KT Tunstall
2024-03-21 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Denver) | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
KT Tunstall

OPENER: LVDY

SHOW @ 8:00 pm / DOORS @ 7:00 pm

$45 MEMBERS / $50 ADVANCE / $60 DAY OF

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ABOUT KT Tunstall

KT Tunstall burst onto the music scene with her 2004 multi-platinum debut, Eye to the Telescope, which spawned the global hits “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” and “Suddenly I See.” These songs established Tunstall as a captivating, must-see performer, as well as a Songwriter with a singular knack for balancing introspective folk and propulsive rock.

“I feel there are two immediate, recognizable pillars of my style,” she says. “I have this troubadour, acoustic guitar-driven emotional side. Then there’s definitely a rocker side of me with sharper teeth.”

In the last few years, the Grammy-nominated Scottish Musician has expanded on these musical selves by focusing on a trilogy of records, where each album zeroes in on a single concept: soul, body and mind. The first, 2016’s KIN, was the soul record; 2018’s WAX was the body record, and the new NUT is the mind record. Produced by Martin Terefe, who co-wrote her 2005 global hit “Other Side of the World,” NUT draws on Tunstall’s love of percussive West African grooves as a metaphor for the learning patterns of the mind, and is an eclectic album that seamlessly weaves together disparate styles. She found her writing mojo thanks to “Canyons,” a song propelled by a grimy, heavy rock riff. In keeping with NUT’s theme, the song’s lyrics are about the canyon-like physiology of the brain,and explore the parallels between humans developing unique identities and the way nature evolves and is shaped over time. Elsewhere, NUT’s lyrics and sound delve into KT’s own personal evolution, and the way we all evolve through the repetition of behaviors and our reactions to life experiences. “Private Eyes” grew out of Tunstall’s brush with the vampiric downside of fame, while “Three,” summarizes the arc of the trilogy, inspired by a journal practice where she would write multiple entries on one topic from the different perspectives of mind, body and soul.

“It was necessary in the circumstances to make NUT completely differently from any other record I’ve made,” Tunstall says. “But I was excited and ready for that. The reason I pursued music was because I had to avoid a repetitive job. I need to feel a constant sense of exploration in life. I realized you can easily fall into repetition even in this job. And so for NUT, I was like, ‘Come on, let’s do what we said we were going to do. Let’s push into something new.’ What’s always most important is making an exciting, meaningful record that I love, and to have fun while I’m doing it.”

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OPENER: LVDY

LVDY (pronounced LADY) is a Colorado-based duo comprised of Kathleen Hooper and Aubrey Mable. Their uplifting sound and intimate storytelling is a delightful recipe of singer-songwriter, indie-folk, with powerful melodies and harmonies that speak to the senses. Love anthems weave in and out of their messages, with simple yet important reminders that we’re not alone.

Their ethereal harmonies, musical warmth and meaningful lyrics find inspiration in the beauty of the outdoors. Aubrey and Kathleen met in 2012 while studying abroad in Dunedin, New Zealand and almost instantly became the best of friends. They bonded over their dreams of traveling the world sharing their music and began playing together in their chilly NZ flats. When they returned to the States, they played on front porches of college houses as well as in the welcoming homes of friends and family. What began as late-night kitchen and living room jam sessions, open mics and groovy covers turned into an outpouring of original tunes and the official birth of LVDY. Their next EP, Feathers, is set to release on February 23, 2024 and showcases their most dynamic and mature sound yet.

“Mable’s warm rasp complements Hooper’s bright and clear vocals. With an acoustic guitar, the occasional tambourine and their harmonies, LVDY makes honest music enveloped in positive vibes to fill those sunny Colorado afternoons.” – 303 Magazine

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SHOW @ 8:00 pm / DOORS @ 7:00 pm

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Location: TACAW, 400 Robinson St, Basalt, CO 81621

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Monophonics
2024-03-22 20:00 - 23:00
Monophonics

Support: Kendra Morris

SHOW @ 8:00 pm / DOORS @ 7:00 pm

$23 MEMBER / $28 ADVANCE / $38 DAY OF

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ABOUT Monophonics

Since 2012, Monophonics has steadily built a reputation as a consistent band with a unique sound. Well crafted songs and records are matched by an energetic live performance. A heavenly signature style: Pure timeless heavy soul and warm textures of psychedelic rock. This is a band that revels in the past, taking you back to the stylings of the late 60s and early 70s, while always keeping its feet positioned in the present, looking ahead to the future.

Front man, vocalist & keyboardist Kelly Finnigan always leads with power. The renowned rhythm section starts with drummer Austin Bohlman along with Max Ramey on Bass and Aquilles Magaña on guitar. A dynamic horn section led by Ryan Scott on Trumpet with Jason Cressey playing Trombone always elevates the show & sound. This core group drips in cosmic fashion.

As a touring band, Monophonics has taken their act to dozens of countries, selling out venues all over the states, UK & Europe including London, NYC, Athens, LA, Istanbul, San Francisco, Amsterdam & Paris. Known for putting on an infectious performance which places their intimate songwriting and soulful musicianship on full display. Its the kind of concert that delivers gifts to the mind, body and soul of every crowd in each city they travel to. Monophonics brings a musical experience that is unforgettable, which has earned the group a global fanbase and loyal following.

Sage Motel, Monophonics’ fifth studio album released in 2022 on Colemine Records, once again captures the bands timeless psychedelic soul sound that they are known to produce. Met with an outstanding reception including nods from NPR Music, KCRW, BBC and Shindig, the record has thrived in multiple scenes. Since it’s release, ‘Sage Motel’ has found its way to millions of listeners online and seen thousands of records distributed and sold in record shops around the world.

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Support: Kendra Morris

There’s something undeniably out-of-time about both Kendra Morris and her indelibly cool new album I Am What I’m Waiting For (Karma Chief Records). It combines rough-hewn powerhouse vocals with arrangements that betray both an extensive record collection and a whimsical instinct for joyous noises — think Dusty Springfield fronting Spoon circa Kill The Moonlight or a 60s girl group creative directed by Nick Lowe and PeeWee Herman. It’s vibrant and varied and packed with personality.

“How do you put yourself into a record? Torbitt and I wanted to make it feel like you cracked open the ooze in my head,” Morris says, referring to her co-writer and producer Torbitt Schwartz AKA Little Shalimar (Run The Jewels). Morris is an accomplished visual artist and stop-motion animator, so it’s appropriate that I Am What I’m Waiting For takes a collagist approach, mischievously recombining all sorts of rock and roll ingredients — the sass and swagger of Ronnie Spector, the more acid-fried corners of the Nuggets compilations, post-modern interpolations of mid-century exotica music, the cracking snares and sugary urbanity of ESG — while offering moments of vulnerable insight from a life spent in pursuit of creativity.

Morris was a musically precocious child and, after playing in Florida bar bands, moved to New York to chase the dream. Thus began a formative 13-year stint bartending at the beloved Lower East Side dive The Library, which thrust Morris directly into the heart of Manhattan’s fertile post-Strokes creative scene. Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe lived upstairs, music journalist Marc Spitz was a regular, and touring acts would come through to carouse after playing Bowery Ballroom. During those moments, Morris yearned to join the rarefied air of the musicians on the other side of the bar.

All the while, Morris pursued her music dreams. “It was pure, 100% DIY. I never took no for an answer. If I didn’t have the money, I figured out how to make it happen: Videos, artwork, whatever.” After the dissolution of her first band, she recorded 8-track demos and performed solo shows backed by cassette recordings of her own vocal harmonies. Through these shows she connected with longtime producer Jeremy Page. It was kismet.

“I worked with Jeremy for the next 10-plus years,” says Morris. “We worked together through some of the most beautiful and hardest life things I’ve ever gone through.” It was a fruitful partnership: Morris signed to Wax Poetics for the release of her “seductive, soulful” (Rolling Stone) 2012 debut Banshee and 2013’s Mockingbird, self-released her 2016 EP Babble (reissued earlier this year), and signed to Karma Chief for 2022’s “beautifully sung” (MOJO) Nine Lives. She’s linked up with a murderer’s row of collaborators, including DJ Premier, MF Doom, Ghostface Killah, and David Sitek. Interview Magazine called her “a modern day Janis Joplin,” and NPR praised her “lush, moody mix of neo-soul.”

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SHOW @ 8:00 pm / DOORS @ 7:00 pm

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Shining Mountains Film Festival Reprise - An Evening of Indigenous Film & Conversation
2024-04-03 18:30 - 20:30 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
Shining Mountains Film Festival Reprise

An Evening of Indigenous Film & Conversation

SHOW @ 6:30 pm / DOORS @ 5:30 pm

Children (18 and Under) – $10 Suggested Donation (Pay What You Can)

General Admission Price – $20

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ABOUT Shining Mountains Film Festival Reprise – An Evening of Indigenous Film & Conversation

About the Shining Mountains Film Festival Reprise

The Aspen Indigenous Foundation brings a stunning selection of audience favorites from the 2023 Shining Mountains Film Festival (plus a bonus from 2021) to TACAW.

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About the Aspen Indigenous Foundation

The Aspen Indigenous Foundation’s mission is to increase awareness in the Roaring Fork Valley of Indigenous presence, history, and wisdom through cultural exchange and community education and to support tribal members and grassroots Indigenous programs that facilitate social and economic development opportunities.

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The Program:

Aitamaako’tamisskapi Natosi: BEFORE THE SUN(88 min.)An intimate and thrilling portrait of a young Siksika woman, Logan Red Crow, and her family in the golden plains of Blackfoot Territory as she prepares for one of the most dangerous horse races in the world… bareback. The connections explored here are profound and lasting: those between animal and human, family and community, ancestral tradition and contemporary life. It offers, through Logan, her horses, her family and her Nation, a portrait of radiant heroism.

After the film, Logan will appear via Zoom from her home in Canada for conversation and Q&A.

HEALING OF THE DRAGONFLY(13 min.)Joe Pulliam, an accomplished Oglala Lakota ledger artist from South Dakota, uses his art to heal himself from generational traumas and addiction, to express his activism, and to offer inspiration to his people. Joe will join us in person for this event. A selection of his prints and original work will be on display and available for purchase in the lobby.

