Collegiate Peaks Chorale opens the holiday season with its Christmas concert series Magnificat, featuring holiday classics, including Mark Hayes’s arrangement of “Magnificat.”

Last fall, Buena Vista High School saw the start of its own marching band. After visiting an exhibition in Pueblo, the band felt encouraged, both by results and by judges, to start competing in 2022.

Starting with the People’s Stage on East Main Street and moving on to the Watershed and then the Roastery, the community stage finally found a more permanent home at McPhelemy Park. As of Oct. 27, Phase 1 of the McPhelemy Park stage has been completed.

The Buena Vista High School Trident Theatre Company is proud to present the world premiere of teacher Brad Fritsch’s “The Mistakes of a Night” at the high school’s flex commons.

Celebrate autumn and prepare for the upcoming holidays with church bazaars taking place this weekend.

Families filled the field behind Avery-Parsons Elementary School Saturday for a day of games, treats and pumpkins at the inaugural Pumpkin Patch.

Buena Vista is showcasing a monster mash of good times this Halloween weekend for adult revelers including multiple nights and multiple venues offering musical delights with a rest day on Sunday.

The Seventh Annual Feline and Fido Photo Contest and Calendar will launch Monday, Oct. 17. Ark-Valley Humane Society is thrilled to announce its 7th annual Feline & Fido Photo Contest & Calendar is returning this year, starting on Monday, Oct. 17 through Sunday, Oct. 30.

High Country Fine Arts Association brought “a spoonful of sugar” to the stage at Darren Patterson Christian Academy last weekend with the middle school musical “Mary Poppins Jr.”

Yes, I can do this.

These are the words Paprika Leaverton – performer, juggler, magician and filmmaker – told herself before entering the 2022 Texas Association of Magicians convention in Fort Worth earlier this month.

Renewal Festival hosted over 7,500 people on Sept. 24-25 at the Meadows event grounds.

David Lawrence and the Spoonful will launch their new album at the Lariat Oct. 6 to kickstart a five-city Colorado tour.

The band’s new album is “Lean In,” after a track on the album with the same name. Lawrence said that this title track was written for his wife and is about young love and the feeling of butterflies when you take a chance on your first kiss.

The weekend of Oct. 8-9, High Country Fine Arts Association presents a middle school musical that is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Walden Chamber Music Society announces a change of artist for its “Curtis to Colorado” scholarship fundraiser concert.

Walden Chamber Music Society’s opening event is their scholarship concert, “Curtis to Colorado,” featuring award-winning pianist Nathan Lee, from the world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

This story has been corrected as the original band lineup in the story was from last year. The correct lineup has been added while the previous one has been deleted.

The Arkansas Valley Gospel Choir is looking for more people to join their group.

The choir, directed by worship pastor Brandon Chism, will sing music from the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir as well as anthems and choruses from the late 20th century.

Legacy Brick donations surpassed $38,000 to pay for the new town stage at McPhelemy Park.

The Leave a Legacy Brick campaign sponsored by the Buena Vista Chamber of Commerce that began in May 2022, offered people the chance to buy a personalized brick that will be used in the border walkway that will be placed in front of the new town stage.

David Lawrence and the Spoonful will perform at 6 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 13, at the Gold Rush Days festival at McPhelemy Park

“We started 3 to 4 years ago, I was hanging out with Coleman Smith and Gary Sloan after COVID hit we decided to create a band with friends. Since then we’ve been having a fun time playing around Chaffee County and Colorado,” the band’s front man and lead guitarist David Lawrence said.