By Chrystal DeCoster

Redstone Review

LYONS – The psychological phenomenon dubbed “impostor syndrome” is where some people cannot positively ascribe their own accomplishments. Tina Fey and Maya Angelou, noted public achievers, admit feeling like imposters, convinced they are frauds that fail to deserve their highly acclaimed success.

LYONS –The RockyGrass Bluegrass Festival, a three-day mostly bluegrass festival by Planet Bluegrass at the Planet Bluegrass Ranch in Lyons, focused last year on many of the founding legends of bluegrass. This year for its 41st anniversary, RockyGrass shifts to the collaborative nature of bluegrass with numerous unusual or even only-at-RockyGrass pairings.

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The High Street Concert Series presents the Taarka Quartet and New Time Ensemble on Saturday, March 16. Described by SF Weekly as a “collision of Django Reinhardt and David Grisman,” Taarka is a new acoustic super-group presenting masterfully deep Americana and gypsy jazz string band music. Led by the husband-and-wife team of mandolinist David Pelta-Tiller and violinist Enion Pelta-Tiller, Taarka is celebrating the release of its latest recording, Adventures in Vagabondia.

MACAU – The Keymaster: A Story of Patrick Olwell, a new film about a master flute maker and his instruments by Jem Moore from Lyons, and Blayne Chastain, will premiere at the Boedecker Theater at the Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, at 8 p.m. on February 28. A second showing will take place at the Lyons Farmette on March 1. Master flute maker Patrick Olwell will be present for the premiere. Admission is $20.

LYONS – In some ways, choosing a single wine for your holiday meal is difficult, given the great variety of foods and flavors – white and dark meat, sweet yams, tart cranberries, buttery mashed potatoes, stuffing made with any number of ingredients and spicy pumpkin pie for dessert. You might want to serve a little of several different types of wine for each dish or to pick one good all-purpose wine.

High Street Concerts will present a special evening with the Thyme Quintet and the Expedition Quartet on Saturday, November 12. First brought to the audience at the 2011 Sounds of Lyons, the Thyme Quartet features celebrated musicians such as banjo visionary Jayme Stone, David Grisman Quintet’s wunderkind Grant Gordy, violinists MinTze Wu and Sandra Wong (also on the Swedish nyckelharpa), and early music specialist Ann Marie Morgan on the soulful viola da gamba.