Mar 10

Lumonics Partnering with Youth on Record in March

Music Matters March


Lumonics is excited to be supporting the next generation of young artists in Denver and the ever-growing Colorado
 creative economy during the whole month of March!  All March long, we’re donating 10% of sales of the
Lumonics Immersed events to Denver nonprofit, Youth on Record! 

If you’re not already familiar with this all-star organization, Youth on Record empowers Colorado’s
 underserved youth to achieve their academic, artistic, and personal best by employing local, professional artists as their educators.

Youth on Record offers for-credit classes in Denver and Aurora schools, free after-school music workshops
 for youth ages 11-24, paid internships, and more! Their programs empower teens in some of Denver’s most vulnerable communities  to make  life choices that positively impact their future by teaching them to develop the coping tools, inspiration, and wherewithal to succeed  in today’s  world and to become leaders of tomorrow. 

You can learn more and check out other participating Music Matters March businesses by visiting youthonrecord.org.

We’re stoked to support YOR and hope you’ll join us in declaring in community that MUSIC MATTERS (!) all month long.

Mar 03

Colorado Synth Society at Lumonics on Sunday, March 17th

 Colorado Synth Society presents:
Ann Annie with

and Drift Diffusion
Sunday, March 17 at 6 pm
Advance Tickets
Admission $15 

Ann Annie Spring Tour is coming to Colorado!! Ann Annie’s friends are supporting Ann’s Piano & Modular Synth with a  Cello, Saxophone, and Guitar. There will be exclusive merch and vinyl for sale at shows!
 The duo Sine Mountain and Drift Diffusion will be performing with Modular Synths and Guitar followed by Ann Annie.

The evening will begin with a 15-minute  Lumonics Immersed.

Check out Ann Annie’s latest single and video, Cottonwood, on his YouTube channel. 

Feb 07

Decade of Darshan Dance Company

DECADE OF DARSHAN- A kick off party to celebrate this 10 year anniversary of this very special community of Darshan Dance Company!!

As well as a Rise and Vibes Music Festival Pre-Party!

 

At Lumonics Light and Sound Gallery

Saturday, March 9th

Ticket price: $25 advance, $30 at door
Limited Capacity for a  very special, intimate event.
7:00 pm to 12:15 am

Get Tickets

7:00-doors – *1st Official Art Gallery Showing of Katie Bhairavi’s and Darshan Dance Company’s legendary headdress designs. 6 Headdresses will be available for purchase throughout the evening.

7:30-9 – opening ceremony with Rachael Fox Feather Dougherty’s sound healing Kotamo with Darshan Dance Company leading into Malahakam.

9:15-10:15 – Magnetic Moon and Gold Dust Tribe

10:15- Darshan Dance Company performance featuring senior members Dominique Dekkers, Vivian Emily Villagrana, and Katie Bhairavi

10:30-12 – MIRAJA (dj set)

12-12:15 – Lumonics Immersed

Darshan Dance Company performances throughout the evening.

more info including bios and photos of performers on the Eventbrite page

Feb 05

“Jazz: Colorado’s Hugh Ragin playing Sun Ra” (Denver Post)

Thanks to Bret Saunders of the Denver Post for this article:
“Jazz: Colorado’s Hugh Ragin playing Sun Ra”

Here are a few excerpts:

Hugh Ragin, as brilliant a trumpeter as he is a dedicated educator, greeted me at Englewood’s Colorado Jazz Workshop on a Saturday afternoon in January. He had just finished a day’s worth of rehearsing three different bands, yet he was eager to speak with me on a subject with which we were mutually enthusiastic: the bandleader, pianist and cosmic traveler known as Sun Ra.

First, a bit of background on Ragin. He’s made Colorado his home for decades, but has frequently traveled the world, sharing the stage with luminaries as varied as Anthony Braxton and Maynard Ferguson. Even though he’s wholeheartedly local, he’s a member of one of the world’s most distinguished creative music groups, The Art Ensemble of Chicago. Listen to last year’s “The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris,” and get a profound sense of his sonic accomplishments. Ragin is also Dr. Ragin now, after recently obtaining his doctorate of musical arts from the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Ragin, who performed with Sun Ra and his big band, known as the Arkestra, in New York decades ago, is still in awe of Ra’s sophisticated music and profound philosophies.   

Ragin and friends will perform selections from Sun Ra’s expansive catalog at Denver’s Lumonics Light and Sound Gallery on Feb. 16 and March 15.

“He had this presence, this consciousness; the whole ‘big picture’ consciousness he lays on you,” he says of Ra, who died in 1993.

“It will be a multimedia presentation,” Ragin said of the upcoming Lumonics Gallery shows. “We’re definitely fusing everything. There are some fascinating Sun Ra (video) clips.”

Ragin let out a joyful “Ooooooh!,” adding, “Sun Ra will nudge you out to the universe, but he also knows how to bring you home.”


Hugh Ragin and Friends present:
The Sun Ra Project

Friday, Feb 16, 2024
Friday, March 15, 2024

7 pm to 9:30 pm
$20 advance
$25 at door

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“The Sun Ra tribute is designed to connect the audience with an experience of listening by vibrating a deeper understanding of cosmic mathematics, or intelligence, rooted in the science of music, color and healing. In other words: the artist will provide a message piece in a very colorful setting.”
– Hugh Ragin, recipient of the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Five Points Jazz Festival.