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The Mountain-Ear Podcast is a locally created AUDIO NEWS AND PODCAST bringing information that covers the communities of the Peak to Peak region. EVERYTHING about mountain living in Colorado. The Mountain-Ear Podcast is YOUR community news source. Be sure and go online and SUBSCRIBE to our online edition of The Mountain-Ear. Use the coupon code PODCAST for a 10% discount. https://www.themtnear.com/subscribe/
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Send us a text Shaun Garin and Sam Goering are the two founding members of The Alcapones. After Garin moved to Boulder, he and Goering became friends, and one day, they played music together on Garin’s couch. Garin had just started learning the accordion and Goering brought his saxophone. After the two started busking together on Pearl Street, Goer…
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Send us a text The original airing of this episode on April 5, 2024 contained the wrong interview, so for Halloween 2024, we're trying again! From the April 4, 2024 article: Bass player Jordan Kroeger had already been in a band that had dabbled in bluegrass and jam bands, this initial band being Stealin’ Strings. He already had a professional relat…
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Send us a text In preparation for this week's Music of the Mountains episode and column (and to make sure we promote this week's movie at the Backdoor Theater), the host reads a previous article from the column featuring one of this week's bands! Thank you for listening to The Mountain-Ear podcast featuring the news and culture from peak to peak. I…
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Send us a text Scott Johnson primarily lives in Boulder with his wife and two kids, but the family also owns a house in New Orleans, located on North Rampart Street. Over a decade ago, he played a gig and mentioned that he would have loved to learn how to play the sousaphone, as at the time he played upright and electric bass. A trumpet player and …
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Send us a text Ever wonder how Gilpin County was formed in the first place? Mountain Tales correspondent Maryann Rosen brings us back in time to tell us the story of William Gilpin and how the county that took his name came to be! Thank you for listening to The Mountain-Ear podcast featuring the news and culture from peak to peak. If you would like…
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Send us a text For many years, Andrew McConathy worked as a children’s ski instructor at Vail’s Golden Peak, and after enough time had passed, he felt he wanted to find a different way to make a living. He started playing music on the side with two friends of his from the slopes, skiing by day and playing bluegrass together at night. He and Derek S…
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Send us a text In today's Weekly Wednesday episode, we're centering the spotlight on two local Halloween celebrations coming up very soon! The third and likely final Haunted Stage Stop event opens on October 18th, and Andy Reiner talks to us about that grand finale before Brent Warren promotes his own Halloween magic show as Doc Murdock at Teens In…
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Send us a text Exciting events will happen in the Peak to Peak area very soon! In this episode, we focus on two of them as we bring Maryann Yustas onto the podcast to talk about the First Annual Halloween Spooktacular on Central City's Main Street and bring Cari Minor and Ray Smith back for the third time to talk about their upcoming songwriter's s…
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Send us a text Christina “Redd” Daugherty focused on open mics for a large part of her performing history but stopped performing as frequently during her approximately decade-long position as a high school English teacher at L&N STEM Academy in Knoxville, Tennessee. After the COVID-19 pandemic, however, she started performing at open mics again. At…
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Send us a text With October finally here and spooky season just around the corner, The Mountain-Ear Podcast's Maryann Rosen brings you tales of the cemetaries around the Peak to Peak area and the stories that surround the locations and the people that have been laid to rest there. Here's the link to the Eldora event for easier access: https://www.e…
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Send us a text Brandy Ray vividly remembers the date on which her current primary project, Brandywine and the Mighty Fines, performed live for the first time: March 6, 2020. This is because, a week later, COVID-19 caused the world to shut down. The band could finally kick themselves into gear once regulations were lifted, starting with a handful of…
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Send us a text Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore first met in 1981 and had both been in several bands in the bar scene before then. They had sometimes performed together but hadn’t fully leaned into being a duo. After getting married and having children, they realized it was much harder to perform in the bar scene than it was before. They decided to le…
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Send us a text As we transition into October, it's time to give a spotlight to an advertising campaign we've been promoting in the podcast for the last couple of months, so here to talk about the Forward Together Campaign is Alisa Witt from Gilpin County Public Health! Thank you for listening to The Mountain-Ear podcast featuring the news and cultu…
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Send us a text Nat Lefkoff has been playing music and writing songs since he was around the age of nine – songs which he now considers terrible. For him, music started as a hobby and developed into a passion, and he performed in several bands throughout junior high and high school. He found himself getting more comfortable performing in local bars …
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Send us a text For this week's Wednesday episode of The Mountain-Ear Podcast, we hear from artist Marc McClish (a photographer of what he calls "chromascapes") and curator Annie Thayer (who has also focused on painting, particularly landscapes, since 2001) to hear about the upcoming opening ceremony for the Arts at the center event at the Nederland…
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Send us a text In 1999, Amy and Randy McIntosh co-founded an organization of their own to continue teaching music from the African diaspora. They called it Kutandara, a Zimbabwe term meaning “to come together and have fun.” The two have now fully cemented their roles in the organization – Amy as the executive director, Randy as the artistic directo…
