Gamelan Tunas Mekar at Levitt Pavilion with 'Padayon' FACC Cultural Group
As always, all free series concerts are all-ages and welcome all! Plan to pack a meal, or order from our local food trucks and bring a blanket for a perfect summer night with your neighbors.
Gamelan Tunas Mekar with "Padayon" FACC Cultural Performance Group
Witches & Science: Derivative
6:30 pm - doors & 7:30 pm - Show begins
Tickets are available at the door (Cash or Card)
Witches & Science is a Denver-based contemporary creative coven. We are made up of a rotating cast of instrumentalists, visual artists, dancers, and sound designers. This performance features eclectic compositions from many of our members based around a vague theme - (derivative} - as well as a suite composed collectively in the style of an "exquisite corpse". We are pleased to present DERIVATIVE on Saturday, June 1st at the Savoy Ballroom.
/dɘ’rivɘdiv/
noun
something that is based on another source.
Gamelan Tunas Mekar supports Manik Kusuma's Gong Kebyar blessing
The MSU Denver Gamelan Manik Kusuma invites you to this very special concert where they will perform a traditional blessing ceremony to welcome our new gamelan gong kebyar, and instrument that has traveled halfway across the world to its new home at MSU Denver. The African Drum and Dance Ensemble will also perform with the Mokomba Ensemble. Get ready to dance, get ready to celebrate!
All Music Department events are free to MSU Denver students, faculty, and staff! Reserve a ticket through the King Center Box Office.
General public tickets are available from the King Center Box Office, $12-18.
Free parking is available in the 7th Street Garage with validation code given at time of ticket reservation.
Lead Guitar Denver Showcase '24
Celebrating Achievement
Pillar 4 of Lead Guitar’s model is to partner with local college campuses nationwide to provide a venue where Lead Guitar middle and high school students can perform and be celebrated in front of family and friends during the spring Showcase Concert.
Envisioning Success
A capstone experience like our Showcase Concert provides students in a Lead Guitar ensemble class the opportunity to realize learning objectives, such as following a conductor, exhibiting poise and self-confidence, and apply teamwork skills to execute a challenging performance. It also helps students imagine themselves on a local college campus that feels welcoming and inclusive, especially for those students who may be the first in their family to pursue a trade or a degree.
A Community Experience
For elementary school students in Lead Guitar, our Teaching Artists work with school staff to provide an in-school showcase and celebration to mark the end of the year. We leave each school to decide what setting is most appropriate, and encourage the mingling of performance, food, and bonding for the broader school community.
A New World – intimate music from Final Fantasy
Get ready to SPRING into A New World of FINAL FANTASY music with our Spring ‘24 North American Tour featuring NEW, EXCLUSIVE, and OFFICIAL arrangements of music from your favorite FINAL FANTASY games! In its first ten years, A New World has performed music from FINAL FANTASY I - FINAL FANTASY XV. Come hear what’s next! Experience live, intimate concert performances in North America this April and May with premieres, surprises, and, of course, “One-Winged Angel.”
Beloved musical selections from composers Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu, Naoshi Mizuta, Hitoshi Sakimoto, Yoko Shimomura, and Masayoshi Soken are performed in a transparent and engaging format, achieving an astounding variety of musical textures and moods. Under the direction of Eric Roth, the New World Players chamber ensemble performs brand-new, exclusive, and OFFICIAL arrangements from throughout the FINAL FANTASY series in the thrillingly personal style of this outstanding musical production.
A New World: intimate music from FINAL FANTASY has performed spectacular concerts for spellbound audiences on four continents since its 2014 debut and the experience is fresh every time, drawing audiences deeper into the musical worlds of FINAL FANTASY. We can't wait to bring that energy TO YOU.
Gamelan Tunas Mekar at MSU Denver's Visiting Artist Series
Gamelan Tunas Mekar bring the spectacular song and dance of Bali to MSU Denver as part of the Visiting Artist Series.
All Music Department events are free to MSU Denver students, faculty, and staff! Reserve a ticket through the King Center Box Office.
General public tickets are available from the King Center Box Office, $15-25.