MYLO(17 min.)Mylo Fowler grew up on the Navajo (Dine) Reservation, raised by its red dirt and wild horses. But after a spiritual elder’s prophecy upends his entire vision of the future, Mylo enters the unknown to discover his rightful place in the world. This film features amazing cinematography of wild horses in their natural habitat in the Southwest.

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SHOW @ 6:30 pm / DOORS @ 5:30 pm

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Hanging in the Balance: Competing Needs for Water in the West
2024-04-09 18:15 - 20:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
Hanging in the Balance:

Competing Needs for Water in the West

SHOW @ 6:15 pm / DOORS @ 5:15 pm

Free with RSVP

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ABOUT Hanging in the Balance: Competing Needs for Water in the West

Hanging in the Balance: Competing Needs for Water in the West

Demand for water is increasing while availability is decreasing. How do we balance the needs of the environment, recreation, and agriculture? Presented by Aspen Journalism and Colorado Water Trust in partnership with The Arts Campus At Willits (TACAW) and Aspen Public Radio, the community is invited to this free event featuring an expert panel discussing the challenges and opportunities presented by our collective need to stretch a limited resource. Cash bar with hosted snacks opens at 5:15 pm with the discussion to begin at 6:15 pm.

Expert panel featuring:

Heather Sackett, moderator, is the editor and lead reporter for Aspen Journalism’s water desk, a position she has held since 2019. As AJ’s water desk editor, Heather covers how policy and politics affect water management in Colorado, primarily in the Roaring Fork and other headwaters basins of the Colorado River. She has also reported for The Denver Post and the Telluride Daily Planet and has a master’s degree from CU’s Center for Environmental Journalism. Sackett’s reporting, notable for its sophistication and accessibility, has been recognized by the Colorado Press Association.

Kate Ryan is a water lawyer who joined Colorado Water Trust in 2018 and was appointed as executive director in 2023. As a lawyer, the first case she took through water court was for the Water Trust’s Three Sisters Ditch project on Hermosa Creek. Back in the early 2000s, Kate had the chance to work with Recreational In Channel Water Rights for boating on the Eagle River. Kate’s past clients include farmers, ranchers, municipalities, landowners, the CWCB, and the Water Trust itself. Before going to Berkeley Law she obtained a master’s degree in geography at the University of Colorado and worked as an associate scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Hattie Johnson is the restoration director of American Whitewater’s southern Rockies Stewardship Program and is based in Carbondale, Colorado. Prior to joining American Whitewater in 2019, Hattie worked with Carbondale based engineering firm, River Restoration, for six years, gaining an understanding of the connection of western communities to their waterways and how that connection encompasses long standing law and tradition as well as constant evolution. Hattie has a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Georgia and is a licensed Professional Landscape Architect in Colorado. Her training as a landscape architect provides an interesting perspective on humans and their connection to the natural and built environment. Working in river restoration and recreation enhancement design provided insight into the physical and social connections people have to their local riverscapes. Shifting to water advocacy has provided an opportunity for a new approach and perspective to protecting and enhancing human relationships with rivers. In her spare time, you can find Hattie and her family exploring headwaters creeks and rafting on the incredible desert river canyons of the Colorado Plateau.

Andy Mueller is the general manager of the Colorado River Water Conservation District, whose mission is to lead in the protection, conservation, use and development of the waters of the Colorado River for the residents of the Western Slope and to safeguard for all of Colorado all waters of the Colorado River to which the state is entitled. Prior to taking the helm at the River District, Andy spent 23 years in private law practice on the Western Slope. His work ranged across the breadth of critical western Colorado topics: water, natural resources, land use and community issues. For nine years from 2006-15, he was Ouray County’s director on the Colorado River District Board, his last two as Board President. Andy also serves on the advisory board of the Family Farm Alliance and as an ex-officio member of the Water for Tribes Initiative Advisory Board. Andy earned his law degree from University of Colorado in 1995 after earning his BA in history from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. When he is not delving deep into Colorado River issues or spending time outdoors with his daughters, he is actively engaged with his community, serving on various community boards.

Mark Harris is a Senior Water Resources Consultant for SGM Engineers and Consultants. Previously Mark was the General Manager of the Grand Valley Water Users Association in Grand Junction. In that capacity he worked on water supply, conservation, water quality, streamflow, and endangered species recovery issues locally, regionally, and state and Basin wide. His work included innovative collaborative efforts with many public, private, and NGO organizations, including the Colorado Water Trust and its support of the Vinelands Power Plant in Palisade. Mark has been involved in production agriculture and agribusiness throughout the intermountain west, has degrees in Economics from Colorado College and Agricultural Development from Texas A&M, and lives on the farm he grew up on.

About Aspen Journalism

Aspen Journalism is a nonprofit news organization founded in 2011 to produce in-depth and investigative journalism for those with a stake in the Roaring Fork Valley and the greater upper Colorado River basin. We believe well-informed citizens make better decisions, that good journalism can sustain both community and democracy and that investigative reporting can spur needed reform. Supported entirely by donors, we provide our stories for free to local and regional publications, and with no advertising or paywalls at www.aspenjournalism.org.

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About Colorado Water Trust

Colorado Water Trust is a home-grown, statewide nonproﬁt organization whose mission is to restore water to Colorado’s rivers. The Water Trust’s vision is that every Colorado river and stream has water that supports ecosystems, communities, and local economies. Since 2001, the Water Trust has restored 23.9 billion gallons of water to over 600 miles of rivers and streams across the state. The Water Trust works collaboratively with partners so that their projects beneﬁt both the people they work with and the environment. Learn more about the Water Trust at coloradowatertrust.org.

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SHOW @ 6:15 pm / DOORS @ 5:15 pm

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Roaring Fork Valley Wildfire Collaborative Presents: Elemental and Q+A
2024-04-10 18:00 - 21:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
Roaring Fork Valley Wildfire Collaborative Presents:

Elemental and Q+A

SHOW @ 6:00 pm / DOORS @ 5:30 pm

VIP Pre- Show Event: 5:00pm

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SEATED SHOW / 12+

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SHOW @ 6:00 PM / DOORS @ 5:30 PM / VIP Pre- Show Event: 5:00 PM

Film Only – $15 Film Ticket (Premium Seats) + VIP Pre-Show Event with Cocktails/Appetizers – $110

This event is ticketed through Roaring Fork Valley Wildfire Collaborative. For any questions regarding ticketing, please contact Angie@RFVwildfire.orG

ABOUT Roaring Fork Valley Wildfire Collaborative Presents: Elemental and Q+A

Join us for a showing of the wildfire film Elemental at TACAW to kick off the Roaring Fork Valley Wildfire Collaborative’s Summer Wildfire Education Series! A panel of wildfire experts will answer questions after the film, and all attendees will have the opportunity to win door prizes and participate in our silent auction.

Film description: Elemental takes viewers on a journey to better understand wildfire. In the wake of destructive fires across the nation, the solutions are now more timely and urgent than ever. We hope that this screening will inspire residents and visitors to discover how we can keep our homes and communities safe. Run time: 84 min.

Please note that the film is recommended for ages 12+

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SHOW @ 6:00 pm / DOORS @ 5:30 pm

VIP Pre- Show Event: 5:00pm

SEATED SHOW / 12+

Presented by: TACAW

JW Francis and Paul Cherry
2024-04-12 20:00 - 23:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
JW Francis and Paul Cherry

SHOW @ 8:00 pm / DOORS @ 7:00 pm

FREE WITH RSVP

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ABOUT JW Francis and Paul Cherry

Genre – Pop

JW FRANCIS

Born in Oklahoma, raised in Paris, living in New York City, assistant to a Nobel Prize Winner, licensed New York City tour guide and Murder Mystery business owner, JW Francis is one of the newest signings to Sunday Best Recordings. His brand of lo-fi, utterly irresistible bedroom dream-pop takes its lead from the city JW lives in, with echoes of Jonathan Richman, The Velvet Underground and the lo-fi sound New York has been inspiring for decades.

Following a string of singles, New York’s very own JW Francis finally releases his sophomore album WANDERKID on Sunday Best Recordings. The LP is the follow up to his critically acclaimed debut We Share a Similar Joy, which saw JW firmly mark himself out as New York’s next lo-fi legend gaining mass support from BBC 6Music, Apple Music, Spotify, DIY, The Line of Best Fit, The Independent, HMV, Wonderland, and many others.

A collection of 11 irresistible tracks, WANDERKID is a concept album which explores themes of escapism and the urge to break free as JW elaborates; “WANDERKID is an album about escape. It’s supposed to be a gut punch of a record about an anti-hero named WANDERKID who wants to get OUT: out of his living situation, out of his head, out of his life. This album is like looking out the car window with an urgent desire to be on the other side. It was finished during the most recent global pandemic, so hopefully folks find it relatable.”

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PAUL CHERRY

Through pining comes purpose. Paul Cherewick, monikered Paul Cherry, makes a departure from pining for an unrequited love on his debut LP Flavour toward the hunger for creative fulfillment on Back on the Music. “Bouncing off the bottom: this pattern is the problem…” is the melancholic opening line of the new album, a meandering meditation on the life of an artist: chasing inspiration, finding community, and the struggle to maintain both. Throughout the buoyant, alright-on-the-outside tracks that make up his second album, Cherry staggers and stumbles back into love with his life and craft.

Music becomes personified inside Tootsie Roll, becoming an ugly, grinning trench coated villain plucked right out of a vintage Max Fleischer cartoon, cooing to the listener, “You know you want me. Take me, take me,” harmonizing over his own voice. Almost as if through excess, inhibition and precise self-analysis, Paul Cherry may find quiet. In the luxuriant arrangement of the title track, Back on the Music he sings, “You love to play, but it don’t pay. Feels like you’re caught in check mate.” Not everything fits neatly within the lines of these songs, as in the lonely, wobbling flute melody that carries us out of It Happens All the Time. Cherry shows us that often the path back to one’s self—disguised in this album as Music—is a wavering one.

