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Middle and high school musicians, want to get out of the garage and rock in front of a crowd? Would you like your performance to be broadcast on The Library Channel (Comcast 17)? Then PPLD’s End of Summer Blowout Concert is for you. Submit two songs on CD or tape, along with a completed application, by 5 p.m. on June 17 to Sandy Hancock at Penrose Library (20 N. Cascade Ave.). You may be one of six bands selected by the Penrose Teen Advisory Committee to play on August 1 at Chapel Hills Mall. The concert will run from 3 – 7 p.m. Check out the application for more details.
The Colorado Springs Conservatory is holding auditions for their Seventh Annual Summer Intensive Study Program, in collaboration with the Central City Opera. The auditions are open to performing artists ages 14 -19. The Intensive Study Program will run from July 5 – 19. After 10 days of study at Colorado College, students and faculty go to Central City, Colorado, for four days of workshops, master classes, and performances.
The auditions will be held at two times and locations:
· Saturday, April 4, 3 – 6 p.m. at the Colorado Springs Conservatory, 1600 N. Union Blvd.
· Sunday, April 5, 1 – 5 p.m. at the Denver Musician’s Union Building (in the large rehearsal room), 1165 Delaware St., Denver.
To audition, you must make an appointment by calling 577-4556. Each student must present two contrasting songs (musical theater, art song, contemporary, aria) and one spoken selection (monologue, poem, reading). All materials must be memorized.
An accompanist is provided, or you may bring your own. Please bring along all music. No taped accompaniments or a capella performances are allowed.
Born too late? Want to hear what you missed? You’ll find a treasure trove of live performances at Wolfgang’s Vault! There are literally hundreds of digitally remastered, commercial-free, live concerts – all streaming for free! From AC/DC to ZZ Top, if you love classic rock, you’ll find shows here that you can’t find anywhere else!
Now you can be Gene Frenkle with your very own, custom made, do-it-yourself cowbell website (complete with Christopher Walken!)
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Make plans now to hang out at the ETC on Halloween night at our annual ETC Masquerade Ball! Deck yourself out in your best / scariest / weirdest costume for our costume contest (yes, we’ll have prizes), and dance the evening away from 6:30 – 8:30 with a live DJ!
It’s an easy date to remember – Friday, October 31 – Halloween Night!
The 3rd annual Teen Battle of the Bands was a hit! Over 400 people attended the event in Acacia Park on Saturday, August 2nd to hear 5 local teen bands compete! The winning band, Uncharted, won studio time from Green Mountain Studios and a $100.00 gift certificate from Music Exchange! Also, special thanks to all of our sponsors including Nice Guy Sounds for providing sound, Pikes Peak Blues Community for providing a judge, Music Exchange and Green Mountain Studios for providing grand prizes and Front Range BBQ for providing gift cards for our judges!
Soak up the sun and check out some local talent, as our teen band finalists go head-to-head this Saturday! It’s happening at Acacia Park from noon to 4 p.m., so put Guitar Hero aside for an afternoon and come check out the real deal!
If you haven’t shown the world your fanatical fretwork or fantastic footwork talents, you can hit the stage on Monday, July 7 at the Rockrimmon branch library. We’ll have the Guitar Hero competition and the Dance Dance Revolution competition starting at 6:00 pm, so don’t miss out!
If you’re getting a little burned out with your current favorite bands, give TuneGlue a shot! Just enter the name of a band or artist, and it will come up with suggetions for related artists. You can keep clicking on the suggested artists, and expand your search until you find one you want to check out. Click on Releases, and you’ll get an album-by-album menu of the available titles by that particular artist. Plus, as you move through the menu, you get a list of songs for each album title.