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Port-au-Prince

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2012

    The Lumineers at Bluebird Theater, 5/11/12

    THE LUMINEERS @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 5/11/12 Wesley Schulz announced that the band was going to perform a Sawmill Joe song and it was obvious much of the crowd knew what was coming, as The Lumineers started the song and brought Joe back on stage. Between pretty much all the members of the band, a gre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Hunter Dragon launches Tiny Amp Records with Mariposa's Madeline Johnston

    As an accurate reflection of his life, the music of Hunter Dragon remains both erratic and inspired. You never can tell what the backpacking one-man noise circus will be up to next. He could be settled down and employed with a residence one minute, then out on the road, playing endless house shows a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    Feed Them with Music puts on a show to relieve hunger at the Walnut Room Thursday

    ​Carbondale-based non-profit Feed Them with Music has a business model that they hope will bring small musical acts more exposure and bigger audiences, while simultaneously feeding the Third World. It works like this: Paul Frantzich and Ashley Mosher, the duo who run the organization, manage a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    Tonight: Follow That Bird! at the hi-dive

    John Anderson​In its relatively short life, Austin's Follow That Bird! (due at the hi-dive tonight with the Marrow, Married in Berdichev, Port Au Prince and Jess Williamson) has moved from an instrumental duo to a fierce and vocally-led trio, all while continuing on its path of smart, straight ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    2011 Westword Music Showcase: Backbeat scribes' travelogues

    Every year, we enlist our Backbeat writers to host various stages at the Westword Music Showcase, and in addition to their emcee obligations, we ask them to pull double duty and write up the acts that appear on their individual stages. Click through to read travelogues from Thorin Klosowski, Ru John ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2011

    Best one yet! 2011 edition of Westword Music Showcase attracts over 13,000 fans this year

    Photo by Aaron Thackeray​ Man, what a day we had yesterday at the seventeenth annual Westword Music Showcase! The music was exceptional, the weather was beyond agreeable and everywhere you looked in every direction it was a sea of smiling faces. With over 13,000 people in attendance this year ... More >>

  • Music

    June 16, 2011

    Westword Music Showcase 2011

    The Westword Music Showcase celebrates seventeen years, a lifetime for some of 2011's performers

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    2011 Westword Music Showcase Ballot

    ​Seventeen years! It's hard to believe we've been doing the Westword Music Showcase for that long. I can still remember being at the first one in LoDo nearly two decades ago. And when I think back, it seems like that cold, rainy Sunday night was just a few years ago.

  • Music

    March 10, 2011

    SXSW Tip Sheet: Colorado bands

    ​Seventeen years! It's hard to believe we've been doing the Westword Music Showcase for that long. I can still remember being at the first one in LoDo nearly two decades ago. And when I think back, it seems like that cold, rainy Sunday night was just a few years ago.

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Port Au Prince debuts, and surprisingly, the songs sound nothing like Astrophagus

    ​Astrophagus threw in the towel last year, with very little fanfare. So when we heard Jason and Josh Cain were going to be coming back with a new project called Port Au Prince, we were a little skeptical of what to expect. The time is finally here to listen to what they've been up to with the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Astrophagus rises again as Port Au Prince

    ​Astrophagus unceremoniously ended its run this past September at Lost Lake. Bolstering the adage that you can't keep good men down, we've learned that the Cain brothers, Jason and Josh, are about to resurface as Port Au Prince, with a little help from their friends Hunter Dragon on drums, Bri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    Eyewitness to Hell: Dr. Scott Burke on Haiti's medical nightmare

    Street treatment following an amputation in Port-au-Prince. Photo from despardes.com​Just a few hours after touching down in Denver, after a week of performing emergency amputations in a makeshift operating room in Port-au-Prince, local surgeon Scott Burke was trying to catch up on his sleep a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Dine out and help out Haiti

    ​The horrors of Haiti hit close to home for Mary Nguyen, owner of Parallel 17: Her husband, Raphael Jouvenat, is from there. "Haiti has always been a poor country; a country with political turmoil and limited resources neglected by most of the world," she writes. "However, it is the place tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Haiti in crisis even before earthquake, says student on last flight out before earthquake

    A photo from Carrie Paykoc's trip to Haiti.​Carrie Paykoc was among a group of nine University of Colorado Denver students to fly out of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, at around noon on January 12. A little over four hours later, an earthquake struck the area, devastating the nation and placing extrao ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2008

    Haiti Travelogue: A Night With Wyclef and a Day in the Sun

    A photo from Carrie Paykoc's trip to Haiti.​Carrie Paykoc was among a group of nine University of Colorado Denver students to fly out of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, at around noon on January 12. A little over four hours later, an earthquake struck the area, devastating the nation and placing extrao ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2008

    Haiti Travelogue: Day One

    A photo from Carrie Paykoc's trip to Haiti.​Carrie Paykoc was among a group of nine University of Colorado Denver students to fly out of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, at around noon on January 12. A little over four hours later, an earthquake struck the area, devastating the nation and placing extrao ... More >>

  • News

    January 3, 2008

    Slave to History

    A Colorado couple is determined to remember the past.

  • News

    January 3, 2008

    The Social Conscience of a Missionary

    It's a long way from LoDo to Haiti, but Dan Jeune wants to bridge the gap. With friendship.

  • Calendar

    October 14, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    It's a long way from LoDo to Haiti, but Dan Jeune wants to bridge the gap. With friendship.

  • Film

    April 22, 2004

    Radio Free Haiti

    Jonathan Demme brings a joyful revolutionary to the screen.

  • News

    June 4, 1998

    "Final Episode" Killer Curse Revealed!

    Jonathan Demme brings a joyful revolutionary to the screen.

  • News

    August 10, 1994

    LAST CALL

    Jonathan Demme brings a joyful revolutionary to the screen.

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