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Let's Sing Taylor
2024-04-13 19:30 - 21:30 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
Let’s Sing Taylor

A Live Band Experience Celebrating Taylor Swift

SHOW @ 7:30 pm / DOORS @ 6:30 pm

$35 MEMBERS / $40 ADVANCE / $50 DAY OF

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ABOUT Let’s Sing Taylor

Let’s Sing Taylor – A Live Band Experience – is the ultimate tribute to the music of Taylor Swift. We can show you incredible things, including the most faithful and lively covers of Queen Taylor’s expansive and sacred catalog. Taking the country by storm, we’re bringing the communal experience of celebrating Taylor’s music in a live setting to Swifties near and far.

So, let the games begin. Calling all Swifties to sing your hearts out and sport your Taylor-inspired attire. You can show up at our party any time.

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SHOW @ 7:30 pm / DOORS @ 6:30 pm

STANDING ROOM Show | All ages. Under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian

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Location: TACAW, 400 Robinson St, Basalt, CO 81621

Presented By: TACAW

The LP - Pearl Jam's Dark Matter
2024-04-19 18:30 - 20:30 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
The LP – Pearl Jam’s Dark Matter

Listening Party @ 6:30 pm / DOORS @ 5:30 pm

Free with RSVP

STANDING ROOM SHOW / All Ages

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ABOUT The LP – Pearl Jam’s Dark Matter

Join us for a new recurring event: The LP (Listening Party) at TACAW. As advocates of music discovery and passionate supporters of the arts, we are thrilled to bring you an immersive listening party experience. This happy hour event will gather music lovers to enjoy community, refreshments, and a listen to a new or cherished record, selected by a guest curator. The LP at TACAW is more than just a listening party – it’s a celebration of community, connection, and shared passion.

Our first curator is TACAW Executive Director Ryan Honey. His worship of Pearl Jam’s musical prowess and unwavering artistic integrity, and the fact that he calls the shots around here, make him the logical choice to kick off this series. We also knew he was going to come in and crank the record on our sound system anyway, so why not make a party out of it? Throughout the evening, immerse yourself in the vibrant atmosphere as you mingle with fellow Pearl Jam enthusiasts, swap stories, and revel in the collective excitement of experiencing new music together. From die-hard fans to casual listeners, everyone is invited to come together and revel in the timeless magic of Pearl Jam’s music. Flannel shirts and Doc Martens are optional, but strongly encouraged.

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Listening Party @ 6:30 pm / DOORS @ 5:30 pm

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An Evening with THE Confluents
2024-04-20 20:00 - 22:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
An Evening with THE Confluents

SHOW @ 8:00 pm / DOORS @ 7:00 pm

$15 MEMBER / $20 ADVANCE / $25 DAY OF

STANDING ROOM SHOW / 21+

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ABOUT THE Confluents

Genre – Funk

The Confluents are the Roaring Fork Valley’s premiere funk band! This six-piece group is guaranteed to get everyone up and moving with their mixture of driving pocket rhythms, fat bass, hot brassy licks and infectious wah-wah guitar. They’ve played parties and festivals up and down the RFV, and were the opening act at last summer’s Mountain Fair.

The Confluents play a wide range of funk, soul and reggae music, including songs by James Brown, Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Vulfpeck, Toots & The Maytals, The Meters, and Kool & the Gang, along with their own original tunes. This special 4/20 performance will be heavy on the reggae, for obvious reasons. Don’t forget your Scooby snacks and dancing shoes!

Featuring:

Jacques Deyoe | Vox and GuitarEric Lamb | Vox and KeyboardsNick Lenio | BassKriss Harmony |SaxDustin Lutomski | TrumpetChad Patrick | Drums

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The Longevity Project - Get Your ZZZZs
2024-04-23 17:30 - 20:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
THE LONGEVITY PROJECT

Get Your ZZZZs

SHOW @ 5:30PM / DOORS @ 4:30PM

TICKET PRICE: $10

SEATED SHOW | ALL AGES

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Genre:

Hear what the experts have to say about the importance of sleep for health and athletic performance, plus tips to improve your sleep quality and quantity.

The panelists include:

Dr. Brice McConnel

Alisa Vetter Owens, BS, MS, CSCS

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Doors open for show @ 4:30pm / Show @ 5:30pm

Seated Show | All Ages

Location: TACAW, 400 Robinson St, Basalt, CO 81621

Presented in partnership: TACAW, The Aspen Times & Post Independent

Thunderstorm Artis
2024-04-26 20:00 - 23:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
Thunderstorm Artis

SHOW @ 8:00 pm / DOORS @ 7:30 pm

$20 MEMBER / $25 ADVANCE / $30 DAY OF

SEATED SHOW / All Ages

TICKETS / ON SALE 2/16/2024

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ABOUT Thunderstorm Artis

Thunderstorm Artis is a singer/songwriter born and raised on the North Shore of Oahu. He learned at a very young age to play piano, guitar, harmonica and drums, from his father, Ron and mother, Victoria. He has shared stages with Train, John Legend, Zac Brown and Jack Johnson. However, he is most known for being a finalist on the NBC show “The Voice” Season 18. His music crosses many genres including Folk, Rock, Soul and Country. At his concerts he has been known to jump into Bowie, Beatles, Elton John and Leonard Cohen, as well as mixing in his own heartfelt originals. No matter what Thunderstorm performs, he does it from his heart. He does not consider his music as notes on a page but rather a window into his soul. His strong belief is that through music he can make the world a better place and lift the hearts of others.

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SHOW @ 8:00 pm / DOORS @ 7:30 pm

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Presented By: The Arts Campus At Willits

Daniel Adam Maltz
2024-05-02 20:00 - 23:00
Daniel Adam Maltz

SHOW @ 8:00 pm / DOORS @ 7:30 pm

$20 MEMBERS / $25 ADVANCE / $30 DAY OF

$15 Children (17 and under)

SUPPER CLUB & SHOW TICKETS: $95 MEMBERS / $100 NON-MEMBERS

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$20 MEMBERS / $25 ADVANCE / $30 DAY OF / $15 CHILDREN (17 AND UNDER)SUPPER CLUB & SHOW TICKETS: $95 MEMBERS / $100 NON-MEMBERS

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SUPPER CLUB & SHOW

TACAW is pleased to partner with Epicure Catering to offer Supper Club & Show. Only 50 tickets are available for the Supper Club, so don’t wait to reserve your spot now. Guest Chefs Julia and Allen Domingos are planning a delicious culinary adventure. Supper Club will be served in our beautiful lobby prior to the show. Patrons who don’t have a dinner reservation are welcome to purchase a standalone ticket for the show.

SUPPER CLUB – PLATED DINNER

SUPPER CLUB & SHOW TICKETS: $95 MEMBERS / $100 NON-MEMBERS

Doors open for Supper Club @ 5:45 pm

Supper Club served at 6:00 pm

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Allergies: TACAW takes food allergies very seriously and is not equipped to handle allergic reactions. We are happy to accommodate dietary requests, but know that common allergens are processed in our commissary kitchen on a regular basis.

ABOUT Daniel Adam Maltz

GENRE: CLASSICAL

Daniel Adam Maltz is a fortepianist based in Vienna, Austria. He specializes in Wiener Klassik — Viennese Classicism — especially the works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven performed on the Viennese fortepianos of their time.

Called “master of the Viennese fortepiano,” Daniel’s performances are praised for their “extraordinary precision and lightness” (The Common Reader). Critics applaud his “very sensitive phrasing” and “marvelous dynamic contrasts” (Marblehead Current) featuring “broad warmth” and “lavish but tasteful” playing (Classical Sonoma).

He made his Carnegie Hall (Weill) debut at age 22 and is in demand worldwide with 50+ tour dates per year as a sought-after soloist, Lieder accompanist, and clinician. Daniel also hosts Classical Cake, the podcast about Viennese classical music and culture.

Daniel studied historical performance at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. He refined his command of historical practices through private study with Andreas Staier and Ingomar Rainer.

Before switching to the fortepiano, Daniel studied privately with internationally-renowned pianists John O’Conor, Gil Sullivan, and Robert Lehrbaumer.

Daniel is devoted to performing on Viennese fortepianos — utilizing the vast range of tones and colors familiar to the composers. He brings his expertise in the Viennese sound, culture, philosophies, and performance practices of the Classical era to his interpretations.

He also enjoys the 18th-century practice of leading orchestras in concerto and symphony performances from the keyboard, acting not as a modern conductor, but as a leader from within the ensemble.

Learn more: WEBSITE / INSTAGRAM / TWITTER / YOUTUBE

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Local 7th and 11th graders enrolled in TACAW’s Youth Art Pass program are eligible to receive two (2) free admission tickets: one (1) for them and one (1) for a guest. YAP tickets can be requested by emailing education@tacaw.org. For more information about the Youth Art Pass visit: tacaw.org/YAP

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SHOW @ 8:00 pm / DOORS @ 7:30 pm

Doors open for Supper Club @ 5:45 pm / Supper Club served at 6:00 pm

SEATED SHOW / ALL AGES

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Location: TACAW, 400 Robinson St, Basalt, CO 81621

Presented By: TACAW

Common Ground - Panel Discussion and Film Screening
2024-05-08 18:30 - 23:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
Common Ground – Panel Discussion and Film Screening

SHOW @ 6:30 pm / DOORS @ 5:30 pm

Ticket Price $15

SEATED SHOW / All Ages

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ABOUT Common Ground – Panel Discussion and Film Screening

EVENT SCHEDULE

5:30 Doors

6:30 Panel Discussion

7:00 Film

8:45 Lobby Social and 1 on 1 questions

About Common Ground

Common Ground is a rousing and uplifting feature-length documentary that shows a pathway to transform our unhealthy and corrupt industrial agricultural food system into an ecological way of growing food that can restore our health, our communities, and our climate. The film chronicles the budding “Regenerative Agriculture” movement, a type of farming based on working with nature, instead of against it.

