The new album from Neil Young and Crazy Horse was recorded at the remote, mountaintop Studio in the Clouds outside Telluride, Colorado.

Steep Canyon Rangers, a Grammy-winning band from North Carolina, have been coming to Colorado for nearly 20 years. Just this summer, they performed at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, the Seven Peaks Music Festival in Buena Vista and this week they'll be at Red Rocks. Guitarist and lead vocalist Woody Platt shares some of his fondest memories touring in Colorado.

Singer-songwriter Marc Cohn found huge success in 1991 with "Walking In Memphis." It helped win him a Grammy, and established his career as a gifted storyteller, soul man and steward of American roots music. Cohn has worked with Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, David Crosby and Patty Griffin. For his latest project, he's teamed up with Grammy-winning veterans of the gospel world, The Blind Boys of Alabama. The new album, titled "Work To Do," comes out Friday. Next week, Marc Cohn and the Blind Boys of Alabama kick off the Western leg of their summer tour at Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder. We're going to discuss that, and the event that nearly took his life in Denver 14 years ago.

The beloved Colorado musician and founder of Yonder Mountain String Band died this week at the age of 45.

The Grammy-winning Colorado group has a new album, "Rise Sun," out Friday.

The brothers got their start pushing a shopping cart full of neighborhood kids around a makeshift haunted house in their parents’ basement.

The Denver high schooler's experimental electronic music scored him the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver's Failure Awards Scholarship.

In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson said he wouldn’t run again for the White House. The nation was mired in Vietnam, Martin Luther King, Jr. then Robert Kennedy were assassinated. There were riots in the streets. Now it’s 50 years later, and throughout 2018, we’re looking at how 1968 transformed Colorado.

A newly elected conservative school board in one of Colorado’s largest school districts clashed with thousands of students this fall. That’s after the school board approved a committee to review history curriculum.

In a series of interviews, Colorado Public Radio’s “Colorado Matters” talk show explored the rash of alleged brutality cases in Denver’s jail system. The series includes interviews of a national jail expert, a sheriff who stepped down after being interviewed, Denver’s mayor and the city’s manager of safety, tasked with implementing reforms.

Chris Thile is a virtuoso mandolinist, composer and vocalist whose broad musical outlook transcends the limitations of conventional genres.

“I fell in love first with one piece by Brahms,” says conductor Marin Alsop. “A string sextet in B flat… and it was really just like the first crush I ever had.

With Yom Kippur later this week, CPR Classical brings you “Music for the High Holidays.”  Hosted by WQXR announcer Naomi Lewin, this one-hour special includes both traditional and composed music from Jewish liturgy (with a recording of Kol Nidre that features violinist Itzhak Perlman), as well as concert music based on High Holidays melodies.

Andrew Litton, Music Director of the Colorado Symphony [Photo credit: Danny Turner] After one year as the Artistic Advisor, the Colorado Symphony announced Tuesday that Andrew Litton has been named Music Director and will assume full artistic leadership of the organization.

Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater at Bravo! Vail. [Photo credit: Zach Mahone] Dear CPR Classical Listeners, All summer, you could almost smell the fresh grass through your radio, from Aspen outside the Benedict Music Tent, from Vail at the Ford Amphitheater, and from Boulder at Chautauqua Auditorium.

Music Director Michael Christie conducts the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra with Alexa Still, flute. [Photo credit: Jan Folsom] Tune-in to CPR Classical on Saturday, Aug. 17 at 7:00 p.m. for a special broadcast of the Colorado Music Festival Finale, recorded on Aug. 8 from Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder.