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The Wild West , Myths , Lore  , Outlaws and Lawmen and the Story  of the Peak to Peaks  Marshall Robert Clark ,the first Colorado Marshall to Lose his Life in the Line  of Duty 155 Years Ago  

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LISTEN: Pete and The Halbrooks Family Band formed recently. It started with a trio of Peter Herod, Em Halbrooks, and Kevin Halbrooks, with Jason Lowry eventually joining the group. Occasionally, the group will bring in a fifth or a sixth member as guest artists, but for the most part, the group consists of the three core members and Lowry. Herod says that bluegrass music was the most prevalent influence and inspiration for starting the group, as the instruments they play (banjo, upright bass, fiddle) lend themselves to bluegrass.

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Emmit Scully and Victoria Smith both grew up in the town of Nederland but didn’t technically grow up together. Scully went to Boulder High, and Smith went to Nederland Middle-Senior High, and even though their dads worked together, they didn’t know each other very well at first.

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LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!! Heather Taylor Lande and Otis Lande tell us about the time they danced in chocolate pudding and then fell in love! It's a look back and revisit to an interview we did last year for Valentine's Day.

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LISTEN: Not your typical Valentine’s Day romantic story .. a tale of the love of a house , the opera and 2 couples

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LISTEN: Take a minute to hear a great interview with Cynthia Geary from the hit TV show, Northern Exposure. This is one from the vault!

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LISTEN: Jamie Lammers interviews Mike Lamitola. He has lived in Colorado for nearly twenty years now. He grew up in Connecticut, where he was inspired to be a musician primarily because his father was one. In third grade, he started learning piano and joined his school band playing clarinet in fifth grade. Around his eighth-grade year, he discovered The Beatles, and hearing his father play the riff for their song “Day Tripper” motivated him to play guitar.

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LISTEN: Nothing disrupts the peace and beauty of mountain living like transplants and tourists. Unless it’s a transplanted moose. They are the biggest transplant of all, bringing in more tourists and tromping through the mountains without abandon. And we love them.

Special thanks to guest, Kara VanHoose with the Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

https://cpw.state.co.us/

Here's a link to the CPW Moose Facts sheet.

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LISTEN: Maryann Rosen shares a tale about Valentine’s  Day, the many different forms of Love, and ways to celebrate here in the peak to peak region.

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LISTEN: Brett Kretzer grew up in Maryland and lived in a few East Coast states before moving to Colorado.

He’s been playing music since he was six when his mother forced him to take piano lessons. While he gave up after about a year, he decided at the age of nine that he wanted to learn the guitar. When his brother became interested in playing the guitar as well (thanks to his interest in Kretzer’s lessons), Kretzer learned the drums so that the two could play together. They both started various bands in middle and high school, transitioning from rock to more hardcore music like punk and finally to metal.

After college, Kretzer also fell into the world of bluegrass. He started learning the mandolin when he was about 21, and he’s been playing bluegrass ever since.

He remembers Led Zeppelin as the first band that had a major influence on him, as well as The Beatles and bluegrass influences such as Del McCoury, Hot Rize, and The Punch Brothers.

He loves it when the crowd is attentive and invested in the music, as everyone involved can forget about everything but the music for a little bit. Recently, he’s loved arranging public-domain bluegrass songs more than writing them from scratch, and he also teaches mandolin and some guitar.

Scott Slay has also been performing for a large chunk of his life. Starting from the age of eight, he learned and played bluegrass music in bands with his father, Tracy. Because he lived in a Navy town, musicians came and went constantly, so the lineup of his father’s band changed consistently as well.

He says that many factors contributed to his ultimate success, including always learning new songs (or even old songs in new ways), primarily learning them by ear and feel (sometimes because he was so tired in the evenings he would play he could barely keep his eyes open). He is also inspired to travel by the musicians he met along the way.

Slay says that through this process and constant dedication to the craft of music, he learned bluegrass like someone would learn their home language. He loves collaborating through composing, arranging, or interpreting various bluegrass pieces, and he constantly adds something new to his musical repertoire to keep himself interested. Currently, he plays with the bluegrass band SLAY, and in 2019, he released the album The Rail under his name, collaborating with various ot

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