Directed by eco-filmmaking duo, Josh Tickell and Rebecca Tickell, (Fuel, The Big Fix, Kiss the Ground), the new film features appearances and narration by notable Hollywood talent including Laura Dern, Jason Momoa, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Ian Somerhalder, and Donald Glover. The star-studded narration is structured as a heartfelt letter to our children’s generation – the very generation who will soon inherit the Earth. The letter, and the film itself, is an urgent message about the harsh realities of our future, as well as a hopeful and practical plan for how to mend the broken systems that dictate human existence on Earth.

Common Ground chronicles the struggles and triumphs of a politically and culturally diverse group of farmers, ranchers, scientists, and advocates who all share one thing in common: they believe in a way of ecological farming that builds soil. By using a fusion of ancient wisdom and modern technology, the farmers and ranchers in this movement make more money and grow more nutrient-dense food than their “conventional” farming counterparts. These “regenerative pioneers” argue that to save humanity from multiple imminent calamities, we must first save our soil. Common Ground shows that soil is quite possibly the most valuable substance on our planet, because “if our soil dies, we also die.”

PANELIST

Kaya Williams – Moderator / Aspen Public Radio

Kaya Williams is the Edlis Neeson Arts and Culture Reporter at Aspen Public Radio, covering the vibrant creative and cultural scene in Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley. Williams joined the team after a stint at The Aspen Times, where she reported on Snowmass Village, education, mental health, food, the ski industry, arts and culture and other general assignment stories. Before moving to Aspen in October 2020, Kaya was a freelance researcher for the podcast team at America’s Test Kitchen, where she helped produce “Proof,” “The Walk-In” and “Mystery Recipe” while working from her mountain hometown of Tahoe City, California. She studied journalism and history at Boston University, where she also worked for WBUR, WGBH, The Boston Globe and her beloved college newspaper, The Daily Free Press.

Casey Piscura / The Farm Collaborative

Casey Piscura is a Roaring Fork Valley based farmer, seed breeder and regenerative agriculture educator. Casey founded Crystal Valley based seed farm, Wild Mountain Seeds, in 2013 on historic Sunfire Ranch where he operates today. In 2019, Piscura launched local nonprofit Seed Peace with a mission “to accelerate the Roaring Fork Valley’s transition to regenerative agriculture and land management”. Casey now assumes the role of agricultural director at The Farm Collaborative after merging his nonprofit and continues his diverse innovative work valley wide. Casey has spent more than a decade feeding the community through farmers markets, CSA shares, restaurants, food banks and small grocers. His seeds have attracted a nationwide and international audience for their resilient nature, vigor, beauty and flavor, and have been proven to thrive on farms and gardens in the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond.

Mariah Foley / ACES Agriculture Manager

Mariah Foley is in her sixth growing season at Rock Bottom Ranch, and 12th year measuring time in growing seasons. A love for outdoor recreation in the mountains morphed into a career in farming through a desire to deepen her relationship and connection with land. Farming allows Mariah to be a participant in stewarding the social and ecological communities that help nourish her. Before moving to the Roaring Fork Valley to work at Rock Bottom Ranch in 2019, Mariah farmed at larger scale organic vegetable farms in south central Pennsylvania and Boulder County, CO.

Mariah’s farming career began while she was an undergrad at the University of Denver, taking every class having to do with food systems and agriculture. She ended up with a cocktail of majors and minors in Geography, International Studies, and Sustainability.

Brian Hightower / AVLT Ranch Manager and Education Coordinator

​Brian moved to the Roaring Fork Valley from Virginia for the summer of ’93 and never left.​After teaching social studies in Aspen for 12 years, he traded his indoor classroom for an outdoor one with AVLT. Since 2016, he has facilitated outdoor education opportunities for students and educators in the valley and beyond. In 2019, AVLT’s efforts to protect a piece of agricultural history intersected fortuitously with Brian’s passion for healthy food and local ecosystems. In anticipation of AVLT’s Coffman Ranch acquisition, Brian completed a Master’s in Regenerative Agriculture in 2022 and added Ranch Manager to his job description. He is consistently working to employ best practices that are focused on soil health and biodiversity and is one cattle drive away from earning his cowboy hat.

About Aspen Valley Land Trust

Aspen Valley Land Trust is the only local non-partisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving land forever in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys. For 57 years, AVLT has been a trusted community-supported conservation partner helping to ensure the natural and community health of our region.

Website / Facebook / Instagram

About Aspen Center for Environmental Studies

Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES), a non-partisan, nonprofit organization, provides enriching environmental literacy programs for kids, teens, and adults as well as community and business leaders. With three locations between Aspen and Basalt, ACES offers year-round programs focused on science, ecology, natural history, stewardship, forest health, regenerative agriculture, civic leadership, and more. For more information and a full listing of ACES offerings, visit www.aspennature.org

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About Farm Collaborative

The Farm Collaborative is a community-driven organization dedicated to accelerating the regenerative agriculture movement, environmental stewardship, and education. Through our programs and initiatives, we strive to create a more resilient and interconnected community that values and protects our planet.

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SHOW @ 6:30 pm / DOORS @ 5:30 pm

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Presented By: The Arts Campus At Willits

Youthzone Spring Gala
2024-05-10 18:00 - 21:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
Youthzone Spring Gala

$300 STANDARD / $450 VIP TICKETS

All Ages

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ABOUT YOUTHZONE GALA

Seated Show: $300 – Your standard ticket offers a fully immersive experience, starting with two complimentary drinks, followed by a cash bar. Relish a spread of dynamic appetizers and a buffet-style dinner prepared by renowned chefs Julia and Allen Domingos of Epicure. Savor the Artisanal Cheese and Charcuterie Station, Chicken and Kale Meatballs, and Mushroom Empanaditas. Indulge in mouthwatering mains, including Mixed Grains with Roasted Seasonal Vegetables, Warm-Spiced Colorado Lamb Tenderloins, and Brined and Roasted Organic Chickens. The night doesn’t end here! Dance your heart out with the Roaring Fork Valley’s premier funk band – the Confluents. This high-energy six-piece ensemble will lift your spirits as they deliver layers of captivating rhythms, bass, and incredible guitar performances. Be part of a meaningful night at silent and live auctions featuring exceptional items and experiences. Discover the transformative power of YouthZone’s programs through two brief informational appeals and make an impact by supporting our wide variety of programming during our paddle raise events. We’re thrilled to have the charismatic Blake Menezez to host the evening, taking us through the auctions and events while keeping the atmosphere vibrant. The Spring Gala is more than a celebration; it’s a gathering of hearts dedicated to the empowerment of our local youth. We can’t wait to welcome you to a night full of celebration and community spirit. Reserve your tickets now for this unforgettable evening!

VIP Tickets: $450 – Early entry at 5:30pm and attendance to VIP panel discussion. Upgrade your event experience with a VIP ticket! In addition to all the benefits of a standard ticket, VIP ticket holders will have the exclusive opportunity to join a discussion and meet and greet with Executive Director Jami Hayes; Tony Hershey, Deputy District Attorney; 9th Judicial District Magistrate Jill McConaughy; School Resource Officer Paul Lazo, and Former Client Maddox Bennet. This limited-attendance session will offer valuable insights into the state of youth in our communities and the impactful work of YouthZone. Stay tuned for updates on additional guest invitations and possible perks like complimentary drinks!

Learn more about YouthZone: WEBSITE

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An Evening With Bruce Cockburn
2024-05-11 20:00 - 22:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
An Evening With Bruce Cockburn

SHOW @ 8:00 pm / DOORS @ 7:00 pm

$46 MEMBERS / $50 ADVANCE / $60 DAY OF

SEATED SHOW / ALL AGES

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DONOR SPOTLIGHT: DICK CARTER

ABOUT An Evening With Bruce Cockburn

One of Canada’s finest artists, Bruce Cockburn has enjoyed an illustrious career shaped by politics, spirituality, and musical diversity. His remarkable journey has seen him embrace folk, jazz, rock, and worldbeat styles while travelling to such far-flung places as Guatemala, Mali, Mozambique, and Nepal, and writing memorable songs about his ever-expanding world of wonders. “My job,” he explains, “is to try and trap the spirit of things in the scratches of pen on paper and the pulling of notes out of metal.”

That scratching and pulling has earned Cockburn high praise as an exceptional songwriter and a revered guitarist. His songs of romance, protest, and spiritual discovery are among the best to have emerged from Canada over the last 50 years. His guitar playing, both acoustic and electric, has placed him in the company of the world’s top instrumentalists. And he remains deeply respected for his activism on issues from native rights and land mines to the environment and Third World debt, working for organizations such as Oxfam, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, and Friends of the Earth.

Throughout his career, Cockburn has deftly captured the joy, pain, fear, and faith of human experience in song. Whether singing about retreating to the country or going up against chaos, tackling imperialist lies or embracing ecclesiastical truths, he has always expressed a tough yet hopeful stance: to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight. “We can’t settle for things as they are,” he once warned. “If you don’t tackle the problems, they’re going to get worse.” For his many achievements, the Ottawa-born artist has been honoured with 13 Juno Awards, an induction into both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, as well as the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, and has been made an Officer of the Order of Canada. But he never rests on his laurels.

“I’d rather think about what I’m going to do next,” says Cockburn. “My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stop working till they drop, as I fully expect to be doing, and just getting better as musicians and as human beings.” His commitment to growth has made Bruce Cockburn both an exemplary citizen and a legendary artist whose prized songbook will be celebrated for many years to come.

Learn more: Website / Facebook / Spotify

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SHOW @ 8:00 pm / DOORS @ 7:00 pm

Seated Show / All Ages

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Location: TACAW, 400 Robinson St, Basalt, CO 81621

Presented By: TACAW

Stars and Stripes: Preserving the Dark of Night with Dr. Jeffrey Hall
2024-05-16 19:00 - 22:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
Stars and Stripes:

Preserving the Dark of Night with Dr. Jeffrey Hall

SHOW @ 7:00 pm / DOORS @ 6:00 pm

Free with RSVP

SEATED SHOW / ALL AGES

FREE WITH RSVP

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PRESENTED BY Snowmass Capitol Creek Caucus and Wildsky Old Snowmass

ABOUT Stars and Stripes: Preserving the Dark of Night with Dr. Jeffrey Hall

Genre – Q+A

The topic of light pollution is little known to many yet is incredibly important and connected to other issues of how we care for our planet. While a need to conquer the darkness with artificial light might be a natural impulse in one way, the need to commune with the night sky is even more fundamental ~ from the exhilaration of connecting with the sanctity of the star-filled sky and beyond to preserving the balance of the life cycles of diverse fauna including birds, insects, sea life … and humans.

