- In the age of staying-at-home and social distancing, live music is having to go virtual. That includes the Five Points Jazz Festival. For nearly 20 years, the celebration has typically attracted crowds in the thousands for a day-long event in Denver's historic Five Points neighborhood, with dozens of Colorado acts performing across multiple stages.
- 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.
- 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.