Tag: jennifer mulson
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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma to perform with Colorado Symphony in Colorado Springs
Grammy Award-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma will help kick off Ford Amphitheater’s new season. The beloved musician will perform with the Colorado Symphony on June 5. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. Ticket prices haven’t been announced. Go online to axs.com or fordamphitheater.live, or call 719-563-9830. Ma and the Colorado Symphony will also perform…
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Colorado Springs native explores veterans’ mental health in Emmy-nominated documentary
It’s no secret that many veterans struggle with the return to civilian life. One statistic is particularly troubling: “117,000 vets lost their lives to suicide over the course of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars,” said Mike Girard, a retired U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) specialist. “They say with all the guys who got out…
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One Colorado Springs woman’s journey from Colombia to archiving U.S. Olympic artifacts
Many people find themselves steeped in the stories of U.S. Olympic athletes every two years. As a collections management specialist at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee, Katherine Latona spends every day immersed in the artifacts, athlete stories and history of the ancient games. “When I first got hired, I was like is this real?”…
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Bird Call: In praise of the commoners
Sometimes I catch myself classifying birds into two categories: fancy and regular. Shame on me. This is a bad attitude, because all birds are gorgeous little creatures. But I fear, after all these years of birdwatching, I can sometimes be a little blind to the “regular degulars” – the house finches, sparrows, chickadees, Northern flickers,…
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Rock cover band Hairball to channel old arena acts in Colorado Springs show
Before he morphed into David Lee Roth and Ozzy Osbourne, Patrick Stone turned himself into Thomas Edison. When the tiny fourth grader channeled the famous inventor for an elementary school play, little did he know decades later he’d be jumping around the stage like Roth or trying to develop a sinister look in his eyes…
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Colorado Springs theater company’s ‘Prince of Egypt’ musical first in region
Almost 100 kids will bring to life the Pikes Peak region’s first production of the musical “The Prince of Egypt.” Inspired by the 1998 animated movie of the same name, the show, by Philip LaZebnik and Academy Award-winning “Wicked” composer Stephen Schwartz, is based on the biblical tale from Exodus of the journey of Moses,…
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Live Well: Digging up old bones at Colorado Springs library
Pry open the family vault and out pops any number of surprising skeletons. Confusing new relatives, celebrities, famous inventors, politicians, hardened criminals. The possibilities are endless. Some of my maternal family’s old bones: Second-great-grandfather Darius had only one arm. This surprised my mom, who’d never heard tales of said missing appendage, but that’s what he…
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Colorado Springs group carries on centuries-old sacred harp singing tradition
The vibrations of vocal cords fill your ears well before you step inside Evergreen Cemetery’s historic chapel. What magnificent choir is this, you wonder, singing so powerfully it operates like smelling salts, opening up long-forgotten neural pathways in your brain, through which emotions hurtle like blood. For this All Souls’ Day Cemetery Sing in November,…
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Pop icon Bruno Mars will bring his ‘Romantic Tour’ to Colorado Springs
The Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Bruno Mars will include Colorado Springs on his new “The Romantic Tour.” He’ll perform Sept. 26 at Falcon Stadium at the Air Force Academy. Ticket prices haven’t been announced yet. Presale tickets are available starting at noon Wednesday. General tickets go on sale at noon Jan. 15. Go online to brunomars.com.…
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Mental health, hope, healing at heart of Colorado Springs orchestra performance
Music can help us heal, even though nobody’s quite sure why. But that’s what it did for Erin Spencer, a Colorado Springs flutist and composer, who was so inspired by memorials and a vigil for the victims of the 2022 Club Q shooting that she composed a piece of classical music, “Somewhere Bluebirds Fly.” “It…