Music

Through an ARPA - Wyoming Arts Council grant, a music therapist led songwriting workshops with healthcare workers at the Jackson hospital to address work related stress and burnout due to the pandemic. Four groups of health care workers shared stories and processed work-related trauma to write songs about their experiences. Four songs were officially released.

The OSPA Wyoming tour is performing at the Rockpile Museum on Jan. 5 and will also perform in Sheridan, Buffalo, Casper, Laramie, Cheyenne, Rock Springs, and Jackson. The band promotes traditional and contemporary Basque music and dance and celebrates the mixed musical heritage of the Basque diaspora, which has a presence in parts of Wyoming and the Mountain West.

In Rock Springs, the mall provided a vaulted ceiling for big echoey resonance for a Christmas music concert. What makes it special is that all the instruments are tubas and euphoniums. The low tones drifted from TJ Maxx to Ross Dress for Less. People listened while getting some holiday shopping done. Tuba Christmas is a series of national concerts featuring the tuba and euphonium.

Steve Davis, winner of the 2022 Wyoming Singer-Songwriter competition, played a studio session with Grady Kirkpatrick on September 30, 2022.

Duo Cintemani, featuring guitarist Nicholas Ciraldo and flutist Rachel Taratoot Ciraldo played a Studio Session with Grady Kirkpatrick ahead of their performance on September 30, 2022, at the University of Wyoming.

John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High” turns 50 years old in October, an anniversary marking the legacy he left in the state of Colorado and far beyond.

Northern Arapaho singer-songwriter Christian Wallowing Bull joined Grady Kirkpatrick for a Wyoming Sounds studio session ahead of performances at SOK Gallery in Laramie and the Red River Festival in New Mexico.

Next week, the "Expect the Unexpected" season kicks off on Thursday night at the Buchanan Center concert hall. Opening night will feature Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony which features a second half few know about. Dr. Michael Griffith is the Director of the University of Wyoming Symphony Orchestra. He speaks with Wyoming Public Radio’s Bob Beck.

Country singer and Wyoming resident Luke Bell was found dead this week, following a short, albeit successful career in the music industry.

Drum Corp International is a professional marching band and Wyoming has one of the oldest drum and bugle corps in the nation. After two years off due to the pandemic, the Casper Troopers marching band have a new show.