Please join us for an informative evening starting with a few words by local-born National Geographic photographer and adventurer Pete McBride who will introduce our guest speaker Dr. Jeffrey Hall. Dr. Hall is the Executive Director of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona and will share with us Lowell’s ongoing legacy of cutting-edge research of our solar system and beyond using the Lowell Discovery Telescope ~ and how that research began to be challenged by the quiet, steady invasion of light pollution. As a result, Dr. Hall worked extensively on dark sky preservation in Flagstaff and throughout Arizona; his dedication resulted in Flagstaff becoming the World’s First International Dark Sky City in 2001.

This program is a free event sponsored by the Snowmass Capitol Creek Caucus in partnership with TACAW to champion our quest to become the first certified International Dark Sky Community in the Roaring Fork Valley, advocating for awareness and action valley-wide to reduce local light pollution.

About Dr. Jeffrey Hall

Dr. Jeffrey Hall received a B.A. in Physics in 1986 from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in Astronomy & Astrophysics in 1991 from the Pennsylvania State University. He joined the staff of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1992 as a postdoctoral research fellow, specializing in stellar astrophysics and the variations of the Sun and sun-like stars. In 1998, he became the Observatory’s Associate Director for Education and Special Programs, and since 2010, has served as Executive Director. In 2015, the Observatory completed construction and commissioning of the $53M Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT); and in 2023, the Observatory completed a $53M capital campaign to build the Kemper and Ethel Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center (ADC), scheduled to open in late 2024. In the past dozen years, Lowell has received well over $100M through University partnerships for access to the LDT; through foundation, corporate, and individual gifts in support of the ADC; and through philanthropic contributions to many other programs.

Since 2012, Dr. Hall has worked extensively on dark sky preservation in Flagstaff and around Arizona, focusing in particular on best practice in outdoor lighting using LEDs. From 2017 to 2022, he served as Chair of the Society’s standing committee on Light Pollution, Radio Interference, and Space Debris. He also co-organized the international SATCON1 (2020) and SATCON2 (2021) workshops, which brought astronomers, engineers, industry, and many others together to discuss the impacts of satellite constellations on astronomy and on casual observation of the night sky.

About Pete McBride

Pete McBride, born and raised in Old Snowmass, has spent two decades studying the world with a camera. A self-taught photographer, filmmaker, writer and public speaker, he has traveled on assignment to over 75 countries for the National Geographic Society, Smithsonian, Google, The Nature Conversancy and spoken on stages for TEDx, The World Economic Forum, USAID, Nat Geo Live and more.

About Snowmass Capitol Creek Caucus:

Established in 1974 by visionary residents, we are a non-profit neighborhood organization. Our mission is to preserve the rural character of our unique valleys, to protect their ecosystems, and to foster communication and participation within our community. The Caucus advises the Pitkin County Commissioners on issues related to the County. Pitkin County refers Caucus-area land use issues to the Caucus board for its advice.

We have effectively pursued projects to protect healthy stream flows in our creeks and advocate for the health of our wildlife communities and the wild sky overhead.

About WildSky Old Snowmass:

Our mission is to preserve and protect Old Snowmass’ nighttime environment and heritage of dark skies by raising awareness, providing education and information about light pollution and advocating for environmentally responsible outdoor lighting.

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SHOW @ 7:00 pm / DOORS @ 6:00 pm

Seated Show / All Ages

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Location: TACAW, 400 Robinson St, Basalt, CO 81621

Presented By: TACAW

Trail Running Film Festival
2024-05-17 19:30 - 22:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
Trail Running Film Festival

SHOW @ 7:30 pm / DOORS @ 6:30 pm

$20 MEMBER / $25 ADVANCE / $30 DAY OF

SEATED SHOW / ALL AGES

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ABOUT Trail Running Film Festival

Genre – Adventure Film

The Trail Running Film Festival comes to TACAW for the first time! Each hand-picked film centers a shared love of off-road running with a diverse menu of narrative throughlines. The films challenge traditional perspectives, celebrate diversity, and confront pressing issues like climate change. The festival will kick off with a panel of local trail runners and community builders hosted by Trail Runner Editor-in-Chief Zoë Rom.

Learn more: WEBSITE / INSTAGRAM

Francis Sanzaro (PhD) is a mountain athlete, speaker, and the author of books on philosophy, athletic theory and comparative religion. He spends the vast majority of his time climbing and running in the hills and valleys of western Colorado. His essays, poetry and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, Outside, Huffington Post, Climbing, Adventure Journal, The Baltimore Post Examiner, Continental Philosophy Review, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Rock and Ice, among a dozen others. His books include The Boulder: A Philosophy for Bouldering; and Society Elsewhere: Why the Gravest Threat to Humanity Will Come From Within. He appeared at TEDx Ascend in Colorado speaking on approaches to risk and our relationship with the natural world. He is currently the Communications Director at Wilderness Workshop.

Jeff Colt, Carbondale, Trail and Ultra RunnerBorn and raised in New Hampshire, Jeff chased his older brother and sister around the White Mountains on skis and foot.. Jeff works as a product designer and Brand Director for ZipFit ski boot liners. He lives with motivated partner, Annie, and his lazy, but loving, black lab Radley. Jeff’s greatest strengths in ultrarunning are his durability and ability to focus on positive thinking. Jeff was part of the Team USA gold medal men’s 80km team at the 2022 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in Chiangmai, Thailand. He has twice secured golden tickets for the Western States 100 where he finished 9th place in 2023. His dream race is the Hardrock 100 as well as the routes he dreams up here in the Elk Mountains. In 2024, Jeff launched the Roaring Fork Runners in an effort to promote trails and community amongst runners in the valley.

Kristin Layne is an endurance sport athlete and coach at Microcosm Coaching. She is based in Aspen, CO where she enjoys exploring the mountains and trails throughout the Roaring Fork Valley with her husband and two young daughters. Kristin is a two time Skimo National Champion who enjoys skiing of all kinds, trail running, and baking. She is focused on building up both the running and skimo community to get more people outside utilizing the amazing landscapes that the Roaring Fork Valley has to offer.

Michelle is known for identifying truly unique subjects and bringing their stories to life. She broke onto the film festival scene in 2018 with “The Frenchy”, an audience favorite that closed down the Banff World Tour every night and won the “Pure Joy” award at Carbondale’s 5Point Film Festival. She currently specializes in short documentary films for athletes, non-profits, and small businesses and has worked as a freelance editor for leading production houses in the outdoor industry such as Outside and Reel Rock. She has had two films on Trail Running Film Festival. “Running with the Belles” went on the first tour in 2016/2017 and “Hope Run” featuring athlete Caroline Gleich in 2021. Michelle currently lives in Colorado with her husband Jason, ten year old son Kilian, five year old daughter Mikaela, and her three cats.

Moderator: Zoë Rom is an award-winning journalist and runner based in the Roaring Fork Valley. A Southern storyteller turned mountain dweller, she starts every day with a cup of strong coffee and a good story. Her work has appeared on NPR, Outside, and High Country News. She is co-author of the book Becoming a Sustainable Runner with Tina Muir and a coach at Microcosm Coaching.

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Presented By: The Arts Campus At Willits & Independence Run and Hike

Caleb Dean Band
2024-05-18 19:00 - 21:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
Caleb Dean Band

FREE

STANDING ROOM SHOW / ALL AGES

Presented by Basalt Education Foundation, TACAW, Alpine Bank

ABOUT Caleb Dean Band

Caleb Dean, through the 90’s his time was spent in and out Nashville song writing and performing, crafting his talents. He is a published writer with SESAC and recorded artist. Now decades later he is the “real deal Country singer”. These days you’ll usually find him in his beloved Big Sky Country Montana. Caleb is best described as a country crooner in the likes of Ricky VanShelton, Hal Ketchum, Johnny Lee, TG Shepard, B J. Thomas, George Strait.

Calebs career is back on track as he took a three year hiatis while working on a Bison ranch in Choteau,Mt. ” Caleb needed some time to reflect on life and settle in to what and who he really is” that’s his passion of Montana ranching and his first love, Music!

The Caleb Dean Band is resurrected, with former band mates Larry Gottlieb , J D Martin, Dave Johnson, Paul Valetine these guys are the Back Bone of the band, they have all been and still are Pros in the music industry which include number one songs on the Billboard charts and touring with some of the biggest artist through the decades. ” Caleb say’s he is very humbled to have the support and respect of these Great players”.

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Location: TACAW, 400 Robinson St, Basalt, CO 81621

The Polish Ambassador
2024-05-25 20:00 - 22:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
The Polish Ambassador

W/ Scott Nice and Grandfather Gold

SHOW @ 8:00 pm / DOORS @ 7:00 pm

$35 MEMBER / $40 ADVANCE / $50 DAY OF

STANDING ROOM SHOW / 21+

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ABOUT The Polish Ambassador

Genre – Dance/Electronic

The Polish Ambassador

Musician. Producer. Beatsmith. Recording artist. Composer. Dance-floor general. Label-head. A mystery man of many hats, The Polish Ambassador rocks more than just a trademark jumpsuit, authoring sublime, intentional artistic works, animated safaris in technicolor sound. At first breath, The Polish Ambassador was an experiment, David Sugalski’s sound-art passion project that came to life. An inventive, imaginary character bor Bold Keyboard shortcut Command+Bn of humble, humorous beginnings, he found his first audiences through the support of primitive digital radio stations. Today, TPA is among the premier EDM/live crossover artists in the country with millions of listeners around the world; he’s consistently in-demand at the live music-focused gatherings and boutique electronic festivals from coast to coast. Founder of independent label Jumpsuit Records, an environmentalist and early progenitor of the permaculture action movement, the world’s funkiest diplomat is here to party with a purpose.

