Pikes Peak Center

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and trumpet master, Nicholas Payton, will be live in concert with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, featuring two masterworks rarely encountered in the concert hall: “Sketches of Spain” and “Black American Symphony” (United States premiere). Both works highlight the contribution of Black American music to the world, here through the lens of symphonic music. “Sketches of Spain”--the renowned 1960 concept album by Miles Davis and Gil Evans--explores and reinterprets the melodies, harmonies, and rhythms of Spain. In concert, while…

“Songs are our teachers. They show us the depth of the human race and its unrelenting desire to create.” — Tommy Emmanuel Anytime you talk to any of Tommy Emmanuel’s fans, whether musicians or civilians, invariably they will speak of not one but two qualities that define his greatness. The first, predictably, is his extraordinary guitar playing. Considered by those in the know to be among this planet’s greatest guitarists, his playing is simply miraculous, as it would take three…