Playing Boulder’s Fox Theatre, the Vermont-based band, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, kept the crowd dancing for nearly two hours with electrifying, soulful vocals and incredible blues-rock rhythms.
At about 10:30, Grace and the band took the stage saying, “How’re you doing, Boulder? Are you ready to move?”
While a blog post on their Myspace page dated December 09, 2008 said that after nearly a decade of music the South Austin Jug Band would be no more, they are still in the process of finishing up a few dates in Colorado with a final gig in Austin at the end of the month.
The five-piece bluegrass-esque jam band played their first and only show in Boulder at the Fox Theater, sharing the bill with the White Iron Band and Ryan Shupe and the Rubberband.
Driving into town from Salt Lake City, the five-piece band headlined a show at the Fox Theater with the South Austin Jug Band and White Iron Band.
At our first show of 2009, Junior Brown played to a full crowd at Boulder’s Fox Theater.
Bringing his signature instrument, the guit-steel, Junior proved once again what an incredible and talented musician he is.
Opening the show were the Hillbilly Hellcats, who had opened for Junior ten years ago as well.
With a scant fifty audience members, local Boulder band the Unknown Americans started the show at the Fox Theater with their songs of barbecue and founding fathers.
Up next came the Austin-based Mother Truckers with their rocking country tunes, a bluesy cover of Love Me Like A Man and momentarily awkward conversations about Billy Joe Shaver.
The crowd was still, as Teal Collins put it, arranged like chess pieces, with nobody crowding each other.
Finally, band leader Ray Benson and the rest of Asleep at the Wheel took the stage.
Of the handful of dates that Jenny Lewis is playing on her Acid Tongue tour, two happened to be in Colorado.
Without Rilo Kiley but with support from opening acts Whispertown 2000 and Jonathan Wilson, she showed off a different side of her talents.
The new songs are a little less country than those on Rabbit Fur Coat, but the sunflower on her guitar strap and then channeling Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris during the encore proved she hasn’t strayed too far from the homegrown sound.
Round two of the Carolyn Wonderland Adventure. She played her last Colorado date at Boulder’s Fox Theater on Monday night.
Even with the sparse audience, the band which also includes Cole El-Saleh (keyboards) and Michael “Lefty” Lefkowitz (drums) played an hour and a half set including some old favorites and a few new tunes as well.
