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I've been on the air in Colorado since 1978. The Colorado Playlist is broadcast on 30 FM frequencies in the state. I am also a musician, talent buyer and business consultant. Email me at coloradoplaylist@gmail.com

Carbon Valley Music Festival

What’s new in the goat pen?  No new shows for Aug 6-12 and Aug 13-20.  Too busy with festivals and a kitchen remodel of all things.  So, I’ll have a new episode of the Colorado Sound out to all the stations for the week of Aug 20-26.

I just experienced a spectacular couple of days.  I just finished up with the Carbon Valley Music Festival IV.  Drew Emmitt Band, Hazel Miller Band, Onda, Boa & the Constrictors, Bonnie & the Clydes, Lalla Rookh, and the Frederick High School Gold Tones Jazz Band set a new standard by which future bills will be measured.  Every single act was rightfully on their game.

Thanks go out to a stellar production crew:  Bob Foss/Riffactory on foh, Skinny from SSS Productions on lights, Big John (stage manager) and the INCREDIBLE Marshall Austin MAP32 stage.  I will have pics up sometime soon, I promise.  We also had a couple of tapers out doing sound and video of the Drew Emmitt set – and from what I heard, the audio will be up on archives.org sometime in the next couple of months.

About that stage:  As a performer and/or emcee, I’ve been on countless numbers of stages going back to 1970.  As a show producer I’ve used smaller stages, like the MAP24 and the SL100.  As a member of the production staff and crew, I’ve been on stages as large as the SL450.  In every single case, the MAP32 kills.  The design was thought up by someone with experience playing on and/or doing production on a stage.  As someone standing in the audience with an eye on visual aesthetics this stage sets a standard the others can really only aspire to.  It is a truly magnificent visual presence.

We just used one at the 2011 Carbon Valley Music Festival (Dacono, CO).  My client (the city of Dacono), the several thousand fans in attendance and each and every single musician and crew member who participated was absolutely blown away.  Nothing but complete praise … oh, and the two man crew, consisting of “Senior” (age 72) and Greg (age about 30 something, I’m guessing) had no problem putting the stage up, taking it down, and driving it off on a 1 ton dually.  I rebooked it for next year on the spot.  Best value for the dollar you can imagine if you want a stage presence that really impresses everyone.

Chris K. / Rocky Mountain Music Network

Over 400 Musical Instruments Donated by Colorado Public Radio Listeners Being Distributed to More Than 30 Colorado Schools This Month

Over 400 Musical Instruments Donated by Colorado Public Radio Listeners Being Distributed to More Than 30 Colorado Schools This Month

CENTENNIAL, Colo. – August 2, 2011 –

Over 400 instruments donated by listeners during the Colorado Public Radio (CPR) Annual Instrument Drive last spring will begin making their way into the hands of Colorado students this month.

The instruments will go to more than 30 schools and music programs around the state – including 20 schools and music programs in the Denver metro area and schools in Grand Junction, Vail, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Fort Collins, Loveland and elsewhere. Many of them will be presented to students and their teachers on August 20 at the University of Denver’s Newman Center.

Tripling expectations, more than 1,300 musical instruments were collected last March during the instrument drive. Eight-five percent of them were repairable, which means that more than 1,000 of the instruments collected ultimately will end up in schools around the state for use by students.

The instruments being delivered to schools this month have all been repaired and refurbished by the Colorado Institute of Musical Technology (CIOMIT) of Castle Rock and are ready for use. Repairs on the remaining instruments will be made in the coming months.

CPR worked with the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation to review applications from schools throughout Colorado and place refurbished instruments in deserving school music programs around the state.

“This is one of the most gratifying activities I’ve ever been involved with,” said Steve Blatt, CPR’s director of community programs, who spearheaded the drive. “The public’s generosity was really overwhelming. And this wasn’t about people just cleaning out their attics. People donated instruments that have been in their families sometimes for generations. It’s a real acknowledgment on their part of the importance and value of music in kids’ lives.”