Learn more: WEBSITE / FACEBOOK / INSTAGRAM / YOUTUBE / SPOTIFY

Scott Nice and Grandfather Gold

Scott Nice

World sounds soar over lush beats as Scott merges electronic with acoustic, dipping into Afro-Latin, tropical and middle eastern sounds in the process. Scott’s roots in Turntablism and Hip-Hop shine with his remix/mash-ups of classic tunes accompanied by live scratching to create a one-of-a-kind sonic journey. Not limited by genres, Scott’s productions span Global Bass to Latin House, Hip-Hop to Downtempo and beyond.

Grandfather Gold

Raised in a remote ocean cove by sirens and sea lions, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Brian Parks a.k.a. Grandfather Gold developed a taste for music of all kinds. His self-titled release ‘Grandfather Gold’ conjures colorful imagery, desert landscapes, lush harmonies, and soothing folk sounds that feel timeless. You can feel the tides of the ocean in his music. His forthcoming album, FutureGeeGee Vol. 1 is the first in a series of genre bending indie dance music. Think Bonobo meets Neil Young, with some sugar and spice sprinkled on top.

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SHOW @ 8:00 pm / DOORS @ 7:00 pm

STANDING ROOM SHOW / 21+

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Presented By: The Arts Campus At Willits

RunOff Party
2024-06-01 12:00 - 17:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
RunOff Party

START @ 12:00 Pm

Free with RSVP

Full campus event / ALL AGES

Free with RSVP

Limit of 2 tickets per purchaser

In Partnership with

Underwritten by

ABOUT RunOff Party

Free community event for all things RIVER.

Roaring Fork Conservancy’s Runoff Party has moved to TACAW. Whether you’re a novice or pro, we invite you to join us to get river-ready for the summer! There will be fun for all ages. Learn to tie a fly, get a refresher on river etiquette & safety, take home a free River User Guide, fine tune your fly casting, compete in games of skill and knowledge for prizes. There will be food trucks, gear vendors and more. Celebrate the kickoff to summer with us!

A schedule of events coming soon!

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START @ 12:00 Pm

Full campus event / ALL AGES

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Partnership with Roaring Fork Conservancy

Presented In Partnership with Roaring Fork Conservancy

Sarah Jarosz: Polaroid Lovers Tour
2024-06-02 20:00 - 22:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
Sarah Jarosz: Polaroid Lovers Tour

W/ LIV GREENE

SHOW @ 8:00 pm / DOORS @ 7:00 pm

$46 MEMBERS / $55 ADVANCE / $65 DAY OF

STANDING ROOM SHOW / ALL AGES

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ABOUT Sarah Jarosz: Polaroid Lovers Tour

Four-time GRAMMY winner Sarah Jarosz has announced her new album, Polaroid Lovers. The record is set for release on January 26th, 2024 via Rounder Records. To mark the occasion she has shared the album opener, “Jealous Moon,” and its companion video. WATCH HERE. The song finds Jarosz backed by a decidedly more electric band, with her Texas lilt as clear and evocative as ever. Polaroid Lovers is available for pre-order today digitally and on vinyl with gray, lavender, orange and green splatter variants. Indie retailers will also have a special blue and green splatter vinyl. For more information visit https://store.sarahjarosz.com/

Sarah Jarosz on “Jealous Moon”

I wrote this song with Daniel Tashian in Monteagle, TN on a screened in porch with birds chirping all around. It was a warm summer afternoon. It started as a quiet melody on ukulele and nylon string guitar, but when we got to the studio it became something much more powerful. It’s a song about the times when the parts of ourselves that we try to keep hidden rise to the surface and we have no choice but to ride the wave. Sometimes that means doing your own thing to figure it out so you can emerge stronger on the other side. It’s not about the end of a relationship, but rather a moment of self reflection and a promise to keep showing up even when things get tough. Once Daniel played the opening riff on piano I knew it had to open the album. I’m always seeking to push myself into new sonic territory, and this song gave me permission to not hold back.

The seventh album from Sarah Jarosz finds the highly decorated songwriter at the apex of change. A Texas native, she’s spent most of her adult life living in New York City, but shortly before writing the album Jarosz left her adopted home to join her soon-to-be husband in Nashville, TN. The geographic shake-up led to a sonic one as well for Polaroid Lovers. For the first time in her career she opened herself up to collaborators, leading to writing sessions with Daniel Tashian, Ruston Kelly and Natalie Hemby. The creative reorganization of her writing process evolved to include a much richer and more electric sound in the studio and being in Nashville meant access to a world of hot shot players. She tapped guitarist Rob McNelley (Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood), Tom Bukovac (Tom Petty, Vince Gill) on guitar and organ, her husband- bassist Jeff Picker (Nickel Creek), and drummer Fred Eltringham (Sheryl Crow, Lucinda Williams) for the album recording. Tashian took the helm as producer and the whole album was laid down at the legendary Sound Emporium.

As it goes with all change, Jarosz’s major life events had her feeling contemplative. While sitting on the precipice of adulthood, Polaroid Lovers finds her reflecting on past loves, childhood dreams, the places she lived in and all the versions of herself that she’s been. Although the listener experiences the sonic shift forward, the album’s subject matter is a photo album of the past. Jarosz has never sounded more assured. Polaroid Lovers is filled with the kind of confidence that comes from hard won life experiences and the conviction of someone who truly knows herself.

Sarah Jarosz released her debut album at the age of 18 and was immediately nominated for her first GRAMMY. Raised in Texas, she began playing mandolin at age 10 and soon after guitar and banjo. To date, she has released six studio albums, has netted ten GRAMMY Nominations and four wins. In 2018, she joined Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek and Aoife O’Donovan to form the supergroup, I’m With Her. The group released their debut album See You Around, and won duo/group of the year at the Americana Awards. Their song, “Call My Name” won the GRAMMY for Best American Roots song.

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The seventh full-length from four-time Grammy Award-winner Sarah Jarosz, Polaroid Lovers is an album-long meditation on those strangely ephemeral moments that indelibly shape our lives. “What I love about a Polaroid is that it’s capturing something so fleeting, but at the same time it makes that moment last forever,” says the Texas-born singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist. “It made sense as a title for a record where all the songs are snapshots of different love stories, and there’s a feeling of time being expansive despite that impermanence.” Thanks to the rarefied alchemy that infuses all of Jarosz’s output — her finely wrought lyricism, ravishing vocal work, virtuosic yet unfettered musicality — Polaroid Lovers performs the much-needed magic of leading us toward a heightened sense of presence, all while casting a lovely spell with her timelessly powerful songs.

The follow-up to 2020’s studio album World on the Ground (winner of the Grammy Award for Best Americana Album) and 2021’s song cycle Blue Heron Suite, Polaroid Lovers embodies a bold new vitality that has much to do with a deliberate shift in Jarosz’s writing process and sonic approach. “Historically I’ve been somewhat closed off to co-writing, but in the past couple of years I’ve felt curious to get out of my comfort zone,” says the newly Nashville-based artist, who released her debut album at just 18-years-old. “For a long time it was important to me to write for myself, so that I wouldn’t get lost in those rooms full of amazing writers. But now that I’m more confident in my musical identity, I know I can collaborate but still stay true to my own voice.” In one of her first co-writing sessions for Polaroid Lovers, Jarosz joined forces with Daniel Tashian (a songwriter/musician/producer known for his multi-award-winning work on Kacey Musgraves’ Golden Hour) and immediately felt an undeniable creative connection. “Daniel and I were both so excited by the idea of creating a new sound together, and he pushed me in ways I felt completely ready for and open to,” she says. “It felt really good to allow myself that freedom, and to take that leap into something new.”

Produced by Tashian at the legendary Sound Emporium, Polaroid Lovers took shape as Jarosz recorded live with musicians like guitarist Rob McNelley (Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood), Tom Bukovac (Tom Petty, Vince Gill) on guitar and organ, her husband bassist Jeff Picker (Nickel Creek), and drummer Fred Eltringham (Sheryl Crow, Lucinda Williams), carving out a viscerally potent but resplendent brand of folk-rock. Along with layering in such delicately crafted details as otherworldly textures and luminous synth tones, Jarosz and Tashian forged the album’s singular sound by foregrounding her spirited performance on octave mandolin. “Out of everything I play, the octave mandolin is definitely my soulmate,” says Jarosz, who first took up mandolin at age nine, quickly gained major acclaim in the bluegrass world, and also plays guitar and banjo throughout Polaroid Lovers. “I started playing it when I was 16, and that’s when I started writing songs that truly felt like me — there’s something about the tonality that really lets my voice shine through.”

With her co-writers on Polaroid Lovers also including artists like Ruston Kelly, Natalie Hemby, and Sarah Buxton as well as heavy-hitters like Jon Randall (Miranda Lambert, Emmylou Harris) and Gordie Sampson (Willie Nelson, Trisha Yearwood), Jarosz opens the album on “Jealous Moon”: a gloriously soaring and exquisitely nuanced track that instantly sweeps the listener up in its bristling emotionality. “That song is about the parts of ourselves that we try to keep hidden, and the moments when they rise to the surface and we just have to ride the wave,” says Jarosz, who co-wrote “Jealous Moon” with Tashian on a trip to his family’s summer house in Monteagle, Tennessee. “Daniel and I call it our little Monteagle song that could — it started off with me playing ukulele and him playing nylon-string guitar on the porch, then blossomed into this very powerful song that knocked me off my feet.”

Next, on “When the Lights Go Out,” Jarosz shares the sweetly lilting reverie that gave the album its title (from the first verse: “In a dream we were Polaroid lovers/In the deep where the edges don’t lie”). “I wrote that song with Jon Randall and Gordie Sampson, who suggested we try something in a 6/8 time signature — which is such a simple idea, but took us in a direction I might never have gone otherwise,” she says. “To me the lyrics are a way of asking someone you’re intrigued by, ‘Who are you when all the shine and attention isn’t on you anymore? Who are you really?'” Another track co-written with Randall, “Runaway Train” kicks the album into high gear as Jarosz serves up a bright and soulful love song built on a wildly sing-along-ready chorus (“You’ve got a heart like a runaway train/Screaming down the mountainside/Burning like a fever that you can’t contain/Humming like the 405”). “Coming out of the pandemic and playing shows again, I realized that a lot of the more uptempo songs in my set were covers,” she says. “I wanted to write a love song that would give people that joyful feeling, and Jon and I had so much fun playing with all those images of California and Colorado and Texas Hill Country, which is where I grew up.”

