Boulder based-band, the Motet, will bring its unique, funky sound to the South Park Music Festival Saturday at it nears the end of a lengthy countrywide tour. The Motet has opened for Ziggy Marley and ...
The Motet, a funk/jam outfit founded more than fifteen years ago in Boulder as the Dave Watts Motet, is well known around the country for its celebrated Halloween shows, when the band puts on a ...
Over the course of the last three decades, The Motet has built a reputation as one of Colorado’s most energetic funk bands ...
The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. When The Motet takes the stage at Red Rocks on July 22, they’ll be bringing along new talent and a ...
The last time the Boulder-based Motet performed at Agave, the band broke a long streak of not playing in the Vail Valley. That was seven months ago, and fans were happy to have them back. Apparently ...
Since The Motet started in Boulder in 1998, the band has earned a devoted fan base through steady touring, energetic performances and occasional theme-based shows. The seven-piece ensemble, which now ...
SNOWMASS VILLAGE – As drummers go, Dave Watts has a genuine admiration for songs – those things with melodies and words that can distract from the drumbeat. Early in his career, as a member of ...
When you look up "motet," it's listed as "a highly varied choral musical composition" by Wikipedia, "one of the pre-eminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music." The Motet, meanwhile, is something ...
Since its founding nearly ten years ago by drummer Dave Watts, The Motet has produced almost as many albums, mixing a mosaic of influences from African to Latin, and from western pop to dance club ...
There are a lot of different things going on in “The Forty Part Motet,” Janet Cardiff’s majestic and entrancing sonic installation that is in residence at Gallery 308 in Fort Mason Center through ...
Take a tour through music history – from chant to present day – through the lens of the motet. What’s a “motet”, you ask? Is it real, you ask? We are not entirely sure. Composer Mark Buller, whose ...