Jennifer Mulson

Colorado Springs weekend festival showcases electronic music

Electrowave: Rocky Mountain Electronic Music Festival will offer three days of performances, lectures, demonstrations, sound walks and a synthesizer petting zoo. Nationally-known performers include Miller Puckette and his duo The Higgs Whatever, and violinist Christopher Otto of the JACK Quartet. The free event is Friday through Sunday at Ent Center for the Arts.

The University of Colorado Colorado Springs Cabaret Club brings in professional artists from around the U.S. to work in residence on their own projects and also with UCCS students. Kevin Landis, director of the UCCS theater and dance program, started the club in 2018 and has created intimate shows with limited seating at the Ent Center featuring renowned performers such as Aimee Man, Chuck Wilt, Martha Graham Cracker and Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpet player Cuong Vu.

After 18 months Nicole Herden has resigned as executive director of Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. Herden resigned Feb. 24 for a position at an arts museum in Texas. Her short tenure and departure follows a similar path of those who previously held the role. CC will do an assessment of the FAC before deciding to fill the position.

Texas-based artist Margarita Cabrera explores immigration and food justice in "Margarita Cabrera: Space in Between + CARE," a new exhibit that opens Friday at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College and runs through Dec. 13.

Grammy Award-winning comedian Louis C.K. will bring his new tour "Louis C.K.: Ridiculous" to Ford Amphitheater in Colorado Springs. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for the May 31 show.

Colorado Springs puppeteer Kilah Storm taxidermies roadkill and other dead animals and uses them as puppets in her show "World of Fluff." Many of her stories are based on fairytales, as she tries to reframe death from terrible to beautiful and inevitable. She travels her show around the state to festivals, oddity cons and puppet slams by Rocky Mountain Puppetry Guild.

The Denver-based, yacht rock tribute band Yachty Got Back will perform Friday at Phil Long Music Hall at Bourbon Brothers. Yacht rock is another name for the easy listening, soft rock of the 1970s and '80s by bands and musicians like Chris Cross, Steely Dan, Michael McDonald, Toto and Styx.

In "Alisa Banks: Unerased," the Dallas, Texas-based artist explores her Louisiana Creole heritage and the African diaspora. About 50 to 55 mixed-media pieces will include drawings, fibers, textiles, an installation and artist books. It opens Friday with a free reception during First Friday at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College.

Theatreworks will mount playwright Lloyd Suh's comedy, "The Heart Sellers," Thursday through Feb. 16 at Ent Center for the Arts. The two-person show features Asian immigrants who meet at a grocery store in the 1970s, eight years after the passing of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Celler Act, which allowed Asian people to immigrate to America for math and science purposes. The women get together for Thanksgiving and develop a friendship.