Free parking is available in the 7th Street Garage with validation code given at time of ticket reservation.
Vintage Theatre Presents: Fun Home
Winner of the 2015 Best Musical Tony Award and adapted from Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel, this riveting musical fluidly moves between past and present, reliving Alison’s childhood at her family’s funeral home, her growing understanding of her own sexuality, and the unanswerable questions about her father’s hidden desires.
Based on The Graphic Novel by Alison BechdelDirected by Emma Maxfield
Book & Lyrics by Lisa Kron
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Playing in the Bond-Trimble Theatre
Content Awareness: Fun Home contains Adult Language, Domestic Violence, and Mature Themes, including LGBTQIA+ Trauma and discussions of suicide.
Theatre Silco Presents: Haul Out the Holly
Bring your holiday cheer & immerse yourself in the festive spirit as we showcase a musical extravaganza conceived by Chris Alleman. A holiday thrill ride celebrating all things December with music, dancing, comedy, contests, and merriment coming out of your stockings.
The DCPA Presents: TINA – The Tina Turner Musical
An uplifting comeback story like no other, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical is the inspiring journey of a woman who broke barriers and became the Queen of Rock n’ Roll. Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits, this electrifying sensation will send you soaring to the rafters.
One of the world’s best-selling artists of all time, Tina Turner has won 12 Grammy Awards and her live shows have been seen by millions, with more concert tickets sold than any other solo performer in music history.
Featuring her much loved songs, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical is written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Katori Hall and directed by the internationally acclaimed Phyllida Lloyd.
Gamelan Tunas Mekar at Levitt Pavilion with Mokombo Ensemble
Free RSVP / Limited VIP Opens April 14th at 10am MT
Based in Denver, Colorado, USA, Gamelan Tunas Mekar is a community ensemble under the direction of Balinese composer and Artist-in-Residence I Made Lasmawan.
Tunas Mekar presents the traditional and new music for Balinese gamelan at music festivals, schools, private events, local venues, specially produced concerts, and by special invitation both internationally and nationally.
Modeled after typical village groups found throughout Bali, and learning by traditional methods, this community ensemble provides American audiences the rare opportunity to experience one of the world’s most beautiful and sophisticated performing arts.
The Arvada Center presents 'Beautiful'
When Carole King trusted her instincts and forged her own path, a shy, Jewish girl raised in Brooklyn became one of the biggest songwriters in the world. The inspiring true story of King’s life, songwriting process, and rise to stardom features a stunning array of iconic hits like “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” “Up on the Roof,” and “So Far Away.”
This Tony and Grammy award-winning jukebox musical hit shows how much American culture has changed since the 1960s, with special appearances by some of the songwriters King worked with, and the musical acts that performed her songs.
When Carole King wrote hits for the stars, she became a star herself.
Witches & Science: Emergence
An evening of sounds, songs, and sensory exploration featuring a variety of offerings from our creative community.
The project will feature original compositions and other musical works performed by a variety of small ensembles & a few large-scale pieces featuring all of the performers.
Lead Guitar Denver Showcase '23
Celebrating Achievement
Pillar 4 of Lead Guitar’s model is to partner with local college campuses nationwide to provide a venue where Lead Guitar middle and high school students can perform and be celebrated in front of family and friends during the spring Showcase Concert.
Envisioning Success
A capstone experience like our Showcase Concert provides students in a Lead Guitar ensemble class the opportunity to realize learning objectives, such as following a conductor, exhibiting poise and self-confidence, and apply teamwork skills to execute a challenging performance. It also helps students imagine themselves on a local college campus that feels welcoming and inclusive, especially for those students who may be the first in their family to pursue a trade or a degree.
A Community Experience
For elementary school students in Lead Guitar, our Teaching Artists work with school staff to provide an in-school showcase and celebration to mark the end of the year. We leave each school to decide what setting is most appropriate, and encourage the mingling of performance, food, and bonding for the broader school community.