Research shows that children who participate in music demonstrate enhanced critical thinking, creative abilities and academic performance. A study from the 1999 College-Bound Seniors National Report shows that students who took music performance or appreciation classes scored higher on the SAT than students with no arts participation.

Schools and music programs that will receive instruments from this year’s instrument drive:

Denver Metro Area: Arvada K-8; Aurora Academy Charter School; Aurora Frontier K-8; Aurora West College Preparatory Academy; Casey Middle School, Boulder; City Strings, Denver; Denver School of the Arts; Denver Young Artists Orchestra; Eiber Elementary, Lakewood; Foster Elementary, Arvada; Gateway High School, Aurora; Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy, Denver; Lawrence Elementary, Arvada; Murphy Creek K-8, Aurora; Pinnacle Charter School, Federal Heights; Polton Elementary, Aurora; Prairie Middle School, Aurora; Slater Elementary, Lakewood; South Middle School, Aurora; Thornton Middle School.

Buena Vista: McGinnis Middle School.

Clifton: Mt. Garfield Middle School.

Colorado Springs: Griffith Children’s Center and Harrison High School.

Fort Collins: Lincoln Middle IB World School.

Grand Junction: Bookcliff Middle School and Grand Mesa Middle School.

Keenesburg: Weld Central High School.

Loveland: Conrad Ball Middle School.

Olathe: Olathe Middle and High School.

Pueblo: Freed Middle School.

Vail: First Notes.

The schools were selected based on the financial need of their students and the schools’ interest in promoting music education.

In addition to CIOMIT’s participation as repair partner for the drive and Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation’s help in reviewing school applications, a number of organizations and retail businesses across the state supported the Colorado Public Radio Annual Instrument Drive by announcing it at events or serving as drop-off locations: The Arvada Center, Boulder Philharmonic, The Colorado Symphony, Denver Philharmonic, Denver Young Artists Orchestra, Friends of Chamber Music, Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra, Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Opera Colorado, Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra, HB Woodsongs, Denver Folklore Center, Flesher-Hinton Music, Kolacny Music, The Music Box, Rockley Music Company, and Golden Music Center.

News Notes & Spins – August 1, 2011

There isn’t always much to say. July has been a long hot month. Over the next couple of weeks, I’ve got two regional festivals I will be participating in – the Carbon Valley Music Festival on Aug 6 in Dacono, CO, featuring the Drew Emmitt Band, the Hazel Miller Band, Onda, Boa and the Constrictors, Bonnie & the Clydes, Lalla Rookh & the Frederick High School Gold Tones Jazz Band

… and Bohemian Nights at New West Fest, Aug 12-14 … featuring some 80 acts on 9 stages … you’ll find me once again emceeing the main stage beginning Friday evening.

Aug 8 is apparently the day set for the new programming at KRFC Fort Collins … while the impending changes at 1340 AM with ex- radio 1190 GM Mike Flanagan driving is set for some time in September.  Best wishes all around.

Here’s what got played at radio in July.

TOP 40 ALBUM SPINS – July 2011
(136 titles reported / 348 titles listed)
(LM) TM
(D) = debut, first time on chart)
(R) = re-entered chart)

