Zea Stallings from Denver band The Copper Children talks with KVNF on his way to play Cohere Gathering 2021. Stallings shares some backstory on their 2019 record Speaking In Spirits and mentions that the band has a new album in the works.
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After having closed its doors to the public in March 2020 due to COVID-19, the Alley Theatre has announced its plans to reopen the theatre in Fall 2021. Reopening the Alley Theatre coincides with its 75th Anniversary Season with performances beginning on October 1, 2021. The 75th Anniversary Season and the Alley s celebratory return to live performances includes three world premiere plays and one world premiere musical. I couldn t be more excited to get back into the Theatre with this fabulous line-up including a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, a world-premiere musical, and three world premiere plays, said Artistic Director Rob Melrose. Our 75th Season boasts the most world premieres of any of our 74 previous seasons! When founder Nina Vance started this Theatre in 1947, she sent out 214 penny postcards and stated It s beginning! Houston, this is your Theatre. For the 75 Anniversary and beyond, we are committed to being a Theatre for all Houstonians. I m thrilled to usher in the 7
As I stood in a short queue at the Oriental Theater, I almost couldn t believe I wasn t dreaming. After over a year of not being able to attend any concerts, I was waiting to see local psych-folk band the Copper Children perform.
I ve spent much of the past year alternately kicking myself for the shows I chose not to see before the pandemic put the kibosh on live music and making a never-ending wish list of acts I’d like to see when I have the chance again. So when I got the offer to write about a live show in Denver, I jumped at it, though a big part of me was hesitant. Was it really safe or responsible to see live music when people in Colorado are dying each week because of COVID-19?
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Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s New Short Film Reflects on Race and the Difficult Questions Surrounding Identity “We have been rewired by the time we spent in Oregon. Our atoms had been rejiggered anew, but we look the same.” (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) Updated February 23 For nearly 90 years, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival has been one of the state s landmark artistic institutions, drawing both international theater talent and audiences to Ashland. But last July, OSF artistic director Nataki Garrett called Shariffa Ali, hoping the acclaimed New York stage director and the festival s 2020 artist-in-residence could help save it. At the time, Ali had sheltered in Ashland for months after COVID-19 shut down her production of