Friday was the one-year anniversary of the night I sat in the historic Jamestown Mercantile, playing chess with my daughter, and received a text message from the Boulder Valley School District saying that classes were canceled indefinitely. The pandemic has been historic, deadly, chaotic and stressful; it’s also been painful and worrisome for almost anyone who s either in the music industry or just relishes live music. So it was a big deal, after my music-loving girlfriend and I received recent vaccination shots, to attend the Pamlico Sound’s socially distanced concert at the Boulder Theater on Friday night – a real concert and a real date.
Oteil Burbridge has been in the music business touring and recording for over three decades. His first step into the national spotlight came in 1991 when he became a founding member of the Aquarium Rescue Unit featuring Col. Bruce Hampton, a cult classic that has stood the test of time. That led to his membership in the classic rock group the Allman Brothers Band. (Special to the Daily)
Two-time Grammy winning bassist Oteil Burbridge enjoyed some time away from his instrument over parts of the past year instead spending two to three months playing a different role.
“I have a 3 year old and a 6 year old, that’s what I’ve been doing,” Burbridge said with a laugh. “They take up a lot of that time. I didn’t really need any kind of distractions what I needed was some more sleep.”
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Rock-N-Relief, SeeHer Hear Her specials top this week’s online concerts Gary Graff, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio Foo Fighters, Carly Simon, Sheryl Crow, Deadmau5, Sammy Hagar & the Circle, Ziggy Marley and many more are performing for Rock-N-Relief: Live Stream Series, a marathon concert event at from 3-9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 5-6. Organized by Sean Penn and songwriter Linda Perry, the show will raise money for CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort), a non-profit dedicated to crisis response. Rock-N-Relief can be viewed via Twitch.TV/AmazonMusic, Youtube and rollingstone.com.
Other events (all subject to change).
FRIDAY, MARCH 5
‣ The Grammy Museum is hosting a virtual exhibit dedicated to Ringo Starr, featuring new and archival interviews and artifacts, via grammymuseum.org.
Boulder Symphony rehearses for first performance in months
They ve kept in touch over Zoom, but until Monday night, it had been months since members of the orchestra played music together in the same room. Author: Noel Brennan Updated: 10:23 PM MST March 2, 2021
BOULDER, Colo. Masked musicians sat six feet apart and began tuning their violins and cellos, drowning out the sound of the only wind instruments in the room: two whirring air purifiers. Everybody who plays in the orchestra actually is able to wear a mask because we’ve essentially excluded all wind, brass, aerosol-producing instruments, said Devin Patrick Hughes, conductor of the Boulder Symphony.