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.

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.

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The High Street presents Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen on Friday, September 16. A man of many hats whose music combines power, volume, crispness, clarity, timing, taste, passion, and drive, Solivan is joined by Mike Munford on five-string banjo, Stefan Custodi on upright bass, Rob Ickes on dobro, and Lincoln Meyers on flat-picking guitar, in a bluegrass tour-de-force. Opening the evening is the Rorey Carroll Band, whose songs bridge American folk and alterative country/bluegrass. Doors at 7 p.m. and the show is at 8 p.m. Tickets are available in advance at the Stone Cup or at the door at Rogers Hall, on the corner of Fourth and High Street. For tickets online and upcoming High Street shows please visit www.highstreetconcerts.com or call 303-823-6433.

Lyons — Second Annual Rocky Mountain Old-Time Music Festival will be held on July 15 to 17 at Oskar Blues Grill and Brew, 303 Main St. in Lyons. The fest will showcase national and local old-time performers, square dances, jamming, workshops, and kids’ performances. Organized by the Fort Collins-based nonprofit, the Central Rockies Old-Time Music Association (CROMA), the old-time music is the pre-bluegrass, fiddle and banjo music that grew organically from rural traditions in Southern Appalachia and the Ozarks. This music traveled with settlers who came west, and subsequently took root in various mining camps and settlements throughout Colorado, Wyoming, and the mountain west.

DENVER – The Denver Art Museum, DAM, recently opened the highly anticipated summer exhibition, Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs. It runs through Jan. 9, 2011. Featuring more than 100 treasures from the tomb of King Tut and additional ancient sites, the exhibition will make its debut and sole Rocky Mountain appearance at the DAM.

LYONS – When Jake Pinello looked at the west wall of the St. Vrain Market, where he planned to paint a mural, he had no idea what he would paint. But after discussions with St. Vrain Market owners Neil and Connie Sullivan, the picture began to take shape.