June 1st concert
LittleChur...@gmail.com
Woolf and fiddle player Molly Healey. Friday, June 1 at 7 pm, $10
donation per person. Bring a dessert to share at the set break.
Cindy Woolf has been generating an enthusiastic following with her
authentic, atmospheric, alternative, American roots music. To listen
to Cindy, visit her Myspace page at
www.myspace.com/cindywoolf
"Woolf has a heart for roots music, but she also has a knack for
making her songs sound relevant... angelic delivery... an appealing
sense of wonder throughout..."
Mike Brothers, News-Leader
Salina Schoolhouse (Little Church in the Pines Concert Series)
536 Gold Run Road, Boulder, CO
303-444-0134 for more info
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Our friends Greg and Debbie Ching of the (former) Aspen Meadows House
Concerts series on Magnolia Road sent us the information below that we
would like all local music fans to consider:
We would like your help in filling the public hearing room at 11 AM on
Tuesday, June 5th at the Pearl Street Boulder County Courthouse at a
regularly scheduled Boulder County Commissioners meeting. Please note
house concerts are not on the public agenda. The Aspen Meadows House
Concerts series (www.aspenmeadowshc.org) was shut down last year based
upon one anonymous complaint. The Chings lost their appeal in
February
but have never been given a public hearing before the Commissioners.
They have been told their only appeal option is to sue the County!
Boulder County has told the Chings that it's OK to have parties with
music but voluntary contributions to the musicians are illegal. The
only immediate neighbor with a complaint about house concerts has been
know to complain in the past to the Denver International Airport over
500 times a year.
If you need more background see
http://aspenmeadowhc.org/index.php?page=about&display=9
Now is the time to submit thoughtful letters to the Open Forum at the
Daily Camera - the e-mail address is open...@dailycamera.com. Feel
free to copy the County Commissioners via
commis...@co.boulder.co.us. Separately, please copy
greg....@mric.coop.
Please consider writing your letters elaborating on *any* of the
following themes using your own words:
We appeal Graham's conclusion that anyone in Boulder County "can hire
a
band, ensemble, orchestra, or other music entertainment and invite
people to a concert for a party," provided no one is charged (even if
the charge is "in the form of requested donations") for the
entertainment. At their own expense, the Chings have offered draft
home
concert regulation not because they believe the law or the
Constitution
requires one, but in order to legitimize a community-building social
activity "live music in a private home" that should be enjoyed in
Boulder County - regardless of one's personal economic circumstances.
Why is it that you need to be a wealthy arts patron? Why can't
ordinary
folks extend a potluck with quiet music especially when taking
reasonable care mitigating frequency, noise, and traffic?
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A living room concert is a social gathering, not a commercial or
business use. The homeowner does not profit from the event. Donations
go directly to the artist and they are freely given by the guests (the
host does not require payment).
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>From a land use perspective, the independently wealthy should not be
permitted to sponsor activities that the less well-off can not afford
-
the mere fact that guests voluntarily share in the cost (a fact
exceedingly difficult to prove without an intrusive invasion of
privacy)
is irrelevant.
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Had the Land Use Director's interpretation been reversed by the Board
on
February 7th, we believe that the Commissioners would already have a
new
living room concert code revision in place. How long will our
community
now have to wait before the County gets around to creating standards
to
ALLOW living room concerts? It's hard to believe this is happening in
America, let alone in "progressive" Boulder County.
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We feel this whole enforcement has been a serious waste of taxpayer
money. Even the initial inquiry was mistakenly interpreted as a
complaint due to a software error. While the neighbor who called the
County has never apologized she did get the County to admit in
writing it was their error.