One of the most poignant moments on Polaroid Lovers, “Columbus & 89th” drifts into a dreamlike beauty as Jarosz reflects on the ineffable heartache of leaving her longtime home of New York City back in 2020. “New York signified this childhood dream that I’d had for so long, so moving to Nashville was like turning the page from youth to adulthood,” she says. “‘Columbus & 89th’ ended up just pouring out of me once Daniel and I started working on it — there was so much nostalgia and melancholy that I needed to process, and now I still tear up whenever I hear it. As a songwriter my main goal is to tell the truth about my experience, and I think the fact that that song makes me so emotional means that I was tapping into real feeling.” Written on the same trip that yielded “Columbus & 89th” (a journey to Alabama’s Orange Beach with Tashian’s family), “Days Can Turn Around” unfolds as a gently swaying folk song threaded with warmly delivered instruction for living well no matter what the circumstances (e.g., “Never turn down cold champagne/Don’t change your plans for a little rain”). “Both of those songs have similar themes of thinking back and looking forward, but trying your best to be in the moment,” says Jarosz. “With ‘Days Can Turn Around,’ I wanted to talk about all those little gems of wisdom you hear from you parents that end up taking on a whole new meaning when you finally become an adult.”

As Jarosz reveals, her very first co-writing session with Tashian helped draw out the deep-rooted confidence that informed all of the album’s creation. “That first day Daniel and I worked together we wrote a song called ‘Take the High Road,’ which is about taking the time to really know yourself and get comfortable in your own skin, even if it might take a little longer to get to where you want to be,” she says. “There was something so beautiful about that being the first song we wrote for this album — it gave me the push I needed to not be afraid, to move beyond the boundaries and explore new sounds.” A widely beloved musician whose past efforts include teaming up with fellow singer/songwriters Sara Watkins and Aoife O’Donovan to form the Grammy Award-winning trio I’m With Her — as well as appearing on albums by iconic artists like David Crosby and Amy Ray of Indigo Girls — Jarosz derived a particularly profound sense of purpose from the highly collaborative process behind Polaroid Lovers. “Maybe more than any record I’ve ever made, I felt so present and hyper-emotional with this album because I believed in it so much,” she says. “It was so joyful to work with all these writers and musicians, and I think that joy really comes through.”

Looking back on the making of Polaroid Lovers, Jarosz notes that shaking up her process ultimately left her eager to further expand her creative horizons. “It was a big step for me to reach out to Daniel, but in the end it showed me how important it is to keep taking thoughtful chances,” she says. “This whole album reminded me that I never want to play it safe — if anything, I want there to always be that element of being a little scared, because that means I’m taking a risk. In a way that’s what’s so wonderful about art: if you’re lucky, you never reach the finish line. You just keep searching and chiseling away at the stone, and putting everything you can into making something that tells the truth but hopefully leaves space for others to find meaning too.”

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LIV GREENE

Liv Greene is a queer Americana singer, songwriter, producer, and guitarist, whose music “envelops a forlorn loneliness that’s at once poignant and crushing.” – American Songwriter. Inspired by the records spun in her childhood home in DC—brilliant women of song like Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin, Brandi Carlile, Lucinda Williams, and Ella Fitzgerald— Greene’s passion for storytelling started early and took off the moment she taught herself her first guitar chords at 12. Over summers in high school, Greene journeyed north for fiddle camps and bluegrass festivals, and found herself in love with the New England folk scene, influencing her decision to sharpen her craft through four years at New England Conservatory. Upon graduating in 2020, Greene quietly released her first album, Every Bright Penny, aptly-named both as an homage to its crowdfunded conception, but also to the reverence of small things and the flashes of hope that live in its lyrics. The record was produced by friend and mentor Isa Burke (Aoife O’Donovan, Lula Wiles), and featured a band of mostly women, creating the perfect environment for Greene to grow and begin envisioning herself in new roles in the studio. Now living in Nashville, Greene just finished work on her second album, which had her stepping into the role of producer for the first time. With the help of her friend and mentor, engineer Matt Andrews (Gillian Welch), Greene has woven a record of deeply honest writing, sparse lyric-driven arrangements, and stunning live to tape performances, with the lilty earnesty of her voice flowing over it all.

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Natalie Spears Album Release
2024-06-07 20:00 - 22:00
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Genre: Soulful Folk

It’s the quiet awe of wild places that most animates Natalie Spears’ music. Outside her home in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, she listens to the language of birds, notices patterns of migration and sees the cosmos in the countryside. For Spears, nature offers a constant invitation to open the aperture of life to something wider, something wilder. Her forthcoming album, “The Hymn of Wild Things,” (out June 7) chronicles her experience of wonder, loss and metamorphosis. This is a collection of songs about the intimate corners of humanity, hers and ours alike. With a quiver of instruments (banjo, piano, guitar), she threads opposites together: love with loss; tradition with innovation; and the human experience with the more-than-human world.

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Local Roots, Global Impact: Making Climate Progress in 2024
2024-06-10 19:00 - 21:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
Local Roots, Global Impact: Making Climate Progress in 2024

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ABOUT Local Roots, Global Impact: Making Climate Progress in 2024

Genre – Climate Panel

Join RMI and TACAW to connect local action to national climate policy in a nonpartisan conversation about progress in 2024. On the international stage, COP29 will return to a petrostate in Azerbaijan while dozens of countries are facing shifting climate policy priorities. Back at home in the United States and the Roaring Fork Valley, this year will also shape climate and energy policies crucial to protect against catastrophic climate change. Join national, Colorado, and Aspen climate champions looking at the role of policy across all levels of engagement.

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Dina Cappiello – Chief Communications and Marketing Officer, RMI (Moderator)

Andrew Wishnia – Former Climate Advisor to US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg

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Comedian Ron Funches
2024-06-12 20:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
Comedian Ron Funches

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Genre: Stand Up Comedy

Ron Funches is a national treasure. He is an accomplished stand-up comedian, actor and writer. Ron has had many memorable television roles including THE GOLDBERGS, BLACKISH, NEW GIRL, TRANSPARENT, SINGLE DRUINK FEMALE, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, POWERLESS and UNDATEABLE. You can currently catch him on LOOT on Apple TV+. Ron has also co-starred in many feature films such as GET HARD alongside Will Ferrell, LEXI, NOELLE, 6 UNDERGROUND and 80 FOR BRADY.

Ron has a love of animated television and film and has leant his voice to many projects including DreamWorks’ TROLLS, Disney’s IVAN THE GREAT, HARLEY QUINN, BOB’S BURGERS, ADVENTURE TIME, FINAL SPACE, THE GREAT NORTH and many more. His personal appearances include CONAN, THE TONIGHT SHOW, MATCH GAME, TO TELL THE TRUTH, CHOPPED, CUPCAKE WARS, CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD, CELEBRITY WHEEL OF FORTUNE and NAILED IT.

Funches is a great writer who has written for THE ERIC ANDRE SHOW, KROLL SHOW and several television pilots. Ron also does a lot of philanthropic work; He volunteers regularly for SCHOOL ON WHEELS and most recently he designed sneakers for PUMA/FOOTLOCKER where proceeds go to NEXT FOR AUTISM.

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Kimberly Clark

Originally from Syracuse, New York, Kimberly Clark is highly regarded on the LA comedy scene for her unassuming style and biting wit. It’s a potent combination that makes her a favorite among comedians and audiences alike. She uses dry humor and her captivating presence to train a precision lens on pop culture, politics, personal experiences, and the absurdity of everyday life.

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Pride Dance Party Hosted by N3PTUNE
2024-06-14 20:30 - 22:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
Pride Dance Party Hosted by N3PTUNE

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Genre – Dance Party

TACAW’s Pride Dance Party is back for 2nd bite at the apple. Join us for June’s premier dance party featuring live musical performances by this year’s host, N3PTUNE. Good times, indeed!

Named the Best Breakout Artist of 2023 by Westword Magazine, N3PTUNE is an explosive queer multi-hyphenate hailing from Denver, CO. Heavily influenced by his upbringing in the Baptist Church, N3PTUNE alongside his co-producer and virtuoso guitarist RSTY merge the essence of gospel, blues, and soul into an amalgamation of pop music as only their minds can create. Their songs are bold and brash, and their live performances are immersive and raw to the point where Sleigh Bells’ Alexis Krauss likened the experience to “seeing Prince live for the first time” and proceeded to invite them to tour with them on the spot.

Their quick ascent from the local DIY scene to selling out shows and performing on some of Denver’s biggest stages like Red Rocks, Ball Arena Halftime Show for the Nuggets, and supporting the likes of Cordae, Matt & Kim, Rina Sawayama, Wyclef Jean, Sleigh Bells, KennyHoopla, Aluna and others, has made N3PTUNE + RSTY staples in Denver’s music scene. Not only that, but their penchant for pushing fashion and performance art in visuals and live performances has allowed them to carve a lane for themselves, unlike anything that has come before. RENAISSANCE, their first collaboration arrived on December 10, 2021, to critical acclaim. The project produced major singles in “Black Horse” and “White Pony” both of which received significant syndicated radio play, and the latter getting prominent co-signs on Spotify’s Nu-Blue playlist and others.

N3PTUNE + RSTY supported the album by touring the East Coast alongside Sleigh Bells in August 2022. After major performances at festivals like Electric Forest and Capitol Hill Block Party in 2023, N3PTUNE + RSTY will be releasing their long-awaited debut album, in early 2025.

