Executive director at the Phipps Center for the Arts, Ben Thietje, when asked about interesting events the arts center had this fall, started talking about a silent film.
Are you a pianist seeking a new musical adventure or a community of fellow musicians? Don t be afraid to take a leap and audition for the Oakton Six Piano Ensemble Sept. 19-21 at the Des Plaines campus.
Ask the Cuban-born, Chicago-raised guitarist and singer Eddie Turner how he ended up in Colorado about five decades ago, and he says, “It’s actually pretty simple. I saw the band Zephyr when I was in high school, and I was just like, ‘Wow, what an amazing band! I just kind of said to myself, ‘I m going to join that band one day.’”
In the early ’70s, Turner moved to Boulder to study liberal arts at the University of Colorado, and after playing in the band Mother Earth, he did finally get that guitar spot in Zephyr in 1980, four years after the death of guitarist and co-founder Tommy Bolin. Turner appears on the band’s final album, 1982’s