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Send us a text On this week's Monday edition of The Mountain-Ear Podcast, we hear from Maryann Rosen about why it's important historically and currently to cast your ballot, especially with the national elections coming up in just over a month! Thank you for listening to The Mountain-Ear podcast featuring the news and culture from peak to peak. If …
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Send us a text The Nederland Community Library has been hosting the photographs of Serene Karplus since the beginning of July, but on October 1st, that display will be coming down. To celebrate the closing of the display, Serene will be hosting an artist reception in the Nederland Community Library's brand-new Reading Garden. This will be immediate…
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Send us a text Coming soon to the Gregory Plaza in Black Hawk is a performance by opera/musical theater performers Jonathan Hays and Jennifer DeDominici! Learn more about their background and the upcoming performance by listening to this Monday's episode! Thank you for listening to The Mountain-Ear podcast featuring the news and culture from peak t…
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Send us a text Over a decade ago, Eric Halborg and Cole Rudy met as part of the Denver indie music scene. At the time, Halborg played and wrote for the punk band The Swayback (he currently also plays for Wabi), and Rudy played for the groups Barnacle and Varlet. Striking conversations, the two realized they both loved old-school blues. Halborg had …
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Send us a text This week's Wednesday episode of The Mountain-Ear Podcast is not the typical retrospective. Instead, we're highlighting an upcoming presentation at the Nederland Community Library on Cuba's musical connections to North America, hosted by Chaz Chambers and Yami Cabrera, husband and wife, musicologists, performers, and creators of the …
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Send us a text What did Colorado look like almost 150 years ago, when it first became a state on August 1, 1876? What was prominent in each town, and where did we come from? Maryann Rosen travels back in time and answers that question in this Mountain Tales segment. Plus, be sure to stay to the end for last week's music mentions! Thank you for list…
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Send us a text Vocalist Sonya Leigh Surrett played piano and drums as a kid. As an adult, she wondered one night how musicians joined bands. By chance, a band clocked her at a karaoke night singing “Dog and Butterfly” by the rock group Heart. She talked to the guitar player, mentioned she had bought a new electronic drum set, and received an offer …
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Send us a text The tribute band Rolling Harvest is coming to the Gold Hill Inn for the third year in a row, once again celebrating the songbook of Bob Dylan and Neil Young. The band, named from a combination of the Dylan song “Like a Rolling Stone” and the Young song “Harvest,” focuses solely on performing these two artists, with both of their cata…
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Send us a text *This interview was conducted on August 17, 2024, not August 18, as stated in the episode. Scott Pepper and Kirk Marsh have been performing for the majority of their lives. Pepper has been into magic since he won a talent competition at ten years old, and Marsh attended the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College just before…
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Send us a text Salome (usually spelled without an accent above the “e”) is a Hebrew name, derived from the word “shalom,” meaning “peace.” It’s a Biblical name given to a disciple, as well as a princess, in the New Testament. With this context, the parents of Dr. Joy Adams considered naming their daughter Salome. However, her dad was afraid of othe…
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Send us a text Andy Reiner plays the fiddle and sings. His wife, Joy Adams, plays the cello and banjo and sings. Together, along with a changing lineup of various friends they’ve made along the way, they form the group Half Pelican. The two have known each other for almost ten years, and near the beginning of this time, they were a part of the Peli…
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Send us a text With less than a month to go before summer turns into autumn, guest correspondent Maryann Rosen has some awesome ideas to make your fall exciting! Also, tune in to hear about this week's movie at the Backdoor Theater and for a celebration of The Mountain-Ear's award-winning success at the Colorado Press Convention! Sound Effect by
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Send us a text The River Arkansas initially formed when frontman Mike Clark (guitar, banjo, and singer-songwriter) and Macon Terry (bass) met as members of other bands in 2014, and realized soon after that they both lived in Colorado Springs. Clark and Terry ended up performing in the studio together and releasing the band’s debut album, Golden Lig…
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Send us a text Tober Schorr has been studying West African Mande music since 1999. He started playing drum sets when he was about 16, and later, he would try the djembe. He served in the Peace Corps in Mozambique before moving to Boulder a little over 20 years ago. One of the reasons he moved there was because of the African drum and dance scene th…
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Send us a text The complex rhythms of jazz and tastes of wine complement each other during this annual event set in the mountain town of Nederland. Committed to elevating diverse music styles and promoting Colorado wineries, distilleries, breweries, and non-alcoholic makers, “Ned Jazz Wine” is known for exciting both the ears and the palate. The da…
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Send us a text Boulder resident Jeremy Mohney has always had a passion for swing music. His grandfather often drove him around playing tapes of swing bands led by the likes of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, and Artie Shaw. He played in his school’s jazz band, and he wanted to keep playing that music style once he left school. He’s been gigging since h…