(1) 1.  Finnders & Youngberg – FY5 (self) Bluegrass, americana
(15) 2.  Wendy Woo Band – Austerity (woomusic) Rock/pop, contemporary adult
(D) 3.  Rose Hill Drive – Americana (Slowly and Shirley) Rock, modern/hard rock
(R) 4.  Great American Taxi – Reckless Habits (Thirty Tigers) Rock, americana
(3) 5.  Devotchka – 100 Lovers (Anti-) Indie/adult alternative
(D) 6.  Jim Stranahan – Free For All (Capri) Jazz
(D) 6.  Spring Creek – Hold On Me (self) Bluegrass 
(4) 7.  Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds (Ruff Shod Records) Folk, americana
(D) 8.  Patti Fiasco – The Patti Fiasco (self) Rock, country-rock, americana
(R) 9.  Rene Marie – Voice of My Beautiful Country (Motema) Jazz, vocal
(D) 10. The Hickman-Dalton Gang – The Hickman-Dalton Gang Vol II (self) Americana, country-rock
(D) 11. The H2 Big Band – You’re It! (Jazzed Media) Jazz 
(5) 12. John Oates – Mississippi Mile (PS Records) Americana, blues
(7) 13. Rob Roper – Misfit (self) Rock/pop, contemporary adult
(14) 14. John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light – Beautiful Empty (Free School) Rock/pop, contemporary adult
(R) 15. Brad Goode – Tight Like This (Delmark) Jazz    
(20) 15. Fierce Bad Rabbit – Spools of Thread (self) Rock/pop, alternative/indie
(D) 16. Adam Bodine Trio – Up ‘N Hear (self) Jazz, piano
(D) 16. Jami Lunde – Big Black Birds (self) Americana, folk    
(17) 17. The Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee (Blank Tape) Americana, folk-rock
(21) 18. Adam Stern – High Country Gentleman (self) Various, instrumental guitar
(21) 18. Dave Sonner – the American Campus (self) Rock/pop, americana
(D) 18. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down (self) Rock/pop, singer-songwriter
(8) 19. Gary Bragg – High Plains Storm (Q&B Records) Americana, country*
(R) 20. Bonnie and The Clydes – Bonnie And The Clydes (self) Americana, classic country
(D) 20. Judy Wexler – Under A Painted Sky (Jazzed Media) Jazz, vocal
(R) 21. Andy Hackbarth – The Last Love Song     (January Records) Pop, adult contemporary
(R) 21. Jeff Finlin – The Tao of Motor Oil (Bent Wheel) Rock/pop, contemporary adult
(R) 21. Megan Burtt – It Ain’t Love (self) Rock/pop, contemporary adult
(22) 21. Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Unentitled (Alternative Tentacles) Rock, adult alternative
(R) 22. Bop Skizzum – Push (self) Funk/R&B/Soul 
(12) 22. Hazel Miller Band – Coming to You Live… From KUVO (self) Jazz, r&b, vocals
(R) 22. Musketeer Gripweed – Dyin’ Day (self) Rock, blues, jamband
(12) 22. Otis Taylor – Clovis People, Vol. 3 (Telarc) Blues, trance-blues
(17) 22. Veronica – Emerging from Troubled Days (self) Rock, alternative
(D) 23. Broken Spoke – Before There Were Easy Riders (Broken Spoke) Americana, alt-country
(17) 23. Mohammed Alidu and the Bizung Family – Land of Fire (Black Eye Watching) World, African
(6) 23. Tennis – Cape Dory (Fat Possum) Pop, indie
(2) 24. Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson (Ryko) Blues    
(R) 25. My Body Sings Electric – Changing Color (self) Rock, modern/alternative
(D) 25. Paper Bird – Carry On (Long Spoon) Americana

Fell Out of TOP 40 – July
(9)  Carmen Sandim Sextet – Brand New*
(10) Peter Sommer – Tremolo Canteen
(11) Bop Skizzum – Beauty Queen
(13) John-Alex Mason – Jook Joint Thunderclap
(13) Tyler Gilmore’s Ninth and Lincoln w/ Cuong Vu – Static Line
(14) Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams – Sinners & Saints
(14) The Quiet American – Vol. II
(15) The Chain Gang of 1974 – Wayward Fire
(16) Dotsero – Storyhouse
(16) Eric Forsyth – The Thin of Thick Things
(16) Katey Laurel – From Here
(16) The Blue Canyon Boys – Mountain Bound
(17) Kenny Perkins – Wild Frontier*
(18) Jim McTurnan & The Kids That Killed The Man – Joie De Vivre
(18) Molly Cottrell – Molly Cottrell
(19) Chuck Pyle – The Spaces In Between
(20) Kevin Dooley – Moonlight Highway*
(20) The Heyday – Till We See the Sun
(21) Signal Path – The Prosaic Fades
(22) Bobby Walker – Way Back When*
(22) Danielle Ate the Sandwich – Two Bedroom Apartment

