The Steamboat Pilot & Today

➤ Susan Tedeschi, Sunday at the Steamboat Ski Area

I’ve been a fan of blues guitarist Susan Tedeschi since I started listening to a radio show called “The Blues Hangover,” about 10 years ago.

That A.M. show — and this is almost criminal — only reaches the 10,000 or so listeners within a very short radius of a very small part of Greensboro, N.C. But it taught me everything I know about blues (admittedly, not much), and it introduced me to the killer soul Tedeschi has played with since she learned how to slide on a guitar.

Her Sunday show to close out the season at the Steamboat Ski Area was one of a handful of things that seemed to go anywhere close to right with the weekend. Mixing classic covers from her most recent album (“Tired of My Tears,” “You Got the Silver”) with the barebones songwriting that has made Tedeschi — a small white girl from the Northeast — a blues mainstay, she pushed through an early sleepiness to put out a high-powered show.

Concert highlight “It Hurt So Bad” spotlighted Tedeschi’s absolutely killer band, with a Hammond organ player that filled any lags in every tune of the show, and a saxophonist who should make most horn players embarrassed to pick up their instruments.

The whole thing makes me wish “Blues Hangover” will one day make it to satellite radio.

➤ Ski Town Productions, “Trading Bases: As-Boat Extreme”

Dude.

With their last show at Steamboat Mountain Theater, the folks at Ski Town Productions/Pirate Theatre put on a hilarious send-up of everything that makes Steamboat — for better or for worse — what it is.

For all the times I have tried to describe town events to anyone who does not live in town, this show, “Trading Bases: As-Boat Extreme,” made me laugh harder than I have in a while. Taking shots at everything from invisible affordable housing crusades to the price of ski town living to those amazing people who post online comments on newspaper stories, the show’s writers and actors did a formidable job of making everything worth a laugh.

It’s true community theater, written, directed and acted from the ground up. Only community members will get the jokes, and they’ll be happy they did.

— Margaret Hair, 4 Points