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Send us a text Troy Yanel has been playing guitar since he was eight or nine years old. He started listening to records with his brother at a young age, and when he and his parents went to Chicago one year, he ended up buying a used guitar. He’s been playing ever since, studying classical guitar at Georgia College & State University before moving i…
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Send us a text Tim Merkel only performs under the name “Timothy” because when he initially set up his website, the domain timmerkel.com had already been taken (as of this writing, that URL now pulls up a 404 Not Found error). Outside of his performances, though, everyone who knows him personally calls him Tim. Merkel started playing guitar and writ…
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Send us a text David Lawrence has been a part of many bands, but for his band David Lawrence and the Spoonful, he primarily focuses on what he calls Roots Americana music with a little blues, honky tonk, and gypsy swing thrown in. The band started when upright bass player Gary Sloan recommended Lawrence to play with Coleman Smith, a touring violini…
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Send us a text In the longest episode of the podcast so far, we're going through the history of the Ned Writers Group, which is currently being hosted at the Nederland Community Library, and hearing perspectives from people who have joined the group! Thank you for listening to The Mountain-Ear podcast featuring the news and culture from peak to pea…
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Send us a text Everyone in the Denver-made bluegrass band Jake Leg (guitarist and vocalist Eric Wiggs, mandolin player and vocalist Dylan McCarthy, and brothers Justin and Aaron Hoffenberg respectively on fiddle and bass) knew each other before forming the group. They played together in jams and occasionally in pickup gigs and other informal perfor…
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Send us a text Before the episode starts, the host takes a minute to address the various fires that have started in the Front Range, including his personal experience, and reminds everyone to stay safe and follow the fire restriction guidelines. Vanimal Kingdom started as a writing project by bass player Van Powell during his time at the University…
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Send us a text While the summer days have been rolling by, a committee of volunteers have been periodically gathering, toiling away, preparing for the first big weekend in August, when the Town of Nederland celebrates its 150th anniversary. Members of the Nederland Area Historical Society, Nederland Area Seniors, Nederland Lions Club, and the Neder…
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Send us a text The woman known in her performances as Shanna in a Dress (you can learn the story of her real name by seeing her live) started her musical journey at the University of Virginia, where she learned how to play guitar for the first time. She says teaching herself guitar was how she procrastinated studying while working towards a kinesio…
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Send us a text It’s February 2013. Sarah Banker had just graduated college in December of 2012 with a background in cultural anthropology and interpersonal communications. She had tried volunteering for many non-profit organizations, but she has always been interested in the performing arts, doing dance and theater at her performing arts high schoo…
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Send us a text Circus Foundry: Carnival games and concessions will be set up around Chipeta Park for this second annual family-friendly fundraising event hosted by The Carousel of Happiness on Saturday, July 27, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. A family-friendly show begins at 1 p.m. and an afternoon show at 4 p.m. To purchase tickets, email info@carou…
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Send us a text Eli Lev promotes the vibe of his music and shows as sounding like “if Johnny Cash and Fleetwood Mac were on a road trip in the redwood forest with Jason Mraz and Jack Johnson in the back.” He’s been writing “silly songs” for as long as he can remember, joining bands in middle school and high school and even joining a cover band while…
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Send us a text Kylie Brock has been singing for as long as she can remember. She first started singing with her mother in church, even though she jokes that they turned off her microphone until she got older. Along with her mother, her brothers were also musically inclined, so she had a family of musical influences to inspire her. She also cites ma…
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Send us a text From a Letter to the Editor by Stephen LeFavier, "Dear Nederland Residents, As you may know, TEENS, Inc. is proposing to build an early childhood education/care center (ECE) in Nederland on town-owned property (750 W. 5th St.). This vacant lot, located in the Dyer’s neighborhood 150 feet from the fire station, is known as the Old Tow…
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Send us a text Vocalist Chris Fogler moved to Colorado when the COVID-19 pandemic started, and he had many friends in the area. One of these friend’s partners lived with guitarist Dan Thurnhoffer, and Thurnhoffer, Fogler, and their mutual friend made a point to get together and play music every week. Ultimately, they formed the group Sycamore Porch…
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Send us a text At around the age of eight years old, Will Whalen started playing around on his grandma’s upright organ and found that he really enjoyed it. Eventually, his family got him a plastic keyboard, which he would play on for hours. He learned how to play some of his favorite songs by ear, including music from video game soundtracks and con…
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Send us a text Today, we talk with Kelsey Simpkins of the Regional Air Quality Council about how you can help moderate ground-level ozone levels and improve the air quality in your community! For more information, text “BetterAirCO” to 21000 to sign up for ozone alerts and be sure to head to SimpleStepsBetterAir.org. Thank you for listening to The …
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Send us a text Guitarist and songwriter Noah Gose started playing piano with his siblings at a young age, and he was the only sibling who gravitated toward music. He taught himself how to play guitar after finding his father’s guitar under a bed. He has a wide-ranging musical taste, listening to artists from John Prine to Radiohead and Weezer. Viol…
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