The DвЂ™Evelyn Marching Band was honored to perform on the last Wednesday of April for the вЂњRed Rocks 8 pm HowlвЂќ concert that honored healthcare workers and other groups who вЂkept the music goingвЂ™ during the dark days of the COVID Pandemic. WE are back! And the very Rocks wept with joy. And Wednesday night was a proclamation to the Virus-to the Community, and to the World-MUSIC is BACK. It has hurt the musicians and workers and audiences who missed out on the wonderful power of music to bring us together and touch our soul. The cancelation of concerts, and Easter Sunrise Service, and Yoga and Films on the Rocks and all the other reasons that nearly a million people a year come to this place, has hurt. For me, the very Rocks were weeping with joy for the return of the glorious sounds of music to this venerated setting. And the glistening of the rock may not have been from the rain earlier in the day. If you looked hard enough through the twilight you could see the silhouettes of those crowd members of days gone by.

With the reverberations of applause heard long past when the audience in attendance had ceased clapping, I believe it was the lingering echoes of cheers from the 30,000,000 visitors and audience who have sat in those seats in the last 80 years. And I like to think that wherever those workers might be- be they already in the mists of the Great Beyond, or whether they are in their last years on Earth-that those men were with us in spirit Wednesday night, cheering on the performances.

Once called the Garden of the Angels, the Red Rocks Amphitheatre project was an outgrowth of FDRвЂ™s effort to help pull the Nation out of its Depression doldrums. Unique in all the world, Red Rocks is the only naturally occurring acoustically perfect amphitheater on Earth. Creating the seating between the towering 300-foot edifices of Ship Rock and Creation Rock. Carefully shaping what God had created into a work of art, a setting for other artists to perform and show their talents. These men fashioned this cathedral by hand for much of the work. They created-revealed really- the stunning majesty of the Red Rocks Amphitheater. Written by:В Scott Spendlove & Becky PaschkeДЄnd the Very Rock Wept with Joy at the Sound.ДЇrom 1936-1942, 200 men of Company 1848/Mount Morrison worked during the Great Depression on one of the Civilian Conservation Corps greatest accomplishments.

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