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Chasing Water by Pete McBride
2024-06-18 19:00 - 21:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
Chasing Water by Pete McBride

Local Book Launch and Signing

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The Colorado River: Chasing Water

Author Pete McBride, Foreword by Nick Paumgarten, Introduction by Kevin FedarkoIn Association with Grand Canyon Conservancy and National Audubon Society.

About The Book

Through photography and essays, this book is a celebration of one of America’s most valuable and iconic rivers and a warning demonstrating the river is a bellwether of overuse and climate change.

America’s Western water crisis is now newsworthy on a global level, and the Colorado River is in the crosshairs. The Colorado River is the most comprehensive look at this challenged resource that supplies drinking water to forty million Americans and supports five percent of the country’s GDP.

While acclaimed photographer Pete McBride has covered water worldwide and been dubbed a “freshwater hero” by National Geographic, he now brings us home to his deepest passion: saving his backyard river, the Colorado. For two decades, McBride has documented the Colorado River, from source to sea and always with a camera in hand.

Through McBride’s photography and his own words, as well as essays on climate change and river overuse, we witness the stark reality of our water crisis but also the remarkable beauty and resilience of this ephemeral source of life.

About Pete McBride

Native Coloradan Pete McBride has spent two decades studying the world with a camera. An award-winning photographer, filmmaker, writer, and public speaker, he is a Sony Artisan of Light and has traveled on assignment to more than 75 countries for the National Geographic Society, Smithsonian, Outside, Google, USAID and many others. He has spoken on stages for TEDx, The World Economic Forum, Pixar, Nat Geo Live, and more. His feature documentary, Into the Canyon, was nominated for an Emmy in 2020, and his books The Grand Canyon: Between River and Rim and Seeing Silence both won National Outdoor Book

Awards. His latest book The Colorado River: Chasing Water (Rizzoli 2024) celebrates one of America’s most iconic rivers and warns against overuse and climate change.

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An Evening with Jim MEssina Night 1
2024-06-20 20:00 - 22:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
An Evening with Jim Messina

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ABOUT Jim Messina

Genre – Folk Rock

Few musical artists résumés list membership in a band inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; fewer still can lay claim to being a founding member of the seminal band credited with creating Country Rock; and only one artist can include all the above in addition to being one half of the most successful duos of the 1970s.

In November of 1970, Messina opened up his living room to record a number of compositions for a promising young songwriter named Kenny Loggins. With the songs Loggins presented leaning more toward folk (a style Messina felt could resign Loggins to the “past”), Messina suggested to Columbia Records president Clive Davis that he consider letting Messina “sit in” in much the same way that jazz artists had done in the past, and that Loggins incorporate more upbeat material into his album.

Says Loggins: “Right from the beginning, Jimmy was the producer, I was the artist. I’d never made a record. I’d never put a band together. I’d never found a manager or an agent. So, Jimmy was the leader…” Leading the way as producer, arranger, vocalist, and guitarist, and contributing the signature songs “Listen To A Country Song” (subsequently also recorded by country music legend Lynn Anderson who had a #3 hit with the song in 1972) “Nobody But You,” “Same Old Wine” and “Peace Of Mind” (from “Trilogy”) the album Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina Sittin’ In was released one year later in November of 1971 and an accidental duo was born.

In the next few years, a series of albums would follow in rapid order: 1972’s Loggins & Messina, 1973’s Full Sail, 1974’s double-live On Stage, the same year’s Mother Lode, 1975’s cover song set So Fine and 1976’s Native Sons. The Best of Friends greatest hits collection followed later that year and in 1977 another live album fittingly called Finale. When the dust had settled, Loggins & Messina had sold sixteen million albums, become one of rock’s biggest live draws, and cemented their legacy as one of the most successful recording duos ever.

Following the split with Loggins, Messina recorded four critically acclaimed solo albums: 1979’s sublime Latin rock with a touch of jazz album Oasis; 1981’s eponymous Messina featuring guest performances by Jeff Pocaro, Joe Pocaro and Victor Feldman; 1983’s One More Mile; and 1996’s re-imagined retrospective of concert favorites Watching The River Run Revisited.

Most recently, Messina has released two live albums. In 2010 he released both a DVD and CD entitled Jim Messina “LIVE” at The Clark Center for the Performing Arts. It contains the video and audio performances of his musical body of works, those he performed with The Buffalo Springfield, Poco and Loggins and Messina, including a number of his newest songs such as She’s Gotta Rock and Sinners and Saints.

Now, nearly 50 years after first stepping into the studio with Stephen Stills, Neil Young and Richie Furay to engineer Buffalo Springfield Again, Jim Messina is hitting the road with guitar in hand to tell the stories and sing the songs that made Buffalo Springfield, Poco, and Loggins & Messina, iconic American groups.

Concludes Messina: “The road most traveled in my innocence was with this band of poets, and is the same road that “Twists and Turns” as I journey along my musical road of life. For ‘I ride with “Sinners” and I sing with “Saints” and I do what I can to avoid what I cain’t, I’ll pass on the judgment, now you make the call, I’m a playin’ my hand. Oh.. the way the cards fall.’ ”

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An Evening With Jim Messina
2024-06-21 20:00 - 22:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
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ABOUT Jim Messina

Genre – Folk Rock

Few musical artists résumés list membership in a band inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; fewer still can lay claim to being a founding member of the seminal band credited with creating Country Rock; and only one artist can include all the above in addition to being one half of the most successful duos of the 1970s.

In November of 1970, Messina opened up his living room to record a number of compositions for a promising young songwriter named Kenny Loggins. With the songs Loggins presented leaning more toward folk (a style Messina felt could resign Loggins to the “past”), Messina suggested to Columbia Records president Clive Davis that he consider letting Messina “sit in” in much the same way that jazz artists had done in the past, and that Loggins incorporate more upbeat material into his album.

Says Loggins: “Right from the beginning, Jimmy was the producer, I was the artist. I’d never made a record. I’d never put a band together. I’d never found a manager or an agent. So, Jimmy was the leader…” Leading the way as producer, arranger, vocalist, and guitarist, and contributing the signature songs “Listen To A Country Song” (subsequently also recorded by country music legend Lynn Anderson who had a #3 hit with the song in 1972) “Nobody But You,” “Same Old Wine” and “Peace Of Mind” (from “Trilogy”) the album Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina Sittin’ In was released one year later in November of 1971 and an accidental duo was born.

In the next few years, a series of albums would follow in rapid order: 1972’s Loggins & Messina, 1973’s Full Sail, 1974’s double-live On Stage, the same year’s Mother Lode, 1975’s cover song set So Fine and 1976’s Native Sons. The Best of Friends greatest hits collection followed later that year and in 1977 another live album fittingly called Finale. When the dust had settled, Loggins & Messina had sold sixteen million albums, become one of rock’s biggest live draws, and cemented their legacy as one of the most successful recording duos ever.

Following the split with Loggins, Messina recorded four critically acclaimed solo albums: 1979’s sublime Latin rock with a touch of jazz album Oasis; 1981’s eponymous Messina featuring guest performances by Jeff Pocaro, Joe Pocaro and Victor Feldman; 1983’s One More Mile; and 1996’s re-imagined retrospective of concert favorites Watching The River Run Revisited.

Most recently, Messina has released two live albums. In 2010 he released both a DVD and CD entitled Jim Messina “LIVE” at The Clark Center for the Performing Arts. It contains the video and audio performances of his musical body of works, those he performed with The Buffalo Springfield, Poco and Loggins and Messina, including a number of his newest songs such as She’s Gotta Rock and Sinners and Saints.

Now, nearly 50 years after first stepping into the studio with Stephen Stills, Neil Young and Richie Furay to engineer Buffalo Springfield Again, Jim Messina is hitting the road with guitar in hand to tell the stories and sing the songs that made Buffalo Springfield, Poco, and Loggins & Messina, iconic American groups.

Concludes Messina: “The road most traveled in my innocence was with this band of poets, and is the same road that “Twists and Turns” as I journey along my musical road of life. For ‘I ride with “Sinners” and I sing with “Saints” and I do what I can to avoid what I cain’t, I’ll pass on the judgment, now you make the call, I’m a playin’ my hand. Oh.. the way the cards fall.’ ”

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Salsa Night ft. Lulada
2024-06-22 20:00 - 23:30 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
Salsa Night ft. Lulada

SOCIAL @ 9:00 PM / LessonS @ 8:00 pm / DOORS @ 7:30 pm

$20 MEMBER / $25 ADVANCE / $25 DAY OF

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ABOUT Salsa Night ft. Lulada

Genre – Salsa

Experience the captivating rhythms of Lulada Club, an electrifying all-women salsa band setting the New York City music scene ablaze. Through meticulous curation, vocalist and director Andrea Chavarro has assembled a cohort of accomplished and brilliant New York-based musicians, each with unique merits. Infused with an irresistible blend of vibrancy and skill, these remarkable women command the stage, welcoming salseres of all levels and ages.

Drawing inspiration from her Cali, Colombia heritage—the global epicenter of salsa—Andrea embarked on a mission to address the void of female ensembles within the live music scene in New York City. This ambition led to the creation of Lulada Club in 2022. Renowned for their masterful interpretations of vintage tropical rhythms encompassing salsa, bolero, and cha-cha-cha, the powerhouse band pays homage to the icons while offering a fresh perspective through their original tunes.

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GALA 2024
2024-06-27 17:00 - 23:00 | TACAW, 400 Robinson Street, Basalt, 81621, United States
TACAW’S GALA

THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2024

THE GALA HOST COMMITTEE

Sam Augustine

Kelly and Emily Boggs

Fidel Duke

Bob and Lori Brandon & Don and Marcia Flaks

Jack and Diane Kennedy

Jamie Koval

Michael Lipkin and Jody Guralnick

MANAUS

Oakstar Bank

Jeff Orsulak and Rachel Shechtman

Daniel Shaw and Isa Catto

The Shirk Family Foundation

Kirstie Steiner and John Groccia

Donn and Alex Willins

Cheryl Wyly

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$450 per person

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SCHEDULE

5:00pm Cocktail Hour6:30pm Theater Program 7:30pm Dinner on the Lawn & Paddle Raise9:00pm Robert Randolph Concert10:00pm Late Night Bites

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