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Okay, many of you don't like Ticketmaster--and it's doubtful that your opinions were changed by the dollar amounts mentioned in this column's first item. But the company could turn out to be a favorite of the six Colorado acts chosen to appear in the fourth annual Ticketmaster Music Showcase Tour, Friday, October 4, at the Mercury Cafe. The nominees this time around are Yellow Number 5, Turnsol, Vanessa Lowe, Katoorah Jayne, Whitney Rehr and Five52Fern, all of which will be performing at the event.

The following bands won't be. On Friday, October 4, Grandma Jukes shakes a tailfeather at the Cricket on the Hill, with Bustopher Jones; Three Blue Teardrops fall on the Hillbilly Hellcats at the Bluebird Theater; Gil Scott-Heron appears at CU-Boulder's Glenn Miller Ballroom; Tuscadero is in the pink at the Fox Theatre, with Nada Surf; and Kai Kln, from San Francisco, ventures to the 6th Avenue Rock Cafe in Aurora. On Saturday, October 5, the Psychodelic Zombiez celebrate the release of their new CD, S.A.C., at the Bluebird; Westword contributor John Jesitus finds Common Grounds; and the Modern Chamber Players appear at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the institution's challenging Perforum Series. On Sunday, October 6, the Boulder Friends of Jazz sponsor a Dixieland jam session at Trios, 1155 Canyon, in Boulder, and the Pietasters sample the fare at the Mercury, with Ruder Than You and Five Iron Frenzy. And on Wednesday, October 9, Trio Fungus will be among us at Seven South. There's a cure for that, you know.

--Michael Roberts

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