Soul of Flowers, MSU Denver's Music, Race, & Social Justice Visiting Artist Series
Justice Miles, Choreographer/Dancer/Scholar
presents Soul of Flowers
Featuring Solazur and dancers
Thursday, April 13, 2023
4:30pm, King Center Concert Hall
FREE and Open To The Public
As Artist in Residence for the Department of Music’s Music, Race & Social Justice Visiting Artist Series, Miles will present her work Soul of Flowers. Inspired by botanical research and JJ Grandville’s The Flowers Personified (1847), a novel about flowers that turn into humans and exhibit different personality traits based on Victorian floral symbolism, Soul of Flowers presents vignettes of different flowers’ lives that are symbolic of human emotions. Featuring guest appearances from classical music duo Solazur and dancers, Miles will take the audience on a multi-disciplinary journey of mood, color, dance vocabulary, music and poetic text that boldly explores the soul. With movement vocabulary ranging from flamenco to contemporary dance to a soundtrack ranging from flamenco to classical music to R&B, Soul of Flowers is a dynamic work that seeks to celebrate diversity and the human spirit.
'In the Trenches' - A New Parenting Musical
In The Trenches is a parenting musical comedy in the vein of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change with a hint of Avenue Q. The sung-through show has developed a significant Colorado following and has been courted to take a bow at Feinstein’s/54 Below in New York City. The show contains adult humor and is a perfect date night or mom’s night out. So, get in here, throw one back, and let’s all level up together.
Lake Dillon Theatre presents 'Holiday Follies'
A holiday thrill ride that celebrates all things December. With music, dancing, comedy, contests, caroling, and merriment coming out your stockings. Yule want to see it over and over…..and why not……it’s the Holidays and there’s music, dancing, comedy, contests, caroling, and merriment. Don’t forget to wear your Ugly Christmas Sweater…..or just a Christmas Sweater…..but an Ugly one is funnier.
https://www.lakedillontheatre.org/event/holiday-follies-2/2022-12-27/
Witches & Science – 'What Remains'
WHAT REMAINS
Wednesday 11/27 at @savoydenver
7:30pm
$10 at the door (cash or venmo)
join us for a night of compositions, arrangements, and improvisation
Solazur in Concert
Join us for an intimate performance surrounded by the beautiful instruments at Luther Strings.
A New World: intimate music from FINAL FANTASY
From the team that brought you Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY, the FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE: Orchestra World Tour, NieR: Orchestra Concert and more, AWR Music Productions is proud to present a special new program of music to celebrate the special anniversary of FINAL FANTASY performed by A New World: intimate music from FINAL FANTASY live in concert. Under the direction of Eric Roth, the New World Players chamber ensemble performs exclusive arrangements from throughout the FINAL FANTASY series in the thrillingly personal style of this outstanding musical production.
A New World: intimate music from FINAL FANTASY has performed spectacular concerts for spellbound audiences on four continents since its 2014 debut. Beloved musical selections from composers Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu, Naoshi Mizuta, Hitoshi Sakimoto, Yoko Shimomura, and Masayoshi Soken are performed in a transparent and engaging format, achieving an astounding variety of musical textures and moods. The A New World experience is fresh every time, drawing audiences deeper into the musical worlds of FINAL FANTASY.
Living Breathing Sound: Evolution Revolution
Elus Vocal Ensemble and Solazur present Evolution Revolutions, an evening of song and music reflecting on nature and the planet as our home.
Source:: https://elusvocalensemble.thundertix.com/orders/new?performance_id=2853785
ESC Fundraiser at Improper City!
Join ESC for an evening of food, drinks and games at Improper City as we raise awareness about removing the barriers to music education. Live music by Solazur will begin at 7:15 and donations may be made at the bar when you buy a drink!
Gamelan Tunas Mekar at the Levitt Pavilion
GamelanTunas Mekar presents the traditional and new music for Balinese gamelan at music festivals, schools, private events, local venues, specially produced concerts, and by special invitation both internationally and nationally. Modeled after typical village groups found throughout Bali, and learning by traditional methods, this community ensemble provides American audiences the rare opportunity to experience one of the world’s most beautiful and sophisticated performing arts.
Tickets and More Info: https://www.levittdenver.org/full-calendar/gamelantunasmekar