 8 at Pikes Peak Center. The singer songwriter's last album, "The Dirt and the Stars," her 16th record, was released in 2020. Singer…
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Grammy Award-winning James Taylor will perform July 18 at Broadmoor World Arena. Tickets for "An Evening with James Taylor and His All-Star Band" are $68 to $132.50 and will go on sale at 10 a…
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The new Garfield Art Gallery, in the former, historic Garfield School downtown, which now houses Community Prep School for at-risk high school students, will display local and regional artists…
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The Colorado Springs Record Show will feature 45 tables stacked with tens of thousands of records for sale, and is likely to attract upwards of 500 people. It's Saturday at Masonic Center.
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A new installation in Denver will allow you to step inside some of your favorite childhood books. The 25,000 square foot Dr. Seuss Experience opens Friday and runs through September near Ikea …
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In the wake of drummer Taylor Hawkins' death on Friday, the Foo Fighters have canceled all of their 2022 North American tour dates. The longtime rock band was scheduled to perform Aug. 6 at Em…
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Russian Ballet Theatre will bring "Swan Lake," Tchaikovsky’s iconic ballet, to Pikes Peak Center Friday. The 50-person production features dancers from around the world, including Ukraine, Ita…
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The Southern blues rock band Kentucky Headhunters will perform Thursday at Boot Barn Hall at Bourbon Brothers. The band, which includes brothers Richard and Fred Young, founded their group in …
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"The British Invasion — Live on Stage," a multimedia show that features a 7-piece band performing the British music that infiltrated American culture in the '60s, will stop by Pikes Peak Cente…
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UPDATE: The show has been canceled, according to a story posted to Lulu's Downstairs' Facebook and Instagram accounts:
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ZZ Top will bring its "Raw Whiskey Tour" to town, featuring members Frank Beard, Billy Gibbons and Elwood Francis, as they tour in support of their upcoming album, "Raw," set to drop July 22. …
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The St. Patrick's Day Parade will return at noon Saturday after two years of COVID-related cancellations. If the weather cooperates, about 15,000 to 20,000 people will crowd downtown sidewalks…
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More than 150 vendors will be featured at the National Money Show at The Broadmoor, where you can see rare coins and other numismatic pieces, and attend lectures, live auctions and a book sale…
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Alan Bersten will be one of about 10 dancers to star in "Dancing With the Stars Live," which comes to Pikes Peak Center Wednesday. He'll be joined by Brandon Armstrong, Sasha Farber, Daniella …
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In the 2011 play, "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark" by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, we meet Vera Stark, a Black woman trying to break into the movies while she works as a maid t…
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The headliners for MeadowGrass Music Festival, held over Memorial Day weekend, are Darlingside, Marc Broussard and Grammy Award-winning Ranky Tanky. Tickets are on sale now for the May 27-29 e…
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Longtime comedian and actor Brian Scolaro calls his standup a less intelligent version of a George Carlin show. He'll perform Friday and Saturday at 3E's Comedy Club. Courtesy Brian Scolaro
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Pueblo native Cosmo Solano headed to Los Angeles after high school to pursue a career as a magician. He spent two decades there, before returning to Colorado. He's traveled the country perform…
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Stephen King's classic 1977 horror novel, "The Shining," is now a modern horror opera. Opera Colorado will present Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell's p…
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The Carnivale Parade and Mumbo Jumbo Gumbo Cook-Off are back in Manitou Springs Saturday after being canceled last year due to the pandemic. The cook-off begins at 11 a.m. in Soda Springs Park…
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The long-running Colorado College Summer Music Festival will be featured on the April 29 episode of the PBS documentary series "Now Hear This," which follows host Scott Yoo as he travels the w…
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An episode in season five of the Emmy Award-winning PBS series, "Samantha Brown's Places to Love," will feature Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region, including Manitou Springs. It airs a…
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Blues rock singer songwriter Davy Knowles will perform Friday at Stargazers Theatre and Event Center. His latest album, "What Happens Next," dropped in October, and features an eclectic mix of…
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Chamber Orchestra of the Springs and Art Song Colorado, a Denver nonprofit that focuses on performing rarely heard works, will present rarely heard works by Black composers in "Voices of the A…
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Robert (Bob) LeDonne, an internationally-known and collected Colorado Springs artist and inventor, died Jan. 21. He was 76. He will be remembered for his ceramics, metal sculptures and inventi…
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Springs Ensemble Theatre and Counterweight Theatre Lab will present an evening of two short plays devoted to the mysteries of relationships. "'Lovesong,' and other stories of love" will open T…
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"Kukuli Velarde: Corpus," featuring 15 ceramic sculptures, each with matching tapestries, is a symbolic representation of the Corpus Christi festival. The installation by Velarde, a Peruvian A…
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John Schneider, an actor famous for his role on "The Dukes of Hazzard," among other TV shows, is also a prolific musician. He'll perform from more than 20 albums Saturday at Tri-Lakes Center f…