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Take in Mesa State's musical magic
With more than 40 different faculty, student, and guest artist concerts, the Mesa State College Department of Music has a little bit of something for everyone during the exciting 2009-2010 concert season — from jazz music to classical, brass,... more...
  10/15/2009 9:50pm
Mesa State's performance art season features something for everyone
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — One of the trademarks of the Mesa State College Department of Theatre is its commitment to offering seasons of entertainment with a little something for everyone. The 2009-10 season is no exception.
  09/10/2009 9:36pm
Folk pianist George Winston performs Tuesday at Roper Ballroom
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — George Winston started playing the organ after he first heard the music of the Doors in 1967. He learned the songs of the legendary '60s rock band by listening to their records over and over.
  08/06/2009 7:01pm
Get out of your seats and get ... Up With People
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Up With People brings an “all-star alumni cast” (plus 10 members of the current cast of Up With People) to the Mesa County Fair for a performance Sunday afternoon.
  07/23/2009 10:34pm
High Desert Opera casts its spell with ‘The Sorcerer'
On Saturday, July 18 High Desert Opera is staging a matinee and evening performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's lively and lyrical operetta, “The Sorcerer,” in the Moss Performing Arts Center Robinson Theater at Mesa State College. The matinee...
  07/16/2009 7:57pm
Eclectic dance collective performs Fri., Sat.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Finding that many studios were geared toward younger dancers, six professional dancers formed the Beyond Boundaries Dance Collective four years ago with the intention of dancing throughout their lives in many different...
  07/14/2009 7:34pm
All the way from Mexico ... Children's dance group readies for tonight's show
Three-and-a-half years ago the Casa Hogar Los Angelitos Dance Team was formed with children from an orphanage in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico along with children who belong to a Manzanillo community youth organization.
  07/09/2009 9:42pm
KAFM open house celebrates 10-year anniversary, permanent home
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — KAFM Community Radio is hosting an open house Saturday with live music, Patty and Leroy Arguello's homemade green chili, and a dedication of the building the station moved into seven years ago.
  06/25/2009 6:35pm
Hip hop represents with new urban dance co.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Dancers, musicians and members of the local hip hop community have come together to form a Grand Junction branch of the New Urban Dance Company and will make their debut performance Saturday, May 30, at Mesa State’s Robinson...
  05/28/2009 7:44pm
Colorado champion jumps across the world
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Five-time world champion jump-roper Molly Metz performs and teaches skipping rope all over the world.
  05/26/2009 8:07pm
Theater tonight, Saturday in Radio Room
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Two Chairs Theater Company’s annual “Acts of Brevity” — six short plays by award-winning playwrights from around the country — continues tonight and Saturday in the Radio Room, 1310 Ute Ave.
  05/14/2009 4:41pm
Divine on display as Goddess show opens
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — The 11th annual “Gifts for the Goddess” art exhibit and costume party opens tonight at Planet Earth and the 4 Directions Gallery, 524 Colorado Ave.
  04/30/2009 6:18pm
Mesa woman travels the cowboy poetry circuit
Nona Kelley Carver started writing poetry by accident — literally.

Along with her husband, Alfred, and their two sons, Carver ranched and ran a dairy farm in Mesa for many years.
  04/26/2009 5:06pm
GJ teen wins scholarship for NYC ballet program
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Fifteen-year-old Alex Kramer found his passion early in life.

And because he’s followed it, in June he’s headed for the Big Apple.

When Alex was 2, he danced — everywhere.
  04/23/2009 8:26pm
Steve Forbert’s acoustic show up close at Roper Ballroom
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Singer-songwriter Steve Forbert will perform in Grand Junction a week from tonight in the Roper Music Ballroom, a new and intimate venue upstairs of Roper Music in downtown Grand Junction.
  04/23/2009 8:11pm
KAFM Radio Room feels the Love Saturday
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— KAFM Community Radio again combines visual art and music Saturday with a concert by singer Gigi Love, preceded by a fiber art exhibit between 5 and 6:45 p.m. in the Radio Room.
  04/23/2009 6:34pm
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