ADDED – July 2011
Adam Bodine Trio – Up ‘N Hear
Air Dubai – Soul and Body [single]
Alan Baird Project – Spark the Revival
Beats Noir! – 13 Tracks From The Dark Side Of The Beat
Bonnie & the Beard – Bonne & the Beard
Chimney Choir – Chimney Choir
Ernie Martinez – Blue Range
Georgann Low – Les Progres De L’Amour (Seasons Of Love)
Grant Sabin – The Homesick EP
Grass It Up – Live
Great American Taxi – Blair Mountain [single]
H2 Big Band – You’re It!
Kim Jones – Lucky Girl*
Matt Nasi Band – Unsafe and Sound [single]
No Fair Fights – The Sound of Burning Bridges
Paper Bird – Carry On
Patti Fiasco – The Patti Fiasco
Rose Hill Drive – Americana
Spring Creek – Hold On Me
Tennis – Is It True? [single]
The West – The West
Thief River – Thief River
Tony Rosario – Mexican Train
Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down

REPORTING STATION CHART
No Report this month = KGNU (Boulder), KBUT (Crested Butte), KCSU (Fort Collins), Radio 1190 KVCU (Boulder)

KAFM (Grand Junction)
1. The Whiskey Bottles – Ain’t No Crime
2. Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
3. Tony Rosario – Mexican Train
4. Boulder Acoustic Society – Champion of Disaster
4. Chuck Pyle – The Spaces In Between
4. Great American Taxi – Reckless Habits
4. Spring Creek – Hold On Me
4. Stray Grass – Written in the Stars

KDNK (Carbondale)
1. Bobby Walker – Way Back When*
1. Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
2. Adam Stern – High Country Gentleman
2. Beth Quist – New Moon
2. Devotchka – 100 Lovers
2. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
2. Spring Creek – Hold On Me

KOTO (Telluride)
1. Great American Taxi – Reckless Habits
2. Rose Hill Drive – Americana
3. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5

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KRCC (Colorado Springs)
1.  The Chain Gang of 1974 – Wayward Fire
2.  Otis Taylor – Clovis People, Vol. 3
3.  Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
3.  Grass It Up – Live
3.  The Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee

KRFC (Fort Collins)
1. Patti Fiasco – The Patti Fiasco
2. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
3. Wendy Woo Band – Austerity
4. Musketeer Gripweed – Dyin’ Day
5. Paper Bird – Carry On
6. The Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee

KUNC (Greeley)
1. Wendy Woo Band – Austerity
2. Justin Roth – Now You Know
3. Katey Laurel – From Here
4. Chuck Pyle – The Spaces In Between
4. Grant Gordy – Grant Gordy
4. John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light – Beautiful Empty

KUVO (Denver)
1. Judy Wexler – Under A Painted Sky
2. Jim Stranahan – Free For All
2. Rene Marie – Voice of My Beautiful Country
3. Adam Bodine Trio – Up ‘N Hear
4. H2 Big Band – You’re It!

KVNF (Paonia)
1. Great American Taxi – Reckless Habits
2. Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
2. The Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee
3. Otis Taylor – Clovis People, Vol. 3
4. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
4. John Oates – Mississippi Mile

The Colorado Sound
1. Jami Lunde – Big Black Birds
1. Rose Hill Drive – Americana
2. Dave Sonner – the American Campus
2. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down
3. The Hickman-Dalton Gang – Vol. II
3. Rob Roper – Misfit

(*serviced to radio and press by Rocky Mountain Music Network)