Springtime bliss: April skies, showers and love! Days are longer, brighter and warmer this month creating joyous feelings. All seemingly stimulated by April Fool’s Day. References to the day go back to medieval times in literature. Ages ago when it all apparently got started some of those tricks, pranks and foolishness lasted up to a week.
No joke: The song “April Fools” was included in an album by folk singer Loudon Wainwright III that was released in 1998. However it was never released as a single.
Though April showers may come your way, here are our choices for shopping, dining and entertaining so life holds a goodly share of bliss when the sun goes away:
3 Enjoy the bluegrass tunes of Colorado musical powerhouse Turkeyfoot playing Globe Hall April 2. Group shares momentous instrumental and songwriting talents. Shows are at 7 and 9 p.m. Information: 303-296-1003.
3 Watch as JAAMM Fest live-streams a three-course springtime meal cook-along April 7 by restaurateur Admony, 7 p.m. Information: 303-399-3660.
3 View rarely seen Salvador Dali lithographs at the Denver Botanic Gardens show titled Gardens of the Mind, April 10-Aug. 22. Information: 720-865-3500.
3 Join the virtual Homeowners Townhall fraud prevention session sponsored by Paul López April 13, 6 p.m. Information: denverclerkandrecorder.com.
3 For food, fun and relaxation drive to S. Holly’s Esters Neighborhood Pub ranked as one of Yelp’s Top 100 Places to Eat in 2021! Reviewers love the neighborhood atmosphere, food and booze. Information: 303-955-4904.
3 Planning a wedding? Infinity Park Event Center is there to support you with flexible catering, 360 degree video screening plus outdoor wedding options and free parking. Information: infinityparkeventcenter.com.
3 Catch William Black whose EP climbed to #1 on the iTunes Dance charts playing the Bluebird Theatre April 24, 9 p.m. Information: 303-377-1666.
3 See the One Club Paper Fashion Show of outfits made entirely of paper at the Fillmore Auditorium April 29, 5:30 p.m. Information: 720-838-3797.
3 For a night beyond your wildest dreams plan to attend Central City Opera’s Theatre of Dreams Gala, April 23, 6:30 p.m. This year’s gala at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science will be a hybrid event, featuring Central City’s apprentice artists in a virtual setting. Gala will feature two operas, a new song cycle plus an operatic illustrated audiobook. Proceeds benefit the up-and-coming-composers. Information: 303-292-6700.
“Sometimes an April day will suddenly bring showers, rain to grow the flowers for her first bouquet.” April Love was the fifth of Pat Boone’s six No. 1 hits, topping the charts for six weeks in 1957. The movie by the same name starred Boone and Shirley Jones. Boone’s song is the only tune with April in the title to reach No. 1 on the charts.
“April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom. Holiday tables under the trees.” While many artists recorded the tune, Count Basie’s 1955 classic brought the song to the forefront.
Denver isn’t precisely Paris: The City of Love’s relative humidity is 41.3% higher with 1275 fewer hours of sunlight per year. Still the Mile High City gets that “feeling, no one can reprise.” A teasing, lighthearted month: April laughs, plays, and, of course, April fools. Will Denver’s Covid-19 color dial turn green by April 30? Will, it May!
— Glen Richardson
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