As Haynes and his band, aided tonight by the Colorado Symphony, break into their set opener, the 1968 classic “Dark Star,” a cheer erupts from the thousands of Rocky Mountain Deadheads in attendance. This initial loud welcome is quickly followed by another, and possibly even louder, ovation, as the crowd acknowledges the instrument strapped across Haynes’ torso. It’s a guitar so mythologized in Grateful Dead lore that it’s known by just a one-word name: Tiger.

Englewood Arts’ celebrates its 15th season of presenting chamber music performances performed by Colorado’s finest musicians, primarily from the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Informal insights are given from the stage by the musicians.

Voters in the Denver metro area will decide in November whether to extend the decades old tax for an additional 12 years. Issue 4B would authorize a 0.1 percent sales tax in seven counties.

Sheridan College’s new Whitney Center for the Arts will have its Grand Opening on Saturday night by hosting the Colorado Symphony. The Center’s Director Erin Hanke, said this will be the first live act that has graced the new stage.

While some music professors say you can’t have it both ways, fiddler Bridget Law has not given up on her inner violinist—especially on those special occasions when her band Elephant Revival shares the bill with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.