Just before the Sun Valley Summer Symphony begins to play in the orchestra festival on August 4, a slim brunette will walk onto the stage and place the score for “Elevation: Paradise” on Music Director Alasdair Neale’s podium. Then, that brunette, Deanna Immel, Sun Valley Summer Symphony Librarian, might be […]
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The Way We Roll to the Sun Valley Summer Symphony
The Symphony is one of those amazing Sun Valley events that brings people together from all walks of life: surfers, artists, writers, parents, teens, and everything in between. There’s a little something for everyone. We’ve tapped into a few of the many types of community members that love music— couples, […]
A Tisket, A Tasket..a Symphony Basket by Hayden Seder
It’s almost Sun Valley Summer Symphony night and tomorrow you’re planning to head up to the lawn with a picnic. But you are way too busy to prepare food for you and your friends. Your first thought might be to just throw some leftovers in a Tupperware and head out, […]
Phantom Hill Revisited: The 2015 Sun Valley Road Rally by David Concannon
The weather was perfect. Slightly overcast, all the better to mask the sun’s harsh rays at high altitude. A light breeze. Not too much to cause a disturbance in the ground effects of a fast car moving at high speed, but just enough to create lift under the wings of […]
Bros. Landreth by Hayden Seder
“Music was the currency in our family,” says Joey Landreth, one half of the two brothers and one fourth of the members of the band The Bros. Landreth. Growing up in a family with members who sang, played guitars, and performed as working musicians, brothers Joey and Dave found themselves […]
Zach Heckendorf by Hayden Seder
Many high schoolers have far-fetched dreams of becoming a rock star. For Denver native and musician Zach Heckendorf, that dream became a reality when, as an 18-year-old, he shared stages with bands like John Butler Trio, The Lumineers, Michael Franti, and One Republic. Read more here.
Tylor Bushman: Red Dirt Country by Hayden Seder
The subgenres of any type of music are seemingly infinite and country is no exception; Appalachian folk, bluegrass, Cajun, outlaw, rockabilly. But red dirt? It was certainly a new subgenre to my ears, the term came straight from the mouth of self-proclaimed “red dirt” musician, Tylor Bushman. A solo act […]
Andy Frasco & the U.N. by Hayden Seder
Musician Andy Frasco eschews clichés. There is typical narrative: “I was bored with my friends,” “I already played guitar,” “I was inspired by Zeppelin,” to the question of how he started his band. Instead, after managing other bands in high school and working at Atlantic Records, he simply quit college, […]