Featured Author
Cindy Lempke
Biography
Cindy Lempke is an Evergreen resident and music lover. She made lifetime friends at the Ice House open mic nights, and has a deep appreciation for singer/songwriters. In addition to her professional pursuits as owner of Lempke Communications, LLC, Cindy volunteers on the Boogie Benefits team organizing music events for local nonprofits.
ARTICLES
Jon Lundberg
On a sunny Saturday afternoon, Evergreen music lovers and “flatlanders” broke away from the spring-like weather and entered the dimly lit Little Bear to hear Jon Lundberg & The Locals perform a song list ranging from Johnny Cash to Tom Petty, Dwight Yoakum to Amos...
Kyle Wilson
Kyle embraces his rock star image. Kyle Wilson’s love of rock music was ignited at the age of 10 when a friend played for him the recently released KISS Alive II album. Kyle was blown away, picked up his Wiffle Ball bat to play air guitar, and began to dream of...
Midday Sons
“In 2006, I had just moved here from Dallas a few years before, and the only thing that I missed about Texas was my jamming buddies. Then I saw Dean playing carols at the Christmas walk in front of Mountain Village by the bakery,” says Cort Langworthy. “He happened to...
Holiday Music Events
Maybe it was the gigantic pre-Halloween snow. Maybe it was how the year seemed to quietly creep by. Maybe it’s simply that, for once, I had myself together in October. Whatever forces have aligned, I present to you, with timing that makes much more sense, a round-up...
Chris Becker
Twenty-five years ago, when Chris Becker moved to Evergreen, he was already a successful musician, but it was his artistic side that drew him to the mountains. Originally from Chicago, and growing up in a musical and artistic environment, Chris had established himself...
Josh Kincheloe of Glasslands
Josh Kincheloe, lead singer of the high-energy rock band, Glasslands, met me at a local coffee shop to chat this week. We each drove down from separate mountain houses to talk about music and his band—the other members of which are scattered all over the country. In...
Sarah Bauer Band
When you open yourself to something new, opportunities seem to open themselves to you. At least, that’s how I felt when I met Sarah Bauer at a Conifer coffee shop to hear about her musical journey, including her band, Sarah Bauer Band, and Grass on the Gulch Bluegrass...
Lalo Hart
Young motherhood was an interesting phase for me, having ultimately created... life!—yet otherwise suffering through a creative dry spell. I was filled to the brim with so much love and so many needs yearning for an outlet, for time to share, the words to say. Then,...
Ralph Nichols, Single Entertainer
When I was a little girl, visiting my grandparents in the Quad Cities, I used to spend the hot Iowa summer afternoons in their cool musty basement. I had a little white rocking chair that was just for me, and I would pull it across the orange shag carpet to sit in...
Janine De Lorenzo
You know it will be a good tale if it begins with someone running away to join the circus—and so I’m going to begin Janine De Lorenzo’s story by telling you that’s what she did. But the story really begins much before then, when she was a young girl in Australia,...
The New Evergreen Music Scene
Rodney Bennett I’ve written often in this column about “the way things used to be,” mostly because when I’m able to connect with longtime local musicians, there’s a lot of nostalgia for it: everyone at the one bar with that one stage every weekend, gathered around,...
Evergreen’s Got Talent 2023
Around this time last year, I found my way over to Center for the Arts Evergreen, only to be blown away by an impressive line-up of aspiring musicians betting on themselves in Evergreen’s Got Talent, a local musical competition for young artists. I heard many...