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After two Colorado dates, Birds of Play heads to Utah.

Obviously, a band named Birds of Play has a penchant for bending words as well as musical notes, which would explain why they call their music “Americawna.” Get it? (Cawm’on. Puns are supposed to make you groan a little … .) But on their fourth album, Birdsongs of the American West, they get down to the serious business of delivering immaculately crafted songs rooted in the finest folk-bluegrass traditions.

Americana folk band Birds of Play will take the stage at The Arts Campus at Willits on Saturday in an effort to promote an appreciation of the outdoors and a sense of community and joy.

The Surf Hotel in Buena Vista has announced that the internationally acclaimed folk musicians Rising Appalachia and Colorado folk band Birds of Play will

For Telluride band Birds of Play, playing and performing together is all about having fun and finding joy in music. The band will be in town Saturday for a performance at Indigo Room at iAM MUSIC. The...

It’s difficult to believe we’re midway through the summer season, but all good things can get still better. Right on time, Sneaky Pete and the Secret Weapons are just the cherries needed to top the live-music sundae of these post-pandemic months. The local funk band is set to play at 7 p.m. Monday as part of the Center for the Arts’ free outdoor concert series, Music Mondays at the Center Park, on the tented stage off South Glenwood Street. Monday will be the centerpiece of the b...

If you aren’t familiar with the Teton Music School you’ll have a chance to become so on Saturday when it hosts its first fundraising “Spring Fling” at the Bar J Chuckwagon off Highway 390. Proceeds will fill the school’s scholarship coffers. Starting at 2 p.m. and running into the night, the Spring Fling will feature well-known and -loved performers as well some new ones. Family, friends and other fans are welcome to come for a set or two or for the whole day. Kiddies w...

For nigh on 60 years, if you wanted to learn how to paint or draw you could go to the Art Association of Jackson Hole, one of the valley’s oldest nonprofits. Gotta dance? Then your place was at Dancers’ Workshop, just a few years the Art Association’s junior. And those bitten by the theater bug had Off Square Theatre Company, the direct descendant of community performing arts organizations that go back at least 40 years. But if you had a song in your heart or a tap in your toe, w...